EDIT: I’ve created a community for the Lemon app: !lemon@lemm.ee !
Hello community! 👋
I wanted to drop a short announcement: I’m building an iOS client for lemmy, named Lemon 🍋!
It is still very much in early development, only having one week of dev time so far. I’m not yet ready for users (unless you want a lot of bugs 😅).
I’ll be sharing some development logs throughout the journey. Consider this the first of (hopefully many) entries!
Story time:
For years, I was an avid user of Apollo for Reddit. I was an “ultra subscriber” and occasional donor, since I loved the app and Christian Selig was such a kind and engaged developer. He managed to build both an inspiring app and community.
I was heartbroken when I learned Apollo would shut down due to Reddit’s API changes.
Lemon for Lemmy as an homage to Apollo and is greatly inspired by his amazing work (Thank you, Christian!)
Features
Some of the currently-working features are:
- 🔒 Logging in and registering (including instance search + information browsing such as user count, location, accepting memberships, etc!)
- 💡 Light and Dark modes
- 🔼 Upvoting / downvoting posts with optimistic updates and rollbacks (including swipe to vote!)
- 🚀 highly performant feed with infinite scroll
- 📚 persistent cache to read while you’re offline
My goal is to make this a fully featured Lemmy client for iOS, and hopefully one day as good as Apollo is/was!
That’s all for now. Here’s some screenshots. Until next time!
I’m an Android user but this looks good!
As a new user, the main issue I had was not being able to find instances across communities, and it took me way too lok to realise I had to switch from “local” to “all”. If there’s some way to make new users aware of that, it’ll help new users find content and keep them engaged!
Thank you! Android might come one day, but likely not until iOS is stable :)
And I totally agree - I had similar issues when I was first starting out. One thing I hope is for Lemon to be easy, simple and intuitive to new users or less technical users. I want Lemmy to feel as fun and easy to use as Reddit is/was, but with all the benefits of a federated platform!
Good luck!