previous devLog[0]

Hey folks! 🏄‍♂️

First things first:

I have been absolutely floored at the positive response you all have had for Lemon! I frankly did not anticipate so much support and positivity. I want to thank each and every one of you for that!

second things… er… second:

Apologies I’ve been slow to update you all! I want to be clear: Lemon is not dead, and is very much still in active development!

I had a very hectic past couple of weeks in my personal/professional life, and so I haven’t had as much time to dedicate to Lemon as I would have liked. Combined with the 4th of July holiday here in the US and some other travel I had planned, my free time was limited. But fear not! We are rapidly approaching a testflight release for iOS! 🎉

What features are currently working for 🍋 ?

Right now, I have:

  • signing in with instance search
  • light and dark modes
  • upvoting / downvoting / saving / commenting
  • rendering post feeds, comment threads
  • collapsing posts, comment threads
  • in-app browser (ie for links, media)
  • native image / gallery viewer
  • community search bar
  • comment / post sorting
  • basic account / community / instance filtering (WIP)

What about the other things you said in DevLog[0]? >:(

Yes! So I ended up removing account registration and offline persistent cache for now. These features will both return, but I wasn’t happy with some of the bugs. Just about any engineer will tell you that there are two hard problems in CS: naming things, and cache invalidation. I personally think there’s more hard things than that, but needless to say, I want to make sure I get these pieces right before shipping them to you all!

Can we see 🍋 ?

Certainly! And since I made you all wait so long and you all were so patient while I got my 🍋’s together, I’ve recorded a small video!

Videos

apologies these are on youtube and not the fediverse, I don’t have a peertube account yet :)

Photos

Any questions? Thread them below!

Love and lemons ❤️ 🍋

  • dsemy@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the response, I will definitely be keeping my eye on this project (ticks pretty much all the boxes from what you shared, except for the mentioned up/downvote display, though the long press feature sounds nice too).

    Hopefully you’ll make it open - honestly I think specifically on iOS where the process of side loading apps is fairly convoluted (especially when the dev doesn’t provide an IPA), creating a free open source app which has a premium tier (or maybe even just a donate button somewhere) makes a lot of sense.

    As I said, if the app is as good as it looks, I’ll pay for it in that case for sure, even if it doesn’t give me any extra features.

    But I don’t want to seem demanding, in the end it is your project and I fully respect your right to keep it closed.