Sure! Thanks for sharing!
Dunno. I wasn’t the OP.
arc is developed by The Browser Company. its free, but I don’t believe it’s open source. its basically a UI layer on top of chromium so its performance is about what you would get out of Chrome.
Thank you for the positive feedback! 🙏
One thing I’ve been missing in Mlem (the app I’ve settled on for now) is the fact that comments and posts only show the sum of up/downvotes rather than displaying them individually.
I can certainly explore making individual upvote/downvote numbers visible. Not shown in these screenshots, but there is also an additional context menu (long-press a post or comment) which reveals these stats. But I will make a note to explore making this user configurable from the feed / post views 👍
Also, is the app free/open source? You mentioned a private GitHub repo in a different comment, but do you plan to open it up when you feel confident in the code?
I'm a bit on the fence here. I am a solo developer working on this in my free time, after work and on weekends. My dream has always been to work on my own apps full time similar to Christian Selig did with Apollo for reddit. The app will be free, but may have a "premium" tier for extra functionality. I haven't decided if I want to open-source or not, but currently it is closed.
I will say that I'm an Admin on the lemm.ee lemmy instance, so I have a vested interest in both upholding my personal reputation, and in making Lemmy the best experience it can be (hopefully via Lemon!) but I completely understand and respect anyone who dislikes or distrusts close sourced software. That's a completely fair and valid stance to have.
im worried about Mozillas ability to keep growing Firefox. They laid off a lot of their firefox team a few years ago and have been dipping into more commercial interests.. we really need Mozilla to be the FOSS counter to big tech.
seems much faster. nice work!
To be fair, that poster does look pretty awesome.
I think JavaScript is a great first language. Easy to pick up, but lots of potential (frontend/backend/native). A lot of people dislike JavaScript (some valid reasons, some not) but it's undeniably a great first language.
Agreed - you can tell a lot about someone by how they treat restauraunt staff.
This is pretty much the reason I use 1Password. I don't like Safari, and it has reasonably good UX and extensions for all browsers + native apps.
Lemmy is open source. The developers are working on this for free (minus some sponsorships). PR's are always welcome to help add new features you want :)
Oof. I don't know how you do it. I can deal with a dry heat but humidity just slays me.
I wondered if folks were still using Hey. I use the iOS app Spark for managing my email, it has a similar "allow list" for new senders. Agreed it's super helpful.
DevLog[1] - reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated! Update on Alpha progress, new screenshots, and videos 🍋
Hey folks! 🏄♂️
First things first:
I have been absolutely floored at the positive response you all have had for Lemon! I frankly did not anticipate so much support and positivity. I want to thank each and every one of you for that!
second things.. er.. second:
Apologies I've been slow to update you all! I want to be clear: Lemon is not dead, and is very much still in active development!
I had a very hectic past couple of weeks in my personal/professional life, and so I haven't had as much time to dedicate to Lemon as I would have liked. Combined with the 4th of July holiday here in the US and some other travel I had planned, my free time was limited. But fear not! We are rapidly approaching a testflight release for iOS! 🎉
What features are currently working for 🍋 ?
Right now, I have:
- signing in with instance search
- light and dark modes
- upvoting / downvoting / saving / commenting
- rendering post feeds, comment threads
- collapsing posts, comment threads
- in-app browser (ie for links, media)
- native image / gallery viewer
- community search bar
- comment / post sorting
- basic account / community / instance filtering (WIP)
What about the other things you said in DevLog[0]? >:(
Yes! So I ended up removing account registration and offline persistent cache for now. These features will both return, but I wasn't happy with some of the bugs. Just about any engineer will tell you that there are two hard problems in CS: naming things, and cache invalidation. I personally think there's more hard things than that, but needless to say, I want to make sure I get these pieces right before shipping them to you all!
Can we see 🍋 ?
Certainly! And since I made you all wait so long and you all were so patient while I got my 🍋's together, I've recorded a small video!
Videos
apologies these are on youtube and not the fediverse, I don't have a peertube account yet :)
Photos
Any questions? Thread them below!
Love and lemons ❤️ 🍋
Welcome to /c/lemon, the home of Lemon for Lemmy 🍋
Hey! Welcome to /c/lemon 🏄♂️
This community is for discussions about Lemon, an upcoming iOS app for Lemmy.
