I'm testing a feature in my current dev branch and would like some feedback. The technical side of it is complete, but I'm curious about the human side of it.
When loading a removed comment in the comment section, it automatically fetches the removal reason from the modlog and appends it below 'Removed by Mod" on the comment. The "Removed by Mod" text is also linked to the modlog entry for the item.
Additionally, if you're a mod, it will also append, in a spoiler block, the original comment that was removed. Somewhere between 0.19.3 and 0.19.9, the Lemmy devs decided mods should no longer be able to see removed comments in their own communities, which I think is a huge regression (though thankfully admins can still see them).
Thoughts? Is this asking for drama, or would it be generally beneficial? Right now, in the dev branch, it just does it,
Does anyone know of a lemmy app that’s backward compatible and works on older IOS devices? I have an older iPad running IOS 12.5.7. Obviously I can just use the browser or a webapp but I wanted to check if there was an app.
I was able to install Liftoff before but it has stopped working since.
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It is long past time for us to build a movement where we shower recognition, rewards, and donations on the devs that were selfless and wise enough to share their source code with the community.
Since the recent rash of devs looking to capitalize on a FOSS platform by spamming their closed source apps here, I decided to build a community dedicated solely to Free and Open Source lemmy apps and software.
Please join us. Help fight #enshittification before it takes over Lemmy too.
Free, easy-to-use Lemmy client. A great introduction to the Lemmy corner of the Fediverse. Start browsing right away, or join an instance and start contributing to the community.
- Privacy focused. No ads and no tracking
- Easily sort posts and communities
- Accessibility for screen readers
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Hello Lemmy. I just released a new Lemmy client for iOS. I'm still working on a few key features (background notifications, word block filters, i18n, community creation and moderation, plus a few other random things). I hope to have them complete soon. If you have the time, please take a look and let me know how I can make it better: Maliki Issues.
I want to release this app for Android, but Google requires that I have 12 Android testers. Anyone up for that?
Meta is excited to announce the launch of a new app designed for Lemmy. As part of our ongoing commitment to interoperability and user choice, this app will bring the community-driven discussions to a wider audience with an intuitive interface, seamless integration, and innovative features.
Lemmy has been growing as a powerful alternative to centralized discussion forums, allowing users to create and moderate their own communities in a federated network. By supporting Lemmy, Meta aims to enhance the open internet while providing users with more options to connect and share ideas beyond walled gardens.
Starting today, we’re inviting passionate users to test the alpha version of our Lemmy app. Your feedback will help shape its development, ensuring it meets the needs of decentralized communities while staying true to the principles of federation and user autonomy. If you're interested in getting early access and sharing your thoughts, try it now to be part of this exciting new chapter!
The sync developer has been MIA for a long time (1 year or longer) and I fear it will stop working sooner or later when Lemmy instances start updating to v1.0 in future.
I use Sync because it has a nice Material you theme, is smooth, supports caching posts & media offline (also keeps the comments, posts loaded even if android reclaims memory from the app)
I can open posts, comments, and even communities in a seperate window if I choose to do so.
Anything with multi window support out there yet? I used voyager for posting. But, want sync like multi window capabilities.
I just published Voyager's new promo site at https://getvoyager.app/. This site is intended to be an easy way to share the app with your friends and family. Let me know what you think! I'm hoping to roll out a couple more improvements to user onboarding soon™️, so stay tuned.
In other news, I hope you like the latest app update! ICYMI: the video player was significantly revamped, you can now upload videos (assuming lemmy instance support: keep reading...), and Android users can now long press links to preview the url, as well as for share/copy/open options.
Speaking of videos: If you've ever wondered why videos sometimes fail to play in iOS, it's because many Lemmy instances are misconfigured. Please share this site I just published with your Lemmy admin to help debug issues: https://aeharding.github.io/lemmy-strea
I got frustrated with the friction for users from direct links to all the different instances they don't have accounts for and built https://lemsha.re/
It's inspired by matrix.to - but built for Lemmy content.
If a user clicks a lemsha.re link the user will be presented with two options:
visit the original link, or
view the same content - but on their preferred instance
I thrived on daily reading of a few multireddits, which are specific clusters of the same subreddits, as my default view; I only went to the general feed for all of my subscribed communities every once in a while.
Just released Lemmynator 0.2.1
It's mostly read-only, but you can downvote and upvote posts :P.
You can also now preview posts, see others people avatars etc.
Feel free to create issues about what you wish to see added in the future.
Here's the repo: lemmynator
At the time of writing Summit for Lemmy should be completely open source.
After a lot of contemplation I've decided to open source the app. There are still some changes that probably need to happen before it can be considered "FOSS" but this is a huge step I think.
As I'm voiced my opinions on this previously, the main repository for Summit will not be to the public for PRs. If you encounter bugs or have any feature requests please continue to send them through the proper channels (ideally to this community).
The focus of this release is to add support for importing/exporting tables from the database of the app.
A lot of preferences/data, especially those that allow you to add to a list, are built on top of tables. Tables allows the app to scale better when lists can grow very long. Some features that use tables include drafts and bookmarked communities.
Currently while the app allows users to import/export settings, the app does not give the user any way to import/export anything backed by tables. This means not everything can be carried over by importing/exporting settings.
This release aims to give users a way to preview the database within the app and export them and import them with a high level of configurability.
This feature is a prerequisite of a larger feature which will be announced later.
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Add support to import/export app data that is stored in tables.
Welcome to the v1.57.0 release. This release is focused on addressing the rest of the user requests.
There's a lot in this release so read through the changelog to see everything that has been added. Some highlights include adding auto-loading posts when "swipe between posts" is enabled, a new setting that allows you to change the app locale from within the app on any version of Android and some changes to make it easier to identify if an user is new to Lemmy.
This release also marks the start of some major changes to the app that I've been considering almost a full year ago.
One of Summit's strength is the insane number of customizations available to a user. However this also poses a downside as new users may not want to spend hours checking and tweaking every setting. While Summit tries to make sure the default settings are pretty good, it's obvious that the out-of-the-box settings are not for everyone.
This is my attempt at an oldschool, beefed-up desktop app for Lemmy for those of us who yearn for that kind of experience.
Currently it only does reading, if people use it I'll work on comment support too.
If you want to give it a spin, you can download the flatpak file from here and run it.