sjmarf 2 days ago • 100%
Thanks for the info. I'll open an issue and try to reproduce it 👍
sjmarf 3 days ago • 100%
I can't reproduce this issue at the moment; it seems to be working fine for me on an iOS 18 iPad simulator. Which part of it doesn't work - do the "Block Community" and "Block user" buttons not show up, or do they show up but not do anything when tapped? Thanks
Edit: it also seems to work correctly on iOS 17.5
sjmarf 1 week ago • 100%
This is planned 👍 It may or may not be in 2.0; we'll see.
sjmarf 2 weeks ago • 100%
I'm glad you're looking forward to v2!
Voyager also seems to handle GIFs in comments better, is that something on the cards for Mlem?
It's something we'd like to add at some point; we're tracking the issue here. It may end up being in 2.0 or may not be.
Is there a plan to introduce swiping forward? I frequently accidentally swipe back to the community list and lose my place in the feed.
We'd love to have this feature but it is annoyingly very difficult to implement. The framework we're using doesn't natively support this, and neither does the framework that framework is built on. Apollo had this, but the code is of course closed-source so we can't get any insight into how they did it. We're tracking the issue here.
sjmarf 2 weeks ago • 100%
Mlem dev here - you can add a link to the post by tapping on the link button in the toolbar then tapping "Paste". We're aware that this isn't ideal UI, and are improving it in the next update.
sjmarf 2 weeks ago • 100%
Are you using the beta or the App Store build?
sjmarf 2 weeks ago • 100%
You might have "Show NSFW Content" turned off in your Lemmy account settings. If that setting is off you won't be able to see any NSFW posts, even in your own profile. You'd still be able to open the post via a link, but they won't appear in any feeds.
sjmarf 2 weeks ago • 100%
Mlem dev here. We're adding spoiler support in the next update :)
sjmarf 2 weeks ago • 100%
Yep, it'll be back :)
sjmarf 2 weeks ago • 100%
This isn't directly possible. You can add an image to the body of the post using the ![alt text](https://example.com/image.png)
formatting. Lemmy automatically chooses an image to display on link posts. You can't override this on Lemmy 0.18.4, which Beehaw uses (I believe it's possible on later Lemmy versions, but the official UI doesn't support it on those versions).
sjmarf 2 weeks ago • 100%
We did consider this in the past, but decided against it. Implementing this would mean that we - the Mlem developers - would have to decide who gets the flair and who doesn't. As the development teams of those projects change over time, we'd have to keep up with ensuring their current developers are correctly flaired. This would take time that could be spent developing new features for Mlem instead. There are also many Fediverse projects, and we don't want people asking "why don't the [XYZ] developers have flairs?" if we start giving out flairs to only the developers of certain projects. I hope that makes sense :)
sjmarf 2 weeks ago • 100%
Mlem dev here - we do not and will never run ads, sell data or lock functionality behind a paywall :)
sjmarf 3 weeks ago • 100%
Mlem 2.0 is missing a lot of features at the moment, which we'll be re-adding before the final 2.0 release. You can find a full list in the "Roadmap" section on the 2.0 release post :)
sjmarf 3 weeks ago • 100%
Yeah, we're aware. We're making it clearer in the next version :)
sjmarf 3 weeks ago • 100%
Thanks for the bug reports! We'll look into it :)
sjmarf 3 weeks ago • 100%
Also if more room could be added after the bottom response in a thread. Currently the up/down vote and reply buttons are so close to the nav bar at the bottom I click the nav bar by mistake sometimes.
Sure 👍 Mlem v1 had this; we'll be adding it back in
sjmarf 3 weeks ago • 100%
Thanks for the feedback!
Please add more breathing room/padding to posts — it’s stressful how close posts are to each other (could mostly be solved with just a few more pixels of negative space under the interaction bar before the divider).
Yeah, I'm not happy with the padding there either and we're experimenting with some ways to improve this.
Also, some text feels like it’s cropped by the edges of my iPhone. There is more than enough room to spare on the iPhone Pro Max for that additional comfort.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Would you mind providing a screenshot?
The interaction bar customization doesn’t allow me to customize it the way I want because it doesn’t consider that I have more space for actions if I remove some readouts. Also, I’d like to reorganize readouts.
I'll look into allowing more space for actions if readouts are disabled. Reorganising readouts is planned in the future, though it may not be in v2.
Almost all settings should be specific to the account they were changed under, like settings of users on a pc. Currently, a change under one account is made to the other accounts.
We're considering applying this to certain settings, such as the "Blur NSFW" setting. We're hesitant to apply this for all settings, because we don't want the settings system to become too complicated for the user. Users might find it annoying if they have to go through all of their accounts to apply a setting change that they want to make globally.
Upon returning to my list of subscriptions (from my All feed for example), my subscribed feed may be highlighted, even though that’s not the page I’m on, coming from, or have selected.
