It is, though it might be a little while before it's ready. Apple charges a small fee for push notifications and the project currently has no money to speak of. We're looking into options for setting up a proper donation system, but it's a bit complicated as we're a team and not a solo dev.
That's him! He founded Mlem a couple years ago as a pet project and is responsible for basically all of our alpha code. When Lemmy took off, he stepped away from the project for personal reasons largely driven by the scope of the app suddenly exploding from "hobby project" to "production app." He handed ownership of the codebase over to one of the current team members, and it is now maintained collectively by the Mlem Group.
I'm really sorry that happened to you! We're refining that UX to make that much harder to accidentally do in the future.
Mlem is SwiftUI and FOSS! I know there are some issues with the current App Store build (weeps in janky scrolling) but we've got a major update hitting beta tomorrow and the App Store as soon as Apple will allow that's going to fix it.
Some of the features that are coming in the next week or two:
- Fully-fledged media viewer for gifs and images
- Marking and hiding read posts
- Guest mode
- Crossposting
- Image upload
Thanks for the download, and I hope you enjoy it! We’re firm believers in the native Swift experience, even though it takes a little longer to develop in
It’s coming! We’ve got development slated to start early August, it should enter TestFlight beta sometime shortly after then.
Mlem dev here—couldn’t agree more about Gavin, he’s a fantastic guy. Gave us some helpful tips about getting through App Store review. Massive props to him for getting that app up and running so fast.
The image viewer is our #1 priority right now. To zoom you can tap the image once in the post view--we're working on getting a hotfix out shortly to make that work the intuitive way, where tapping the image in feed opens the quick viewer.
Longer-term, we're working on a much more robust, fully-featured media viewer, but it's a complex piece of code and we want to get it right--it's slated for our next milestone (1.1, targeted Aug 5).
There are a couple smaller reasons, but the big one is that we use NavigationStack
to handle our core view navigation--it's a truly monumental improvement over the old NavigationView
, and lets us do things like build an iPad version without rewriting all our nav stuff, but it is unfortunately only compatible with iOS 16+.
I know that's probably not a super satisfactory answer, but I'd rather be transparent than spin some PR nonsense at you.
Yes! We will continue using TestFlight to try out our beta features, so if you want the cutting (and maybe buggy) edge of our development, stay on there. If you just want the stable, reliable app, the App Store version is your friend.
Progressing well! We're hoping to have the next TestFlight build out soon.