The app is in pre-alpha, but I am hoping to get it onto Test Flight in the next 1-2 weeks, free time permitting 😅
If you'd be interested in getting a test flight link, drop a comment in this thread!
That's all for now 👋
lemm.ee featured in this Android Authority article (see screenshot)!
I tried out a growing Reddit alternative, Lemmy, for a week, and its clear that federated apps aren't ready to replace Reddit yet.
Just thought this was kind of neat. Our little instance, all grown up! !@[email protected], you're famous! 😂
DevLog[0]: Announcing Lemon, a Lemmy client for iOS! 🍋[pre-alpha, WIP]
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/116554
> Hello community! 👋 > > I wanted to drop a short announcement: I'm building an iOS client for lemmy, named Lemon 🍋! > > It is still very much in early development, only having one week of dev time so far. I'm not yet ready for users (unless you want a lot of bugs 😅). > > I'll be sharing some development logs throughout the journey. Consider this the first of (hopefully many) entries! > > Story time: > > For years, I was an avid user of Apollo for Reddit. I was an "ultra subscriber" and occasional donor, since I loved the app and Christian Selig was such a kind and engaged developer. He managed to build both an inspiring app and community. > > I was heartbroken when I learned Apollo would shut down due to Reddit's API changes. > > Lemon for Lemmy as an homage to Apollo and is greatly inspired by his amazing work (Thank you, Christian!) > > Features > > Some of the currently-working features are: > - 🔒 Logging in and registering (including instance search + information browsing such as user count, location, accepting memberships, etc!) > - 💡 Light and Dark modes > - 🔼 Upvoting / downvoting posts with optimistic updates and rollbacks (including swipe to vote!) > - 🚀 highly performant feed with infinite scroll > - 📚 persistent cache to read while you're offline > > My goal is to make this a fully featured Lemmy client for iOS, and hopefully one day as good as Apollo is/was! > > That's all for now. Here's some screenshots. Until next time! > > !Dark Lemon > !Light Lemon >
DevLog[0]: Announcing Lemon, a Lemmy client for iOS! 🍋[pre-alpha, WIP]
EDIT: I've created a community for the Lemon app: [email protected] !
Hello community! 👋
I wanted to drop a short announcement: I'm building an iOS client for lemmy, named Lemon 🍋!
It is still very much in early development, only having one week of dev time so far. I'm not yet ready for users (unless you want a lot of bugs 😅).
I'll be sharing some development logs throughout the journey. Consider this the first of (hopefully many) entries!
Story time:
For years, I was an avid user of Apollo for Reddit. I was an "ultra subscriber" and occasional donor, since I loved the app and Christian Selig was such a kind and engaged developer. He managed to build both an inspiring app and community.
I was heartbroken when I learned Apollo would shut down due to Reddit's API changes.
Lemon for Lemmy as an homage to Apollo and is greatly inspired by his amazing work (Thank you, Christian!)
Features
Some of the currently-working features are:
- 🔒 Logging in and registering (including instance search + information browsing such as user count, location, accepting memberships, etc!)
- 💡 Light and Dark modes
- 🔼 Upvoting / downvoting posts with optimistic updates and rollbacks (including swipe to vote!)
- 🚀 highly performant feed with infinite scroll
- 📚 persistent cache to read while you're offline
My goal is to make this a fully featured Lemmy client for iOS, and hopefully one day as good as Apollo is/was!
That's all for now. Here's some screenshots. Until next time!
LemmyDev.init()
Welcome to LemmyDev! 👋
LemmyDev hopes to be a home for anyone interested in learning about (or actively engaged in) developing apps, clients, bots and tools for the Lemmy Platform.
If you're new here: consult the sidebar for how this community is intended to be used.
I hope this place can be a helpful, supportive and positive community where we encourage one another, share work in progress, and celebrate successes together.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns don't be afraid to reach out to me, and have fun building!
Dipping my toes into developing a Lemmy client.. Whats the best place to ask questions? :)
Hi folks!
I am a new convert coming over from Reddit. I want to build out a Lemmy React Native client. Woo!
I'm very familiar with frontend dev and react (been doing so for a solid chunk of my career), however I am quite new to the Fediverse and not entirely sure how to build federated applications.
I see the lemmy-js-client which will likely help me tremendously, but it's not terribly documented.
Anyone else out there hacking on a TypeScript/React based Lemmy client and willing to share notes? :)