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Hey all!

I am doing a rewrite right now of the state management so that we can scale a lot better. This is going to allow for a super seamless integration of mod tools as well as other integrations throughout the app.

I am aware of some issues with the drawer right now, especially whenever a user has a large number of subscriptions. We are working on clearing that up.

I'm also aware of some performance issues, especially on older devices. Two things are being done to correct this:

• Better state management
• Stripping out one of the UI libraries that is used and replacing it with either another library or raw React Native components.

These will probably be done by the end of the week. I think these are two things that are super important to knock out now to keep things scalable. I'm learning here as we move along, and am fixing things up as I see issues arise 👍

Thanks for all the feedback, and know that some absolutely great things are coming your way very soon! Cheers

Hey all!

This should be available sometime later in the day. Huge thanks for a few new contributors - @joshua-davis-rose and @bohn002 - for putting in a lot of work as well.

• Subscriptions now available in a drawer instead of "Traverse". More of an Apollo-esque style
• Switch accounts by pressing and holding the profile button. Feed header now allows you to select Local/All/Subscriptions
• Continuing to improve image viewer
• Saving images and sharing images now uses the cached files to share, so you don't need to re-download them
• Alphabetized subscription list
• Community about screen now shows moderators
• You can swipe back using anywhere in the tab bar (I've been experimenting with full-screen swipe back as well, once I get that ironed out a bit more we will add that too)
• UI now uses the iOS 14+ dropdowns for context menus
• Cleaned up some issues with longer community names, but there are still more to handle. Keep an eye out.
• Subscriber count is now in the community search
• All NSFW image issues should be fixed
• Lots of performance enhancements around the app
• Also lots of bug fixes, especially for a few newly discovered crashes

Please be sure to report any issues to the GitHub if you can. It is much easier to track there than it is here. There's a lot of traffic, so it's hard to keep track of all of it!

Stay tuned for more coming throughout the week!

Edit: Want to make this a sugestion thread, so please let us know your ideas on themes or names below.

Howdy all!

We have been internally discussing a rebranding of Memmy to another name. This has been a discussion for some time, and although we have certainly tried to see the upsides of not rebranding, we don't think this is a viable long-term option, for - among others - the following reasons:

• Eventual support for non-Lemmy services such as Kbin or Mastodon
• User awareness of Lemmy. Right now, the vast majority of people who are finding the app most likely are specifically searching for "Lemmy". While that's great and (based on trends on downloads/day) shows that there's obviously a big demand for Lemmy, we think this might not be the best way to grow - not just for ourselves but for Lemmy as a whole. We want the fediverse to grow and the best way to do that is to make it acceptable and easy to access without specifically targeting people who already know about Lemmy
• Community feedback in general about the name. None of this is taken personal or anything, but there's definitely negative feedback for multiple reasons about it, and honestly I think we agree with most - if not all - of that feedback.

Like I said, this is not something that we are doing lightly and we want to make sure we make the right choice before moving forward.

Mind you, we are not talking about a short-term goal here of supporting multiple Fediverse platforms. That probably isn't even in the one-year plan if I'm being honest. But I personally believe the way that we make the Fediverse work is by making the whole experience awesome, and that means offering users with options and ease-of-use.

So, with that said, we want to see what you guys think. We have had internal discussion about the possibility of using the name Badger, and while we all think that's a pretty good option, we are not 100% sold and want to gauge feedback before we do anything. Edit: It seems like that might not be something the community is interested in, so we likely won't be going that route.

Please drop your suggestions for themes or names below! We will go through them all sometime later in the day.

Let us know your thoughts!

Coming to the App Store tomorrow!

Hey all! We still have some more QOL updates coming tomorrow or Saturday. Working on getting comments all sorted up (more like the Apollo style) and getting post editing/deletion as well as mod tools underway.

This update provides a VAST improvement to the image viewer. There shouldn't be any more issues with the swiping to close.

There are some issues still but they are minor and I'll get them cleaned up here soon. I've spent the day writing this viewer from scratch, so it's been a process.

The "white flash of death" should be fixed here as well when you open up the app.

We also now support localization! German is officially supported now, and we will be sourcing other languages to improve the experience for everyone.

Other minor fixes as well in this build, including a fix for a crash that was happening with the new spoilers.

Stay tuned, and happy scrolling!

Over night I had a LOT of reports come in about a crash. I have fixed these issues and this version is now live on both the App Store and TestFlight.

Please keep sending that information in! Thanks!

There is currently something going on over at Lemmy.world causing authentication issues. This isn't a memmy specific issue but is also plaguing the PWA. https://lemmy.world/post/1364490

Until this is fixed, the best bet it to just keep "retrying". This would explain some of the issues I thought were linked to issues inside the app but might be something else.

I have an update ready that will fix a bunch of these internal issues with the app, but unfortunately it's going to break Lemmy.world terribly for anyone using it, so I'm going to hold off on releasing that until they figure out what is going on.

App store version is up.

If you are on Lemmy.world, you need to update your JWT token. Sorry, this was not intuitive and there is no proper error message. This is my fault and we seriously just never got around to this.

Please go to "Manage Accounts" and then tap your Lemmy.world account. Hit "Edit Account", enter your password, then hit save. You should be back up and running.

That is all. Pretty tired, going to sleep. Enjoy everyone!

Big QOL update will be coming later this week <3

Note

This information is based off of early reports I have seen. I don't claim to know the extent to which any damage was done and as such recommend a password reset (two-factor authentication would not be of use if authentication tokens were compromised), but we do know that this was a Javascript injection.

Update

As of right now, it seems that the vulnerability should have only exposed JWTs, which have been invalidated by those instance administrators. I'd still recommend a password rotation just because, but you should be alright.

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With the recent Lemmy.world incident, I'd like to update you all. This vulnerability could not have affected you had you been using only Memmy while browsing. It was a Javascript injection, and as Memmy does not execute any Javascript, there is no attack surface here.

The only case where this could have affected you would be if you had been signed in to your account inside of the in-app browser or the default browser and opened one of these posts. That however would not be something with Memmy itself, but rather the accessing of the PWA.

Regardless, as we don't actually know what happened, I'd recommend changing passwords. If any JWTs were compromised during this, regardless of 2FA status these tokens could be used to authenticate with your account.

From what I have seen, this was an issue that was limited to Lemmy.world, as supposedly they were running a custom frontend build. Other than that, I don't know anything else.

Also, for the record, there is only one instance in this application where a webview is used, which is when viewing the terms of service which simply loads a local file from the app assets.

Any questions, I'll try to answer them but you'd be better off asking people more knowledgeable about the incident.

As always, this is a good time to go over your online security practices.

It is strongly recommended that you use a password manager such as Bitwarden or 1Password if you do not use one already. This can help prevent credential surfing if you have used the same password over many sites, preventing you from having several of your accounts breached from a single breach.

If you have used a password on Lemmy.world that you have used on other sites, you should change those other sites passwords immediately.

Email addresses may have been breached during the attack and this may result in increased spam and phishing emails. It is strongly advised that you throughly verify any emails that you receive after this, particularly ones relating to login requests, messages from banks or payment providers, such as PayPal or government institutions.

Thank you for using Memmy and stay safe!