Hey folks! 🏄♂️
First things first:
I have been absolutely floored at the positive response you all have had for Lemon! I frankly did not anticipate so much support and positivity. I want to thank each and every one of you for that!
second things… er… second:
Apologies I’ve been slow to update you all! I want to be clear: Lemon is not dead, and is very much still in active development!
I had a very hectic past couple of weeks in my personal/professional life, and so I haven’t had as much time to dedicate to Lemon as I would have liked. Combined with the 4th of July holiday here in the US and some other travel I had planned, my free time was limited. But fear not! We are rapidly approaching a testflight release for iOS! 🎉
What features are currently working for 🍋 ?
Right now, I have:
- signing in with instance search
- light and dark modes
- upvoting / downvoting / saving / commenting
- rendering post feeds, comment threads
- collapsing posts, comment threads
- in-app browser (ie for links, media)
- native image / gallery viewer
- community search bar
- comment / post sorting
- basic account / community / instance filtering (WIP)
What about the other things you said in DevLog[0]? >:(
Yes! So I ended up removing account registration and offline persistent cache for now. These features will both return, but I wasn’t happy with some of the bugs. Just about any engineer will tell you that there are two hard problems in CS: naming things, and cache invalidation. I personally think there’s more hard things than that, but needless to say, I want to make sure I get these pieces right before shipping them to you all!
Can we see 🍋 ?
Certainly! And since I made you all wait so long and you all were so patient while I got my 🍋’s together, I’ve recorded a small video!
Videos
apologies these are on youtube and not the fediverse, I don’t have a peertube account yet :)
Photos
Any questions? Thread them below!
Love and lemons ❤️ 🍋
this is looking awesome! do you have a github page where we can follow along? and any estimate on when a testflight build could be ready? thank you
Hey thanks! This is currently stored in a private github repo. The best place to follow along will be right here in !lemon@lemm.ee!
Im hoping to get an alpha onto testflight in the next few days! It’s definitely going to be rough around the edges and have some bugs, which is why it will be so critical to have feedback from the community to improve! 🙏