❤️🔥 🎇 It’s finally here! And it will live on my home screen just like Apollo used to do. 🔥 ❤️🔥
Just spreading this news in case you’re like me and late to the good news :)
For those unaware, you swipe to access voting/reply on comments, swipe from left to right on a comment to get to the up/down vote and swipe right to left to reply.
On your inbox, you can mark replies “read” by far swiping right to left.
You can also swipe to go back to your feed back swiping left to right starting from the edge of the post.
Lastly you can access settings by clicking the “gear” icon in your profile screen (top right)
The only gesture it still needs is swiping a comment right to left to collapse the entire comment thread
Thank you! I wish the app made this clearer. But I’ll be referring to this comment until I develop some muscle memory.
Im excited about all the apps but to be honest i hate the names of most of them. Mlem, wefwef, memmy. Idk the overly cute name makes me think of dudes who owo in people’s DMs
I love the WefWef app but hate every time I have to type that ridiculous name out. There’s absolutely zero chance I will ever say that horrible name aloud to people either.
Apollo was an awesome name. WW, opposite.
Voice your opinion at [email protected]. The dev has already considered renaming as the current one was picked arbitrarily and partly because it’s easy to type with one hand 🤔
Lol I started using liftoff on android for that exact reason. Idk what’s so appealing about baby talk for app devs that they name stuff like that
I’m going back and forth between Jerboa, LiftOff and Thunder.
I’ll have to checkout thunder. I haven’t heard tried that one yet. There’s so many apps being made right now!
Imagine being so insecure that you won’t use an app because the name isn’t manly enough. (Although to be fair i am also using liftoff atm because it was the open source app that worked the best last time I tried them all)
Lol nobody said anything about being it not being manly. I said it sounds like baby talk. It’s childish and sounds silly. It’s more telling that you read baby talk and immediately thought about how unmanly something is.
Thank you for this!
Memmy is fantastic and exactly what Lemmy needs to become more popular. Using Lemmy.world etc on a browser on iOS just didn’t want to work for me, the login button wouldn’t work on any browser.
Browsed through safari before and I would be logged out randomly, too. Not sure why it’s not smooth on browsers though.
It’s good there’s this app which will hopefully work better. I haven’t tried it yet, but if for some reason you still log on mobile browser I found that if I completely delete the auto fill email/PW then manually tell it to fill again, I can login with no problem.
Must check this out. Wefwef has been refusing to post for me over the last couple of days.
Downloaded it and I think it‘s really neat! Improved my experience instantly!
I feel right at home on Memmy. I’ll be sticking around for sure. Now if only my subreddit equivalents will pick up steam :/
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One more step in the right direction.
Now I just need to learn how to use Lemmy
You better start believein’ in using Lemmy…
You’re doing it.
A giant leap for the fediverse. :)
What’s better wefwef or memmy?
I’m using both. On paper I like Memmy more, but it’s missing a couple of features present in Wefwef:
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Landscape mode.
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A way to display inline pics. If you’re a Memmy user wondering why sometimes you see comments without text or anything, that’s why. You’re not seeing a pic.
But if Memmy had these two things, I don’t think I’d be using Wefwef much.
memmy devs already confirmed on github that they won’t add inline pics as we see them on wefwef, mlem or browser. Instead they’ll try to add a link that says “show image” at the place where the image is supposed to be. Better than the situation now but still bad imho.
That’s btw how wefwef handles pics in comments, mlem also shows the full pic here.Yep, that’d be alright to do it like this. It’s not knowing there’s a pic that’s the problem.
Edit: just noticed it was added in the latest Testflight update. Nice!
Is that different from the actual app store version? Because there I still don’t see it.
btw I had to use wefwef to find your comment because memmy can only bring me to the thread but not to the specific comment^^The AppStore version will always be lagging behind by a few updates, I’m afraid. It takes time for Apple to validate a new AppStore build, unlike TestFlight builds.
Shame, I uninstalled the testflight version after their comment that they won’t display inline pics like the other apps and now the beta is full^^
How did they do it with the latest update? Is it a link which opens an image in a new window or is it sort of a spoiler tag view?It looks like this! And apparently this update should show up on the AppStore in the next 24h ;-)
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That’s subjective. Wefwef is trying to clone Apollo for Reddit. It’s cross platform since it’s a PWA. Memmy is iOS only and seems to have more settings right now. If you’re used to Apollo give wefwef a shot!
Wefwef is trying to clone Apollo for Reddit.
