Hey all. I want to do two things in this post. I'll get the first one out of the way real quick.

Community Rules

While I appreciate all the support and fun, I'd like for us to not attack or belittle, or make fun of any of the other apps or developers that are being made. Even if a comment could be interpreted as doing so, I'd rather us not share that content.

This obviously cannot be controlled by me outside of this community, but I'd like to emphasize that I think we should follow this behavior as a Lemmy community. There may be features of Memmy that are superior right now to those in other apps, and I am certain there are features in other apps that are superior to those in Memmy. The thing that matters is we are all working toward making a more accessible, friendly, and fun way to access Lemmy, and that is something that will help this community grow.

There's a reason that there were multiple successful iOS and Android apps for Reddit. There's a reason that even with an official Mastodon app, there are other apps that interact with Mastodon as well. No single developer can create THE app that will appeal to every user. I can't do that, nor can anyone else. So let's keep the spirit up for all the devs and work on this as a team.

With that said, here are some ground rules.

Rules

1. Be polite.
2. Don't start drama or anything that could be perceived as starting drama.
3. Don't trash talk, belittle, or joke about the work of other developers. This doesn't mean you can't say "I like this feature in X better than in Y". That's fine. But let's not start with "lol I had to delete that app it was garbage, idk wtf they are doing over there..."
4. Try to stay in-scope. Everything so far has been fine. Keep all the feature requests and bug info coming (although bug reports should mainly be posted to GitHub as it is much easier to view and triage there)

I might update this if I think of anything else, but that's pretty much it. I'm also not saying that anyone DID do anything like this, but I saw some content that could have been PERCEIVED as such.

Roadmap

We are looking at an MVP release to the App Store being submitted before the 1st. It will be either tomorrow or day after tomorrow. I am not sure how long it will take for review, but I'd give it a range of 12 hours (unlikely) to two days (maybe even longer).

After this MVP gets released, we will start implementing community feature requests. All of the posts you guys are making here and on GitHub are not going unread. We will figure out which ones we need to prioritize, which ones we want to prioritize, and which ones can be pushed back. We will release a detailed roadmap of this soon.

We have fixed all of the issues with crashes and that update will be released within the next day on TestFlight. We have also done the following:

1. Revamped the community/subscriptions screen
2. Created an interactive onboarding process for new users who don't know about Lemmy. It will help with picking an instance, give you details about the instances you can join, etc. Full .18.1 captcha support.
3. Cleaned up some more theme issues and UI issues.
4. Added editing of posts/comments

I think this is enough to give us an MVP for release. At the very least, I want to get something to Apple that they can put through the initial review process so that we can make sure we are fully compliant with their rules.