ericbandrews

joined 2 years ago
MODERATOR OF
 

Features

  • Community name is now shown in the navigation bar of the expanded post view
  • Image Viewer controls can now be customized (Settings -> Media & Links -> Image Viewer)
  • Added more options for post/comment swipe actions
  • Made it easier to swipe back to the previous page without accidentally triggering a swipe action instead

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed links to posts or comments on very small instances not opening in-app
  • Fix swipe actions sometimes getting stuck
  • Added more detailed logging for Mlem backend errors
 

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
[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

We hope so! Germany is one of our largest user bases, and we’d love to offer native German. Unfortunately we don’t really have much control over this—our budget isn’t large enough to hire a translator, so we’ll get German localizations if and when a community member volunteers to provide them.

[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

That’s from Apple—thanks for letting us know, I’ll see if I can turn it off because that’s a pretty obnoxious popup

 

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
 

Features

  • Added support for polls on PieFed

Bug Fixes

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

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!

[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Test comment please ignore

[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks for letting us know! That link is out of date--the beta is still open, and you can sign up with this link. We'll have the GitHub updated shortly.

[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good spot! That is intentional--we're building towards our 2.5 release, but are holding the version number at 2.4.1 in case we need to release a hotfix to the App Store.

The latest TestFlight build should be 642.

 

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
 

Hi Mlem Community,

Mlem 2.4 is here! We've expanded our PieFed support, plus added a bundle of new features for you to use.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Mlem is a free and open source project. 100% of our funding, which pays for things like server time, comes from our generous donors; we do not, and will never, run ads or sell data. If you'd like to help support Mlem, you can donate here.


Features

  • Posts and comments can now be exported as images
  • Expanded filter functionality to allow filtering for literal strings
  • Added support for the following features on PieFed:
    • Instance blocking
    • Un-deleting private messages
    • Moderators toggling posts' NSFW status
    • Banning users from a community (available on instances running PieFed v1.3 and above)
    • Sort by "Old" (v1.3 and above)
    • Local instance community list (v1.3 and above)
    • Comment search (v1.3 and above)
    • User notes (v1.4 and above)
  • Look and Feel
    • The private message chat view now uses Liquid Glass
    • Confirmation dialogs now use alerts rather than popovers on iOS 26
    • The image viewer and inline video player now have Liquid Glass UI elements
    • Improved the Dracula theme contrast
    • Updated settings styling
  • Accessibility
    • Added a "distinguish interaction bar" accessibility setting, which adds a subtle background to interaction bar buttons
  • Moderation
    • Moderators can now edit community descriptions
    • You can now filter the modlog by user
  • Quality of Life
    • vger.to links now open in-app
    • The post editor now shows a preview for links
    • Added an "edit link" button to the post editor
    • You can now upload a custom thumbnail for link attachments in the post editor
    • Improved error handling on the instance page
    • Images that fail to load now offer a link to view the content in browser
    • The Saved and Upvoted feeds can now be filtered to posts or comments
    • Added nicer error readouts in a few places across the app
    • You can now tap on the version number in the "About Mlem" page to copy it
    • The editor now shows a confirmation before closing if it is not empty

Bug Fixes

  • Links to local communities now resolve case insensitively
  • Fixed account switcher in the post editor not working
  • The "n more links" text in the collapsed links button now respects singular/plural
  • The Search tab homepage now renders correctly when using OLED theme
  • Context menus in the subscription list no longer have blue icons
  • PieFed's human-readable link format now resolves correctly
  • Fixed votes not updating on page refreshes
  • Creator is now shown instead of community in tile posts when inside a community view
  • Fixed loops.video videos not embedding
  • Theme colors are now more coherent
  • The markdown toolbar's hitbox now matches its appearance on iOS 26
  • Removed "Haptic manager failed to start" error message
  • Fixed tapping the tab bar to scroll to top not behaving correctly on iOS 26
  • Fixed newly-created comments not showing if the post had zero comments
  • Fixed user who created a report sometimes being shown as creator
 

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
[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

Dev here—just jumping in to mention that we had to remove the long press gesture for iOS 26 because of the new system tab bar gesture to drag the bubble around. We put considerable time towards finding a way to keep it or implement a suitable replacement, but did not find any good approaches and ultimately had to remove it and rely solely on the existing swipe up gesture. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Welcome, and I’m glad you like the app!

You can hide all NSFW content in Settings > Account > Content & Notifications.

[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

As you correctly observe below, we get uptime from lemmy-status.org, which doesn’t currently support Piefed. We do plan to expand this feature to Piefed, but it will require finding a new data provider and updating our code to process it, so our priority right now is adding support for features closer to the core interaction loop of the app.

 

Features

  • Comment search is now available on PieFed 1.3 and later
  • You can now tap on the version number in the "About Mlem" page to copy it

Bug Fixes

  • The "modlog" button is no longer shown in the profile on PieFed instances
  • PieFed instances no longer appear in the search sheet when signing up to an instance
  • Fixed "Restore" option not showing for removed comments
  • Fixed newly-created comments not showing if the post had zero comments
 

Features

  • Expanded keyword filter functionality to allow filtering for literal strings
  • You can now filter the modlog by user

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed tapping the tab bar to scroll to top not behaving correctly on iOS 26
  • Removed "haptic manager failed to start" error toast (for real this time)
[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the bug report! We’ll look into it.

Do the comments show up if you refresh the post page (swipe down)?

 

Features

  • Images that fail to load now have a button to open the image in the browser
  • vger.to links now open in-app
  • Added nicer error readouts in a few places across the app

Bug Fixes

  • Removed "Haptic manager failed to start" error message
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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ericbandrews@lemmy.ml to c/mlemapp@lemmy.ml
 

Hi Mlem Community,


Update: Cloudflare reports the outage is resolved. If you continue to experience issues with Mlem, please let us know.


Due to the ongoing Cloudflare outage, our backend (which primarily provides instance search) is unavailable. This will cause some parts of the app to not work or throw an unusually high number of errors. You can monitor the outage status here.

  • The Mlem Group
[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I actually just finished implementing glass controls! They’ll be available in the next build. I’ll look into time skip buttons as well, that is a useful feature :)

[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Thanks for the feedback! The native player is unfortunately a bit picky, and doesn’t work with every video/animated file format. To keep the experience smooth and consistent, we decided to use our custom viewer for everything rather than open a different viewer depending on the file format.

Are there any specific features of the native player that you would like to see in Mlem?

[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the bug report! We’ll look into it.

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