Thank you again for your work on this. I’d wager that a vast majority of Memmy users are grateful for what you are doing and understand that there are going to be issues as this app is being developed.
Unfortunately, the negative comments stand out more than the positive ones and they hurt more than the positive ones help. That is just how we humans tend to be wired. All I can say is “thanks” again and I appreciate all the unpaid work you have done for us. I try to report any issues I find and provide details to help you reproduce.
To all the understanding users out there, please try to do the same. In case this is helpful, here is a list of the things I do and try to provide when I report a bug:
-Make sure I’m updated to the latest release. When reporting, note the release version and my OS version.
-Try to figure out how to reproduce the issue. If you can, give step by step instructions on how to trigger the issue. If you can’t, try to provide any relevant details on when the issue tends to crop up.
-provide screenshots when helpful.
-if it isn’t 100% obvious based on the issue, explain why it’s a problem and what behavior you are expecting from the app.
Edit: also, try to reproduce the issue on accounts from more than one instance and, if relevant, see if the issue is actually occurring when using your account in a browser or other interface. Sometimes the issues we experience have nothing to do with Memmy. By reproducing on more than one instance, you are more likely to be reporting a Memmy issue rather than a localized problem outside of Memmy.
First, I have a Giphy implementation in the works to add to Memmy. In terms of privacy, I have taken steps to mitigate tracking that comes along with the use of a Meta product while also helping to allow users to communicate with more than just text.
Giphy has a SDK already made for React Native. Unfortunately, it has some “analytics” wrapped in. The API itself can be used without those analytics, but that comes at the cost of the almost certain tracking they do with just the searches and your IP.
As a result, this is what I came up with:
You submit a search for a GIF (think Discord’s GIF search
The request is sent to a Memmy server which then processes the request for you
You receive a response with both the direct URL to each of the GIF results as well as a proxy URL. All of the results are displayed to you through the proxy.
When you select a GIF, the direct link is added to your post or comment as an image embed.
In a future update, there are plans for Lemmy to offer built in proxying of images. Hopefully this will be available soon. However if it is not, for 30 minutes the GIF you added to the comment will continue to be proxied through Memmy so as not to create an immediate link to you creating the request for the image.
This is somewhat similar to the Signal implementation of Giphy some time ago. I’m focused on cleaning up some other issues right now, but I’d like to add this in sometime in the near future. Will keep you posted.
Thanks for the lack of response from the developers. Glad you don’t have time to respond or even acknowledge the issues. App has been broken for a week now. I guess you’d rather I use voyager app?
I am a single person working on this right now. I am totally fine with you using whichever app you need to use, and I understand that if it wasn’t working for you that you’re going to switch. I have my own life commitments as well that I have to make, and managing issues through email, GitHub, and Lemmy is not feasible in the slightest.
That said, these issues are fixed now. If you want to update and use it, that’s great. If you prefer voyager that is fine too.
Logging in with username does not work for me, independent of the instance format (with/without https://). Reinstalling several times not successful. Switched to VOYAGER.
I also had this issue, and I think it was because I used my email address instead of username, which works initially but breaks later. Deleting app and logging in with username fixes it.
The app is bricked on my iPhone as well. This is pretty bad. If I switch apps, I’ll never come back to this one. It’s been broken for days now. Not sure why I haven’t switched yet but if it’s not fixed by today then I have no choice.
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