Welcome to the Mlem 2.0 Feedback Megathread! This is where we will be posting changelogs for the Weekly TestFlight (the Stable Pre-Release changelogs will get full posts), so check back here to see what's new!

This is also the place to post feedback on the Weekly beta (or you can just open an issue on our GitHub if that's your style).

Please be aware that this is an early beta build, may be missing features you consider essential. See the "Roadmap" section of our 2.0 release post for more details.

If you want to join our Weekly TestFlight group, you can do so here.

If you would rather join the Stable Pre-Release group, which receives curated, stable pre-release builds, you can do so here

2024-11-29

Features

• Added a "Max Comment Depth" setting, which controls how many comments are shown in a thread before showing the "More Replies" link

Bug Fixes

• Fixed guest account last used date not always updating correctly
• Fixed community "Outdated Feed" popup not refreshing correctly when switching accounts with "Reload on Switch" off

2024-11-22

Features

• Added the ban action for moderators and admins
• Added the option to disable infinite loading (i.e., manually load each next page)
• Updated feed loading behavior. Loading performance should be improved when browsing with read posts hidden on feeds with many read posts, and some quirky behavior around refreshing and switching feeds should be resolved.

2024-11-15

Features

• Added the block list (Settings -> account)
• The post title and community is now displayed on comments in a user profile or in the inbox

2024-11-01

Features

• "Swipe anywhere to navigate" setting. Note that this cannot be active at the same time as swipe interactions.
• Compact posts now show saved status

2024-10-25

Features

• Moderated feed
• Fediseer integration (Trust & Safety tab in the instance view)
• Basic account settings
• Added code blocks to Markdown tools
• Added the option to confirm image uploads

Bug Fixes

• Fixed placeholders being shown in comment editor
• Fixed cache size readout not updating when cache is cleared

2024-10-18

Features

• Moderator action to remove content
• OLED theme
• Easy-tap links
• Autoplay animated media (iOS 18 only)
• Refined expanded post view

Bug Fixes

• Fixed not being able to import settings files not created by Mlem

2024-10-11

Features

• Search posts
• Updated search design
• Collapse post content
• Pin and lock
• Default Sidebar Visibility setting

2024-10-04

Features

• Added preliminary video support:
  • .gif, .webp, .mp4, .m4v, and .mov media can now be played by tapping the play button; tapping elsewhere opens the media viewer.
  • Currently the only controls are tap to play/stop.
  • Planned features, roughly in order include:
    • .gifv support
    • Thumbnails for .mp4/.m4v/.mov/.gifv content
    • Pausing
    • Scrubbing
• Updated design to use rounded rectangles
• Added the ability to edit posts
• Added more Markdown buttons: inline link, code block, and user/community/instance links
• Added a new comments indicator
• Added instance uptime statistics
• Expanded post can now be refreshed
• Added sign up prompts for new users
• Expanded posts now show if they've been crossposted with links to the crossposts
• Added a page for rendering deeply nested comment threads. Navigating to a comment (e.g., from inbox) will open this page.
• Added the ability to create crossposts from the post share menu

Bug Fixes

• Fixed iPad confirmation dialog appearing in the wrong place
• Fixed iPad sidebar navigation
• Fixed Markdown blocks would sometimes being truncated
• Fixed mark read on scroll not respecting the setting
• Fixed an issue preventing swipe actions on the account list and subscription list views
• Fixed some crashes

2024-09-18

Features

• Improved mark-read-on-scroll behavior
  • This feature is only available on devices running iOS 18. On iOS 17, the old behavior will be used.
• Added dark and tinted app icons for iOS 18

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where swipe actions were interfering with scrolling on iOS 18
• Fixed an issue where image context menu actions would fail on certain instances using image proxies

2024-09-14

Features

• Added image uploads, both for image posts and inline in post/comment bodies
• Added compact comments
• Added sign up to onboarding flow
• Added a settings import/export system (Settings -> General -> Import/Export Settings)
  • Added the ability to save the current settings state and restore to that snapshot
  • Added the ability to export the current settings state as a JSON file
  • Added the ability to import settings files
  • Added settings migration from v1 (pending 1.3.5 release to App Store)
• Added image proxy failure handling. If your instance’s image proxy fails, you can now choose to manually bypass the proxy and load directly from the image host. This behavior is fully opt-in.
• Added sorting and filtering options to search

Bug Fixes

• Improved scroll-top-comment behavior
• Fixed an issue where the image viewer would open at extremely low resolution
• Fixed an issue where the comment editor sometimes wouldn’t submit the right text

2024-09-02

Features

• Added two new color themes: Solarized and Dracula
• Added the ability to include links and images in posts
• Significantly optimized image handling, resulting in a smoother feed (especially in the Tiled layout) and a more responsive image viewer
• Added a "new account" flair

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the image viewer would not work on instances using image proxying
• Fixed a compatibility issue with versions running Lemmy v0.18

2024-08-29

We got a ton of great feedback from our initial release, and have implemented a number of new features and bug fixes:

• Added mark read on scroll (Settings -> General)
• Added a default feed setting (Settings -> General)
• Added a setting to adjust haptic behavior (Settings -> General)
• Fixed the lock icon being the wrong color

We’ve got a lot more in the works, so if you commented yesterday with a bug or feature request that isn’t mentioned here, stay tuned! We expect to be releasing builds fairly rapidly over the next few days.

