Lemmynade for Lemmy

Hey testers! New update just dropped.

If you're new here, Lemmynade is the refreshing web app for Lemmy, currently in development. The goal is to make Lemmy more powerful, approachable, useable, and sustainable. Follow [email protected] for announcements and updates like these.

This release brings a new compact feed style, experimental video support, and a unique algorithm to help you find interesting communities on Lemmy. Read on for the full list of changes.

Open Lemmynade →

What's New

• Community Discovery has been added to the Search tab in three sections—Trending, Popular, and New. Most notably, the Trending communities section uses a unique blend of algorithms that refreshes with undiscovered communities every 10 minutes. Never run out of topics to follow again!
• The Compact Feed can now be selected as Feed Style in your Appearance settings.
• Video Support has arrived. Watch videos directly in your feed and have them autoplay as you scroll. (Note: This feature is experimental and some videos may not load. Only YouTube links and direct links to videos are supported for now. YouTube videos are partially routed through Piped or Invidious in attempt to protect your privacy.)
• Profile Editing has been added in the Account tab.
• You can now copy user and community mentions from the context menu. This makes it easier to mention a community or user in your comments and posts. (Tap and hold on any community name or username to show the context menu)
• You can now search and filter your communities if you follow or moderate any.
• You can now open direct links, videos, and images right from the ••• menu on a post.

Fixed & Improved

• The Lemmynade icon has been redesigned based on community feedback. (You'll need to delete and reinstall Lemmynade to use the new icon if you've installed it to your home screen)
• In preparation for sharing features and search engine indexing, Lemmynade no longer requires the access key previously listed in the community sidebar. This was a temporary measure to filter out bad actors and focus on testing.
• The Explore tab has been renamed to "Search" for clarity.
• On community pages, more of the description is visible so you don't need extra taps or clicks.
• To prepare for the future ✨, Settings have been rearranged a bit. Impressive, I know.
• Sometimes, if you got your username or password wrong, Lemmynade would tell you that your instance was not valid. This wasn't always true, so it has been fixed.
• Local/remote indicators next to usernames and communities have been removed to reduce clutter. You can now tap-and-hold on community names and usernames to immediately see what instance they're from.
• As a subtle nod to one of the original readers, the "My Feed" icon was changed to a newspaper.

If you have any questions or ideas, submit feedback or drop a comment below. Enjoy!

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Note: If you deeply loathe app icons, feel free to skip this post.

Hey all—hope your February is going well!

After some stellar feedback, Lemmynade will be sunsetting its old icon for a new, more refreshing one. For those of you absolutely devastated by this, rest assured—the legacy cup icon may or may not be available to use again someday.

You'll see the new icon go live next week along with the next Lemmynade release. Stay tuned!

– silas

Cheers to all of us here on Lemmy and the community we’re building 🍻🎉 Hope it’s a great one!

Hey testers! Here's another update to add to the winter charm.

If you're new here, Lemmynade is the refreshing mobile web app and desktop site for Lemmy, currently in active development. Follow [email protected] for announcements and updates like these.

This release brings private messages, an improved inbox, and scaled sorting to the table while greatly improving your Lemmynade doom scrolling experience. Huge thanks to the valuable testers that have taken time to report bugs and submit ideas.

Open Lemmynade →

What's New

• Private Messages can now be viewed and replied to under Inbox → Chats
• Scaled Sort (new to Lemmy 0.19.x) is now available as the "Spotlight" sorting option throughout Lemmynade (named this way to make more sense to the average user)
• Infinite Scrolling has been rebuilt from the ground up. Your scroll position is now saved correctly, everything is faster, and many bugs have been exterminated.
• The Inbox has been updated with infinite scrolling, slightly faster loading times, and simplified filtering
• Your Home Feed tabs (My Feed, Local, and All) can now be switched between without loosing your place
• In addition to long-pressing on user/community names, you can now Block & Unblock users and communities on their individual pages from the ••• menu
• Upvoted & Downvoted Posts are now browsable from dedicated sections in your Account page
• Profile Age can now be seen from user profile pages

Removed

• Support has been dropped for instances running Lemmy 0.18.5 and lower. This was a tough decision, but will ultimately allow faster, more focused development on new features while we're still in alpha testing.
• Vote scores have been removed from user profile following changes made in the latest Lemmy update

Fixed & Improved

• Context menus and dialogs are snappier with better animations and reworked interactions
• The top and bottom app toolbars are now a bit smarter about when they auto-hide
• Fixed an issue that prevented clicking or tapping on action buttons on post pages
• Minor bug fixes and improvements have been made in preparation for desktop layout down the road
• Links in the feed and on individual post pages now use the same description (as they should)
• Fixed an issue that caused images to flash when opening a post
• The one-time-password field on the login page is now always shown to accommodate discrepancies between instances for the time being until the login page redesign
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the description of a post's attached URL to overflow outside of its container
• Fixed an issue where posts were being marked as read from post feeds if your finger touched them while scrolling
• A heart has been added to the top of the home page to make it easier to support Lemmynade's development
• Many other minor bug fixes and improvements

If you have any questions or ideas, submit feedback or drop a comment below. Enjoy!

