Mlem for Lemmy

Really liking the new image settings such as not showing the controls by default. But they kept appearing for me and I couldn’t work out why until just now.

Open an image, zoom in, then pan a small amount. Looks like a small drag is interpreted as a tap, and the controls alternately show / hide.

I’d happily turn the overlay off completely if that was an option; I can’t remember the last time I actually needed them—the close icon isn’t needed with the swipe to dismiss, and you can easily get to save / share by long press after closing. Since I use those so rarely, that would be better UX for me.

Another visual glitch I just noticed on my new phone that I never saw before. Collapsing comments appear to go ‘through’ the post above.

I captured a screen recording but can’t seem to attach it here…

Edit: had reduced motion set on my old phone. It’s when motion is enabled.

Is this a new thing? I don’t recall seeing this before switching to a new phone, and don’t have my old one handy to check. It’s in the main posts view and shows the image format on every image post. Couldn’t find a setting for that…

I installed to a new iPhone from iCloud backup. Mlem came over fine and had both my accounts in there, but neither worked properly. I could browse ‘All’ but saw error toasts and no subscriptions etc.

I logged out and back in with 1 account and that one (this) is working fine now.

This might be expected behaviour but it was a bit confusing and no meaningful errors were displayed. In case this is unexpected, I’ve left my other account in the kind of limbo so I can get error messages if that’s useful.

I often see this ‘more replies’ button, but it doesn’t do anything other than flicker slightly when tapped—like it was going to load something and then thought better of it…

Features

• Added an "Open in Mlem" action when sharing a link from another app
• You can now customize swipe actions used for communities in the Search tab

Can a feature be added to respect the federation settings of votes when on Piefed? I have my votes set not to federate on Piefed, but Mlem on iOS federates votes, making my voting activity public on sites like Lemvotes.

Is there an option to display the display name next to a post? At current I am seeing the username instead, I would rather not see peoples social media “deadnames”.

I’m not sure if this is possible but would like to ask if you could make an option to turn off notifications per comment.

Sometimes you comment, comment and then for some reason it is just over, right? But the other person (or several people) keep going on and on. So would like to disable the notification just for that particular comment to stop seeing all these messages.

Features

• A toast is now shown when "hide read" is toggled
• A warning is now shown if you refresh the feed twice in quick succession with "hide read" on
• The title of the votes list is now much smaller
• Added missing French translations

Bug Fixes

• Fixed not being able to remove a note from a user on PieFed
• When creating a post, fixed some links failing to attach
• (Maybe) fix comment text being cut off on some devices
• Fixed .avif images being displayed as links
• The subscription list now sorts communities with the same name alphabetically by instance
• Fixed the subscription list sorting communities with capitalized first letters incorrectly
• Fixed rendering issues in interaction bar settings
• Fixed username being shown twice for items in the mod mail
• The TestFlight update banner is now automatically dismissed if you navigate to the update post from the feed
• Navigating to a removed comment from modlog no longer removes the comment content from the modlog entry

I switched from the App Store version to TestFlight, and I’m unable to sign in to PieFed.

Steps:

1. Tap Settings > Accounts
2. Enter piefed.ca for the instance
3. Sign in with my account
4. “Something went wrong”

Is there something I’m missing? I’ve cleared my cache.

I’ve looked and looked in the settings but can’t find whatever option I ticked.

As you can see in the first comment it gets cut off at the and with an ellipsis. I noticed that happening in multiple comments now. Mostly it cuts off the last or the last few words and you can only see them if you go to „select text“.

Anyone else having the same problem?

Features

• Added support for polls on PieFed

Bug Fixes

• Fixed "resolve" and "ban" options not showing for posts in the mod mail

As mentioned in another post, I've moved here from Arctic since it stopped development, and there are just a couple of things I miss. Overall of course mlem is much better, if nothing else than by dint of ongoing development, and it would be fab to see little UX improvements here and there, so this is my stab at documenting the ones that niggle me the most. Others may disagree, and that's fine; this is, in the words of the great one, just my opinion man.

Opening an image on Arctic was just about the best user experience I'd had since Apollo. Here are the main differences I see:

1. Open image without the overlay—no distractions, or buttons covering up bits of the meme text. It's far more common to just want to see the image than to share, copy, save, etc.
2. Double-tap and drag to zoom—probably the biggest one for me. This is so much better for one-handed operation on a smaller device. The double tap zoom is too extreme in most cases.
3. Single tap when zoomed to reset zoom—again, much quicker to reset / close an image, and more likely than needing the overlay. Dismissing a zoomed image in Arctic was basically 'tap, swipe', and very slick.
4. Reduce drag distance to dismiss—this is perhaps just a preference, but I'd like to reduce that to almost zero, so that the tiniest flick of a finger would dismiss a 'non-zoomed' image.
5. Improve rotation handling—this is hard to describe, but open an image, zoom in / out, then rotate the device. The zoom is now weirdly offset, and it's easy to even lose an image off-screen.

I'd also love the option to permanently hide the zoom factor popup—again, just distraction and I'd rather not see it, but appreciate others may like that, so definitely some of the above should be options: show overlay at start, show zoom factor, dismiss sensitivity, etc.

I'd highly recommend trying out Arctic just for this one thing; there's plenty else it doesn't do as well, but I feel images were a strong point. You could even open a compact feed view thumbnail as an image, rather than opening the link which was sometimes useful.

So when scrolling my feed I can see the total comments and total new comments, for example 27 +19 (where the +19 is in green). Would it be possible to have those 19 new comments “marked” in some way so I can quickly scroll and identify them? Wouldn’t have to be flashy, maybe even just a green dot or something next to the commenter’s username, or some sort of different binding/italicizing to highlight it?

TIA!

Features

• Enabled PieFed 1.4 features:
  • Filter comment search by instance
  • Sort comments by controversial
• Error toast timeout can now be adjusted (Settings → Advanced → Developer)

Bug Fixes

• Sending messages from external instance admin list no longer causes an error
• Fixed gaps appearing between certain link posts in feed
• The send message button no longer creates duplicate messages if tapped while a message is sending

We have also made significant backend changes to how we handle posts and comments, so if you see any unexpected new behaviors, please let us know!

I can’t seem to figure out. And no matter how I change the sort mechanism from Hot to Scaled it goes back to Hot.

Long time Arctic user making the switch to Mlem hopefully. I’ve noticed a few things I really miss from Arctic, and a glitch or two in the last few days of using Mlem exclusively. Just wondering whether it’s preferred to post those here or in GitHub?

Features

• Enabled new comments count on PieFed

Bug Fixes

• Blocking a community now properly hides the community from feed
• Fix missing "edit" and "block community" actions for posts

https://github.com/mlemgroup/mlem/issues/2475

Is it possible to implement?

Features

• Added the ability to export comment threads as images
• Instance blocking is now available on PieFed
• Updated settings styling

Bug Fixes

• Hid the option to filter comment search by instance on PieFed (not supported by API)
• Vote settings in the instance details view now read Yes/No instead of Enabled/Disabled