Memmy Released on App Store - What To Know If You Are Just Downloading

3 years ago by gkd to c/memmy

Thank you for all your support over the past weeks. It’s helped us get to this point.

A word of caution: The build that was released is slightly outdated and there are a few issues that have already been addressed in that build. Unfortunately because you can’t replace the build in review, we were not able to update it as we went through this nearly week-long back and forth with Apple. It required an appeal to get us onto the store.

With that said, I’ll be releasing the final version of 0.0.2 tonight to TestFlight, and will begin build versioning starting at 0.1.0, which will be the next release on the store. I’ll try and have something submitted to them tonight and hopefully it will be reviewed and released within a day or so.

I'll update this post here in a few hours with more information. Tonight's build will include another list of bug fixes as well as vast improvements to the slide to upvote/comment feature (no more glitching, hopefully) as well as hopefully fixing a few issues with the image viewer.

This should give us a fairly stable release which I will submit to Apple for review. Thankfully, now that we have completed the initial review future updates should be much quicker (likely around 12-24 hours per update).

See you guys in a bit!

Cheers!

fraydabson 51 points 3 years ago

Congrats on release! I’ve had problem deciding on a primary app for fediverse and I think Memmy might be it. Sorry you had issues with Apple. Hopefully it’s smooth sailing from here! Keep up the good work.

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Sev 27 points 3 years ago

Yeah, I love wefwef but it’s missing native settings and some things Memmy has already, so this is the one.

I hope we get auto marking as read by scrolling past posts (aka, actually hiding the post on our account, and not just in-app like wefwef)

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kobra 1 point 3 years ago

Tried memmy but I’m not sure you can actually reply to comments, just the main post itself. And Mlem is the same way actually, so maybe I’m doing something wrong?

wefwef is still just the closest thing to Apollo I’ve seen and it replies to comments just fine in my experience 🤷‍♂️

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dm21 11 points 3 years ago

Just installed the app and am testing replying to your comment (by swiping from right to left on it)

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kobra 8 points 3 years ago

Oh yeah that was it, I wasn’t swiping -_-

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Playlist 2 points 3 years ago

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Sev 2 points 3 years ago

Swipe to reply, yea that through me for a loop too first time using it.

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Sivar 1 point 3 years ago

In terms of appearance, to me memmy feels more like Apollo than wefwef does because of the more compact Home screen.

After the update the made it more compact than it was before, I finally decided to stay with memmy over wefwef. I keep checking out wefwef occasionally, but this feels better.

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useful_idiot 1 point 3 years ago

Wefwef is REALLY good. Memmy is excellent as well, I found it scrolls much smoother than wefwef. It’s absolutely bonkers that we have so many choices in such a short time since the Reddit meltdown.

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Sev 1 point 3 years ago

Yea we’re so spoiled, I’m a big comment collapser, App Store Memmy likes to freeze up a bit, where as wefwef is a bit quicker….but it likes to jump my position in the ‘scroll position’ 🤣

Still….I’ll take these problems over fucking Reddits app!!

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seaneoo 35 points 3 years ago

Holy shit those are my boys (in the App Store screenshot)!

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brndnpink 6 points 3 years ago

Handsome kitties :)

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JustALeatherBoot 4 points 3 years ago

You’re famous

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captsneeze 25 points 3 years ago

Congrats! I’ve been on the beta for a couple of weeks and am very impressed how quickly it’s become solid.

Can you let me know the best way to submit feature requests? There is one or two gestures I dearly miss from Apollo and find myself reflexively doing.

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zuu 13 points 3 years ago

Swipe left on feed view to return to previous thread? Me too.

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captsneeze 9 points 3 years ago

For me, there are two things I miss most.

On a comment swiping from right to left would collapse that entire thread up to the parent comment. I used this ALL THE TIME. It’s great for when you’re deep down a rabbit hole of comments and go “ok I’m done with this conversation, what’s the next one?”, then swipe to shrink the whole thing up to the next parent comment. I didn’t realize how much I loved this feature until after it was gone.

The second might be the same as what you’re saying (?). If I accidentally swipe out of a topic and back to the magazine list view of posts, in Apollo you could go “oops!” And swipe from the right edge to go back to where you were (even, back to the comment you were at in that topic). It was a really nice feature.

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zuu 1 point 3 years ago

Exactly, second one was the feature I was poorly explaining. Reflexively do it a lot still. Your other one was very useful too though

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timespace 4 points 3 years ago

Same, i didn’t realize how much muscle memory I had engrained from Apollo, I swipe right to left at least 3 times a day to try and return to a thread 😖

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Veedems 16 points 3 years ago

Great to see this moving forward. If I understand correctly, you’ll be retiring the Test Flight releases soon, right?

