Howdy all! Hopefully you are doing well.
It has been quite some time since the last update, and for that I do apologize. Both personal commitments and just the need to take a step back have had both Sean and I not really working much on the app. However, here is some news from Memmy.
The initial releases of Memmy taught me a lot about React Native. Making an app this feature filled is fairly difficult, and it grew quickly and fell apart in a lot of areas. Seeing all of those short comings, I have gone ahead and addressed them from the ground up.
The number one issue was the UI framework that was in use. Somehow, the arguably most used UI framework for React Native had exceptionally terrible performance. That has now been completely removed from Memmy. What we are working with now produces renders in within 2ms of base React Native components.
Additionally, the state has been completely reworked. No longer should there be any real issues there. I’ve taken care to try and make sure there is only one source of truth for posts and comments as well as making sure proper memoization is being used.
Swipe gestures can be fully customized now, so feel free to do whatever setup you want.
I have some code ready to test for push notifications again. Originally, I disabled them because of rate limit issues at the request of Lemmy.world. I’ll make sure I’m still in the clear, but I was given some numbers to work with before that I think will work fine.
The community drawer can be opened from anywhere in the app by pressing and holding on the home icon now. Double tapping will refresh the feed. Small stuff, but highly requested.
Drafts get stored for everything. You can start replying to a comment, close out and reply to another one, then go back to the first. Your changes will be waiting for you.
There are other changes all over the place that should really just make performance light years better. There are sleek animations now as well on community and profile views, and loading is no longer “jarring”. Animations and fade ins are used throughout the app for all loading of data.
There’s some more stuff to implement but I anticipate having something up on the store by the middle of next week. I’ve submitted something to TestFlight for approval already, so if you are still in there you can download that.
I should note that there are no plans at all to monetize Memmy. No advertisements, paywalls for features, etc. frankly, I am happy to bite the small bill for push notifications if it comes to it. The intention is just to make an environment that you all can easily use.
Feel free to come back to memmy if you left, or stay where you’re at. As long as you’re happily using Lemmy in general that’s all that really matters :)
Cheers!
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Hiya :) Are the push notifications on the table in terms of getting that sorted out? Every time I try, it basically freezes until I close app and when I reopen (forcefully) its back to toggled being off in the account settings thing
Yep, they will be fixed up here in the next week or so.
I’ve been really enjoying the app again. More importantly, I hope you’re enjoying life a bit as well.
Minor thought, so minor that I’m commenting here instead of on GitHub, I would love the option to disable the snappy new animations.
I find it very unnatural for the rate of scrolling to change mid-scroll. That is, when scrolling a community or my profile, the scroll motion goes super fast and then slows back down. For me, this feels a lot like going up a staircase with different height steps.
I have something to fix the scroll issue. Was annoying me too. But if it’ still something people don’t like we can add a way to disable it.
This should be a lot better now!
Yeah it is! Glad I wasn’t alone with how that felt. The community logo shrinks while reducing the banner works just fine for me UX-wise.
Cheers
Thanks for the update. I really like Memmy, but I stopped using it because the preview of the photo is cropped. It makes it so I need to click onto an image to read the text and I’d like to just keep scrolling.
Is there an option to tell it not to crop the images in the preview?
I’m not even sure that made sense 😅
I’ve fixed a bunch of stuff there. Hopefully with a few more tweaks it will be wonderful.
Thanks! I’ll jump back into it 😁🙏
Memmy is still my daily app for my beehaw account. Yeah it has a few little idiosyncrasies, but honestly it’s very well done and intuitive. I’m excited you’ll be doing more work on it, and you can bet I’ll be sticking around. Thank you for all of your hard work.
Awesome news! (Posted from Memmy)
Same tbh
Big news! That’s great to hear and I can’t wait to try it out. React Native is such a minefield!
It’s absolutely wonderful but a massive headache at the same time. Honestly, had I had more react experience in general before, things wouldn’t have been so bad. All my react experience before memmy mainly came from when class based components were still the norm!
