Hey folks! ๐โโ๏ธ
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! ๐
What features are currently working for ๐ ?
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 ๐ ?
Certainly! And since I made you all wait so long and you all were so patient while I got my ๐'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 โค๏ธ ๐
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 youโll make it open - honestly I think specifically on iOS where the process of side loading apps is fairly convoluted (especially when the dev doesnโt 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, Iโll pay for it in that case for sure, even if it doesnโt give me any extra features.
But I donโt want to seem demanding, in the end it is your project and I fully respect your right to keep it closed.