• 🚌 Feedback & Roadmap
• ✨ Changelog
• ☕ Buy Me A Coffee

Happy Friday!

Just wanted to officially note that Lemmynade supports all instances running the newest version of Lemmy (released earlier today). You can still use Lemmynade the same as you have been whether or not your instance has upgraded.

A lot of time and energy has been spent to get Lemmy to where it is today. If you’re able, support the developers so they can continue to make Lemmy better.

As always, if you notice a bug or miss a feature in Lemmynade, please leave feedback or reply below. Any small critique or idea you might have is extremely valuable!

Stay tuned for more updates next week as we work towards beta 🎉

Hey all, thanks again for the valuable feedback and cheers over the weekend!

With this release, you'll notice things feel much snappier overall. Most notably, some ad-blockers were causing massive lag throughout the web app.

Open Lemmynade →

What's New

• Text can now be selected in posts, comments, and other areas you might want to copy things

Fixed

• Ad-blockers were causing Umami Analytics to throw fatal errors, reloading each page unnecessarily. I'm not trying to pull a YouTube, so this was fixed and you can now use your ad-blockers freely.
• Fixed a bug that would cause the "Signing In" overlay on the installed web app to never disappear (even after successfully signing in)
• Fixed a bug that was adding up to half a second of unnecessary loading time to each page
• Fixed an issue where reloading community pages and some pages with markdown caused an error
• Fixed a bug that made text unreadable (white-on-white) in dropdown menus in Vivaldi

If you've got questions (or just wanna talk trash about Lemmynade's icon), join us over at [email protected]! Otherwise, follow [email protected] for more announcements and updates.

Hi everyone,

The day has arrived: Lemmynade is now open for testing! Scroll to the bottom to get started, or read on to learn more.

What is Lemmynade?

Lemmynade is a refreshing mobile web app and desktop site for Lemmy.

• Beautiful. Lemmynade is crafted to put the spotlight on users and communities to drive more engagement throughout the Lemmyverse.
• Powerful. Lemmynade also strives to be a collection of top-notch Lemmy tools for lurkers, creators, moderators, and admins alike.
• Accessible. Lemmynade is fully-indexable by search engines. All content can be accessed on desktop and mobile with or without an account. Accessibility features will continue to be added and refined.
• Private. Lemmynade only collects simple, anonymous, aggregated data through Umami. Everything else is stored on your home instance or on your own device.

Why is it called Lemmynade?

It's no secret the unfortunate reality of social media and Internet privacy these days. Some of us are here to escape from it all. Some of us are trying something new. Others have been pushing content and code night and day to make Lemmy better. A few of us are even here for [email protected].

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

The name "Lemmynade" serves as a symbol of the incredible achievements made here despite the lemons we've been served. What we have here on Lemmy is remarkable. We are part of a vibrant, offbeat internet culture completely funded and maintained by its users on every continent. Lemmy is truly what we make of it, and I hope Lemmynade assists this endeavor in all the best ways.

Get started!

While we're in alpha, expect to encounter plenty of bugs. You can report a bug or submit a feature request anytime from the ••• in the upper-right corner of Lemmynade. When you're ready, copy the Access Key below and continue to Lemmynade (lemmynade.app) →

Access Key:

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Known Issues

• The desktop layout will be available at a later date. Lemmynade is best used on small screens and mobile devices for now
• Post creation is not the most elegant experience at the moment
• Accessibility for screen readers, etc. is very limited at this time
• Tabs do not always retain the last route or history
• Sometimes, when returning to your home feed, it may spit you out above or below the scroll position you were at last
• Markdown does not support tables, spoilers, and a few others at the moment

Links

• Feature Request
• Bug Report
• Changelog
• ♥︎ Support

– silas

Here's a sample of what the profile view looks like in Lemmynade. Drop a comment below and I might reply with a screenshots of yours 🙂

If you're new here, Lemmynade is a refreshing, up-and-coming mobile web app and desktop site for Lemmy. The goal of this project is to make Lemmy more shareable, powerful, intuitive, and accessible. I'll be dropping more screenshots like this as we get closer to release. Join us at [email protected] to be the first to hear when alpha testing is available!

