Hey everyone! I wanted to give an update on the status of Memmy development since things have been slow recently.

Don’t worry, we haven’t just abandoned Memmy! There are a few reasons we haven’t really had many updates or progress recently. gk and I have both been a little burnt out after doing so much before. We didn’t really pace ourselves very well I think, so recently we’ve been taking a break. I’ve been addicted to Baldurs Gate 3 and gk is trying to get out of Gold Nova in CSGO 😏. Additionally, there was a lot of drama recently on lemmy that kind of left a sour taste in our mouths and has just led us to not using lemmy as much recently.

But don’t worry, we are still developing. We are actually working on a rewrite of the app, since we both were rather new to React Native when starting this, and have learned a lot of do’s and don’ts. We’re also planning on having Android support in the rewrite.

We appreciate the patience and support, thank you to all our users!

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    Burnout hits hard. Glad you’re appreciating life. Great app, from which I’m commenting. Thanks for this.

  • biffnix@discuss.onlineEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    I’m enjoying Memmy right now. My only gripe is that I’d love to see in-app orientation lock. It’s the one feature of Apollo that made me go for their lifetime purchase. You could easily set portrait mode for reading while lying down (I do this a lot - browsing while prone on the couch or in bed), and it would auto-rotate to landscape for videos, but stick to portrait for everything else (articles). I don’t know how Christian finally managed it (it took quite a while before he implemented it), but it worked great. The old Reddit “Antenna” app had it first.

    But other than that, great work. I’m really enjoying the ‘swipe to navigate’ which allows it to feel a lot more like Apolle for now. Thanks for all of your hard work, and I hope you’re enjoying a break from it for now.

    Cheers.

  • SlovenianSocket@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    Is a fix for default sorting resetting to All upon app refresh a priority? It’s driving me nuts lol, other than that no complaints

    • Sean@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      It’s driving me nuts too. We haven’t been able to figure it out yet, we seriously have no idea. Trust me it’s the number one issue i have as well. Stuff like that is part of the motivation for a rewrite.

  • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    10 months ago

    The app does not need a rewrite…it just needs the pinch and zoom fixed as otherwise it is the best Lemmy app. Glad you are going to pace yourself and glad you are enjoying BG3.

      • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        10 months ago

        Cannot say I am too surprised. I find many SDKs and development tools cause developers to have to reinvent the wheel all the time for basic features. Is this one of the reasons you have to rewrite the app?

        • Sean@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Nah, the image handling is just very difficult. We’re using an animation library to handle the image gestures. It’s insane that there is no good image handling library for React Native. Boggles my mind how many basic things seem to be missing in the RN ecosystem that any app would need.

          • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            10 months ago

            It feel the same way about VR Unity development. Been a decade of VR development, yet any basic things are only half developed and this I am coding the same thing 1000s of other devs are. What a giant waste of time. Thankfully ChatGPT 4+ with the code interpreter is saving me a lot of mundane coding.

  • Hazzard@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Dang, this just makes me impressed at what you’ve managed on your first outing with React Native. You’ve got impressive design sensibilities to get so much right that you’re still one of the best apps out there.

    Hopeful this rewrite gives you the technical foundation you’ve been looking for, so that this can continue building into the best app it can be!

  • Samus Crankpork@beehaw.org
    English
    2·
    10 months ago

    I always expected things to slow down a bit once Memmy was fully released in working order, since you’re not scrambling day to day for basic features.

    You’re launched, and don’t need to run at a break-neck pace now.

    Just knowing you’re still there is comforting, but don’t kill yourself over it.

  • 4am@lemm.ee
    1·
    9 months ago

    Just got the new version - had to add all my accounts back. Is that normal? Also, I can’t find the compact view for the feed, is that gone?

  • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I was just wondering about this, but this explanation makes total sense. Take care of yourselves! I really love this app and where it’s going, will be happy to see your updates. Also I don’t know React Native either but I know enough React to be dangerous if you guys need help