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submitted 2 years ago by BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml to c/mlemapp@lemmy.ml

Download the TestFlight beta for iOS 16+

After a massive reorganization and recruiting almost 20 new developers and designers from the community, we've made a HUGE amount of additions and improvements to the app, with many more to come! Yay!

NEW ADDITIONS

  • Redesigned interface! NEW POSTS, COMPACTS POSTS, ALL THE THINGS!
  • Updated Settings Tab
  • Tap to collapse comments/threads
  • Long post text is now truncated so they don't take up your whole screen. They will have a maximum height.
  • Increased contrast between post/comment cards and background
  • The way the application interacts with the Lemmy API has been improved, this should reduce crashes in multiple places

BUG FIXES

  • Tapping community links will no longer crash the app, instead an alert shows saying they're not currently supported (we're working on it now, it needs a few different chunks of work completed)
  • Duplicate/looping posts when scrolling feeds should no longer happen 🤞
  • Rapid scrolling through feed should no longer cause crashing 🤞
  • Mlem icon is now brighter!

KNOWN ISSUES

  • Some images may extend beyond the post card bounds in Card View
  • In compact mode, link previews may not load
  • Comments still have old up/downvote buttons

MORE TO COME

  • Full a11y compliance which should work perfectly with iOS's Accessibility functionality like Guided Access and Screen Reader. (Thanks to contributor Weston for your expertise and audit!) Note: we weren't able to work this into the current build because of the constant changes to the interface, but some/most of it should be in the next build!
  • New Profile Tab and Messages Tab
  • New & improved fullscreen image viewer (not ready in time for this release)
  • Inbox notifications (not Push, as that takes more work-- more on that later)
  • Colored thread indicators
  • Swipe-to-vote
  • Post/comment saving
  • Updated NSFW tag/blur

Again, please keep in mind that this is an early beta. As such, it's not feature-complete and there will be bugs and unexpected behavior. Enjoy testing, and we look forward to hearing your bug reports via TestFlight and your feedback! You can comment here or come chat with us in The Mlem Space on Matrix.

PS, and because lots of people have asked-- Mlem app will never support iOS 15. Sorry, but we'd have to rewrite the app from scratch, and that's not something we're gonna do. Additionally, kbin support isn, for now, out-of-reach due to incompatibilities between the kbin and lemmy APIs. Although this may change in the future, for now, it's not going to happen.

Cheers!

The Mlem Dev Team

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[-] deepthaw 1 points 2 years ago

Upvote for popularity, downvote because I’m not in the 10k :D

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