After a year in development and six months in beta, we are thrilled to announce that Mlem for Lemmy 2.0 is available on the App Store!

We’ve rewritten the app from the ground up–it’s still the same Mlem our users know and love, but with significant performance improvements, a set of new features that were infeasible in our v1 app, and a fresh new design that feels right at home with the latest versions of iOS. There are more changes than we could list here, so the best way to see what’s new is to just download the app, but some of the highlights include:

Media Enhancements

2.0 ships with a brand new image viewer and full support for gifs, videos, and animated webps. We’ve even added loops.video embedding–link posts to loops.video will display the linked video directly in Mlem.

Color Themes

In addition to the standard light and dark, Mlem 2.0 offers OLED, Solarized, and Dracula color themes, with more on the way. If you’d like us to support your favorite theme, let us know!

Markdown Handling

Powered by our custom cmark fork, Mlem 2.0 supports the full range of Lemmydown syntax.

Enhanced Post Composer

You can now create crossposts directly in the post editor (+ -> Crosspost), and can even post to multiple communities from multiple accounts at once. The keyboard now also sports a comprehensive set of Markdown editing tools.

French Localization

Mlem is now available in French, thanks to pylapp.

And More…

  • Guest mode: you can now browse instances without an account
  • Added a new Tiled post layout
  • Keep place on switch: you can now switch accounts without reloading the app. This behavior can be toggled in Settings -> Accounts or accessed by long pressing an account in the account switcher.
  • You can now search for posts and comments

Compatibility Notice: Mlem 2.0 supports iOS 17 and later. If you are on an older iOS, you won’t be able to download this update but will be able to continue using the previous version of Mlem.

Thank you to all of our beta testers, whose feedback and support has been invaluable.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Mlem is a free and open source project. 100% of our funding, which pays for things like server time, comes from our generous donors; we do not, and will never, run ads or sell data. If you’d like to help support Mlem, you can donate here.

  • chase_what_matters@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m wondering how difficult it would be to allow us to change text size. Compared to the rest of the UI, comments feel large and bold.

    • Sjmarf@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You can change the text size for the app as a whole by going to System Settings -> Accessibility -> Per-App Settings (at the very bottom) -> Mlem -> Larger Text. We don’t currently offer a way to change this for only part of the app, such as for comments only.

  • OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Coincidentally yall updated the app right as I installed it. Gorgeous design, but the posts are so similar to comments I find it confusing sometimes. Would it be possible to have just the comments appear is bubbles while posts remain a rectangle? Or something visually distinct.

        • Sjmarf@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          22 days ago

          Hey again. We’ve updated the app to add a gray bar to the left of all comments in the profile feed, to give them similar styling to the comments that you’d see when reading the replies of a post.

          Example:

          I hope this makes them easier to distinguish from posts in the profile feed. Let us know if you have any further feedback :)

  • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Just decided based on this post to check it out as I used to use Mlem back when I first joined, then used voyager for the last year or so. It’s beautiful and smooth and I think I’m keeping it.

  • mbtrhcs@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Really like the new design and I think Mlem definitely carries the same “native” feel that Apollo used to. I just wish it had customizable swipes so I could make the switch from Voyager, but it looks like that’s a low priority feature for now

    • Sjmarf@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Thanks for the feedback! This has a been a highly requested feature for a while. It would have been tricky to implement in Mlem 1.0 due to the app’s original design. However, in Mlem 2.0, we’ve built the swipe actions system with future customization in mind. We’re planning to add customizable swipe actions sometime soon - the GitHub issue is here, if you want to keep an eye on our progress :)

  • XNX@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Looks great! Was the hide read posts button removed? Cant find it

  • Walican132@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Are filters broken or am I using them wrong? For example I previously filtered the phrase “PlayStation lifestyle” to block that particular website however I am still seeing its posts since updating and re entering my filters.

    • Eric@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      We updated the filtering logic in 2.0 to make it more reliably filter keywords around punctuation, but it looks like that broke multi-word filters. Sorry about that, we’ll have it fixed in the next build!

  • LCP@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Congrats on the release! Just got around to updating the app on my iPad.

  • StraponStratos@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Ahh I am not a fan, it feels very clunky and bloated. And the cards seem to unnecessary.

    It takes even more clicks to share a link post now, and it was already annoying enough already.