Quick look at the upvote and downvote animations in Lemmynade:

I apologize immensely for any instances I may have crashed while feverishly tapping on these in quick succession.

If you're new here, Lemmynade is a refreshing, up-and-coming mobile web app and desktop site for Lemmy. The goal of this project is to make Lemmy more shareable, powerful, intuitive, and accessible. Join [email protected] to be the first to hear when alpha testing is available.

Hi friends,

Unfortunately, I had some health issues in the family to deal with this month. I was hoping to have made more progress on Lemmynade by now to be able to release a public alpha for you all, but sometimes life throws curveballs.

Thankfully, everything has been taken care of and I’m back to working on this project again. I’ll continue to provided updates here and there when I can.

Thanks for hanging in there. I appreciate you all and can’t wait to share Lemmynade with you! In the meantime, enjoy the refined app icon :)

- silas

Here’s a glimpse of the community view on Lemmynade! I’m ironing out all the kinks and killing off bugs in preparation for alpha release—specifically improving search, posting, and the desktop layout this week.

Security and privacy are and will always be top priority with Lemmynade. Instances are verified before logging in, your account tokens are highly-encrypted on your own device, and the only data collected by me is simple, anonymous, aggregated statistics. Anything related to your account in any way happens privately on the server-side instead of the client.

Stay tuned on the alpha release date by following [email protected], and as always feel free to ask questions below!

– silas

Hey friends and followers,

Here’s a quick look at the comments section in Lemmynade. I’m working full-time on this project and getting more exited to share it with you each day!

Follow [email protected] for updates as Lemmynade gets closer to public testing

It’s been a while so I’d thought I’d post an update real quick.

Still hacking away at Lemmynade each day, and Lemmynade now has an icon! Most of the basic features are complete. My focus right now is boosting security and performance. I’ve also got a few more bugs to work out with comments to make sure they’re displaying nicely.

If you’re new here, Lemmynade is a beautiful, touch-friendly web app and public website for Lemmy. The goal is to make Lemmy more approachable, discoverable, engaging, and fun to use through a high-quality user interface.

Follow this community for more, and let me know if there’s anything specific you hope to see in Lemmynade in the comments!

More progress is being made on Lemmynade—the refreshing, one-of-a-kind Lemmy client for the web! Here’s a few screenshots:

App development takes time, and the current focus is getting all basic functionality running smooth before adding extra features. Every Lemmy instance is different and performance varies a lot. Each feature needs to be tested thoroughly to minimize the amount of errors. Errors also must be be handled gracefully when they do happen on slower or overloaded instances so as to not scare people away :) As you can imagine, that's plenty to think about.

That said, we're getting closer to a public release each day. If you want to follow progress and get the alpha link when it drops, updates are being posted to r/lemmynade and this community here at [email protected]

Feel free to ask questions or share ideas in the meantime!

Cheers,

- silas

To stay tuned and get the link when it drops, follow at [email protected]. In the meantime, feel free to ask questions or give suggestions!

With all the amazing apps and services everyone is building for Lemmy lately, I figured I might as well share a sneak-peek of mine too!

Lemmynade is a stunning web client for Lemmy with an emphasis on search engine indexability, great moderation tools, and a familiar pixel-perfect experience.

The goal with this project is to:

• Publish a powerful, publicly-browsable, fully-indexable website where all Lemmy instances are accessible at any time. I’ll be using dynamic SEO, SSR, and smart caching on the edge to encourage search engines to index posts (and also make posts look good when people share them to other platforms).
• Create a solid, familiar UX to make it easier for new users to transition from other social media platforms. Lets face it—we need a great user experience for Lemmy with infinite scrolling, beautiful post presentation, video support, and animated upvotes.
• Prioritize community engagement and moderation tools. You can see it in the colors and the placement of everything—Lemmynade is about the users that make up this community. The goal is to make it simple and quick for you to post, comment, reply, and message other users in the Fediverse. Moderation tools will also get some love as well.
• Eventually release Lemmynade iOS and Android apps. Hopefully, as Lemmynade grows, I’ll be able to release iOS and Android apps. This is not a guarantee and is dependent on the success of the web version and any interest from y’all.

As you can imagine, this is a huge project and will take some time to get to a usable and polished version 1.0. For now, subscribe to this community to follow along—I’ll post updates and more sneak-peeks along the way.

I’ll be sharing more screenshots in the coming weeks as well as a link to the public alpha for you all to try. Stay tuned, and feel free to ask any questions or share ideas!

Cheers,

- Silas