Thanks everyone for all of the feedback we are getting! It’s hard to rapidly develop and push new updates while maintaining 100% usability, so your feedback is crucial to making sure things work the way they are supposed to!
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Please make sure that you are running the latest version of memmy as well. Changes are happening quickly and there are new features getting pushed daily. I suggest enabling automatic updates in TestFlight.
Happy scrolling!
The app is coming together and improving pretty rapidly so far. I can see that Apollo has been a big inspiration in regards to gestures which makes me feel “at home” while browsing the lemmyverse. I’m definitely loving it.
My only suggestions would be having the ability to change the font size. I’m unfortunately at a stage in my life where it’s becoming more difficult to read smaller fonts, and I’m having to squint to read the comments.
I also made a request to the mlem dev to have the ability to toggle a setting that hides the top and bottom bars while scrolling through threads/comments like you can within Apollo. It’d be nice if a similar setting could be added.
Memmy does support dynamic type, but yeah it’s a feature from apollo that I miss too.
IOS Settings » Accessibility » Display & Text Size » Larger Text
You can bump global text size up with the slider at the bottom of that screen without enabling the Larger Text toggle
I like my system font size to be on the smaller side though, so being able to customize by app is a big QOL upgrade
Can images me made easier to swipe away? I feel like much of the time I try to swipe up or down and it just moved the image instead of dismissing like I’m attempting.
Some feedback: 1: I’m sure you are working on this, but adding the ability to search for communities should be a priority. IMHO, I would copy how Apollo has a dedicated tab on the bottom menu for search. Alternatively, see (7)
2: A couple of features aren’t properly scaling when using the app in the “slide over” configuration on an iPad. The ones I’ve found so far are: it’s impossible to downvote a comment, the top UI elements smoosh into each other, and images don’t display without clicking on them
3: Consider getting a bit more active about promoting the app. This is way more impressive than Mlem
4: Consider adding a dedicated downvote button to comments. Currently people browsing with gestures disabled would not be able to downvote comments at all
5: Consider copying how Apollo will report how many comments are in a collapsed thread / comment chain. This is required to implement (6)
6: Consider automatically collapsing comment chains that are more than 5 replies deep.
7: Consider creating a dedicated interface for selecting communities / all. Perhaps the dialog could be triggered by tapping the top bar, and would contain radio buttons for sorting by all / subscribed / local, as well as a list of subscribed communities. You could also include a redundant shortcut to search (or even put the entire search dialog) here (see (1))
8: The menu when inside a community is currently missing the sidebar
Overall, this app is amazing! —
- Should have the search done today. I wanted it done yesterday but time got short.
- I know that there’s a few UI issues, but I have some designs already ready to begin implementing, so things are going to change a lot on that front for the better.
- As far as promotion, most definitely will. I still want to make sure that I iron out a bunch of the issues before I do anything major though. However, I do want to aim to have something stable for the 30th of June that can be available on the App Store without TestFlight.
- The new designs include buttons for upvoting and downvoting posts on the comment item. This will be enabled/disabled via a setting.
- Good call on showing that.
- I will definitely be having them auto collapsed at some point here soon.
- I’m going to experiment with a better way to select those. In addition, need to have good ways to select for comment sorting and stuff too.
- Sidebar info will be availabe in new design.
Thanks for all the good feedback!!
For #5, it also might be valuable to have an option to collapse all comments by default.
As a side note, are there any plans to mark posts as read on scroll, and then auto-hide them? It was super nice being able to maintain a “history” and avoid revisiting posts over and over again.
Thank you for all your incredible work on this!
Nice update, feels a bit more stable and I like the functions you have implemented. Especially blocking communities!
I would love a version of “compact” that hides all thumbnails. It makes for an even more compact list of text rather than dedicating space for a square thumbnail, many of which are just empty because they are text posts and/or just outward going links, and I do enjoy the visual cleanliness that comes from not having a variety of different squares of colors against a black background lining the right side of the text.
