Hey guys, a week ago I started working on a lemmy app like many others as an excuse to learn flutter. Along the way I found an old app that was abandoned but very well built.
After a couple of days I was able to get things running and semi-useable again. Including posting this post from the app! The main effort being updating to 0.17.x.
Here’s some screenshots:
I’ll be renaming the app (so I can republish it), tentatively under the name “Lem”… but really open to ideas here.
If you don’t go with any of the other people’s suggestions, I’d like to inform you that in Danish, Lem basically means penis :)
These things are important when it comes to international products 🤣
Hey Zack, we should probably talk!
I follwed the same route but focused on the iOS side and so I have “Limbo” in TestFlight! Lemmur is such a great base isn’t it? It’s such a shame that the original devs moved on.
Have a look at my take at https://lemmy.world/c/limbo
Haha, how ironic. I downloaded the old Lemmur from F-Droid today, having no idea it had been abandoned. When I couldn’t add lemmy.world, I knew something was up.
It’s a good looking app, so good on your resurrecting it!
As for a name… Given it’s a resurrected app, how about Zommur? 😁
“Leap”
Because, that’s what lemmings allegedly do, but also encouraging people to take the leap and embrace the fediverse
Leap for Lemmy
You could make THE LEMMY app:
- By scraping all communities with the same name hosted in different instances and letting us subscribe to some/all of them all at once.
- By scraping kbin magazines too
Yeah I’m working on that separately as an instance utility.
But Lemmynade (new name) does aggregate multiple instances and user accounts into a single feed which is nice
Hey man, thanks for the hard work! Seems it only works for lemmy.ml? I can’t add my account at lemmy.world!
This, please.
Don’t get Lemmy from the play store. That’s not mine. The original devs abandoned the project.
Lemmy.ml is no longer required and will likely be removed as the default for the app.
I’ve renamed it and here is some info on how you can get the first Alpha release:
Holy crap, this reminds me so much of Infinity for Reddit (my favorite reddit client.) If this releases I’d love to try it out!
If you’re game to test while I get the wheels back on we’re making progress!
https://bigfoot.ninja/post/4042
Note: significant bug with the comments due to API redesign that happened in the last 4 months.
I like the name Lemmynade 🍺
Shout out to https://kbin.social/u/Gamers_Mate for the name suggestion!
@zach IDK why, but this app gives me some Infinity for Reddit vibes.
Probably is the UI. Those upvote and downvote buttons.That was also my first thought seeing it!
- Lemons
- Lemonade
- Emblem
- Problem
- Golem
Thank you! I used to use it back before I switched to reddit
Also be careful posting anything mentioning piracy because Lemmy is a easy target for lawsuites
Is it open source?
Yes it is (GPL 2.0)
Any idea why a newer project would elect for the GPL 2.0 over the 3.0? I know that the Linux kernel is GPL 2.0 still and I think it had something to do with changes regarding DRM (Tivoization). But I don’t see how that would apply here.
Reminds me of infinity for reddit which I’m going to miss past July 1st
There’s a workaround floating over on Reddit. You can use infinity after July 1st if you use your own perosnal api key. A guy has a one click script for it
If you don’t mind I’d like a link for that please
Mlem
There’s already an iOS app using this name.
Man this would be tits, I’m using jerboa right now but the app has a bunch of UI issues where it just feels kinda clunky, I don’t mind it looking visually dated (this does look better though) but it’s more about functionality to me, I’d be interested in trying a different app.