Hi all, looking for an iOS app I can use for Lemmy.world. Mlem is absolutely not the answer, at least not anytime in the near future. Thanks for the help! Any navigation tips for mobile browsing would be much appreciated as well!
Afaik, Mlem is the only option on iOS right now. I believe it will improve quite a bit in tje next weeks. Until then, the web app is the only other option.
The short answer is there isn’t one. You got Mlem for iOS and Jerboa for android
Yea, Mlem will get there I’m sure. Going off the fact Jerboa is on build 33 (0.33) I imagine its gotten a decent amount of stuff ironed out over the last 6ish months, Mlem is only on build 6 (0.0.6) so its still fairly rough. It works, but its got a bit before it is better than just using the mobile site through browser.
There isn’t really an alternative to Mlem at present, so the only thing you can do is to make due with it for now and / or use the website. I mainly use the website at present because Mlem doesn’t have a compact mode.
Ok thank you! Any suggestions on how you more smoothly navigate the website on mobile?
What problems are you facing on the website exactly? I’m just accessing my instance’s website via Safari and it works pretty okay. I’d just recommend opening threads in a new tab, perhaps.
I’m mostly running into loading issues. I am also struggling to navigate and find “my feed” if you will. And I have noticed I have to click things several times before it acknowledges the request.
Its the tough thing, going forward things will suck before they get better, it won’t be an apples to apples seem less transfer but we are going to have to be willing to sacrifice here and there otherwise we will all go back to Reddit in the end.
You’d be surprised how fast Mlem is coming along.
But for now just open the home page of your instance in Safari, hit “share” then “add to Home Screen” works okay
I probably would be, I’ll tell my inner cynic to shut it 😅 ok cool I’ll give that a whirl! Thanks.
Oh I don’t think it’s quite ready for everyday use, it works okay for a bit of scrolling. But the dev is updating it pretty often and wants to get everything working (at least the basics) by the end of the month
Agreed! It’s far from being Apollo just yet, but already it’s a fairly good experience.
Posted from Mlem.
I’m also posting this from Mlem. What works works pretty well, but it is obviously still in beta for a reason, and the biggest reason is that it is missing some major things that make day to day use very difficult. It is missing ability to see your subscribed communities unless you favorited them. It is missing the ability to search for communities, and to see anything you’ve already posted (your profile) or if you have a notification or reply. (Oh, and the ability to edit your posts…I saw a typo in this and had to go to the web version to fix it). All of those core features need to be added pretty quickly.
Jerboa on Android is not perfect either but it is much further along in development at this stage.
Are we not using the same app? Mlem shows your subbed communities by default, and you can search for communities.
