Memmy - An iOS client for Lemmy

After first trying Mlem, Memmy was my main Lemmy app for a good while, until I have been trying out some other ones. Coming back to using Memmy, I am pretty happy how well-rounded it is.

For me, the most important things are functionality and readability. The customization and font options are very nice. I especially like having a theme like the Golden Hour that is easier on the eyes, and still get to pick a theme color! With the red, it gives me a chocolate factory vibe that I enjoy.

The automatic reader mode for links is great for minimizing distractions on links, ability for switching feed link icons to the right is nice for being a lefty phone user, and the icon options are nice to have. The actual communities’ pages having the banner makes it feel more complete. The markdown editor seems well done and the Jump button is great for reading efficiently. The concise UI is very pleasant. And most importantly, the function of the things that are implemented are seemingly all working and are pretty snappy.

Having the post click first before the going directly to the link is actually really nice, because half of the time I try to click a post on other apps and end up clicking a link to somewhere. Also, the saving of a post draft is nice, although I wish there would be some pop up message or small banner that would say so.

Some things that could be improved: the favorite icon on the left list of communities does not seem to work, the Moderates feed does not load (but is a great idea), adding a Mark above as read button for the Feed would be very welcomed, the read messages do not appear in the Inbox, and lastly I tried to post this using the app and it only blinked and did not post.

All of that said, I’m really happy about the balance of features and functionality and will stick with Memmy for a good bit.

Some of the posts from my feed won’t load images. Any plans on a fix?

I really like the night owl theme but i wish there was a way to increase contrast

Is there an easy way to hide read posts? Ideally something like the feature in Thunder that lets you auto filter out any of the read posts.

Edit: on a related note, I’d love to see a swipe gesture option of “Mark as Read”.

Seems that when I read messages or replies the notifications don’t register it and I have “unread” messages I have already read. How might I fix this?

After update they’re too big, and bold, readable from five feet away.

They also limit the visible posts from 8 or more before, to four or five now.

How do I fix this?

Is this happening for anyone else?

The main feed page doesn’t load and I’m getting error messages on the other pages. However my profile page looks like I’m no logged in or I’m looking at someone else page

I deleted and re-downloaded the app.

Not sure what else I can do. Please help.

I’m on the latest iOS update and using an iPhone 15.

I can respond to messages in other posts, but I can’t reply to messages that are in my inbox from the app.

I have to problem replying from my desktop.

I’m wondering if anyone else is having issues loading the feed lately? It could be an incompatibility with the instance I’m on but I’ve tried with a few different instances and the feed page just spins and the account page shows an error.

*edit: looks like it’s specific to build 1.1.78

Latest update installed - feed is just circle wheel of death. :(

Anybody else notice this? When I load a post or its picture, there’s no indication that the post has been read. For the record, I view in compact mode.

After the recent update the compact view is unusable for reading news boards, where nearly every post has more than two lines of text and the new memmy app cuts them off with a […] in the end. Can we please get the option to allow multi line titles in the compact view again? I am now only able to read the full headlines with deactivated coompact view which is annoying as I want to read the headlines not have a small preview image for every news.

Thank you.

Can’t swipe back to get to selection of subs, can’t find my saved posts, favourites not sorted at the top. Really loved everything about memmy pre-update but feels like some key features have just disappeared overnight :(

Anyone know where the patch notes are and where I can give feedback?

Cheers!

edit: appears to be fixed with a recent update!

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If I use the right-arrow reply button next to the vote buttons at the bottom of the comment, it opens a reply to the main post instead.

If I use the “Reply” option under the three dot button, it opens a reply to the comment as expected.

I’ll try to get this on github at some point.

edit: observed on iOS 16.7.2, iPhone SE (latest model)

I’ll try to remember to log an issue report on github later, but for now, under the user profile (middle nav button) comments appear as expected, but the Posts tab is empty for me.

Hello. I got the new update today and when I opened the app it asked me to add an account. Weird… I did and then I realized it had wiped all my settings. Lost all filters, appearance configuration, everything.

I don’t know if they can be recovered but I want at least to warn other users to make a note of their settings before updating.

This is Memmy 1.0 on iOS.

Hello everyone,

App Store tells me there is a new version and I‘m a bit afraid to update. I disabled auto update when I read there would be a complete rework of the app. I tried other apps and they could‘t handle large cards on iPad landscape mode (all except for one) or didn‘t have the swipe back feature (the one). So there is no real alternative for me out there. I‘m not sure if the memmy devs really cared for iPad landscape mode or if it was working ‚by accident‘.

Does anyone use iPad landscape mode and can confirm that it stills works great?

Thanks in advance

Seems they added some new icons, like pride which I may end up using now, but they got rid of the orange one??? Why? :( I have a color theme going on and nothing works that isn’t orange. Any idea if we’re getting it back?

This thing looks and feels amazing. Thank you for all your hard work!

I have one tiny issue though. When in landscape and you click an image, the image shows in portrait.

But if you never fix that I won’t care because this new update is killer!! Thank you so much!!!

I have been using Memmy (TestFlight) since the beginning and love the app. Thanks for the recent updates it has been very stable, especially around image handling!

One thing I can’t seem to find anymore is a way to block communities. I swear it used to be there but I can’t find it anymore. Is this feature coming back or did something change on the Lemmy side?

I am really loving the recent updates to Memmy. It is really taking some massive steps forward and is currently my go-to client on iOS.

One feature that I am really enjoying is the mark read on scroll option. It has been in the app for a while but the recent update now appears to be working as expected. However it now looks to be a little too ‘aggressive’ in marking the post read as I scroll it up the screen.

I barely have the post at the mid-way point on the screen before the post title dims out. Would it be possible to have it mark the post as read as it moves off the screen?

I know it’s not a big thing. I am just personally finding it a little distracting to have the post titles dim as I am trying to read them.

Anyway, great work on the updates. I am really looking forward to seeing what comes next.

It’s crashed about 7 times in the last 30 minutes, whilst browsing the home page..?

First of all, loving the new updates on testflight. I was a little worried after not having any for a while. With the gestures, which are amazing that you can customise btw, it would be nice to have the option to hide the voting and save buttons on the post to free up space. I guess it would have to be two options for voting and saving depending on what gestures a user can set. Also to show saved/voting status, having the voting color or save color on the edge of the post after action was taken would be sweet! Thanks for all your hard work devs, loving the feature set that’s being built up!

Really like the new Memmy, feels overall smoother. However, I was curious what happened to the Saves posts and comments section.

Did the location change or removed and reimplemented later on?

Take your time though. Already happy you’re back.