We’re motoring on ahead towards our 1.0.2 RC. It’s a little ways off yet, but we’ve just got so many new changes that we couldn’t help but share them with you.

What’s new:

  • The Widget Wizard: fully customize your post and comment interaction widgets with a new drag-and-drop interface! Check it out in Settings -> Appearance -> Posts or Comments -> Customize Widgets
  • Jump button: we’ve added a handy little button to jump to the next top-level comment. You can disable it in Settings -> Comments.
  • Instant post feedback: we’ve done some major backend work on how we handle posts to make the app more stable and set up new features down the line. You’ll notice that posts now apply your interactions immediately, rather than waiting for network round trip. You might also notice some new bugs, which we would love to hear about.
  • Onboarding: new users now get a proper onboarding flow. You can check it out by removing all your accounts from Mlem.
  • Collapse post content: in the detailed post view, you can tap the title or body of a post to collapse it and get right to the comments
  • Collapse comments: swipe way to the left to reveal a new swipe action: collapse comment
  • Haptic levels: you can now disable some or all of the haptic feedback in the app in Settings -> General -> Haptic Level
  • Opaque tab bars: in case you think material design is so 2014 and yearn for strong, assertive views, you can now make the tab bars fully opaque in Settings -> Accessibility -> Translucent Insets.

Quality of life updates:

  • Link posts now have an indicator on their thumbnail in Compact and Headline mode
  • Fixed a problem where the account switcher would be open when re-opening the app
  • Inbox now persists unread status
  • Search no longer has auto-correct or auto-capitalization
  • Large images now display as shrunk. You can make them display in their full, glorious height in Settings -> Appearance -> Posts -> Limit Image Height In Feed.
  • You can now block communities directly from posts
  • Various actions have been flagged as destructive
  • Fixed some issues with images embedded in links displaying poorly
  • Fixed nav bar disappearing on device rotation
  • Haptic feedback no longer causes an animation hitch on first play

Known issues:

  • Swipe voting in inbox has an animation hitch
  • Comments don’t apply interactions instantly
  • It’s hard to get image posts to collapse
  • Putting too many widgets and too much info in the bar causes view clipping
  • Onboarding flow is kinda rough. If you’ve got thoughts on how to make it smoother, please share!

Cheers, The Mlem Group

  • relative_iterator@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    I remember in the early days of Apollo, I would use the app and after some time start noticing a few things that were bugging me and not long after they’d just get fixed. Feels the same way with Mlem. Loving all the progress so far!

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Pick an instance to sign up with. Don’t overthink it-the whole point of federation is that you’ll see the same content on any federated instance, so just pick one you like and jump right in!

    IMHO, this list needs to be curated down to general instances, or the instances need to be grouped by genre or something. Having instances like porn.lemmy in the list is going to give users a WILDLY different local feed than lemmy.ml

    • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      At the moment, the list of instances is fetched from the list of Awesome Lemmy instances that lemmy itself recommends new users to pick from. We may tweak this in future to filter out certain instances, perhaps.

  • ahti@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I like the collapse comment swipe idea, but imo it should collapse the whole top level tree a comment belongs to. We can collapse single comments be tapping, but there’s no way to quickly collapse the current top level comment and its replies.

    • SideshowBoz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Tapping or swiping should collapse that comment along with its replies (but not parent or sibling comments). Is it not doing that for you right now? Or is it too early in the morning and I need to sleep more? 🙈

  • slin@feddit.deEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    This is awesome, thanks for the new update!

    I feel dumb, but how do I add/manage the widgets? When I tap and hold them nothing happens, I can’t move them. All I get is a little haptic feedback after I release the tap.

  • Nix@merv.newsEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Can the jump button have the option to be in the middle? And can pressing the home button on the feed bring you to the top of the feed?

    • SideshowBoz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Do you mean tap “Feed” tab again to scroll to top? That feature is almost ready to go (famous last words), it just barely missed this update unfortunately 🥲

  • connaisseur@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    On iPadOS I still have an issue with app crashes when using the sharing menu. On. iPhone this works. Sent crash feedback through the Testflight feedback dialogue a dozen times. Hope it can be fixed.

    • Eric@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Sorry we’ve been so slow getting around to this one–we’ve got a lot of bugs to squash and this one got a little lost! I’m looking into it now, hoping to have it fixed in the next build.

    • Eric@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s the same link as before–the beta is full, so if you’re not in it you’ll just have to wait for the App Store build :(

      • slin@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Thanks!

        Just want to say that your implementation of collapsing posts is really cool and the best I have seen so far!