2024-08-28

This is the initial beta release. We're still bringing 2.0 up to feature parity with 1.0--this build should have everything you need to browse and interact with Lemmy. Please note that post creation and moderation tools are not currently supported in the 2.0 build--post creation is in active development and moderator tools are a high-priority item, so if you want to join the beta but those are important to you, check back in a week or two!

We've also got some new features:

• Markdown support
• Tiled post layout
• Keep place on account switch (allows you to switch accounts without fully reloading the app)
• Guest accounts
• Color themes

Check out our 2.0 release post for more details on the new release.

Hi Mlem Community,

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our 2.0 public beta!

Please be aware that this is an early beta build, may be missing features you consider essential. See the "Roadmap" section further down for a full list.

We’re trying out a new TestFlight structure with two groups:

• Weekly: this group gets a weekly build with the latest state of our development branch. Changelogs for these builds will be posted to the new Beta Feedback Megathread
• Stable Pre-Release: this group receives curated manual releases that have been tested by the bleeding edge group. Each release represents a coherent development scope, and changelogs for these builds will get their own “New Beta Release” posts.

Join the weekly beta

Join the stable beta

If you prefer the most stable, feature-rich Mlem experience, we encourage you to stay on our v1 until 2.0 is ready for the App Store.

What’s New

Markdown Support

• Full Markdown rendering powered by our custom cmark-gfm fork
• Rich Markdown editing tools built right into the keyboard

Tiled Posts

The new “Tiled” post layout renders posts in a 2-column grid, giving you the content density of Compact mode with much larger thumbnails.

Keep Place on Account Switch

You can now switch accounts without losing your place in feed, perfect for saving a post to a different account. This behavior can be toggled in Settings -> Accounts; you can also long press an account in the quick switcher to choose your refresh behavior.

Updated Middleware

We rebuilt how we communicate with and manage instances from the ground up to address the challenges of a federated platform and give us a clean, strong base to build future updates on. Backend changes aren’t very visible (for now--we’ve got some very exciting features planned to take full advantage of the new architecture), but they support a lot of the new features in this list.

Guest Accounts

You can now add guest accounts to any instance and browse its content without creating an account!

Performance Improvements

We’ve also refactored our entire UI structure to cut out a lot of inefficiencies present in the v1 codebase. The result is a noticeably snappier app.

Color Themes

Or, properly, a framework to support color themes. Right now you can choose between Default and Monochrome, but more are on the way!

UI Upgrades

We’ve kept the majority of our v1 UI/UX, but taken the opportunity to spruce some things up. See if you can spot what’s new!

Misc

• Improved cross-instance resolution—opening content not accessible from your instance now opens the content in-app using a guest session on the host instance, rather than in the browser
• The subscription list can now be sorted alphabetically or by instance
• Post creator is now hidden by default in aggregate feeds. This behavior can be changed in Settings -> Posts.

Roadmap

This is by no means a complete list of everything we have planned, but it’s the major outstanding items we have mapped out. If there are v1 features missing from this list that you’d like to see prioritized, let us know and we’ll work that into our development plan!

• Post/comment improvements
  • Inline image uploads in comments
  • Create posts
  • Crossposts
• Moderation/administration tools
  • Mod mail
  • Moderator, administrator actions
  • Moderated feed
• Media improvements
  • Improved image handling (all backend work, but should improve performance)
  • Proper video handling
• Post and comment searching
• iPad support
• Keyword filtering
• Settings icons
• Mark read on scroll

Known Issues

• You will need to sign back into your accounts. This is an unfortunate consequence of migrating the app from Lionel Hanners' account to my own. We apologize for the inconvenience.
• The tile layout can be a little stuttery. We’re working on a fix with the “Improved image handling” item.
• Navigation and tab bar accents remain gray after closing the composer sheet
• Tall images in website previews don’t get appropriately cropped

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Mlem is a free and open source project. 100% of our funding, which pays for things like server time, comes from our generous donors; we do not, and will never, run ads or sell data. If you'd like to help support Mlem, you can donate here.

Mlem 1.3.1 is now available. This update adds compatibility for Lemmy v19.4, resolving an issue where marking posts read on instances running that version would trigger an "unknown" error.

This update has been rolled out to both the TestFlight and App Store environments.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Mlem is a free and open source project. 100% of our funding, which pays for things like server time, comes from our generous donors; we do not, and will never, run ads or sell data. If you'd like to help support Mlem, you can donate here.