Well the first sentence of memmys github description says that it’s “an Apollo-inspired iOS and Android client” so I’d say they’re doing the same^^
Key difference in what i said: as of now, wefwef is more of a CLONE of Apollo. Everything is almost the same. Memmy is heavily inspired by, but looks and behaves differently in some ways. My opinion is wefwef looks more like a native iOS app. Neither is bad, and maybe I’m biased as I’m contributing to wefwef, but it’s all preference anyways :)
Memmy is a React/Expo app so it’s cross platform as well, the dev just hasn’t configured an Android build pipeline for it. Both have the same janky scrolling issues which is common across React apps.
Very true, hopefully Memmy exports to Android soon! Ps: your username made me think I found a bug to fix in our inbox code lol!
heh, working as intended then.
I’m using wefwef and I switched back and forth between wefwef, memmy and mlem.
Here are some things I considered:- Inline images are shown in posts(instead of linked to at the end): mlem, wefwef
- Opening images and zooming them: memmy, wefwef
- saving images: memmy (Edit: wefwef too since on of the latest updates)
- Adjustable text size: memmy, wefwef
- compact view is actually compact: wefwef, mlem (Edit: memmy too since the latest update)
- jumping to comments from your inbox: wefwef , Memmy(kind of, shows comment chain of that specific post, but not highlights the comment and has no way of switching to all comments from there)
- edit comments: wefwef, memmy
As you can see, wefwef is present in all of these ^^ jumping to comment is a pretty big one for me, aswell as the inline images
I prefer WefWef but still: this can only be a good thing for Lemmy. Glad this is out!
Only reason I’m not on Wefwef anymore is because of the lack of haptics. Getting haptic feedback on votes and swipes is just too good, imo.
True. That’s the same reason I switched to memmy
Wefwef feels like Apollo in a stable beta version: it doesn’t have everything I’m used to (blocking communities from the main feed is a big one) but everything is in the right place. Pity I only got it after Apollo went down, since I can’t get my data from Apollo now.
I’m just trying Lemmy (writing this comment on it) and it’s still rather light but thankfully speedier than on a browser.
I figure I’ll bounce between them for a bit and see which one starts to gain more usage and features. But yes, it’s good that there are more options available.
Quick question- what specifically were you looking to export from Apollo over to WefWef? I tried exporting the .json file from Apollo over to WefWef following the instructions and it basically was just a list of my subscribed communities and allowed me to search for similar communities on here (most of which were pretty niche and therefor not on here yet. Totally understandable.) Is there something else I’m missing?
That’s what I was looking for, yeah. Part of it was that I was subscribed to language learning communities (and memes in the target language: the shared language of memes provides a lot of context!) which can be named a large variety of things, so I’d be back at square one and searching for things manually.
It’s not the worst thing to be back to basics, because it forces me to explore and learn about the Fediverse, but there’s always going to be that nagging “did I get everything out of the old apartment” feeling as I drop off the key.
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Wefwef is fast but it’s a web app, not a native one. It feels snappy and fast though.
I bounce back and forth between WefWef and Memmy and I think they are both great in their own way.
There was a really annoying issue with wefwef for me - Swiping back to the Home Screen would result in a brief couple seconds of lag before I could scroll again. Apart from that I’d agree that is was great.
But this Memmy app is a lot better in that regard 👌
I had the same experience with wefwef which led me to try out Memmy. Memmy is much more seamless and feels more like a fully functional app.
I had a similar problem, but it went away when I added wefwef to my Home Screen. It seems to handle swipes differently and is much smoother when swiping back.
Feels very close to a native app after adding to the Home Screen.
It’s so frustrating, because this is an iOS bug, and not an inherent problem with wefwef. Hoping they can find a workaround though!
Interestingly enough, I am actually also getting this intermittently on Memmy after just switching.
Ah that’s annoying! Can’t be near as bad as I haven’t seen it myself.
Hope it’s something that can be resolved.
WefWef UI is great, just wish it wasn’t a web app
Memmy is just a webapp with extra steps though.
It’s literally not lol
It is react native, meaning it uses the same basic web technologies as wefwef. It’s just bundled up and distributed through the app stores rather than through your browser. I am not complaining though both WefWef and Memmy are absolutely awesome.
