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Limbo for Lemmy

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Limbo. It's another app for Lemmy.

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Yes, it's yet another app for Lemmy.

Based heavily on the abandoned Lemmur project, with a few updates to make it run with the current API and some minor changes to the UI.

Written in Flutter, so although it's only available for iPhone and iPad right now, it does run on macOS and Android so releases for those platforms may be on their way.

I will be releasing the source once the app has gone through this beta testing phase.

Go and get it!

Let me know here of any issues or in the TestFlight build (long press on the icon). Once I've opened the source we can start using GitHub to track issues.

KNOWN ISSUES:

  • The app occasionally forgets who you are and mistakenly nags you to log in when trying to comment or vote.

Developers: interested in helping out? Experienced with Mobx, Provider and Freezed? Let me know!

Features:

  • Full featured for end users
  • Light Mode, Dark Mode, System Mode
  • Multiple accounts on multiple servers
  • Localisation (work in progress)
  • Full search support (posts, comments, users, communities)

A few screenshots to whet your appetite:

Viewing posts

Writing a post

Viewing a thread

Searching (in light mode)

iPad support!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On behalf of The Mlem Team, welcome to the club ;)

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

Haha, I’m also ~~stealing ideas from~~ beta testing Mlem!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will you be working the kbin api into the app? that's where I've been building my subscriptions, but I guess I can rebuild over on lemmy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

To be honest, that's low on my priorities at the moment, but once core functionality has been shown to be in good order, we can start thinking about the best approach to such features.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So far so good! Functionally, I think it's one of the best ones on IOS now (testing Mlem and Memmy as well).

The only think I'm not crazy about is the UI styling... The rounded boxes with shadows for posts are looking pretty weird (maybe just a little bit spacing between the edge for some room to breathe?). Otherwise I'm a fan of simple boxed approach.

Anyway, keep up the good work and keep them updates coming! 😀

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

Yeah I think there's some UI thinking to be done. I just want to ensure that the functionality all works as intended first!

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

Great work, thanks a lot for making this!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey so I'm really liking it so far, looks great, love the styling and all, but scrolling through the feed is a little stuttery. I did a screen recording, not sure if you can even see what I'm referring to in the recording as it seems so subtle there, but when using it on my iPhone it feels really jarring. Wonder if it's because I have a 120hz iPhone, not sure if Limbo supports or accounts for the 120hz devices?

Either way it doesn't feel great to scroll at the moment:

https://imgur.com/a/uNwCL1s

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

Yes, I don't think the original devs could ever have seen a post with more than a handful of comments. As soon as they mount up we do start to have issues. It will be a priority are for Liftoff! (see announcement here!)

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

This 👏 is 👏 amazing 👏

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi! This is great, could this be worked as a team with zach who's making an android version based on the same code?

link to github

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

That's great, thanks for pointing me to him, I'll get in touch!

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

Whoa this is the best Lemmy app I’ve tried so far! It feels extremely polished for a beta! Amazing!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Very excited to test this out! Always good to have more options. Just started but already I’m liking the search function and the general look to the app. I’ll continue testing and let you know what I think!

Edit: Okay I’m really impressed. The account tab is awesome. Is there a discord for this app yet? You should make one if not and link it so we can join. I’ll be watching development of this app very closely, this looks extremely promising

Edit 2: Yeah I know how annoying multiple edits is, sorry. Anyway, just wanted to chime in with a couple suggestions. First of all, in the AMOLED dark mode, I feel the posts could be separated like they are in standard dark mode, with the same grey shade as with the footer (whatever it’s called). Right now, with the AMOLED mode it’s hard to tell two separate bodies apart from each other just by quickly looking at them. Second, default sorting modes could be improved. I’d suggest separate sorting for posts and comments (so for example, default sorting posts by hot/day with default sorting of comments in a post by top rated and default sorting of comments on a profile page to new).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the feedback! I'm not a Discord user so I'll stick with this community for the moment. If that changes, I'll be looking for advice on how to proceed 😉

I just had a look at the AMOLED mode and see what you mean. I'll have a play about with that theme and see what I can do.

I understand the point about sorting. I'm still trying to get my head around it so keep watching!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish you the best of luck! Of the three apps I’ve tried, this one has had the most promising initial build

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, it's a shame that Lemmur got abandoned just as Lemmy's time was coming.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Memmy looks extremely promising now too, they’ve got some cool stuff coming as well. Mlem seems to have been lagging behind now compared to the competition, though it’s also got some cool features on the horizon. Things are looking good for Lemmy!

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

Yes, I think they will be adding features at quote a pace for a while now, while I just want to ensure that Limbo is robust enough for everyday use as my first priority. Looking reasonably good from the feedback so far, though there is some work to do.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@limboapp I'm struggling to add my vanity Mastodon instance. Is it supported?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi, I'm not sure I understand the question. It's specifically a Lemmy client so unless you're also running a Lemmy instance this won't do anything for you...

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

@limboapp Ah, sorry. I don't want to spin up my own Lemmy instance, and I use my Mastodon account to interact with Lemmy (yay Fediverse!)

What I'd like to do is easily comment/post on Lemmy instances with my Mastodon account. Right now it's a bit of a convoluted process that involves copying a URL from a Lemmy post, searching for it in Mastodon, and replying to the post I find in Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow! I can't wait for the Android version.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let me get to the point where I'm reasonably comfortable there's no terrible issues and I'll start looking at that side of things!

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

I look forward to it. Lemmur is still in the play store, taunting me...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks promising. Feels much better than Mlem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I'm sure Mlem will catch up very quickly 😀

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

All these apps keep getting significantly better almost every other day.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for putting your time + effort into this! I'm enjoying Limbo so far :)

Is there a specific place to put suggestions/requests? I'd love to be able to filter out or block words (rather than just people + communities), and it would be great to be able to collapse replies + not have to scroll through lengthy reply chains if you don't want to.

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

This is the best place to get my attention!

Filter request understood and sounds doable.

Collapse replies -- long press on the comment :-)