Welcome to the Mlem 2.0 Feedback Megathread! This is where we will be posting changelogs for the Weekly TestFlight (the Stable Pre-Release changelogs will get full posts), so check back here to see what’s new!
This is also the place to post feedback on the Weekly beta (or you can just open an issue on our GitHub if that’s your style).
Please be aware that this is an early beta build, may be missing features you consider essential. See the “Roadmap” section of our 2.0 release post for more details.
If you want to join our Weekly TestFlight group, you can do so here.
If you would rather join the Stable Pre-Release group, which receives curated, stable pre-release builds, you can do so here
2024-11-15
Features
- Added the block list (Settings -> account)
- The post title and community is now displayed on comments in a user profile or in the inbox
2024-11-01
Features
- “Swipe anywhere to navigate” setting. Note that this cannot be active at the same time as swipe interactions.
- Compact posts now show saved status
2024-10-25
Features
- Moderated feed
- Fediseer integration (Trust & Safety tab in the instance view)
- Basic account settings
- Added code blocks to Markdown tools
- Added the option to confirm image uploads
Bug Fixes
- Fixed placeholders being shown in comment editor
- Fixed cache size readout not updating when cache is cleared
2024-10-18
Features
- Moderator action to remove content
- OLED theme
- Easy-tap links
- Autoplay animated media (iOS 18 only)
- Refined expanded post view
Bug Fixes
- Fixed not being able to import settings files not created by Mlem
2024-10-11
Features
- Search posts
- Updated search design
- Collapse post content
- Pin and lock
- Default Sidebar Visibility setting
2024-10-04
Features
- Added preliminary video support:
- .gif, .webp, .mp4, .m4v, and .mov media can now be played by tapping the play button; tapping elsewhere opens the media viewer.
- Currently the only controls are tap to play/stop.
- Planned features, roughly in order include:
- .gifv support
- Thumbnails for .mp4/.m4v/.mov/.gifv content
- Pausing
- Scrubbing
- Updated design to use rounded rectangles
- Added the ability to edit posts
- Added more Markdown buttons: inline link, code block, and user/community/instance links
- Added a new comments indicator
- Added instance uptime statistics
- Expanded post can now be refreshed
- Added sign up prompts for new users
- Expanded posts now show if they’ve been crossposted with links to the crossposts
- Added a page for rendering deeply nested comment threads. Navigating to a comment (e.g., from inbox) will open this page.
- Added the ability to create crossposts from the post share menu
Bug Fixes
- Fixed iPad confirmation dialog appearing in the wrong place
- Fixed iPad sidebar navigation
- Fixed Markdown blocks would sometimes being truncated
- Fixed mark read on scroll not respecting the setting
- Fixed an issue preventing swipe actions on the account list and subscription list views
- Fixed some crashes
2024-09-18
Features
- Improved mark-read-on-scroll behavior
- This feature is only available on devices running iOS 18. On iOS 17, the old behavior will be used.
- Added dark and tinted app icons for iOS 18
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where swipe actions were interfering with scrolling on iOS 18
- Fixed an issue where image context menu actions would fail on certain instances using image proxies
2024-09-14
Features
- Added image uploads, both for image posts and inline in post/comment bodies
- Added compact comments
- Added sign up to onboarding flow
- Added a settings import/export system (Settings -> General -> Import/Export Settings)
- Added the ability to save the current settings state and restore to that snapshot
- Added the ability to export the current settings state as a JSON file
- Added the ability to import settings files
- Added settings migration from v1 (pending 1.3.5 release to App Store)
- Added image proxy failure handling. If your instance’s image proxy fails, you can now choose to manually bypass the proxy and load directly from the image host. This behavior is fully opt-in.
- Added sorting and filtering options to search
Bug Fixes
- Improved scroll-top-comment behavior
- Fixed an issue where the image viewer would open at extremely low resolution
- Fixed an issue where the comment editor sometimes wouldn’t submit the right text
2024-09-02
Features
- Added two new color themes: Solarized and Dracula
- Added the ability to include links and images in posts
- Significantly optimized image handling, resulting in a smoother feed (especially in the Tiled layout) and a more responsive image viewer
- Added a “new account” flair
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the image viewer would not work on instances using image proxying
- Fixed a compatibility issue with versions running Lemmy v0.18
2024-08-29
We got a ton of great feedback from our initial release, and have implemented a number of new features and bug fixes:
- Added mark read on scroll (Settings -> General)
- Added a default feed setting (Settings -> General)
- Added a setting to adjust haptic behavior (Settings -> General)
- Fixed the lock icon being the wrong color
We’ve got a lot more in the works, so if you commented yesterday with a bug or feature request that isn’t mentioned here, stay tuned! We expect to be releasing builds fairly rapidly over the next few days.