Alas I’m just a backend dev by trade so moving to front end stuff was a bit difficult!
Glad to hear you’re back!
Thanks for the hard work! Looking forward to it. I’ve tried the other iOS apps, but I keep coming back to Memmy despite the bugs. Sounds like you may have already fixed my issues :)
Hopefully with far fewer bugs now :) thanks!
Thank you for your hard work! Is there a new Test Flight code? I don’t see the new version yet.
I received a notification from TestFlight about Memmy, but I can’t recall exactly what it said. I assumed it said a new version is available so I installed it per that, but now that I’m looking in the TestFlight app, it’s showing the app expires in 22 days, so I don’t think it was a full new version. Maybe a revision? But to answer your question, I haven’t heard anything about a new code being needed.
It should be available as 1.0 and should say 90/89 days remaining. Did you refresh the screen? Sometimes it gets stuck on the old version.
Ah sure enough, checked again the update was available! Thanks!!
Actually been really enjoying the app tbh, it’s made the transition from Reddit pretty seamless imo. Glad to see you’re still on the case!
I went into TestFlight to see if any of my apps had been updated and when I was greeted with a Memmy update, I literally jumped out of my seat.
It really feels like Memmy has matured and grown. Sure, it might need some more polish, but that’s expected for such a massive rework.
I’m really excited to see what’s next!
Glad to hear this! I’m excited to see where Memmy is going! It was the app that got me hooked, after all.
Welcome back! Seems like a great base to build off of.
Great attitude too. 😊
Thanks! Glad to be back at it.
How do you enable compact mode now? Happy to see that the default sorting bug was fixed!
I’ll throw it in there soon. Was mainly focused on making sure each of the original functions is available then going to do a lot of attention to detail on design. Compact was always something that bothered me both in terms of performance and design, so I want to make sure it is done right.
Pls do! Cards just don’t sit right with me and I’d love to see this return so I can ditch reddit. I can do that now but eh I’m weak.
Don’t worry, it will be there soon :)
Thank you for the clarification and your hard work! Like others I prefer compact (strongly), so I’ve rolled back to 0.6 for now but will check back once it’s available in 1.0.
Updated to include this. If you have suggestions I’m totally open to them just let me know. I’m not a big compact user so I’m not sure what people want to see with that. Cheers.
Should be there today, I’ll reply here again once it is.
Thank you for continuing work on Memmy, and especially bringing back Compact view!
May I ask/suggest an option to once again show the poster’s name in Compact View? I really got used to seeing that information back in Apollo and the earlier Memmy versions. Perhaps this could be a toggle along with user/community instance names?
Sure thing. I’m doing some stuff in there right now so I’ll toss it in.
Wow, thank you!
I added the function but need to figure out how to make it look nice and not cluttered. Any thoughts on how/where it should go? I’m not actually sure how Apollo used to do it. **
I think you can just squeeze the username into the info line with upvote count, replies, and time. There’s plenty of space there and iirc that’s how Apollo did it with the name showing up before the rest of the info
Oh that is probably the cleaner idea. Thanks.
The username button seems to be taking up the full width in the compact posts. Tapping on a compact post brings me to the user profile 80% of the time.
Btw would it be better to open an issue on github when I spot a bug?
Thanks will deal with that now. And yes, that would be easier :)
I am not opposed to what you have now!
It might be made more compact by allowing instance names to be hidden from the community and poster names (the @lemmy.ml parts) and then combine them both on one line like “community-name by username”. But I also understand wanting to see those instance names as well.
https://images.app.goo.gl/qXBDJBHYEkW2UEWF7 is one compact mode screenshot of Apollo app with usernames showing, but I don’t remember if this was the last version/revision. I do remember that showing usernames was an option, but a non-default one.
Thank you for implementing the feature/option, and more thanks for conversing about it!
Ah ok yea, it makes sense to move the community above the title if you are displaying the username as well. And removing the instance from the name will help as well. Thanks for the screenshot!
