Loving Memmy so far!
The only two things I’d like to see are:
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searching within a community (this is probably requested previously but I can’t search previous posts. Please let me know if I’m wrong here!)
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the subscriptions tab to become a button within the dock at the bottom. I frequently move between my subscriptions and I find it a little tucked away at the moment.
Regardless, love your work. It’s always a bit rich making requests for something that is FREE! So, again, thanks for all your hard work and feel free to disregard the above.
Regardless of whether Memmy is the most “iOS” like, it’s the most like Apollo (RIP). I do like Avelon and Voyager as well but Memmy is my favorite and just feels compact, clean, and right.
Far from it. Featurewise it is the richest, but it does not feel like home on iOS.
Regarding apps for lemmy I prefer
Avelon Mlem. This one is made with swift has checks all the iOS design guidelines boxes.
I’m not very familiar with the iOS guidelines but try to refer to them sometimes. Are there any glaring issues you are aware of that Memmy has, with the guidelines, or is it more a lot of small things? I imagine it’s easier to stay within guidelines while using SwiftUI/UIKit but maybe it’s not.
I can’t imagine what kind of iOS guidelines could make Memmy more comfortable to use. It’s so damn good.
Take any of the Apple apps for example. They implement the frosted glass effect to give you a sense of foreground and background and it looks just super nice. I sent two feedback text to Memmy about this but this low hanging fruit hasn’t been implemented yet.
Then the size of the big headers that shrink down when you scroll down to reveal more content. Just real eye sugar!
We don’t read the test flight feedback because most of it is extremely low quality and we get a ton of it.
Regarding glassmorphism, it’s something difficult to do in React Native. (although Bean does it so i guess possible) I believe both gk and i are not big fans of it anyways. I don’t hate it in certain places but i honestly really don’t like it in Mlem for example. Maybe because of all the varied content i can see come through it on Lemmy, where as in Messages or Mail it’s more monotone.
Regarding the tab bar going away on scroll. I believe this is not an accessible design and am also unaware of it ever being recommended by Apple. Also unaware of it being used in any apple apps. Totally fine to like it, just don’t think it’s an iOS design guideline.
Appreciate the feedback, though i guess i thought we were talking more about UX design over aesthetics.
Yeah, Avelon and Mlem are different apps. I prefer Avelon. Memmy is great but I just prefer Avelon myself. Feels more my design style with the choices the dev has made.
Definitely +1 for Mlem. It’s my main. I’d also like to give Bean a shoutout! While it’s not entirely Swift IU (far as I can tell), it’s way more Swift than Memmy and just as if not more feature rich!
Bean isn’t swift, it’s React Native like us. If you mean more iOS like then maybe it is?
Oh, well it definitely feels like it’s using Swift UI for the majority of the UI (although not all, as I said). Regardless, great job on Memmy!
Edit: after taking a closer look at Bean (which I should’ve done earlier lol), it looks like Apple’s UI is only really used in the menus and pop-ups of Bean. That’s pretty embarrassing but oh well lol. If you’re looking for proper full swift with swift UI, Mlem is the way!
Glad you are enjoying it!
- It’s on the roadmap but we just haven’t gotten around to it. Gk might be adding it soonish though.
- We were thinking of maybe making the subscription drawer open from anywhere in the app if you long press the Feed tab icon. I’ve also been meaning to add some customization options for the tab bar on the bottom to let you change what options are there, but no promises on that coming any time soon.
Personally I like Memmy too, Wefwef is great as well. Only thing I dislike of the latter is that it doesn’t let you choose between app icons, but oh well.
Yeah that app is really great and looks really professional compared to every alternative. Keep up the good work!