It’s not like electron or something. Sure metro works similarly to webpack, but it’s not the same basic web technologies as wefwef. RN runs on threads on your device, a main thread, js thread and shadow thread. The js thread talks to the main thread through a bridge. React Native allows us to work and interface with native APIs with the device, while PWAs does not do that. PWAs don’t do that on your phone, it’s just like running on Safari really. While the code itself isn’t “native” we end up with native components through the bridge. (If all of RN was just a webview then it would be more like how you’re describing.)
The way RN works is fundamentally different than React, despite the syntax looking similar and RN being written in JS. It’s not like its just React bundled up into a mobile app. I often wish they hadn’t named it React Native for this reason, and for having to look up stuff and just getting React answers all the time lol. I am one of the Memmy devs and I am a React developer professionally. FYI this is not in any way a diss at wefwef for not being native, its super super impressive what they’ve done, I’m sure I could learn a lot about React from their code. Also sorry about the disjointed thoughts, I’m sure I repeated some stuff here or there lol. Hope this clarified a bit how RN works though.
Thanks for the great and detailed reply! Tbh I really thought React Native was just using the webview… super embarassing for a dev of 12 years.
Glad it was helpful!
The extra step is that it doesn’t run through Safari.
Honestly it’s hard to tell. Even on my old iPhone X it’s pretty seamless. I wish Apple and Android would give PWA apps more feature support overall tbh.
It’s hard to tell until suddenly your phone is out of battery.
Oh PWAs take more battery?
It’s definitely not as responsive and has a slightly laggy feel to it. I mean it looks and runs great for a webapp. But it just isn’t as good as a native app.
It’s the push notifications I’m missing most
I love wefwef but I actually prefer this now!
Same
If I’m on the TestFlight is it important to switch?
Edit: question answered
TestFlight will still receive new betas, if you don’t want to beta test new releases, just want to have latest stable release download the one from the store. Both will work just fine so you can stay on TestFlight one if you want to.
Thanks!
The TestFlight version will be the beta testing version for all the upcoming official App Store version for updates. If you keep the TestFlight version you will be a bug finder for improvements to the final app.
Thanks!
You’re welcome
TestFlight will get updates faster
Thanks!
No link?
App link here, since OP didn’t deliver 😉 : https://apps.apple.com/us/app/memmy-for-lemmy/id6450204299
Sorry didn’t include a link since it’s on the app store. Thanks for providing one.
Unfortunately, searching for apps in the app store is not easy. I tried searching for “memmy” and didn’t find it. I had to use the full name.
Fantastic app, really puts Reddit to shame. Maybe if they didn’t spend all their efforts trying to add trackers and shit they would have a decent app
Having lots of errors signing into various accounts when I was trying to find what server to call home… got my lemmy.world account and beehaw to work, but no luck with kbin.social…
Other than that, works pretty well. Obviously a long way off the gloriousness of Apollo, but not so far off that I’d rather stick with a web shortcut. Seeing a lot of image previews turned into 🔗 instead of showing thumbs, and so many sites now rejecting access due to the use of a VPN… but that’s more a web problem than a Memmy prob I suppose.
Feature-request-wise, it would also be nice to see a more customizable feed that could hook into any combination of my various accounts with a tier-style prioritization on which account to load a subscription when a particular subscription exists across those accounts.
Exciting times either way!
kbin is federated with lemmy (and mastadon) but it is actually its own software with its own (unfinished) API.
If you only want to manage 2 accounts (e.g. here and beehaw) Liftoff handles it pretty well.
I went Lemmy.ml because it doesn’t require an email address. I had 10’s of Reddit accounts that I’d cycle through on different VPNs and only use certain ones on certain devices in the name of Internet anonymity. Giving up an email address (even one that’s purely for junk mail) defeats the anonymity.
Lemmy being open source and relatively transparent means any bad actor with access would have a ton of info on me, even if it’s just my habits, voting tendencies, and comments/posts. That’s not info I want to give out.
One of the Memmy devs here - We don’t support kbin (they don’t have an API). Did you have issues with signing into any Lemmy instances specifically?
I got a couple of errors on some others like Beehaw at first, but it worked after a couple of tries. I figured it was just due to the rapid rise of your app’s popularity! Congrats and thanks also for the reply! Sorry for being a goof on kbin… I am still a relative new reddit refugee who had been looking for a new place to be before Memmy came along.
Oh yea you might get some issues with beehaw because they are defederated from other instances. Glad you are enjoying the app and figuring out the fediverse though! :)
![For this who aren’t aware, Memmy for lemmy is now available in the app store [iOS]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1898f260-6f07-4d40-a84b-730c2a20e802.jpeg){kind=link}
