After using Apollo for years, yesterday I decided to completely stop using Reddit for obvious reasons.
I found Lemmy to be a very competent alternative, but the only catch is the mobile situation: it seems that there aren’t many good mobile clients for Lemmy.
So I decided to take matters into my own hands and develop a new mobile client for Lemmy.
After a couple hours, I have a good looking and working subscription feed; super glad to see that the API is easy to use :)
What do you think about the look of the app? Any suggestions?
No apple devices here, but still…
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AMOLED friendly black theme
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easily accessed donation for the instance host and lemmy devs, maybe even include the option to monitor individual user load on the various server instances the user has posted on
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integrate, suggest, and/or streamline 3rd party image hosting options. Maybe set a target file size and quality with a jpeg converter to get any images posted as small as useful by default, even prompting a cropping tool initially as a path of least resistance for optimization.
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build in a converter for MP4 to GIF to WEBP with a small size and maximum size optimization/compression. Like, for technical utility it can be important to show video, but mp4/gifs are not currently supported but animated webp is and can be uploaded directly/embedded in posts
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mod sub activity monitoring separate from other feeds with options to notify by new posts, comments, reports, user, etc.
