Hi Mlem Community,

We’ve been quiet recently, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy! Our development efforts over the last few months have been primarily focused on our 2.0 build. This is a ground-up rebuild, which is no small undertaking. We’ve solidified our backend groundwork, and are now well into rebuilding the UI with a clear roadmap to an early TestFlight beta.

As we mentioned in April, We’re also taking the opportunity to move the app from Lionel Hanners’ account to mine. Doing this requires shutting down the TestFlight, and since we aren’t planning any major releases against the v1 codebase, we’re going to keep it down until 2.0 is ready for beta testing.

Roadmap

We want to get 2.0 into your hands as quickly as we can, and so we’re planning to ship a TestFlight as soon as we have a minimal working feature set for daily use. That feature set is:

  • All non-moderator feed options
    • All (DONE)
    • Local (DONE)
    • Subscribed (DONE)
    • Saved (DONE)
    • Community (DONE)
  • Profile (DONE)
  • Search (DONE)
  • Non-moderator Inbox
    • View replies/mentions/messages (DONE)
    • Reply to items (IN PROGRESS)
  • Reports
    • Posts (DONE)
    • Comments (DONE)
    • Messages (DONE)
  • Account deletion (IN PROGRESS)
  • Persist favorite communities (IN PROGRESS)

Bonus features:

  • A brand new post layout option
  • Full support for Lemmy’s custom Markdown dialect
  • Color themes
  • Guest mode
  • Sort community list by instance

We also have a few features we’re making good progress on and hope to have in the 2.0 release, but might come a little later:

  • Basic video handling (videos play properly, tap to play/pause) (IN PROGRESS)
  • Improved iPad UX (IN PROGRESS)

We’ll put out an announcement when the new TestFlight takes off with a link to join, and keep this post (roughly) up-to-date with development.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Update 2024-07-24 19:45 EST

The v1 TestFlight is officially shut down. A massive thanks to all our testers, and we can’t wait to launch the new v2 TestFlight!

  • SjmarfEnglish
    18•4 months ago

    We’re making several quality-of-life tweaks to the iPad layout in 2.0! So far, we’ve made the image viewer full-screen and updated the sidebar to look a bit more modern. Here’s a sneak peek:

    There’s also a setting for a more compact sidebar layout, if you prefer that:

    (This is all WIP, it might change. Ignore the lack of All/Local/Subscribed buttons, those will be back in before the first TestFlight).

    We’re also adding a setting that displays posts in a grid with two or more columns, which will make the posts look less wide in this format.

    Longer-term we’re considering some ways that we can improve the iPad layout as a whole - such as having a three-column layout - but there’s some navigation problems to work out and we can’t promise that anything like that will be in 2.0.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•4 months ago

      Nice work. Please give the feed some left and right padding. The lack of space gives me anxiety (and makes the design look amateur). Thanks for sharing!