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Hey guys, a week ago I started working on a lemmy app like many others as an excuse to learn flutter. Along the way I found an old app that was abandoned but very well built.

After a couple of days I was able to get things running and semi-useable again. Including posting this post from the app! The main effort being updating to 0.17.x.

Here's some screenshots:

I'll be renaming the app (so I can republish it), tentatively under the name "Lem".. but really open to ideas here.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

"Leap"

Because, that's what lemmings allegedly do, but also encouraging people to take the leap and embrace the fediverse

Leap for Lemmy

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Haha, how ironic. I downloaded the old Lemmur from F-Droid today, having no idea it had been abandoned. When I couldn't add lemmy.world, I knew something was up.

It's a good looking app, so good on your resurrecting it!

As for a name... Given it's a resurrected app, how about Zommur? 😁

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I did the same thing last week, that's how I got started on this whole thing! Hahaha

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey Zack, we should probably talk!

I follwed the same route but focused on the iOS side and so I have "Limbo" in TestFlight! Lemmur is such a great base isn't it? It's such a shame that the original devs moved on.

Have a look at my take at https://lemmy.world/c/limbo

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

If you don't go with any of the other people's suggestions, I'd like to inform you that in Danish, Lem basically means penis :)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

These things are important when it comes to international products 🤣

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Looking great, can't wait to test it! Nothing against Jerboa for the time being, but alternatives are always welcome. Been testing summit yesterday that someone posted as well, and I think every app has some unique features about it, so let's see where the journey goes.

Ideally I'd love to have something as close to Reddit Sync as possible :-P

As for the name, isn't Lem a bit short? Not that I dislike it, but in terms of being properly searchable on google and the likes it might be better to go for a longer, unique search string, else it could get a bit cluttered.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Should have a testable android APK on the repo tomorrow and I'll work on getting the iOS app out for people to sideload.

Over all it works pretty well, there's a few bugs but it's a solid foundation!

Yeah I suck at names, I'll keep thinking

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds awesome! Do you have a link to the repo so I can follow you there?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah you can track progress here:

https://github.com/zachatrocity/lem

I'll make a more formal GitHub release hopefully tomorrow!

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ideally I'd love to have something as close to Reddit Sync as possible :-P

I have good news for you. Sync for Lemmy is happening!

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I second Lem being too short unless op plans on doing a lot of SEO or making people search Lem for Lemmy.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No fucking way!!! YES!

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Holy crap, this reminds me so much of Infinity for Reddit (my favorite reddit client.) If this releases I'd love to try it out!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If you're game to test while I get the wheels back on we're making progress!

https://bigfoot.ninja/post/4042

Note: significant bug with the comments due to API redesign that happened in the last 4 months.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sweet I'm gonna use this. I always thought it kinda wild that people don't write readers for this kind of website in RN or Flutter, considering you don't need any extra native functionality at all. Would love to contribute too.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's already an iOS app using this name.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hey man, thanks for the hard work! Seems it only works for lemmy.ml? I can't add my account at lemmy.world!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This, please.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sweeeet, lookin' forward to testing it out

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I think Lem is too similar to Mlem and Memmy and whatnot. I'd go with something Fed- or Thread- or Verse-related. Like Threader (could style it differently) or something

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I think Lemmynade would be a perfect name.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@zach IDK why, but this app gives me some Infinity for Reddit vibes.
Probably is the UI. Those upvote and downvote buttons.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah it does look similar. I didn't design the UI up to this point. I've justed updated it to support the lemmy backend starting from 0.17.x

It fairly out of the box material design flutter

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A group of lemmings is called a slice, the app could be something like

LemSlice

SliceOLem

Or maybe just Slice

Just some ideas

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You could make THE LEMMY app:

  1. By scraping all communities with the same name hosted in different instances and letting us subscribe to some/all of them all at once.
  2. By scraping kbin magazines too
[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm working on that separately as an instance utility.

But Lemmynade (new name) does aggregate multiple instances and user accounts into a single feed which is nice

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of infinity for reddit which I'm going to miss past July 1st

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

tentatively under the name "Lem"

How about going one abstraction further and calling it Stanislaw? I'll see myself out (but looking forward to trying the app).

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks you, that's great :)

Do you mean F-droid repo?

As for suggestion, I noticed that you can't really add a custom Lemmy instance.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can, it's on the settings:

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds great. Jerboa is sort of ok, but it is always good to have alternatives.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This looks great! I never used Slide, I was a JoeyforReddit user, but I'm really excited to see all the different apps in development.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's looking great man, keep up the good work

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm here for this. Need a decent app. Looking forward to installing and using.

If this is eventually going to serve as a Lemmy and Kbin app, maybe don't tie the name to the former. Not that I've got any suggestions for you.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, I used to use Lemmur when I first joined Lemmy. Nice to see it revived.

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