Hi Mlem Community,

Mlem 2.1 is now available on the App Store. This version adds support for video scrubbing and customizing swipe actions, plus a host of smaller quality of life features and bug fixes.

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.

Features

  • Media Improvements
    • Added a progress bar to the media viewer
    • The media viewer now supports scrubbing. Swipe left or right in the image viewer to scrub; drag your finger up or down while scrubbing to increase or decrease the scrubbing speed. Swipe on the progress bar to directly move the playback head.
    • Added support for animated avatars. Avatar animation can be disabled in Settings -> General -> Animated Avatars.
  • Swipe actions can now be customized (Settings -> Posts/Comments/Inbox -> Swipe Actions)
  • Refined the post editor to make attaching media and links easier
  • Links can now be shared from your local instance, the original instance, or lemmyverse.link; the default is now to share from your instance. This behavior can be toggled in Settings -> Links -> Share Links.
  • Added a setting to toggle post tap-to-collapse behavior (Settings -> Posts -> Tap to Collapse)
  • Added a “Blur NSFW” toggle to the ellipsis menu in the feed
  • Added a “jump to last position” button to the post view, which scrolls to the last position you viewed on that post.
  • Tweaked jump button design
  • Added a slight fade effect to scrollable edges of the Markdown toolbar
  • Updated the design of comments in mixed feeds
  • Improved scroll behavior when collapsing and expanding comments
  • Vote and saved readouts in the interaction bar are now colored if there is no widget in the bar displaying the same information

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed some images not loading correctly from lemmy.ml
  • Fixed rendering issues with transparent gifs
  • Community links formatted as Markdown links now open correctly when tapped
  • Fixed custom emoji sometimes rendering as full size images
  • Fixed comments sometimes not appearing immediately when posted
  • Disabled autocorrect when searching communities, users, and instances
  • Fixed slight visual stutter when scrolling to the top of some views
  • Fixed incorrect background color being visible when opening keyboard
  • Fixed certain animated media shaking when zooming out
  • Fixed NSFW images not being blurred in the expanded post view
  • Fixed multi-word keyword filters not applying correctly
  • Improved error handling in post and comment pages
  • Fixed interaction bar configurations and keyword filters not being included in import/export settings