I know the developers are working hard and I’m sure they’ll be coming with Mlem updates. I hope to see a notification centre being added, as well as the posts being collapsed instead of full-length. Do you wish for an Apollo type of design, or similar?

Edit: just a heads-up, I am not in any way affiliated with LemmyNet nor its devs. You can also voice your suggestions via Testflight by beta-using Mlem.

Edit2: Mlem dev reached out to me and told me the team is tracking the features that are asked for in this thread, and y’all’s ideas are being heard. Read more about issues being discussed over here https://github.com/buresdv/Mlem/issues.

    • peef ಠ_ಠ@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      It would be fucking amazing if Christian ports Apollo for Lemmy. But for that Lemmy needs to have enough audience.

      • hi_mom@lemmy.one
        3·
        2 years ago

        One could argue that the best way to do that is to port Apollo like Tweetbot did with Ivory. These third party clients hold more power than they think. If they all migrate then the users will follow. Reddit is just the hosting. Abstract that away behind clients and you have the same thing.

  • dtlnx@beehaw.org
    4·
    2 years ago

    Swipe to vote, Community grouping, Enhanced media viewer, Customizable themes and layout!

    That’s it! :)

  • MaungaHikoi@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    It’s been said a few times already but I really love Apollo’s swipe to vote interaction. The app looks tidy though, thanks for your work!

  • BigJimKen@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    Apollo is the one of the best designed apps I’ve ever used, I’d take inspiration from it in any applicable way.

    Outside of obvious UI/UX improvements I’d love to see good iPad support.

  • Schedar@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    The features I’d love to see:

    • Compact / Collapsed posts
    • List of your Subscribed Communties
    • Search for Communities
    • Multi-Communities (an equivalent to the Multireddits in Apollo)

    I use (or used to use) the Multireddit feature in Apollo all the time. My big use case is that I can put “spoiler” communities there so they don’t pop up in my main feed but I can go there once I’ve seen the relevant episode! It’s also really good for grouping regional ones… like

    UK, Chill UK, UK Casual etc

    Edit: and being able to edit your own post!

    • UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Second this. Especially community information. What community a post is in, a user is in, subscribe to the community etc.

      Also allowing local filter on the post lists. Currently it’s subscribed or all.

      • Spitfire@pawb.socialEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        Thirding this.

        It does get confusing if there are two communities that have the same name but from different instances, but you really can’t tell which it’s from.

  • eight_byte@feddit.de
    2·
    2 years ago

    Don’t get lost implementing fancy features at the beginning, concentrate on supporting what the Lemmy web UI does and try to provide a smooth and pleasant experience on iOS.

    In case you’re looking for inspiration would highly recommend to take a look at the Ice Cubes client for Mastodon. An extremely well made app.

    • cianmor@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      That would be something, Ice Cubes is great. Maybe the devs from Ice Cubes would like to create an app for Lemmy as well.

    • jiggles@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I think it has potential to get there eventually. It already follows the similar design and usage philosophies, and I imagine the development could really take off now.

      Keep in mind that Apollo has years of full-time development behind it, whereas Mlem is essentially an early beta of an open-source passion project.

      • lFenix@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Thank you for the point about the length of development. I essentially started Mlem a year a half ago as my very first iOS project to take my mind off the pain from a major surgery I had the the time, then it sat abandoned until I revived it just a little over month ago. So the total dev time on Mlem is only around a month and a half. It’s still a little baby 😊

  • aclarkc@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Just echoing many others, the biggest day to day thing I would like to see is a compact feed view. Right now it’s a lot of scrolling.

      • AvailableFill74@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        Awesome keep up the good work. iOS is so popular in the US a good lemmy client will be beneficial to the decentralized internet community.

        Time to take the www back, we appreciate your hard work