I know the developers are working hard and I’m sure they’ll be coming with Mlem updates. I hope to see a notification centre being added, as well as the posts being collapsed instead of full-length. Do you wish for an Apollo type of design, or similar?
Edit: just a heads-up, I am not in any way affiliated with LemmyNet nor its devs. You can also voice your suggestions via Testflight by beta-using Mlem.
The features I’d love to see:
- Compact / Collapsed posts
- List of your Subscribed Communties
- Search for Communities
- Multi-Communities (an equivalent to the Multireddits in Apollo)
I use (or used to use) the Multireddit feature in Apollo all the time. My big use case is that I can put “spoiler” communities there so they don’t pop up in my main feed but I can go there once I’ve seen the relevant episode! It’s also really good for grouping regional ones… like
Edit: and being able to edit your own post!
Second this. Especially community information. What community a post is in, a user is in, subscribe to the community etc.
Also allowing local filter on the post lists. Currently it’s subscribed or all.
Thirding this.
It does get confusing if there are two communities that have the same name but from different instances, but you really can’t tell which it’s from.
I know I’m not adding anything of substance with this comment but I keep seeing posts about voting with content rather than just upvotes, but I also want to add my vote for multithreads!
What exactly do you mean with “multithreads”?
Sorry I should’ve said multireddit - like the original comment said
Similar to a mulireddit where you can setup multiple communities in groups and view their posts in a single pane of glass.
For example you setup something called memes and add
THen when you click on your multithread called memes, you can see the relevant posts from ALL the communities and instances you added to the multithread.
Just as a side-note: Multireddits are not an Apollo feature, they are a part of Reddit itself since 2013. Although, Apollo did support them before the Redesign did (which calls them “Custom Feeds”) if I’m not mistaken.
An experience like Apollo would be great but I’ll take what we have. It feels cozier.
I think it has potential to get there eventually. It already follows the similar design and usage philosophies, and I imagine the development could really take off now.
Keep in mind that Apollo has years of full-time development behind it, whereas Mlem is essentially an early beta of an open-source passion project.
Thank you for the point about the length of development. I essentially started Mlem a year a half ago as my very first iOS project to take my mind off the pain from a major surgery I had the the time, then it sat abandoned until I revived it just a little over month ago. So the total dev time on Mlem is only around a month and a half. It’s still a little baby 😊
Submitting content, a way to see the various communities to subscribe to would be two big things I’d like to see it do!
I second this. I am subscribed to a big list of communities but I can’t see a list of them and pick and choose them.
I want the ability to pick and choose from subscriptions
Basically just ripoff Apollo entirely.
It would be fucking amazing if Christian ports Apollo for Lemmy. But for that Lemmy needs to have enough audience.
One could argue that the best way to do that is to port Apollo like Tweetbot did with Ivory. These third party clients hold more power than they think. If they all migrate then the users will follow. Reddit is just the hosting. Abstract that away behind clients and you have the same thing.
Yeah I think many people who use third party clients will completely stop using Reddit altogether.
Copy paste Apollo
Apollo is the one of the best designed apps I’ve ever used, I’d take inspiration from it in any applicable way.
Outside of obvious UI/UX improvements I’d love to see good iPad support.
Apollo is a work of art, such a shame to see it go
Agreed. I hate sucking the dick of big corporations, but Apple have a great UX philosophy and the Apollo dev really understands how to apply it.
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I’d like to be able to post photos and videos from the apps when you’re replying to a thread, if that’d be possible
I REALLY like the feature in Apollo where you could enable hiding of posts after you’ve viewed them. That way every time you open the app or refresh it you only see new stuff.
this is the biggest feature I want. every time I open lemmy I see the same posts until I scroll for pages… how does everyone else handle this without a mark read on scroll?
I agree. I don’t like having to scroll through the same posts all the time.
Loving the app so far. Here are some things I’d like to see implemented at some point (in no particular order):
- Option to NOT show the entire post on the feed. Similar to Apollo, we should have option to just show the Post Title and maybe a few lines from the post itself. Then click into to expand. Right now you see the entire post which some times takes up the whole screen
- Tap to collapse (comment section)
- Submitting posts via the app
- Ability to cross-post within the app
- Swipe to vote (similar to Apollo)
- See your Post/Comment history
What I miss most is
- a list of subscribed communities
- search for content/communities
- swipe left/right for upvote downvote
- button to jump to the root of the next comment
I guess you see I am a Apollo user 😂 I agree with others that posted before: Apollo is a good example, it’s designed very well and usable
YES! Second the button to jump to the root of the next comment. Next root and swipe gestures were the two biggest reasons I started using Apollo in the first place.
Gestures such as swiping right for upvote
Agreed. But customizable. I want to swipe on a post to hide it and swipe on a comment to collapse to top.
I like gestures. Being able to set them. Long left, short left etc.
I like being able to go back by from the center swipe right(so I don’t have to swipe back from the edge). And then short left is upvote. Long left is downvote. Makes browsing and engaging so efficient. This site needs high votes per user right now. So it would help the site too.
Being able to filter communities is also very helpful.
What exactly do you mean with “filtering communities”? Do you mean blocking/hiding them?
Yeah that’s what I meant. If that’s already a feature I apologize.
Have used the app for several hours now and one thing I miss a lot from Apollo is very long posts being reduced on the main feed so that the whole screen is not taken up. When you want to read more you simply tap.
There are long sticky threads up on a few instances here that are a bit of a nuisance to scroll through each time. While I understand that’s temporary, it could be annoying to see any long wall of text fill the feed.
Tl;dr: please condense posts in main feed :)
Don’t get lost implementing fancy features at the beginning, concentrate on supporting what the Lemmy web UI does and try to provide a smooth and pleasant experience on iOS.
In case you’re looking for inspiration would highly recommend to take a look at the Ice Cubes client for Mastodon. An extremely well made app.
That would be something, Ice Cubes is great. Maybe the devs from Ice Cubes would like to create an app for Lemmy as well.
