Hey man whatever you’re doing right now, you deserve it. Just relax and play baldurs gate, we’ll be here eagerly awaiting your updates when you’re ready
Yeah, I blocked that one, and it had a great effect. That’s what got me thinking of this. The damned hand-egg instance has a separate bot for each team’s community though, so that truck doesn’t work with them
Have to agree that this update has felt pretty jarring when I’ve been used to how the app has been working. It felt like Apollo before but now it feels like Apollo’s little annoying shitty brother. I remain hopeful that the changes will be sorted out but we will see.
I think overall the devs are doing a great job but this update feels like it could have done with a bit more testing before full release. Think i might have to sign up to the test flight to put my money where my mouth is!
Yeah Lemmy is undergoing a complete rewrite right now so some stuff that was once there might not be for the time being, but my understanding is that it will all slowly back and once it is back to the point it once was at, it’ll be much easier to create new features and it will also be much more stable.
Or give the mommy devs some time. They are rewriting the entire app and so far the changes have been really positive and fast to come. If you hop on TestFlight version I think you’ll be even happier.
My progression has been voyager(mobile)>bean(i paid for that lmao)>thunder which has been by far the most smooth and feature rich. ive tried all the other available ios apps as well (lemmios, avelon, etc.) but thunder has been better than any ive paid for or contributed to so far. i still want memmy to succeed and become even more feature rich but i def get that it’s prob not the devs main priority, especially being a free app. check out some others in the meantime! i still occasionally cycle thru them all. i dont think lemmy will blow up fully until there is a pristine ios experience.
I like Thunder, since it is the most like ReddPlanet, the app I was using as my main when the APIcalypse happened, but I run into issues trying to reply to comments.
It’s been on our todo list but we have been a little burnt out from Memmy development and lemmy in general so things have been slow. Plus I’ve been addicted to baldurs gate.
Also have been using Avelon more lately - they do images well, but videos on the other hand have zero control beyond pause, with no ability to resize, skip, etc
I can’t prove my experience with a now defunct app but I feel fairly confident that is not the case. My browsing experience in Memmy is noticeably more ad filled than my experience in Apollo.
The app seems to be abandoned at this point. I would suggest looking at some of the other options. Bean, Voyager, Avelon, and Liftoff are all great options on iOS.
Is that the consensus? I don’t wanna beat up on like one of the first devs/realistic replacements for Apollo/Reddit in its image that really opened a lot of doors and arguably contributed to Lemmy’s proliferation (at least with this n=1).
Hopefully he jumps in and chimes in at some point but, wherever you are, you are loved and youmve created a real thing of beauty.
I’m certainly not here to beat up on them at all. I think they were VERY ambitious and sort of set the tone for app development which definitely helped me feel more comfortable as I came over from Reddit. The facts are the facts though. They’ve been almost entirely radio silent and there haven’t been any commits to GitHub in like a month. Maybe it’s just a long break so they can breathe after a crazy dev cycle, but the overall silence isn’t a great sign and I moved on because of it.
Would also add Arctic to the list. The dev is very communicative with his community and has been releasing regular updates. The app is very stable, even though it’s just a TestFlight release and runs extremely fast (Avelon is also very fast too).
It also has fully working mod tools now, which almost none of the others have.
Bean is definitely one of the furthest along and is also out on the App Store. I’ve also found that Thunder is really polished and has a different take on UI compared to some of the others.
I have found myself using Arctic and Bean the most right now, but there’s really a lot of great options out there.
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.
update, copying here in case you don’t see the other one:
I’ve since discovered that memmy doesn’t retain the blocked instances list when the app or phone gets restarted, it will reset to no instances blocked.
This is a known bug that’s marked high priority, so hopefully it will be fixed sometime soon.
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