Dev lead for Mlem, the iOS Lemmy client.

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  • Eric@lemmy.mlMtoMlem for Lemmy@lemmy.mlLink URL review
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    4 months ago

    This behavior can be customized under Settings -> Links -> Tappable Links. By default it uses "contextual," which will display the full link in large contexts and just the title in compact contexts (e.g., comments if you have comment display set to "compact"). Setting it to "large" will always display the full link regardless of context.



    1. Yes! We aren't happy with the current state of our media viewer. 2.0 is a backend-focused rewrite, so probably won't have a new media viewer on launch, but it's without a doubt high on our list of important features.
    2. Hard to say. Our iOS compatibility policy guarantees compatibility until iOS18 reaches 75% market share; after that, I can't make any promises. We take the decision to drop compatibility very seriously, and try to only do so when the features offered by the newer iOS are valuable enough that we would be compromising the potential quality of the app by ignoring them.
    3. Yes. We're still working out some UX concerns stemming from the fact that it's very slow to search posts and comments compared to communities, but it's in the plans.









  • There were a few reasons behind the change:

    • Saved was the odd man out in the profile page--everything else there is your own authored content
    • Saved is a feed containing a subset of content generated by other users. Every other such feed was under Feeds; now all such feeds are under Feeds
    • This way, what you see on your profile page is the same as what other users see on your profile page
    • By extension, the code is much nicer this way because we don't need to do as much conditional rendering and processing in the user page--we can use the same component with very little modification to display your own profile or somebody else's
    • This also lets us add the Saved feed to the app shortcuts menu without making that horribly inconsistent--the four shortcuts are the four header items in the Feeds tab















  • We unfortunately can’t make long press the collapse post gesture, since that is already taken by the system context menu behavior. We can, however, add an option to disable tap-to-collapse, since we already have the alternative of swiping very far to the left to collapse a comment implemented.

    Swipe actions on expanded posts should be feasible, but I’m not going to promise it until I’ve reviewed our other planned features and verified that there aren’t other uses for that gesture under discussion.