Wanted to make a post where we can keep track of the known issues and features that are WIP. Leave a comment below and/or create an issue on the issue tracker
Known Issues
No animation when collapsing comments (they just vanish, working on it)
No way to view saved posts
Sometimes when you interact with a post (vote, reply, save), if you navigate to a new screen and come back shortly after the UI won't reflect your interaction (this is an issue on some instances and is a known bug with Lemmy. The change doesn’t come in from the API response. I'm working on a way to circumvent this without showing incorrect information)
Some comments are missing whitespace
Features Currently Being Worked On
Join posts with the same URL across iinstances
Indicate when a post is on multiple instances in the feed view
Separate comments by instance in the comments view
Allow filter by instance in the comments view
Add setting to prioritize certain instances over others (ie. show beehaw.org first, then x, then y, …)
Ability to swipe between sources in post previews (swipe on title to show title,votes,comments on other instance)
Filter posts by keyword (ie. Don’t show any posts if the title contains the word “keemstar”)
Search across logged in instances
Search for Community
Search for posts
Search for users
Choose a default instance to show if a user does not wish to sign in (ie. Guest mode)
Provide a list of most popular instances/good for newbies on the welcome screen
Allow new users to register from the app
Profile view with notifications, your posts, your comments, your info
Settings view
Browser settings
Domain specific filtering (ie. Always open YouTube links in browser, always open Wikipedia links in in-app browser)
Domain redirect (ie. Forward Reddit links to old.reddit.com or webarchive, etc.)
Turn off in-app browser all together
Set default external browser
Theme Settings (Partially "done")
Default themes (Catppuccin, Nord and Rose are available from the feed view > 3-dot menu > Settings)
Theme Builder
Change the color of each UI element individually or set accent, background, text, etc.
Export theme to file that can be shared and imported
Theme Repo
A place where users can upload their custom themes and other users can vote on them
Featured themes curated by myself and popular themes curated by the community via votes
Filter settings
Filter by keyword, instance, author, community
Block users, instances, communities
NSFW settings (show/don’t show, show but only on certain communities, don’t show except for on certain communities)
Kbin API (need to wait for Kbin to get their API in a better state)
Push Notifications
More robust in-app browser
Select text in comments
Save comment as image (like in Apollo 🪦)
More robust markdown editor
Community groups (a la multireddits)
Hide posts if the user has already opened the comments and show again if there are new comments since the last time it was viewed (configurable via settings)
Support for sending/receiving direct messages
Option to hide post manually and ability to view manually hidden posts
config via settings, optionally show in feed again if there has been comment activity since it was hidden
Long Term Plans
In the interest of transparency:
I do plan on eventually charging for certain features of the app (mainly features that will cost me money to implement like push notifications). But the core functionality will always be free (login, post, vote, comment, etc.)
You folks that are part of the TestFlight will of course get these features for free for as long as you remain part of the TestFlight. If you ever decide you want to switch to the stable version after being a tester for a while, send me a message and Ill take care of you(:
Epilogue
There’s a lot more guys but I’ve gotta go run to the shop, my car is ready. As always please leave your feedback either in the comments here, as a post in the community, or as an issue on the issue tracker.
On an unrelated note I’m looking into moving the issue tracker to a different platform. If you have any recommendations let me know! I’d really like the ability to have the issue tracker and source code on the same repo while maintaining the ability to keep the source code private and the issues public.
I’m not sure if I’ll ever open source the app. I’m a full time iOS developer and I’ve really been loving the freedom of working on my own project alone. That being said I’m not against it at all. I’ll consider it when I have the app in a state that’s more “final”.
Thanks for reading if you got this far! I look forward to working with you all to build your favorite Lemmy app (:
It’s iOS 17 only. You need to be enrolled in the developer beta there are a ton of guides online if you’re interested, and I talk more about it in the other thread (: