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Mlem for Lemmy

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We're making excellent progress in developing the app, but the work is... a lot. Currently, we only have a tiny group working on it, some full-time, some part-time, and we need more help if we're going to meet the deadline of July 1 for 1.0-- and, realistically, to have a usable beta in the meantime to meet current demand.

We Need Your Help

Right now, we're mostly looking for developers. Obviously, since Lemmy is an iOS app, devs should be proficient in Swift and SwiftUI and familiar with iOS app development. Additionally, we need devs proficient (or at least familiar) with:

  • Swift - async/await
  • Rust (to read Lemmy source code)
  • Lemmy
  • OpenAPI
  • Automated tests - UI and unit testing
  • Accessibility UX for Touch (focusing on deaf and blind users)
  • International data policy compliance

Even if you only know some of this-or-that, you may be able to contribute, and we'd like to hear from you. You can comment here or come chat with us in our recruitment channel on Matrix.

EDIT: THIS ROUND OF RECRUITMENT IS NOW CLOSED

We want to thank the Mlem community for the unprecedented turnout! We have recruited some amazing developers and creatives to the Mlem Team, and we're hard at work making a great app for everyone! Stay tuned for great things!

Cheers!

The Mlem Team

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not a dev but just wanted to say I appreciate all the work that has and will go into this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You're welcome!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Experience designer here. Run a design team for a large ecommerce company, but I’m happy to help with stuff on the side.

The fact that you’re using a lot of standard iOS components means that it would be fast to mockup UI with Apple’s figma component libraries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Good advice! Figma is what we've been using so our team can collaborate on the redesign of the app.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well this is exciting, can't wait to see what comes out of it. If I knew Swift I'd love to contribute. Best of luck!

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

You can always help by beta testing--the link is here if you're interested

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

Well now thats perfect, gonna do so!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

sorry, edited the post to include the link. check it out!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know you said you’re focused on development, but I have a long career in technical documentation and marketing communications. Would love to contribute if you need help with keeping externally-facing things spelled and communicated correctly.

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

i think we have that handled for now, but thanks for the offer. Join the Mlem App chat on Matrix to keep up with the development, in case anything changes!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not a developer but I will be happily beta testing/ sending in bug reports whenever I can. Looking forward to the app reaching full release!!

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

Welcome, and thanks for your interest. The beta is currently open, and you can access it via TestFligt app. Here's the link

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We're rooting for you, keep up the great work so far!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool! I was an iOS developer for 3 years. I’m good with Rx/Combine, know async/await. Now I do iOS dev as a hobby and would like to help out on the side if needed.

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

glad to hear it! join our space on Matrix, and hop into the Mlem Recruitment room! (links above)

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

That license is... not appealing to contribute to. GPL or MIT or CC0 for me. Non-commercial licenses are the worst.

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

I'm not super familiar with the nuances of licensing--what's different and why is it a deal-breaker for you?

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

First time I've seen The Commons Clause; it's … interesting?

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

It's not the first time I've seen it, and I don't know how to feel about it. It's not free software at the very least.

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

testing and liking

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

I wish i had the ability to help! I'm in tech, but not much of a developer. Really appreciate all the work being done here and I will gladly keep beta testing via TestFlight!

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

I'm excited to see a mobile client is in the works! I wish I had time to help.

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

Great job on the project so far!

I'm often wondering, and this seems like a good place to ask: As someone who has no experience with app development and generally can't help with any of the actual engineering problems – is it still useful for you folks when people like me chime in with discussions and feature suggestions on the GitHub repo? Or are we more annoying than helping?

I sometimes feel like it seems easy to just “flood” the place with tickets, but if nobody contributes with actual code solutions, what is it really for? If you know what I mean…

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

Thanks for your interest! We welcome everyone from the community to hop on over and join Mlem App on Matrix and chat with us!

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

I’m not a mobile dev (python/backend), but as a huge fan of Apollo, I’m loving how you’re designing the app. You guys got this! And maybe I’ll be working swift soon and can help out.

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

Howdy, I’ve been a web app dev in Angular for the past 7 years. I don’t actually have much experience in what you’ve listed here, aside from very limited exposure to consuming an OpenAPI spec and the barest minimum of E2E tests with Cypress. However, I’m very familiar with TypeScript and Angular, and will be very sad at Apollo’s passing (I’m fairly confident that’s your inspiration, and you’re doing a great job so far), so I’m eager and willing to learn. If you think I could be of help, let me know! Otherwise, I’m happy to beta test as much as possible for you. Very impressed with everything so far.

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