cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1249875
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Always great to have more options! But this seems very similar to Mlem in terms of goals (Apollo like). Why not combine efforts?
Underlying technology is completely different. One is Swift, one is React. It talks about this on the GitHub.
This is one of those cases where two is better than one, because not everyone can contribute to a Swift app, and multiple projects isn’t splitting effort, it’s bringing on people who wouldn’t otherwise be involved at all.
Plus, probably worth having a few going just because there is so much activity now. Mlem is moving a little slower than I had hoped so while I’d prefer a native Swift iOS app, this one is already a little more functional and it’s the first release.
Those are some of the main reasons. Also, the fact that it can be easily released as an Android build as well is nice, especially for users who would want a more Apollo-like feel on android devices. I have not personally tested Jeroba, but from screenshots I have seen (while it does look great!) it doesn’t have the same look as some of the old Reddit apps.
Bottom line is this is a huge preference thing. I don’t want to take anything at all away from Mlem. If you know Swift and think you can contribute to that project then by all means you should! Looks like a great project. Glad that there’s so many people working on things for Lemmy already!
Oh it’s built with expo, nice!
Because some of us saps don’t have a phone capable of iOS 16+ which is what Mlem is targeting. Memmy runs great.
This looks amazing!!
Are you able to convert into Android too??
nvm ignore my comment, i saw the option to compile for Android!
I’m not the dev but I think that’s the intention based on the readme on GitHub.
It’s written in Expo/React Native which means it’ll be easier to support both iOS and Android.
Yup. I took it for a spin on a simulator and things are about 90% functional out of the box. There’s some weird scaling issues with the text, but I believe that to be the patchwork way I’m rendering the markdown right now. Once I finish the markdown parser it should be the same across both platforms.
As far as I know kbin doesn’t have API access enabled at the moment. They’re still trying to finalise how they do it. This means that apps can’t communicate with it just yet.
Thanks for the cross post! Please feel free to let me know if you guys run into any issues!
I was having such a good experience with Memmy I thought others should know about it too. The daily improvements have been amazing, keep up the great work!
I love it so far, better than mlem for me
Any particular reasons you like it better then Mlem?
Faster, smoother, clearly caches more aggressively so much less halting when scrolling, smaller fonts so more compact interface.
Both are so early in development though it’s basically irrelevant. Tomorrow Mlem could push a new build that includes their new interface that I’ve seen in the GitHub PRs and I’ll be back to that one. For now it’s just like Mastodon was, using all of the apps and seeing which one ends up fleshing out into a fully functional experience.
Not him, but I like how stable it is compared to Mlem. But UX wise I still like Mlem better for now. But good to see two apps already like this, both really good so far.
For me it’s the iOS 15 support, Mlem has targeted iOS 16 which doesn’t work on my 6s.
What others have said plus gestures. One thing for now. Currently writing from the app and for a second i thought it bugged out when I pressed to reply. Turns out the keyboard doesn’t pop up automatically and there is no placeholder.
Using it now to post this comment. I’m really liking it, it’s very smooth. Wish there was compact view but I’m sure its coming soon. I might switch over from mlem
Love it so far! Like some others here, I’d also love to see kbin integration if that’s possible. Thanks for putting this together!
@z2k_ Holy crap that’s amazing. I might need to pull my iPhone out of the drawer
I’m not the dev. @gkd@lemmy.world deserves all the credit. He’s amazing.
I plan to support Android too, by the way. It is already about 90% functional, mainly just some styling issues due to a few quirks between iOS and Android rendering. I’ll keep you guys all posted!
bro your app is super stable as well! I was having a lot of crashes with Mlem, not to discredit their work they’ve got a cool multi profile feature that’s really nice. Appreciate your work!
Amazing, thanks for the hard work!
I’ll keep you guys all posted!
Please certainly do!
This looks great! Does it work with kbin.social accounts as well?
Edit: never mind, I should have read all the comments first. Looking forward to seeing how this app progresses!
Trying out now, it’s looking great for the first alpha release!
I just installed and loaded it up. This looks like a fantastic start. I hope I can provide feedback as I use it more!
@gkd@lemmy.world This looks like a fantastic start! As an Apollo user it’s a very familiar experience.
At the very least I’ll try to test and submit bug reports. If I can find the time I’ll try to do some development too. (I could do with a React side-project…)
Really nice! Super impressive for a 0,1 release. I’ll follow the development on this one.
Wow, terrific! Love the tap to collapse, swipe to upvote, etc. Main thing in terms of common reading interactions that I’m missing from Apollo is a swipe action to collapse a thread back to its root. The app is already quite nice to use, though, thank you for sharing!
Wow it‘s incredible how much like home this feels instead of Mlem. I can’t wait for all the updates to come! First up please fix the darkmode keyboard ^^
Giving this a try!
