This release is dedicated to all the admins and moderators who are keeping our instances and communities running.

This release adds additional moderation tools/features. In particular, it improves the mod logs screen and adds support for more mod things (private message reports, registration applications).

The release has been in the works for a while, so I've decided to make it live now although some additional features are planned and in the works. I'm still working on more changes and I will tack them on to this release as patch updates as they become ready.

I'm currently on a trip to visit family, so I will be slower to respond/work on the app in general.

As always, feel free to leave feedback in the comments. Enjoy!

Full changelog:

• Add inbox section for new account applications (for admins).
• Add support for approving/declining new account applications (for admins).
• Add support for viewing a detailed list of votes for posts/comments (for mods/admins).
• Add option to view moderation actions by user to the post/comment/person menu.
• Add a new section in the search screen "Random communities". This section shows a random list of 10 communities that has at least one post.
• Add a setting to show/hide deleted posts.
• Add per-section unread counts to the inbox side panel.
• Add support for creating private message reports.
• Add support for viewing private message reports. (The screen to view this is really crappy. This will be fixed in a patch update later.)
• Update community/inbox side panel UI a bit.
• Replace the image editing library the app uses with a different one that actually works.
• Remove "cross-posted from:" text that is auto-inserted when cross-posting so that the behavior is consistent with current web.
• Fix a bug where the title does not update in the post screen when the comment sort order is changed.
• Fixed a bug where instances are not displayed for users when they should be.
• Fix a bug where images do not load if on a private instance.
• Fix a bug where back ticks can break text formatting.
• Fix a bug where the navigation rail does not hide when the side panel is shown.
• Fix a bug where double tapping send can cause an action to be performed twice.

Update

There was a bug I knew about that I forgot to fix before I released the app (this is what I get for rushing a release). I will fix it in a dot update:

• Fix a bug where the unread screen of the inbox will not load unless you are an admin.

Update 2

Fixed the inbox for regular users but it was still broken for mods. Fixed in v1.64.2.

Update 3

Bump the version to v1.64.3. This release is identical to v1.64.2 but I forgot to do a version bump for v1.64.2.

Update 4

Fix some bugs with the release. Released as v1.64.4.

• Add cake day.
• Fix a bug where the app would crash randomly.
• Fix a bug where sometimes downloading an image would fail without an apparent cause.
• Make the post predictive back animation more apparent.

Update 5

Working on more things:

• Fix a bug where selecting one of the inbox screen categories fast will cause items from two categories to appear at the same time.
• Add a shortcut to go back to the "Unread" category in the inbox by tapping the inbox button when it's already selected.

Forgot I used to post releases here as well. I'll try to remember going forwards

I use photon and wanted to go back to a post I upvoted, but when I went to the "upvoted" section on my profile, it was just on an endless loading screen. So I tried Alexandrite, no option available at all. I also can't find the options on Jerboa or Boost. has it been removed? is there a bug?

Highlights in 1.4.39

• Enhanced the content filtering options
• Revamped the comment section display
• Tweaked some mod tool behavior
• Spruced up the modlog
• Quite a few bugfixes

Changelog

https://instance.xyz/u/jerk1, https://instance.xyz/u/jerk2, https://other-instance.abc/u/AnotherJerk

Get Tesseract

• Hosted Instance: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/
• Github: https://github.com/asimons04/tesseract
• Docker:
  • ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:v1.4.39
  • ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:latest

I realize Lemmy already has user blocking, so this might seem redundant. But, hear me out:

Problems with Lemmy's blocking:

• If you are a mod, blocking a user will hide their submissions even in the community/communities you're moderating. You'll still see their content if its reported, but you can't be proactive. e.g. Sometimes you'd like to block someone, but it's not warranted to ban them from your community(s), and you don't want to rely only on reports or see their shit elsewhere. So you just kinda grit your teeth and deal with it.

• As a regular user, blocking someone will hide their comments AND any replies to those comments. You'll often miss out on quite a bit.

Proposal: Soft block (or, more aptly "Filter User")

Instead of blocking at the API level, it will simply filter out the users in the UI.

I've greatly enhanced the keyword and other filtering components in the current dev branch which is what prompted this idea. With the revised implementation, comments can be hidden based on your filter preferences without hiding the rest of the comment chain. Also, both posts and comments that are filtered can be clicked to reveal the content if you want to see it.