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gkd 61 points 3 years ago

No. TestFlight will continue to be a beta platform to receive feedback for new versions before they go live. Anyone who is still interested in being a tester is welcome to stay here and will receive regular updates. I am just changing the versioning because of the App Store requirements.

Right now, I only increment build numbers to avoid having to enter a review period for new TestFlight releases. Now, I'll increment the version number after each Store release, and we will be starting at 0.1.0. TestFlight might go from 0.1.0.1 to 0.1.0.15. If we decide at build 15 that we should push to the store, then we will then begin development of 0.1.1.1 on TestFlight and so on.

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G_Wash1776 8 points 3 years ago

Sick, I will gladly be a tester!

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tksdks 2 points 3 years ago

Do you still need more beta testers?

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Scooter411 2 points 3 years ago

Pretty sure they’re going to keep pushing beta testing on test flight while keeping what’s available on the App Store as the most stable version.

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pinwurm 13 points 3 years ago

Congratulations on the release! 🎉

Watching the app come together since it’s early inception to release has been a wonder as a beta tester. Every release just expands the scope and possibilities of the entire platform.

This App is already being used by thousands of people to connect with the world. When I used Apollo - I used it to hone my hobbies, my career, my tastes, learn about places I’ll visit or where I live now, and make real valuable friendships. Surely, Memmy will continue that tradition for me - and at least thousands more. Great work!

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Sinnz 11 points 3 years ago

It’s crazy to see how fast this app has gotten better. Congratulations to the App Store release, you’re doing awesome work.

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mercury 7 points 3 years ago

Congrats! This really is the best app out there and I appreciate how much you’re iterating and experimenting. You’ve completely transformed my Lemmy experience

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Silviecat44 4 points 3 years ago

This official release might get my friends to try Lemmy finally. Great App!

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SnowGlobal 4 points 3 years ago

Exciting! Good work (and patience) to all who worked to get it on the App Store.

(Edited to remove Test Flight questions that you answered in your other reply while I was responding!)

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clearedtoland 4 points 3 years ago

Congrats @gkd. Memmy is by far my fave. The community appreciate all the work you’ve been putting in. Time to uninstall wefwef and TestFlight!

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Fenzik 3 points 3 years ago

Congrats on getting out there! I’m happy to continue testing if that’s useful. Thanks for a great app and being so responsive, really cool to see.

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papajohn 3 points 3 years ago

Thanks for making a great app! I’ve had a good time using Memmy over the past month.

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Sev 3 points 3 years ago

Awesome mate! Thanks for your efforts and making the best app out the bunch (for my personal tastes, not to discredit the other hard working devs).

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cadellin 3 points 3 years ago

I missed out on the TestFlight do this has been my first impression of Memmy and it’s great!

If you can say.. what was the issue which meant you had to appeal? As someone who’s learning to code apps I’m curious about what issues devs have.

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crocodileneptune 2 points 3 years ago

Join the discord server. You’ll see what the issues were. I think it was about account deletion and some legal stuff.

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rarkgrames 3 points 3 years ago

I can’t see it on the UK App Store currently. Don’t know if it’s just taking its time or you didn’t mark it for release in the UK as yet?

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Extra_Cucumber_2979 1 point 3 years ago

Same for Swiss app store ?

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crocodileneptune 2 points 3 years ago

Maybe you still need the direct link?

https://apps.apple.com/... is the German App Store Link.

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rarkgrames 1 point 3 years ago

Possible it’s only been marked for release in the US?

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scottwood 4 points 3 years ago

Search for Lemmy instead, for some reason Memmy won't show up in the app store UK if you search for it

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Extra_Cucumber_2979 3 points 3 years ago

THIS! Thanks 😊

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rarkgrames 1 point 3 years ago

Ah ok that’s weird. Quite a scroll to find it at the moment but it’s there.

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crocodileneptune 1 point 3 years ago

I‘m non US and could download it by the direct link. See my other comment

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IldarA 3 points 3 years ago

Can't find it in appstore

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scottwood 2 points 3 years ago

Search for Lemmy instead, Memmy won't show up if you search for it.

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IldarA 2 points 3 years ago

I think it's is blocked for Russia 😕 Edit: it works! 😁

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fue 2 points 3 years ago

Grats on the release on AppStore. Keep it up!

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Bingohas 2 points 3 years ago

I’m gonna say it so the devs don’t have to: drop this a review guys. Let’s get it up on the search results.

