Howdy all! Hopefully you are doing well.

It has been quite some time since the last update, and for that I do apologize. Both personal commitments and just the need to take a step back have had both Sean and I not really working much on the app. However, here is some news from Memmy.

The initial releases of Memmy taught me a lot about React Native. Making an app this feature filled is fairly difficult, and it grew quickly and fell apart in a lot of areas. Seeing all of those short comings, I have gone ahead and addressed them from the ground up.

The number one issue was the UI framework that was in use. Somehow, the arguably most used UI framework for React Native had exceptionally terrible performance. That has now been completely removed from Memmy. What we are working with now produces renders in within 2ms of base React Native components.

Additionally, the state has been completely reworked. No longer should there be any real issues there. I’ve taken care to try and make sure there is only one source of truth for posts and comments as well as making sure proper memoization is being used.

Swipe gestures can be fully customized now, so feel free to do whatever setup you want.

I have some code ready to test for push notifications again. Originally, I disabled them because of rate limit issues at the request of Lemmy.world. I’ll make sure I’m still in the clear, but I was given some numbers to work with before that I think will work fine.

The community drawer can be opened from anywhere in the app by pressing and holding on the home icon now. Double tapping will refresh the feed. Small stuff, but highly requested.

Drafts get stored for everything. You can start replying to a comment, close out and reply to another one, then go back to the first. Your changes will be waiting for you.

There are other changes all over the place that should really just make performance light years better. There are sleek animations now as well on community and profile views, and loading is no longer “jarring”. Animations and fade ins are used throughout the app for all loading of data.

There’s some more stuff to implement but I anticipate having something up on the store by the middle of next week. I’ve submitted something to TestFlight for approval already, so if you are still in there you can download that.

I should note that there are no plans at all to monetize Memmy. No advertisements, paywalls for features, etc. frankly, I am happy to bite the small bill for push notifications if it comes to it. The intention is just to make an environment that you all can easily use.

Feel free to come back to memmy if you left, or stay where you’re at. As long as you’re happily using Lemmy in general that’s all that really matters :)

Cheers!