Dev lead for Mlem, the iOS Lemmy client

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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Down the road we’re looking at integration with standard video hosting sites to let them play inline nicely. The primary challenge isn’t technical but financial: most of those APIs cost money, and the project doesn’t have any. We have to have some discussions about how we want to offer features like that (and push notifications, which also cost money to run) without compromising our ideal of being a donation-driven project—we need to avoid suddenly ending up in the hole for money that we don’t have. Once we’ve decided on an approach, though, we’ll definitely be set up to provide a seamless dog video browsing experience :)


  • To both: it’s in the works. We’re constantly optimizing our image preloading, which is the primary driver of the smoothness of the feed–we’ve got a really nice implementation that’s way smoother coming down the pipeline soon.

    As to the thumbnails, we’ve been getting a ton of feedback asking for various customizations like that, so we’re bumping all the “easy win” customizability up–the next update we put out should have the option to swap thumbnail side, plus some other high-demand toggles



  • Thanks for the feedback!

    We’re still finalizing the post and comment layouts–the time alone in the middle was a funky choice that we’re definitely not sticking with. Buttons are going to stay primary because the user can interact with them, but we’re working on more customization options so you can only see the information you want.