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Build Submitted to Apple - 0.1 - That swipe tho 🤌 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gkd@lemmy.ml to c/memmy@lemmy.ml

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In order to get up to speed with the people that are coming here without TestFlight, I've submitted a build to Apple with all of the current features and fixes.

I'd anticipate this to take about 24 hours, but it's possible it will be reviewed today. Apple is weird. I've had things get approved in like 8 hours on Saturdays before, so there's a chance it will happen today. I'll update you all when that happens.

Improvements and additions:

New icon and options for changing icon color
New and improved swipe animation (by the way, this is better than the last update wink)
Improvements to image viewer (double tap works now too)
Performance enhancments throughout the app
Hide read posts
Images in comments
Collapsible posts
Default comment sort
All of the "Top" sort options
Show a loading modal while downloading images
Added a manage accounts button to accounts dropdown
Add option for reader in webview
Settings improvements
Added embark theme
Added buttons in comments for upvoting and replying
Adjustments to splashscreen
Username doesn't link to user profile in compact mode now
Add option to use the default browser instead of in-app browser

Fixes:

Fix issues with toast not changing color or disappearing
Fix cake day showing the wrong year
Fix issue where links with an internal IP address would ask for permission to local network
Fix issues with account disappearing after app launch
Read icon now uses the correct color
Fix crash caused when pressing Matrix links
Fix crash when searching for a community with an @ at the end

If any of these issues are bothering you now, rest assured they will be fixed for you quite soon.

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[-] teft@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

Please give us a link in the app so we can toss you some money. Some of us want to support your hard work and don’t want to be loaded down by ads in the future.

[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 111 points 1 year ago

Rest assured ads is something that will never be in this. No feature lockdowns, ads, any of that.

I can’t link anything in app for payments or donations unfortunately. Eventually there might be a tip jar though. For now if you really want, there’s a buy me a coffee.

[-] ndguardian@lemmy.studio 53 points 1 year ago

I would say as much love as the app has received, definitely consider adding a tip jar. You’ve made a rather good app that is giving people a lot of value, so people would be more than happy to compensate you for your time. Given you can’t provide links in the app to third party payment services, this would provide the easiest route for people to do so.

[-] uhauljoe@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

agreed. i subscribed to apollo for 99c a month, i'd be more than happy to keep doing that if it helps memmy flourish

fuck reddit, there need to be viable alternatives and memmy is creating a wonderful experience

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Support link still shows your Twitter account. Not sure if you’ve moved on to mastodon or not.

Oh and a huge thank you for creating an amazing app in very little time. That’s some seriously consistent hard work. Doesn’t go unappreciated. ❤️

[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hmm where is that at? I don’t even use Twitter, I think I only had the account for SEO purposes. I don’t really use mastodon either, not my type of social media (twitter, bluesky, mastodon, etc.) but I do have an account there.

Given gestures vaguely I definitely don’t have any interest in using it lol

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[-] woofwoof@vlemmy.net 5 points 1 year ago

Sent $5

[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

❤️

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Hope I really don’t need to screenshot this to post in a few years… 😊 anyways, awesome app you’ve made! Can’t wait for the update to hit the AppStore, I deleted my flight test copy by mistake… 😭

[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

[-] tranceFusion@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

The code is open sourced under a public license. The developer doesn't own the code any more than you do. If they added ads someone could just fork it and remove them.

That said, running a large open source project is difficult and frustrating. Any donations they receive will likely be a pittance compared to what they would make spending that time coasting in a corporate dev job. Send them a few bucks as a thank you: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gavink

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[-] Tommy_the_Gun@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

It seems minor, but having community icons show next to the name is really important to me. I’d also love for the community name to be on the left side or closer to the title of the post (like it was in Apollo).

[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

If you’re not on TestFlight, just know this is already done.

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[-] spicyfood77@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Not going to lie, I miss the old memmy app logo but happy with the progress

[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

I’m going to throw it in the next update. I actually was going to do it now but it was a headache like you couldn’t imagine getting the icon switching to work. Had a list of things to do that just never materialized because of how long it took me to get that done.

[-] spicyfood77@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

No problem, I respect the work 👍

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[-] quaff@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Same. I prefer the little lemmy mouse to the planet. The new colours are dope tho. I’d love to see the lemmy mouse in a different style. Maybe we can get Apollo-style designer submissions for icons? 😍

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[-] Nusm@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It’s unbelievable that you can make an app this great in this short amount of time, and that other site can’t get it right after years. Thank you for all you do, I just did the “Buy me a Coffee”!

I have two requests if possible. The first is probably the easiest - orange is my favorite color, so I’d love an orange color of the icon to rock on my home screen!

The second is probably harder. I miss the small button on the bottom right that jumps to the next parent comment. It doesn’t have to be a button, it could be a swipe or tap. When I’m in the middle of a long comment chain, sometimes I just want to bail on the thread and move to the next parent comment, but I can’t find an easy way to do that other than just scroll and look.

