Nemmy went offline recently due to it exceeding the usage limits after moving it to a free tier due to high costs.

It will go up again soon, but until then it'll stay offline, I just can't pay that much money again for a sideproject.

I'll adjust some things, so it'll stay online in the future and won't exceed any limits.

After all this time, I finally found and fixed the issue.

Browsers affected were at least the chromium ones.

Comments, Posts and other stuff should load now correctly again.

Also, I scrapped the full-on poll support and moved back to the simple upvote/downvote graph feature.

There are mainly three reason:

1. I want to prioritize more important features
2. The announcement post had a 0 score for most of the time, just made it to 1 recently. So there isn't much demand I think.
3. While the database & backend was set-up, I think it would be smarter to first add this feature to Lemmy itself.

Let me know if you have any feeling about this decision.

This new iteration of the Poll feature will include custom Polls.

Right now Nemmy only supports Yes/No Polls that use upvotes and downvotes.

The new system will allow users to specify their own poll with their own options.

Here is the link to the post in the screenshot:

On nemmy

On Lemmy ui

Edit:

I almost finished the backend for handling polls (see updated screenshot). The numbers you see in the screen are already from the new database which Nemmy will use going forward for all extra-features that aren't built into Lemmy.

I will also use this new database to build my own Image store integration with which will make uploading images directly finally possible.

Also, this post has currently 2 Upvotes and 2 Downvotes.. I guess polls as a feature are controversial?

Maybe I should make a poll asking if you guys think polls would be a good feature :D.

Note: Nemmy will automatically upgrade your account by logging you out. Yeah I know it's not a pretty solution but it should work.

The backend is done, so everything that worked before should work now + some features using the new system.

New feautres:

• Account copy

Works by adding a new account with the same username as one you already added but with a different instance

• Instance hot-swap (

In the user menu there's a new dropdown on the instsance name where you can change the instance in real time

• New default instance

The default instance has been changed to lemmy.ml due to the massive downtimes on lemmy.world.

This does not affect you if you're logged in, which will override the default instance

As you may notice, I'm posting this from a feddit.de account now.

This account has been copied over from lemmy.world, so avatar/banner/settings/followed communities will automatically sync upon login on Nemmy!

I'll post the update soon, so you'll be able to try this soon yourself.

The auth system works now. This has definitely been one of the harder things to code.

Now I'll integrate it into the App. I'll report back when it's done!

Hint: You may notice I'm posting this from lemmy.ml to lemmy.ml with an account on lemmy.ml ;)

I'll try to migrate Accounts but be prepared to be logged out again :((.

The new system will allow users to have multiple instance logins under one account - this will make it possible to seemlessly switch accounts when one or more instances go down.

Use case example:

You browse Nemmy with your lemmy.world account when suddenly lemmy.world goes down, then Nemmy can automatically switch you over to your synced lemmy.ml account, which has the same subscribed communities. Now you can continue browsing your feed, posting Posts and Comments - as if lemmy.world was still up.

Basically this is the next step of the instanceless featureset of Nemmy which takes over instance handling which is currently handled by the user.

They would be displayed in a censored version of course.

The current behaviour is just not to display them.

Vote by upvoting/downvoting. Graph support currently only in the Nemmy App.

This enables you to quickly create a custom feed by selecting which communities you'd like to see posts from.

Edit: It's 1am but I've got a working prototype now:

Had to make my own Lemmy API basically since there is no API to get Posts from multiple communities.

Usually I lack behind in terms of features but not this time! The official UI forgot to de-reference character references in post titles.

Notice the "&"?

Not present in Nemmy!

About

I have an idea to make loading almost everything very fast but it comes at the cost of having to load everything double.

Voting:

Use twice as much data but be much faster: upvote

Only load everything once but be just as fast as every other lemmy app out there: downvote

I recommend viewing this post on Nemmy since it has a poll feature (WIP)

I'm currently working on making Polls possible.

Right now they only work with upvotes/downvotes and a Chart is automatically displayed when "[POLL]" is the first thing in the post title.

Users can finally filter out lemmynsfw.com (or any other).

Feel free to try it out.

I could set up my own database in the cloud to save user settings and such in the cloud, which would sync across devices but I'm not sure if anyone would actually use it.

Just upvote/downvote this post to make your opinion heard. You can also comment of course.

This question is, obviously, for when Nemmy is out of Alpha.

Hello again, wow it's been almost a week since the last dev update.

I've been working on a number of things and they quickly started being depended of another, so I decided to give this one some time and push everything at once!

New features

Markdown inserts

The markdown bar thingy now actually works (finally)!

Settings

The Settings backend is done and I implemented a couple of settings for you to try out. Note that they only work when logged in.

