I’ve recently moved over to piefed, and have been looking for a new iOS app that supports it.

Firstly, the Mlem app looks amazing and works brilliantly. Well done to all involved getting it to this point.

There are 2 features that I can’t seem to replicate in the app, that I can do directly on the piefed.social website, that I really find useful and would love to see. I’m not sure if I just haven’t found how to do these yet, or if these are more feature requests.

First is the ability to see the number of existing crossposts in the post feed. It provides a great way to be able to see how active the topic is across the fediverse, without needing to go into the post. A bonus feature would be to click on the crossposts icon to see which communities the post is crossposted to. I know this can be done from within the post on Mlem, but having it on the feed would be really useful.

Second is the ‘Notify about replies’ feature, where you can click on the bell icon and get notifications for replies to any post or comment (not just your own). Its really useful on smaller communities where comments happen slowly in fewer posts.

  • Sjmarf@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Firstly, the Mlem app looks amazing and works brilliantly. Well done to all involved getting it to this point.

    I’m glad you like it :) You’re correct that Mlem doesn’t include these features yet.

    First is the ability to see the number of existing crossposts in the post feed.

    This is tricky to implement at the moment - we’d need the Piefed developers to make some changes to make this easier for us. When we ask the PieFed server for a feed of posts, it doesn’t tell us the crosspost count for each one. To get that information, we need to ask the PieFed server for each post’s crosspost count individually, which is inefficient and difficult to manage. I’ll raise an issue with the PieFed developers and see if this is something that can be improved upon 👍

    Second is the ‘Notify about replies’ feature

    This is high on the list of new features we’d like to add, but it will require quite a lot of code rewriting on our end so I can’t make any promises on when this might be done. You could consider using Interstellar if this feature is highly important to you; according to this page Interstellar is currently the only app that can do this.