Those filters are automatically disabled in the communities you moderate (or if the community is local and you're an instance admin). That prevents blind spots while allowing you to keep your sanity and not be exposed to certain things/topics/people more often than necessary.

This wouldn't replace the "hard" block from the API; it would be a separate action. I may call it "Filter User" to further differentiate it.

So, thoughts? Would this be useful to anyone? Or do other apps already have something similar to this?

I’m looking for a lemmy app with doomscrolling guardrails:

• maximum posts on a newsfeed
• refresh disabled

There are dozens of amazing apps for Lemmy.

Whether you're on a mobile device running Android or iOS, using a dedicated desktop app, or one of the great web apps, there are a lot to choose from. Some have been around for years and still see active development like Voyager or Lemmy UI (the default web app on most instances). Some are newer to the scene but have compelling features that make them appealing.

Some apps are blazing fast, some have personalized recommendations, some have an impeccable interface, some have advanced features for content moderation.

It's tricky to know which apps are getting the most use, or what features you haven't heard about. What are the thoughtful details you love in your top app? Feel free to tag the devs to show them some love!

Blorp is released to the App Store!

View Blorp on the App Store!

This is just the beginning! Hoping to launch Android very soon.

Try it!

I haven’t seen another Lemmy client that lets you write code in your post with real-time syntax highlighting. It’s not just code. Write your posts in rich text without toggling between Markdown and preview.

There are a lot of Lemmy clients, so I’m sure someone else does this. But I wanted to share in case anyone else finds this helpful.

• https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
• Picture comment: https://lemmy.zip/comment/18015328

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, but I can make it a user option.

Adjusted question to specify desktop.

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.

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.

[email protected]

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.

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!

You can try it here: https://lemmy.facebook.com/

Source code

Posted on April 1st via Photon Premium

Hi everyone,

I am the indie developer behind SoraSNS (a Fediverse and Bluesky client featured by Tech Crunch twice).

I just started working on a modern and futuristic styled Lemmy client. It will have a modern UI and equal features as the alien blue app.

Some features I am planning include:

• all features like alien blue app (you know which app I am referring to)
• a better notification interface so you can see the thread the message belongs to
• auto translation feature
• bookmark folders
• folders to organized your subscribed communities
• a discovery feed for most popular posts from your subscribed communities and followed persons
• watch a post and receive notifications about new comments
• scroll horizontally to switch to previous or next post in the list
• Home Screen widget to automatically show top news, refreshed automatically several times a day
• Filters for posts and comments based on activity, follow status

The image I attached is obviously the build 0. The target release date is around the first week of May.

If you are interested, please subscribe to the community to receive updates and TestFlight:

[email protected]

[email protected]

My other apps: SoraSNS for Mastodon Misskey Bluesky, with local ML powered For You timeline: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sorasns-for-mastodon-bluesky/id6450969760

Thank you in advance!

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/37812176

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.

cross-posted from: https://vger.social/post/15192818

Voyager’s new promo site!

Hey there!

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.

https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/releases/tag/2.26.0

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-streaming Around 50% of instances are misconfigured 😳 so I really appreciate your help on getting the word out to admins! 🫡

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.

For example: https://old.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow+LifeProTips+dataisbeautiful

Is this possible on Lemmy?

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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27182708

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).

Enjoy~~

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26921774

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.

Full changelog

• Add support to import/export app data that is stored in tables.
• Improve performance of "mark posts as read on scroll".
• Improve general scroll performance on the post feed screen.
• Updated community search result to show the full community name with instance.
• Remove malformed markdown fix which tried to correct malformed headlines by inserting a space between '#' and text if there wasn't one.
• Change open instance behavior. If the instance opened does not match the current account, the guest account is used automatically. This is to prevent the app from getting into a weird state.
• Fix a bug where links do not open correctly if the default browser app is Firefox.
• Fix a bug where the post feed header does not update when switching instances.
• Fix a bug where rate limit errors are not recognized correctly.
• Fix a bug where "mark posts as read on scroll" doesn't mark a post as read if the height of the post is taller than the screen.
• Fix a bug where the thumbnail shown in the "Save for later" bottom sheet do not update when a new image is chosen to replace an older one.