We're looking into it 👍
sjmarf 3 weeks ago • 100%
Mlem dev here! You can click the link button in the top-right of the post creator and then tap "Paste" to paste a link. You can also upload an image from that menu.
sjmarf 3 weeks ago • 100%
Thanks for the feedback! I've created issues for these features :)
sjmarf 3 weeks ago • 100%
Mlem dev here! Lemmy has a custom "flavor" of Markdown that is distinct from other social media platforms. Open-source markdown parsers and renderers exist for popular flavors of Markdown (e.g GitHub-flavor), but not for Lemmy-flavor. Most Lemmy clients choose to use an existing GitHub-flavor parser that is close enough to Lemmy's to be indistinguishable in most cases. Mlem uses swift-markdown-ui to render markdown, which uses cmark-gfm as its parser.
Lemmy's spoiler format is unique to Lemmy-flavor markdown, so that's one of the places where use of a third-party markdown parser is noticed by users. Other common parsing errors are ~subscript~ and footnotes.
Adding spoiler support is not particularly easy, unfortunately. You can't really apply spoiler-parsing logic on-top of another markdown parser - it has to be integrated into the parser itself. This is because the app needs to ignore spoiler markdown in certain situations, such as inside of a code block. The only good option is to write a custom markdown parser from scratch, or modify an existing markdown parser to support Lemmy's markdown dialect. Both options can be difficult for developers for several reasons:
- cmark-gfm is written in C, which the developer of the Lemmy client may not be familiar with.
- If the app is using a third-party renderer, and not just a parser, that renderer also needs to be rewritten to support the new parsing logic.
This takes a significant amount of time for comparatively little value for users, so most client developers didn't prioritise it.
In an upcoming Mlem version, we're replacing our markdown parser renderer with a custom one that can render spoilers and subscripts, but we've got a way to go before we achieve full parity with Lemmy. If any developers of other apps are using cmark-gfm, you're welcome to use our code from that repo under the terms of the licence.
Sorry this is kinda long, I hope this answers your question
sjmarf 2 months ago • 100%
Test2
sjmarf 2 months ago • 100%
Test1
sjmarf 2 months ago • 100%
Footnotes^[Hello world!] are also undocumented.
sjmarf 2 months ago • 100%
Yeah, it's rather inconsistent. I opened an issue for it a while ago.
sjmarf 2 months ago • 100%
Mlem dev here. It shows strikethrough, but not superscript. Lemmy has got a unique dialect of Markdown - in the current version we're using an open-source Github-dialect parser, which is close to Lemmy's dialect but not perfect. In the next update we've written a custom parser that handles all of Lemmy's Markdown elements, including superscript and spoilers.
sjmarf 2 months ago • 100%
There isn't a way to do this at the moment. Apollo had this feature, and we've been keeping track of the idea here. Unfortunately, this is tricky to implement because of limitations imposed by Apple's frameworks. It's certainly possible, but would take some time to work out and isn't on our immediate agenda.
sjmarf 2 months ago • 100%
Hello
sjmarf 2 months ago • 100%
Yes, searching for posts and comments will be in 2.0!
sjmarf 2 months ago • 100%
Mlem v2 is a completely different codebase to Mlem v1, so bugs that exist on v1 are likely to be fixed in v2. We're aware of an Mlem v1 crash that occurs on iPad when Face ID Unlock is enabled - this is unfortunately difficult to fix because of the way Face ID Unlock works.
In iOS 18, Apple is introducing native support for Face ID Unlock in any app. This makes our own system redundant, so we'll be removing our version of the feature in favor of the more reliable iOS equivalent.
sjmarf 2 months ago • 100%
We're making several quality-of-life tweaks to the iPad layout in 2.0! So far, we've made the image viewer full-screen and updated the sidebar to look a bit more modern. Here's a sneak peek:
There's also a setting for a more compact sidebar layout, if you prefer that:
(This is all WIP, it might change. Ignore the lack of All/Local/Subscribed buttons, those will be back in before the first TestFlight).
We're also adding a setting that displays posts in a grid with two or more columns, which will make the posts look less wide in this format.
Longer-term we're considering some ways that we can improve the iPad layout as a whole - such as having a three-column layout - but there's some navigation problems to work out and we can't promise that anything like that will be in 2.0.
sjmarf 2 months ago • 100%
Sure, I'll add one in the next Mlem version 👍
sjmarf 2 months ago • 100%
Hey there! This is possible - if you go to Appearance -> Posts -> Customize Widgets, you can drag-and-drop the individual upvote and downvote counters into the post layout.
sjmarf 2 months ago • 100%
Yeah, I’ve got an alert set up. I’m from the UK :)
sjmarf 2 months ago • 100%
That's correct, it only shows the first page at the moment. In the next Mlem update it'll load infinitely.
sjmarf 2 months ago • 100%
I'm not sure. Someone had the same issue a couple of months ago; they said that changing their password fixed it. It's possible that certain special characters in the username/password causes issues. In the next Mlem update we're rewriting the login system, and will check to see if that's the problem.