2024-08-28
This is the initial beta release. We’re still bringing 2.0 up to feature parity with 1.0–this build should have everything you need to browse and interact with Lemmy. Please note that post creation and moderation tools are not currently supported in the 2.0 build–post creation is in active development and moderator tools are a high-priority item, so if you want to join the beta but those are important to you, check back in a week or two!
We’ve also got some new features:
- Markdown support
- Tiled post layout
- Keep place on account switch (allows you to switch accounts without fully reloading the app)
- Guest accounts
- Color themes
Check out our 2.0 release post for more details on the new release.
Loving the new look so far! One thing I immediately noticed though is while scrolling through my subscriptions via the letters on the right, the view starts breaking with a ton of random space.
Changing the sorting back and forth seems to fix the view, but rapidly scrolling back and forth will break it again.
Thanks for the bug report! We’ll look into it.
Will this version include support for Apple’s translation API? I’d love to be able to read some of the posts that aren’t in my language.
We do plan to integrate the translation API, but it might come after we release 2.0 to the App Store—our primary focus right now is reaching feature parity with the v1 app so we can ship 2.0. That being said, we may build it into 2.0 before then as an excuse to play around with the new API.
Uploading a photo to any community fails with Error. Anyone getting this issue too?
As Eric said, if you tap on the error it’ll give you more info. Have you tried a different image? Some instances impose a maximum file size on the images you can upload. If that happens, it’ll show the “error” toast. We’d like to make that error case show a more obvious warning in future.
It was exactly it! Image too large, it says. Fingers crossed Mlem make this process easier in the future🤞
Thanks for the bug report! If you tap the error message at the top of the screen it will give you a more detailed error message—would you mind sharing that message so we can debug further?
Thanks. I tapped the error message and turned out it was image too large. So not a bug:D
This is so smooth, awesome.
Will you bring back the “compact comments” setting in the future?
Yep, it’ll be back :)
I can’t seem to upvote or post? When I upvote I get the animation then it returns to the old number. Posts I just get Error.
Thanks for the bug report! It looks like this is due to the antique backend Beehaw is still running–we’ll have a compatibility patch out soon.
Thank you! Is GitHub issues or here a better place to report?
We don’t have a preference–we monitor both pretty actively so whatever is easiest.
Very much looking forward to V2! I’ve had to switch to Voyager for working spoiler markdown – it’s also excellent, but I generally prefer Mlem.
Cheeky questions while I’m here:
- Voyager also seems to handle GIFs in comments better, is that something on the cards for Mlem?
- Is there a plan to introduce swiping forward? I frequently accidentally swipe back to the community list and lose my place in the feed.
I’m glad you’re enjoying Mlem!
Voyager also seems to handle GIFs in comments better, is that something on the cards for Mlem?
It’s something we’d like to add at some point; we’re tracking the issue here. It may end up being in 2.0 or may not be.
Is there a plan to introduce swiping forward? I frequently accidentally swipe back to the community list and lose my place in the feed.
We’d love to have this feature but it is annoyingly very difficult to implement. The framework we’re using doesn’t natively support this, and neither does the framework that framework is built on. Apollo had this, but the code is of course closed-source so we can’t get any insight into how they did it. We’re tracking the issue here.
To add a little more insight on the gifs side: video handling is the next major item I’m working on. In theory, the media framework we use should make gifs free once video handling is working, so hopefully they’ll be coming soon.
Thanks - looking forward to it!
It says I’ve been removed from the test program. How do I get back in?
I used to be a TestFlight tester but I got removed and all I can see now when clicking the join link is that I was removed from the program ):
Never mind, it fixed itself just now, thanks for the great app!
Hmm, that’s strange. Have you tried manually opting out of testing (“Stop Testing” in the TestFlight app) and clicking the link again?
Just installed and poked around a bit. So far so good! I like the new look and feel.