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crestoli 2 points 3 years ago

amazing stuff! keep up the great work 🥳

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Bingohas 2 points 3 years ago

Is this the first iOS Lemmy app released?

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Icebound_Woof 2 points 3 years ago

Congratulations! I’ve been using the beata version and the app is in an incredible good state for such a young project.

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mysoulishome 2 points 3 years ago

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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mxwarp 2 points 3 years ago

Great job! Lovin’ the app so far.

My only grievance and humble request is that the post screen when opening-loading app should have the same cute, tiled mouse logo.

Thank you for considering my request. I appreciate your time and attention.

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cadellin 2 points 3 years ago

I missed out on the TestFlight do this has been my first impression of Memmy and its great!

If you can say.. what was the issue which meant you had to appeal? As someone who’s learning to code apps I’m curious about what issues devs have.

PS. anyone else getting a JSON error on posting it you have an apostrophe?

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CylonBunny 2 points 3 years ago

Yes! I kept getting that JSON error and didn’t figure why! No more apostrophes for me lol

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IntDimensionalTravel 2 points 3 years ago

A bit late to the party, but wow - you guys have done an amazing job. Thanks for all the hard work. I reckon this (memmy and wefwef) is gonna make life a whole lot easier for people to move to the fediverse.

This probably isn’t the correct forum to make a suggestion, but I couldn’t connect to the discord, so I’ll just add it here - in case it’s valuable to you:

When going through the feed, it gets a little difficult to see which community the content is linked to. I think swapping the positioning of the username and community would make things a lot easier. I believe that from an information architecture perspective, the community should take priority over the user who has posted the content. But that’s just me.

Hope this was useful feedback.

Cheers, and big ups to you guys for all the effort you’ve put in!

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nom_nom 2 points 3 years ago

My dude, I can't thank you enough for this amazing piece of software. I've been waiting for an iOS Lemmy app for over a year now, and this is much better than what I expected/hoped for. God bless you.

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timespace 2 points 3 years ago

Congrats on the release!

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danielton 2 points 3 years ago

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cadellin 2 points 3 years ago

Congratulations. Immediately downloaded (I missed the TestFlight boat) and I’m seriously impressed.

If you are able to say - what was the issue that caused the appeal?

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FloppinDong 2 points 3 years ago

App works great thank you! Somebody correct me if I’m wrong but I feel that upvote should be red/orange and downvote should be blue. Both wefwef and Memmy have it backwards… or maybe I’m just tripping

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cyberthrunter 2 points 3 years ago

Is there some way to make this thing default to the subscribed feed instead of a bunch of stuff I don’t care about?

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gkd 3 points 3 years ago

There are options in the settings to set default sorts and filters. 👍

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cadellin 1 point 3 years ago

I missed out on the TestFlight do this has been my first impression of Memmy and its great!

If you can say.. what was the issue which meant you had to appeal? As someone who’s learning to code apps I am curious about what issues devs have.

PS. anyone else getting a JSON error on posting it you have an apostrophe?

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highestincharge 1 point 3 years ago

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Jackolantern 1 point 3 years ago

Congratulations on the release man! Finally your app is in the AppStore

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Fenzik 1 point 3 years ago

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cadellin 1 point 3 years ago

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madjo 1 point 3 years ago

Congrats on the appstore listing of your app! That's amazing news!

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jblewitt 1 point 3 years ago

Congratulations on the release! I’m really impressed with the application!

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Semenaisse 1 point 3 years ago

Congrats on the release. I tried to get into the test flight but it was full so I waited patiently. Worth the wait.

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misterhuh 1 point 3 years ago

Been using it for a little bit and so far its quite good. A few hiccups, but nothing to make it unusable. I'm on iOS 17 and like I said, working well. Thanks for this!!!!

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Exilfranke 1 point 3 years ago

For such an early version the app is amazing!

Great work!

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puzzlebox 1 point 3 years ago

This is awesome! Thanks for the effort to bringing this app out into the wild!

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Nyxm 1 point 3 years ago

Been checking the App Store with hopes that there’d eventually be a Lemmy client.

My gods, y’all delivered. An Apollo-like experience that Christian would be proud of, methinks.

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Cabowski 1 point 3 years ago

Well I should have read that before my horrible mistake of stopping the TestFlight

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gkd 1 point 3 years ago

You should be able to redownload the TF version no?

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Cabowski 1 point 3 years ago

It says the test flight is at max capacity

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pacogens 0 points 3 years ago

There will be an android version?

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