❤️🔥 🎇 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 :)
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.
I think the Apple App Store mostly sorts by popularity and they use reviews, some mixture of the quantity and star rating, to decide that popularity amount.
Anyway, ignoring the obnoxious Apple-inserted banner ad (🙄) typing in “lemmy” or “memmy” bring up the correct app for me now. I had the .ipa sideloaded previously, but yesterday typing in lemmy brought up some other completely unrelated (not lemmy) app came up and memmy I think didn’t work at all. Seems ok now though since most people will go to the App Store and type lemmy.
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
OP you’re on an iPhone. Next time crop the photo in the Photos app to remove the ad for PUBG…
I thought my Lemmy app was displaying ads and almost deleted it.
I also though that, but I’m on wefwef so that didn’t make any sense
Wtf is a wefwef
That made me chuckle. Wefwef is one of the popular apps for browsing Lemmy
The old name for Voyager
And a better name for it too I reckon
Any phone should be able to do this. The first thing my Android does after taking a screen shot is ask me if I want to crop.
Hell, at least on my Motorola, you can set it so triggering a screenshot gives you a transparent, resizable selection box so you only capture the part of the screen you want to capture without having to crop afterwards.
I wonder how much Tencent will pay per post like this
I prefer WefWef but still: this can only be a good thing for Lemmy. Glad this is out!
WefWef UI is great, just wish it wasn’t a web app
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 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 hard to tell until suddenly your phone is out of battery.
Oh PWAs take more battery?
Memmy is just a webapp with extra steps though.
The extra step is that it doesn’t run through Safari.
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!
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.
It’s so frustrating, because this is an iOS bug, and not an inherent problem with wefwef. Hoping they can find a workaround though!
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.
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.
try https://sub.rehab, it’s got instructions on how to import your reddit subscriptions in the settings, and offers the alternatives.
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.
I bounce back and forth between WefWef and Memmy and I think they are both great in their own way.
I love wefwef but I actually prefer this now!
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
Is this open source?
Thanks a lot. I’ll be looking into contributing to the app too
Is there an Android version available?
No, but there are plenty of Android apps available. Personally, I’d recommend Liftoff (and Boost when it’s released).
There’s also something called Jerboa, not sure if it’s good though
I started out using Jerboa, but then it started crashing. Switched to Connect which I like better and has been working well.
Jerboa is OK, but it has a long way to go
I can’t login with jerboa. Not sure why, but there’s no option to.
check the hamburger memu in the top left.
Thnx! I downloaded Liftoff and I really like it :)
I am currently using a WebApp called wefwef, but I think it will soon be renamed Voyager https://vger.app/
This was fast. Shoutout to everyone involved!
I am guessing this is the Apollo equivalent? Do we know anything about an Infinity for Lemmy?
I’m using an app called ‘Liftoff for lemmy’. It has been good so far. I’m not sure if it has all the features found in infinity tho.
So I just found out about lemmy today and tried to search for it on the App Store, and apparently it’s only been released these days? Damn
Anyways, does anyone know why the app doesn’t let you upvote or comment?
This is awesome I love the testflight version of the app. It gives me a reddit like experience. I ended up settling on WefWef as my Lemmy app but Memmy is still really great.
Wefwef is a webapp unfortunately. I believe Memmy is the first on iOS, though don’t quote me on that. I am slow when it comes to these news.
Btw, your profile pic is ❤️🔥
there is also Mlem for iOS.
Does anyone know if wefwef stores your password in a database (they own) or if it’s all JavaScript/local storage?
OMG, your screenshot made me believe lemmy got its first ad (pubg).
Sorry. I’ll replace it with a cropped image. I just don’t want complaints of an edited screenshot so I didn’t crop it at first. But I’ll do it now that I see some confusion.
Cheers mate!
One more step in the right direction.
A giant leap for the fediverse. :)
Now I just need to learn how to use Lemmy
You better start believein’ in using Lemmy…
You’re doing it.
Can i cross post this? If so, how?
This is the cross-post button:
Blessed art thou
Wait, so it’s not here under the post. Do we have different apps or am i doing something wrong?
My screenshot is from firefox viewing lemmy.world. If you’re using an app, can’t help you there. Try seeing what each of those buttons does I guess? Also, out of curiosity, what app is that?
have you checked the post you’re commenting under?
I’m crying in iOS 12.5.7. My iPad still works well (even the battery) but sadly more and more apps aren’t available anymore.
Try wefwef.app. It’s a web app you have to install on your desktop so I think it should work for you
Just seeing this on my newly downloaded memmy app. Good i feel like Patrick Bateman reviewing business cards. It’s very well polished.
![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}