Again, thank you for the great app! Make sure you get that tip jar in here, you deserve to get some payment for your great work!

[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

We can get both of those done :)

As a matter of fact I’m going to start working on the jump button this week.

[-] Nusm@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Dude, you are awesome!

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[-] stevehobbes@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I’d love to see the images behave a little more like Apollo, which allowed zooming out with just a double tap (which also zoomed in, or opened the album to swipe through), but to get it away, it was just a double tap to zoom out and swipe it away.

[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago

This is probably one of the absolute hardest things to replicate. I’m going to be working on it though for sure for the 0.2 release.

With that said, zoom out on double tap is fixed on this release. Swiping through the images in a post will be added in 0.2 as well as other improvements to the image viewer in general.

[-] stevehobbes@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Awesome! I’m on the TestFlight build and loving the rapid progress. I think it was still a little janky for me and after a second double tap I’m not able to swipe the image away.

Apollo had a lot of years to polish - what you’ve done in such a short period is absolutely amazing. I donated via your buy me a coffee link, but you should absolutely charge something for this app. Putting notifications behind a paywall is perfectly reasonable.

Personally I loved the one-time Ultra purchase and would occasionally just throw some cash in the tip jar on big releases.

[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Yea I think that’s probably the only thing I’d consider putting behind a paywall just because of the fees that come with that for me. The one thing I never agreed with Apollo on was keeping posting behind a subscription.

For what it’s worth, I think it’s janky too. I just have not had time to focus on that, so I’m fiddling with it a bit at a time. I think once this version hits the store, we can slow down a bit and iron out a super solid 0.2. Keep the TestFlight going with a build every day or two, but with more new features coming instead of just bug fixes (things are getting ironed out finally)

A few of the remaining crashes we had should be fixed here soon too. A couple of them were actually issues with Expo rather than Memmy, but the team over there was super responsive and fixes have already been merged in. Those should be ready to be published by them here next week Id imagine

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just be careful with a one time lifetime purchase. All devs of larger apps say that was a massive mistake. Learn from their mistakes. Although I was also a lucky Ultra lifetime user, I realize that push notifications are costly. I’d recommend against anything “lifetime.” Leave yourself an out. Do major release unlocks or something like that. Gives you room to not screw yourself or your users. Seems like a good balance.

Also, don’t be afraid to be transparent on costs, etc. That helped Christian immensely and you’ll gain a lot more subscribers who wouldn’t normally subscribe because they understand the economics. The ones who don’t would be considered bad money anyway.

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[-] catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

Ooh the new swipe thing is so cool. Great work!

[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Can’t take the credit for that one. We have an amazing contributor who made that happen. Completely overhauled it for us. Super grateful for that.

[-] greendakota99@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

What’s the new swipe functionality? I’m not on the TestFlight but the swipe I have now seems pretty smooth to me.

[-] catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

The key thing I noticed was when you swipe further to downvote, it’s a cool animation of the arrow turning upside down.

[-] nuzzlerat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LOVE the new app icon! I guess I’m a minority that wasn’t a fan of the other one. The colours were just a tad too gaudy for me.

Also just generally loving all the new features and care being put into this app.

A couple notes:

If you use swipe actions too quickly then the arrows will start pointing in all sorts of directions (not import and only if you are messing around with it)
The image viewer feels less responsive than the original one in earlier versions. I’m not familiar with this style and I guess I’m wondering what the goal is?

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[-] DuckGuy@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

Added buttons in comments for upvoting and replying

Please let me hide them :-(

[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Don’t worry it will be there today :)

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[-] sennalonso1981@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks man looking brilliant

[-] Jellojiggle@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Still waiting patiently for the update to show in the App Store. And by patiently I mean checking 3 times a day lmao. But I can’t believe the devs for this app. So impressed with how it’s been mostly flawless for the week I’ve used it. Will be donating soon!

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[-] abc12@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Would the option to swipe back from anywhere be possible for people that don’t use the voting gestures?

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[-] cyph3rPunk@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

I was a dumbass and uninstalled TestFlight. Now I’m getting jealous of all of the people that still get the BETAS.

[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

[-] cyph3rPunk@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

🤣🤣

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[-] unwinagainstable@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I didn’t get into the test flight. I downloaded as soon as it was available in the App Store. I’m loving it but anxiously awaiting the update to fix profile not loading. I’ve never had my profile load successfully

[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Are you using your email to sign in? If so, can you try signing in with your username?

[-] unwinagainstable@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I was. Changing to my username worked. Thanks!

[-] BROMETHIUS@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Ok, that swipe animation do be nice tho.

One of the things I remember back from Alien Blue (I think) was that when you had a picture full screen, you could kinda grab it and “toss” if any direction to go back to the post. I think the official Reddit app may do this, but 🤷‍♂️

Also, scrubbing in Apollo was amazing. I noticed “wefwef” may have implemented if already.

(First time trying your app, so I will correct any inaccuracies if someone will kindly correct me)