Update

Some more bug fixes to come:

• Fix a bug where the thumbnail shown in the "Save for later" bottom sheet do not update when a new image is chosen to replace an older one.
• Improve general scroll performance on the post feed screen.

Update 2

Releasing the changes in the last update as v1.58.1.

Update 3

Conducting some user-agent testing. Releasing as v1.58.2.

• Add setting to change the app's user-agent.

Update 4

More fixes incoming:

• Fix a bug in full post layouts where blurred NSFW images are sometimes not shown.
• Fix a bug in full post layouts where NSFW posts can cause content to jump as they are loaded in.
• Fix a bug where blurred NSFW images are not shown for videos.
• Fix a bug where "Prefer full size image" for certain layouts was not respected and was always on.
• Fix a bug where posts in the post feed would jump around if "Prefer full size image" was on.
• Fix a bug where some posts do not have a "preview" button when using the list style layouts.
• Fix card shadow being clipped on user info screen.
• More optimizations in the post feed/post screen.

Update 5

Releasing new changes as v1.58.3

Update 6

Big update here which should both improve performance and also lessen the effects of rate limiting issues. These changes will be released as v1.58.4.

• Optimized network calls in the critical sections of the app.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27244086

Try it!

• Join the iOS beta
• Download the Mac app

If you already have either the iOS or the Mac app it should prompt you to update. You can relaunch the Mac app to trigger the prompt.

Changes

• Add setting to hide read posts in feed
• Fix comments not showing up after submitting
• Fix bug where saved posts feed was only showing posts local to your server
• Refresh inbox tab more frequently
• Cache user profiles
• Improve performance of post feeds (most noticeable on iOS)
• Fix dark mode flicker
• Fix youtube embeds where video ID contains dashes
• Increase the sizing of the login form to make it to use

Appreciate all the feedback so far!

I'm struggling a little to get the performance I want on iOS. I'm curious if anyone is using an older iPhone. I would love to hear if you think the app feels snappy enough or if there's room for improvement. If you could leave a comment or DM me with the phone your using and what you think.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26604491

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.

The ideal middle ground is to offer a list of sane defaults, not just one. That way new users can setup the app to their liking while taking only seconds. This is what the next big feature will be aiming to solve.

I'll provide more details regarding what these specific changes are over the next few releases. As always if you have any questions or suggestions please let me know in the comments.

Full changelog

• Add a setting to choose the direction of swipe gestures. By default this is left-to-right.
• Add a setting to change the default volume of the inline video player
• Add an option to share a community/instance in the community/instance screen.
• Add a setting to choose default app to open URLs with. By default Summit will open URLs within the app however setting a default browser will override this behavior.
• Add a setting to change the locale of the app.
• Add a setting to control whether community suggestions are shown in the community selector bottom sheet.
• Add a setting to enable/disable full bleed images in the full post view.
• Add an option to the "Take screenshot" screen to share the screenshot instead of saving it.
• Change the formatter for post titles. If a post's title starts with the character '#', it will be escaped. This fixes some edge cases where a post starts with a "hashtag". Eg. "#summitforlemmy is an ok app for lemmy".
• Fix a bug on the create post screen. If the webpage (based on the URL field) of a post does not have a valid title, the title will not be suggested.
• Update the design of the user info screen.
• Fix a bug where the settings page will not respect the app language if one is selected.
• Change the app behavior when handling posts with invalid thumnails. In rare cases the thumnail url and the url of the post are the same but the thumbnail url does not link to an image. Previously this would cause the app to not show the image or the link. This release changes the behavior so that the link will be shown in this case.
• Automatically load more posts when the end of the post feed is reached when "swipe between posts" is enabled.
• Change the default of the setting "Show new user tag" to true. New users (accounts that are less than 30 days of age) will display a yellow tag next to their account name.
• Fix a bug where sharing an image would not show a preview of the image being shared.

Update

Noticed some bugs in the app. One major bug is the inability to change the app base theme. Will push a fix out as v1.57.1.

• Fix a bug where the base theme setting is ignored.
• Fix a bug where some shadows are being clipped.
• Adjust default screenshot width from 500 -> 360 since 500 seemed too wide which produced smaller text when fit on screen.

Update 2

Found a crash so will update the release and release as v1.57.2.

• Fix a crash in rare cases when viewing the default apps settings screen.

Update 3

Rollout complete.

https://github.com/albert-tomanek/lemmy_desktop

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.