We’ve been hard at work tuning our image caching, prefetching, and optimizations, and are excited to finally bring you a smooth and highly performant feed with none of the stuttering or jumping that’s been plaguing us.

This build also brings a few new smaller improvements:

  • Read posts are now indicated in the feed. By default this is with grayed title text, but if the system-wide “differentiate without color” setting is enabled we’ve added two different ways to indicate read posts: a checkmark by the ellipsis menu on read posts or a gray bar on the leading edge on unread posts.
  • New accessibility menu in settings. Right now it’s just got the settings to customize differentiation without color, but long-term it’s going to serve as a place to house all the customizations needed to make Mlem work smoothly and easily for everybody.
  • Updated thumbnail behavior. Tapping an image post’s thumbnail opens the image quicklook and tapping a link post’s thumbnail opens the link. Both of these actions mark a post as read.
  • Greatly improved the robustness of our haptics system, which previously would sometimes just stop working if the app was closed.

This build’s our 1.0.1 App Store Release Candidate, so if testing goes well it’ll be hitting the App Store in the next couple days.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

  • slin@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    In the feed, all usernames are now orange tinted. I get that’s because it’s OP, but is it necessary in a feed view?

    Also some post display options don’t apply to certain post views, this could be a bit confusing if you try a specific setting toggle but nothing in your view changes.

    • Eric@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The usernames are very much not supposed to be OP flaired in feed—not sure how that one snuck through but it’ll be fixed in the next build.

      Thanks for the settings feedback—we’re overhauling a lot of how post customization works for our 1.2 customization update, and that’s a useful note.

      • slin@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Could we get the option/toggle back to collapse the post content? This could be helpful if you want to check back for new comments/replies without needing to scroll through the entire post again.

        If I remember correctly, the “OG Mlem” had that feature or I confuse that with Apollo.

        • Eric@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I think that was Apollo? It’s been a little while now, but I can’t remember that feature ever being in Mlem. It’s a good little piece of UX, though–I’ll throw it on the issue tracker

          • slin@feddit.deEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Thanks!

            It could be a bit frustrating too when you accidentally collapsed a post without knowing what happened, but overall it’s a useful optional feature.