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

2024-11-08

Features

  • Added administrator purge function for posts and comments
  • Minor design tweaks

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed links sometimes opening in Safari on iPad
  • Fixed comments sometimes being incorrectly ordered on 0.18x instances
  • Fixed all accounts being removed if keychain token not present

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.

    • Sjmarf@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      We shut down the old TestFlight for Mlem v1, which you can read about here. You can find links to join the new TestFlight in this post.

  • ainen@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Loving the new look so far! One thing I immediately noticed though is while scrolling through my subscriptions via the letters on the right, the view starts breaking with a ton of random space.

    like so

    Changing the sorting back and forth seems to fix the view, but rapidly scrolling back and forth will break it again.

  • egrets@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Very much looking forward to V2! I’ve had to switch to Voyager for working spoiler markdown – it’s also excellent, but I generally prefer Mlem.

    Cheeky questions while I’m here:

    1. Voyager also seems to handle GIFs in comments better, is that something on the cards for Mlem?
    2. Is there a plan to introduce swiping forward? I frequently accidentally swipe back to the community list and lose my place in the feed.
    • Eric@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      To add a little more insight on the gifs side: video handling is the next major item I’m working on. In theory, the media framework we use should make gifs free once video handling is working, so hopefully they’ll be coming soon.

    • Sjmarf@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I’m glad you’re looking forward to v2!

      Voyager also seems to handle GIFs in comments better, is that something on the cards for Mlem?

      It’s something we’d like to add at some point; we’re tracking the issue here. It may end up being in 2.0 or may not be.

      Is there a plan to introduce swiping forward? I frequently accidentally swipe back to the community list and lose my place in the feed.

      We’d love to have this feature but it is annoyingly very difficult to implement. The framework we’re using doesn’t natively support this, and neither does the framework that framework is built on. Apollo had this, but the code is of course closed-source so we can’t get any insight into how they did it. We’re tracking the issue here.

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    The block options in feed do not work on ipad. You have to go to the community or user to perform the block.

    • Sjmarf@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I can’t reproduce this issue at the moment; it seems to be working fine for me on an iOS 18 iPad simulator. Which part of it doesn’t work - do the “Block Community” and “Block user” buttons not show up, or do they show up but not do anything when tapped? Thanks

      Edit: it also seems to work correctly on iOS 17.5

      • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I just updated to iPadOS 18 last night, I will test again. But on 17 tapping the block buttons do not do anything, it just closes the window.

      • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        When trying to block, the window that comes up is extremely small. I will try uninstalling and reinstalling on my ipad. (You can barely see the little window at the bottom in my attached screenshot)

        • Sjmarf@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Thanks for the info. I’ll open an issue and try to reproduce it 👍

  • darkfiremp3@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    I can’t seem to upvote or post? When I upvote I get the animation then it returns to the old number. Posts I just get Error.

    • Eric@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      Thanks for the bug report! It looks like this is due to the antique backend Beehaw is still running–we’ll have a compatibility patch out soon.

        • Eric@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          We don’t have a preference–we monitor both pretty actively so whatever is easiest.

  • slin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    This is so smooth, awesome.

    Will you bring back the “compact comments” setting in the future?

  • nrab@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I used to be a TestFlight tester but I got removed and all I can see now when clicking the join link is that I was removed from the program ):

    • Eric@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Hmm, that’s strange. Have you tried manually opting out of testing (“Stop Testing” in the TestFlight app) and clicking the link again?

  • tiz@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    Uploading a photo to any community fails with Error. Anyone getting this issue too?

    • Sjmarf@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      9 days ago

      As Eric said, if you tap on the error it’ll give you more info. Have you tried a different image? Some instances impose a maximum file size on the images you can upload. If that happens, it’ll show the “error” toast. We’d like to make that error case show a more obvious warning in future.

      • tiz@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        It was exactly it! Image too large, it says. Fingers crossed Mlem make this process easier in the future🤞

    • Eric@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      Thanks for the bug report! If you tap the error message at the top of the screen it will give you a more detailed error message—would you mind sharing that message so we can debug further?

      • tiz@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        Thanks. I tapped the error message and turned out it was image too large. So not a bug:D

  • quaff@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    26 days ago

    Viewing cross posts is probably my favourite feature for 2.0 so far. It’s been a little over a week, and I can’t believe I used Lemmy without it!

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    The old bug of loud keyboard clicks is back. And now when I get a notification while Mlem is open my notifications are LOUD. I keep my ringer 2 up from off, but in Mlem (non-Mlem notifications coming in from any other app) are at about 2/3rd to 3/4th from max volume. But it appears if you turn the screen off and on again the loud keyboard clicks go away (still testing more).

    Random large blank spaces appear between posts when scrolling. It happens in subscribed and all. Sometimes scrolling past and back to it fixes it.

    Spoiler

    When editing a post, the text is all on a single line, it does not wrap at the screen edge.

    Spoiler

    Thank you for getting spoiler to work! And the markdown bar at the top of the keyboard is neat.

    While typing out this post the text window keeps going to the top. The cursor does not move, just the window itself.

      • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Others I forgot:

        The new post button is greyed out and unusable (iPhone)

        Clicking on anything in the feed tray on iPad does nothing. I currently can only see all, saved, local, subscribed (from the menu at the top of the screen)

        The icon to open and close the feed tray on iPad is a very welcome addition. However in portrait it is covered by the feed and took me a while to realize I can swipe away.

        New comment numbers (the green +#) on posts is no longer appearing.

        • Sjmarf@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Mlem 2.0 is missing a lot of features at the moment, which we’ll be re-adding before the final 2.0 release. You can find a full list in the “Roadmap” section on the 2.0 release post :)

          • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            I have read that list multiple times to ensure nothing I am reporting is on the list. If I reported something that was listed I do apologize for the double report.