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Official community for Mlem, a free and open-source iOS Lemmy client.

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This is a forum for discussion about Mlem. We welcome a degree of general chatter, but anything not related to Mlem may be removed at moderator discretion. This is not a forum for iPhone/Android debate. Posts and comments saying nothing but "iOS bad/I use Android" will be removed as off-topic.
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When will insert feature here be implemented?
- Check our issue board--if there isn't an issue open for the feature you want, feel free to open an issue or make post! Just remember that devs are people too--we're doing this for free in our spare time, and building a quality app takes a lot of patient work.
Is Mlem available for Android?
- No. Mlem is written using SwiftUI, which is not currently supported on Android. If such support becomes available, we will look into bringing Mlem to our Android friends.
How do I join the beta?
- We are currently testing our new 2.0 codebase on TestFlight. We have two beta groups: a weekly group that receives the current state of our development branch every week, and a stable group that receives a curated pre-release build at the end of each development cycle.
- Join the weekly beta
- Join the stable beta
How do I join the dev team?
- Head over to our recruitment channel, or go straight to our GitHub and read CONTRIBUTING.md to get started.

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We need to have a way to subscribe to communities when someone posts a link to it on c/newcommunities or in any comment/ post. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Right now the only way to subscribe to communities is through the desktop website. It would make using the app, as well as the platform far more intuitive if we could click on a link (with whatever format is acceptable) that doesn’t just open the community in the in-app browser, but actually took you to the community from your instance from where you could subscribe to it.

Not sure how feasible this is within the fediverse, but just thought it’s a major thing that’s holding back people from becoming power users of the app and the platform.

Also wanted to say thanks to the devs for their incredible effort and kudos for how far they’ve come from when I started testing the app.

Onwards and upwards!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Love Mlem, and am looking forward to this. As sharing communities gets easier, I’ll be excited to see more things like communities on one instance linking to communities on another server that have similar subject matter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

this is currently... a complicated problem to solve.

unfortunately, with the current LemmyAPI implementation, there is a delay with communities between instances getting registered. so, let's say you're on lemmy.ml and you see one of those New Community posts from lemmy.world. well, those links, despite using the correct format to link to your local version of the community, typically results in a 404 page-- even in the web version. There's a workaround to get your home base instance to register it and then it will e searchable for everyone in your instance, but it doesn't always work, and programming it into the app is tricky and unreliable.

so what do?

even on the web version of lemmy, this is a tricky problem to solve, and we can only hope the hard-working lemmy devs resolve this issue in the upcoming update to the Lemmyapi at the end of the month. Until then, we're working on a community search and subscribe function (including favorites) that works similarly to the one on the website (and looks similar to the subreddit browser in Apollo in the left-swipe view). this should (hopefully) be in the next Mlem update!