We’ve been hard at work tuning our image caching, prefetching, and optimizations, and are excited to finally bring you a smooth and highly performant feed with none of the stuttering or jumping that’s been plaguing us.

This build also brings a few new smaller improvements:

  • Read posts are now indicated in the feed and can be hidden using the “hide read” button in the navigation bar ellipsis menu. By default read posts are indicated with grayed title text, but if the system-wide “differentiate without color” setting is enabled we’ve added two different ways to indicate read posts: a checkmark by the ellipsis menu on read posts or a gray bar on the leading edge on unread posts.
  • New accessibility menu in settings. Right now it’s just got the settings to customize differentiation without color, but long-term it’s going to serve as a place to house all the customizations needed to make Mlem work smoothly and easily for everybody.
  • Updated thumbnail behavior. Tapping an image post’s thumbnail opens the image quicklook and tapping a link post’s thumbnail opens the link. Both of these actions mark a post as read.
  • Greatly improved the robustness of our haptics system, which previously would sometimes just stop working if the app was closed.

This build’s our 1.0.1 App Store Release Candidate, so if testing goes well it’ll be hitting the App Store in the next couple days.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

  • Nix@merv.newsEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I love mlem and the work y’all are doing! Every update I check to see if clicking Feeds scrolls to the top and am disappointed it doesn’t and then i go back to memmy 😅 but once that’s implemented ill be making the switch to mlem

  • Jeff@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    MLEM was the first I started using and I’m still using it. Will be glad to keep throwing some bones towards dev, esp in app officially too.

  • acow@programming.devEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Ahh, the scrolling is significantly improved, and the grayed out read articles was a sore point for me. Really great work folks! Looking forward to gestures to dismiss opened images. I also hope link handling can be improved. Comparing just now, Avelon is handling lemmy links very smoothly, while mlem kicks out to Mail.

  • emilia@infosec.pubEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Not a big fan of the quick look. I’d personally like to be able to have a button right there to save the image instead of having to open the drop down at the top of the screen (don’t rly like the placement of that either, but I digress).

    Currently it’s also the case that if you swipe the image up or down it doesn’t close the quick look, you have to manually press done for the bigger preview to close.

    • Eric@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Quick look isn’t our long-term image viewer–we’ve got a better media viewer in development for our upcoming 1.1 milestone that’s going to have proper gesture control and a better UX.

      In the meantime we’ve got an issue open to get that gesture support added to the current quicklook as an interim.

  • SideshowBoz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Plz let us (or me lmao) know if you have any issues when scrolling through comments, or just wave if it now sparks joy? 🫡

  • fer0n@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    The scrolling has been my biggest issue and basically the reason why I never used it. I’m happy to see it being so much better now, thanks!

  • jflorez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Really looking forward to the thumbnail fix. I wish the blurred images would expand to full size upon taping them without having to go into the post or opening the image link

  • slin@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    In the feed, all usernames are now orange tinted. I get that’s because it’s OP, but is it necessary in a feed view?

    Also some post display options don’t apply to certain post views, this could be a bit confusing if you try a specific setting toggle but nothing in your view changes.

    • Eric@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The usernames are very much not supposed to be OP flaired in feed—not sure how that one snuck through but it’ll be fixed in the next build.

      Thanks for the settings feedback—we’re overhauling a lot of how post customization works for our 1.2 customization update, and that’s a useful note.

      • slin@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Could we get the option/toggle back to collapse the post content? This could be helpful if you want to check back for new comments/replies without needing to scroll through the entire post again.

        If I remember correctly, the “OG Mlem” had that feature or I confuse that with Apollo.

        • Eric@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I think that was Apollo? It’s been a little while now, but I can’t remember that feature ever being in Mlem. It’s a good little piece of UX, though–I’ll throw it on the issue tracker

          • slin@feddit.deEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Thanks!

            It could be a bit frustrating too when you accidentally collapsed a post without knowing what happened, but overall it’s a useful optional feature.

  • testingmlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Can you fix the font size in comments? It looks way too big when compared to system font size of Apollo.