Compact Post design

The compact post design has also been added

Better Search

You can now choose between searching for Posts and Communities (Users coming soon). The design has also been improved, the posts now use the standard compact design instead of a custom one.

Fixed login

The login issues should be fixed, but please let me know if you still experience some.

Something to look out for

I had to rewrite a ton of css in this one so there will be some issues related mostly to colors. These issues will get fixed one by one but it's dificult to find them. If you find one of these please let me know.

That's it for today!

Feel free to let me know what you think, I always appreciate feedback.

See you all soon :)

When I enter my login credentials and press "Login" all fields light up in red, I have two-factor-authentication enabled on my account so I did enter my 2fa code with my password manager. Thanks and great work you've done so far on the app, it looks so pretty!

Hey all, I've been working on a new search page which can now finally filter by posts, communities and users.

I'm currently adding infinite scrolling to it.

In the screenshot you can also see the new compact Post card design I've been working on, which will also come very soon together with the finalized settings page.

Stay tuned for more updates.

PS

In contrast to "other" Apps for Lemmy, Nemmy will always stay completely Ad free, privacy-invading tracking free and without overpriced premium features with big profit margins.

* that are listed on the awesome Lemmy list

There's no field to enter my TOTP. How do I login?

Hello everyone!

As always, all changes are on nemmy.app.

What changed

Better Markdown Support

Nemmy now supports a ton of different markdown options. Here is a Post on Nemmy showcasing the different options.

Better caching & comment caching

Most issues with the SPA post loading mod should be fixed now. Posts now open in a new tab, again, and comments are now cached as well.

Using these new techniques posts and their comments should now load in an instant. But this cache is only used for the last post visited. I did this because I don't want the cache to explode in size.

Improved Design principles

I upgrade the design specs of Nemmy and cards will now look better going forward.

Instance Info Sidebar

The instance info button in the sidebar doesn't make best use of desktop resources. So now, on wide screens, there will be a sidebar next to the posts.

Improved Explore Section

I further improved the design, although it's still not optimal for desktop.

Inbox v2

The inbox page has been improved, now showing the users comment which someone replied to. Users can now also open the comment chain showing only the context.

Comment should load better now

My fight with the damn comment trees goes on.

Work continues on the Bookmarks page

I now removed the extra page and moved the bookmarks to the user profile - like reddit and any other reddit-like app do.

The button is already there but is non-functional as of right now. It only breaks stuff :).

Meta

I've had very little time again over the last couple of days and this trend will continue into next week. So the next update will probably be sometime in the second half of next week.

Well, that's it for this update.

I fixed the bug where Users with no account could not load any posts.

Hello again, welcome to Dev update 17!

All changes are on nemmy.app.

What changed

• You can now Bookmark Posts and Comments

Although, I didn't code the Bookmark Page yet, so you can't view all your saved posts and comments in one place yet.

• You can now choose an Account to use when creating Communities

This is the first step of many which will make a seamless experience possible, without worrying about Instances at all!

What singles out Nemmy here out of all other Lemmy Apps is the approach to multi-user handling. On other Apps you would first change your active user account and then create a Community.

On Nemmy it's irrelevant which account is the active one, since the User is seen as an abstract which can have multiple "linked instances".

This is the first feature I implemented that uses this concept, but I will soon introduce this to creating posts/comments/notifications/chats etc. as well.

The active account will only be relevant to voting in the long run.

• A new number formatter

Most numbers will now be displayed in a more sensible format, like this:

Bugfixes

• Users can now vote again on posts & comments

That's it for now

But there will be more soon!

Welcome to Dev update 16

As always, all changes are already on nemmy.app.

By the way, the screenshots I post in the updates are sometimes dark and sometimes light mode. Of course every page supports both, dark and light mode.

What changed

New Features

• You can create Communities now! The UX of creating a Community is (intentionally) very similar to creating a Post, that being it breaks down into own pages.

It's not completely done yet. A confirmation page is still missing and while you can choose between all instances that you have an account for on Nemmy, it currently isn't switching automatically, so only the instance linked to your currently active account works.

I will fix both of these problems today or tomorrow.

Also, as you can see in the screenshots below, you cannot currently upload images directly and have to do a workaround by uploading the images to a third party and then just pasting the direct link into the form.

This is because the "official way" is bugged and I was trying to implement a workaround for 6 hours last night until I finally gave up. I'm still not sure on what the problem exactly is, so right now I will just wait for the maintainers of Lemmy to fix some bugs with the backend and then try again.

• Sorting and Filtering has finally been added everywhere

Improvements

• The User and Community pages are now server rendered
• The current account will now be the first in User Sidebar

• All user links now link to the internal /u/ Link

That's it for today!

See you all next time :)