We’ve released a new update to the Stable Pre-Release beta group (and, of course, the weekly), bringing video support, more markdown options, and a bunch of bug fixes. We’ve also refined our design—check it out and let us know what you think!

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Features

  • Added preliminary video support:
    • .gif, .webp, .mp4, .m4v, and .mov media can now be played by tapping the play button; tapping elsewhere opens the media viewer.
    • Currently the only controls are tap to play/stop.
    • Planned features, roughly in order include:
      • Autoplay
      • .gifv support
      • Thumbnails for .mp4/.m4v/.mov/.gifv content
      • Pausing
      • Scrubbing
  • Updated design to use rounded rectangles
  • Added the ability to edit posts
  • Added more Markdown buttons: inline link, code block, and user/community/instance links
  • Added a new comments indicator
  • Added instance uptime statistics
  • Expanded post can now be refreshed
  • Added sign up prompts for new users
  • Expanded posts now show if they’ve been crossposted with links to the crossposts
  • Added a page for rendering deeply nested comment threads. Navigating to a comment (e.g., from inbox) will open this page.
  • Added the ability to create crossposts from the post share menu

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed iPad confirmation dialog appearing in the wrong place
  • Fixed iPad sidebar navigation
  • Fixed Markdown blocks would sometimes being truncated
  • Fixed mark read on scroll not respecting the setting
  • Fixed an issue preventing swipe actions on the account list and subscription list views
  • Fixed some crashes

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.

  • TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    The preliminary video support is exciting! Don’t forget an option to autoplay, please.

    Sorry to harp on this again, but some of us really need a pure black dark mode to make the contrast ratio between text and background comfortable for reading.

    • EricOPMEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Autoplay is planned–forgot to add it to the planned features. It’ll likely be iOS18 only.

      Pure black is also in the works.

    • SjmarfEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Eric’s posted the links :) Worth noting is that Mlem v2 doesn’t yet support mod/admin stuff, so if you use Mlem for administration duties you may want to consider waiting until the full release.

      • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        Then I guess you’re really doing everything from scratch. I just tried stable beta and it looks really good. There are some small things, but I guess that’s the reason why it’s beta :) Yes, I was using it for moderation, but I’m gonna happily wait.

        I just realized there are Markdown buttons too :)

        • SjmarfEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I’m glad you like it :) Yes, we’re re-doing almost all of the code from scratch. It’s a lot of work but we’re getting there!

    • EricOPMEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Yes! You can join the weekly beta, which gets an automatic build every Friday, or the stable beta, which gets more polished updates as we complete development cycles.

    • SjmarfEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Yes, we’ll be adding it back in at some point 👍

        • SjmarfEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          It should be back now on the weekly TestFlight :)