Small boring projects have small boring problems, but big awesome projects have problems… like this one :) Stay strong, it’s only a challenge! Mlem is awesome and you guys are an inspiration for less experienced developers and Mlem is the face (like in front end) of lemmy communities for many people! Thank you for your work!
Mlem for Lemmy
Official community for Mlem, a free and open-source iOS Lemmy client.
Rules
- Keep it civil.
- This is a forum for discussion about Mlem. We welcome a degree of general chatter, but anything not related to Mlem may be removed at moderator discretion. This is not a forum for iPhone/Android debate. Posts and comments saying nothing but "iOS bad/I use Android" will be removed as off-topic.
- We welcome constructive criticism, but ask that it be both precise and polite.
FAQ
- When will insert feature here be implemented?
- Check our issue board--if there isn't an issue open for the feature you want, feel free to open an issue or make post! Just remember that devs are people too--we're doing this for free in our spare time, and building a quality app takes a lot of patient work.
- Is Mlem available for Android?
- No. Mlem is written using SwiftUI, which is not currently supported on Android. If such support becomes available, we will look into bringing Mlem to our Android friends.
- How do I join the beta?
- The TestFlight link is here, though we can't guarantee there will be room left--Apple imposes a strict 10,000 tester limit.
- How do I join the dev team?
- Head over to our recruitment channel, or go straight to our GitHub and read CONTRIBUTING.md to get started.
Wondered what happened to BrooklynMan, was stalking your GitHub and knew there was more drama behind the scenes with the original developer leaving and now this, hopefully you guys can catch a break. As it doesn’t give people the most confidence, either way I’m loving Mlem! :)
Haha yeah it's definitely been a bit bumpy, but the core team works really well together and we're optimistic that it's smooth sailing from here on out. We're hoping our next release will restore some of that confidence--it's got some exciting features planned!
So, the original developer wasn’t the guy causing trouble?
So maybe he left because of a toxic environment?
Just curious, the new/remaining Mlem dev team is different than the original creators of the app?
The app was originally created as a solo project. When Lemmy suddenly took off, the founder started looking for devs to help out, and several of us showed up; for personal reasons, the founder chose to back out shortly thereafter. The dev team has remained largely consistent since then, though we've gained a couple new contributors.
Ah, so that's what happened! A few days ago, I was trying to respond to Eric's reply to my comment in the post for the prior TestFlight build, and was wondering why it seemed to be deleted. I thought I was going crazy for a minute!
Anyway, good luck to the team going forward! I hope everything is smooth, drama free, and most importantly, enjoyable leading up to your first stable release. 😀
So much drama... I'll stick with Memmy, I think... Hopefully, this project can stabilize itself eventually!
They're doing great work over there too! We saw they just launched--congrats to them!
For what it's worth, we don't like the drama either, and we're hoping that this will be the end of it and we can focus all our energies on what matters: updates!
Was a new beta version created? Can’t seem to update anymore and it’s been removed from my TestFlight ☹️
We had to create a new TestFlight a couple weeks ago when the founder left the project. Our new one is full, but we're hoping to be on the App Store within a couple of weeks so stay tuned!
What did this community manager do that resulted in them being asked to leave the project?
My future request post was deleted :’(
Gone but not forgotten! I can read all the deleted posts with my Mod Powers, and I've made sure to go through and catalog all the feature requests. IIRC yours was customizing swipe actions--we've got that scheduled for 1.2, though it's too far out to give a precise timeline.