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❤️‍🔥 🎇 It’s finally here! And it will live on my home screen just like Apollo used to do. 🔥 ❤️‍🔥

Just spreading this news in case you’re like me and late to the good news :)

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[–] c9mp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's better wefwef or memmy?

[–] jose@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That’s subjective. Wefwef is trying to clone Apollo for Reddit. It’s cross platform since it’s a PWA. Memmy is iOS only and seems to have more settings right now. If you’re used to Apollo give wefwef a shot!

[–] undefined@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Memmy is a React/Expo app so it's cross platform as well, the dev just hasn't configured an Android build pipeline for it. Both have the same janky scrolling issues which is common across React apps.

[–] jose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very true, hopefully Memmy exports to Android soon! Ps: your username made me think I found a bug to fix in our inbox code lol!

[–] undefined@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

heh, working as intended then.

[–] Taxxor@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wefwef is trying to clone Apollo for Reddit.

Well the first sentence of memmys github description says that it's "an Apollo-inspired iOS and Android client" so I'd say they're doing the same^^

[–] jose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Key difference in what i said: as of now, wefwef is more of a CLONE of Apollo. Everything is almost the same. Memmy is heavily inspired by, but looks and behaves differently in some ways. My opinion is wefwef looks more like a native iOS app. Neither is bad, and maybe I’m biased as I’m contributing to wefwef, but it’s all preference anyways :)

[–] DuckGuy@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using both. On paper I like Memmy more, but it's missing a couple of features present in Wefwef:

  1. Landscape mode.

  2. A way to display inline pics. If you're a Memmy user wondering why sometimes you see comments without text or anything, that's why. You're not seeing a pic.

But if Memmy had these two things, I don't think I'd be using Wefwef much.

[–] Taxxor@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

memmy devs already confirmed on github that they won't add inline pics as we see them on wefwef, mlem or browser. Instead they'll try to add a link that says "show image" at the place where the image is supposed to be. Better than the situation now but still bad imho.
That's btw how wefwef handles pics in comments, mlem also shows the full pic here.

[–] DuckGuy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yep, that'd be alright to do it like this. It's not knowing there's a pic that's the problem.

Edit: just noticed it was added in the latest Testflight update. Nice!

[–] Taxxor@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is that different from the actual app store version? Because there I still don't see it.
btw I had to use wefwef to find your comment because memmy can only bring me to the thread but not to the specific comment^^

[–] DuckGuy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The AppStore version will always be lagging behind by a few updates, I'm afraid. It takes time for Apple to validate a new AppStore build, unlike TestFlight builds.

[–] Taxxor@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shame, I uninstalled the testflight version after their comment that they won't display inline pics like the other apps and now the beta is full^^
How did they do it with the latest update? Is it a link which opens an image in a new window or is it sort of a spoiler tag view?

[–] DuckGuy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It looks like this! And apparently this update should show up on the AppStore in the next 24h ;-)

[–] Taxxor@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hm but this is just like posts looked since I know Memmy. I was talking about actual inline pics in posts, not in comments, so text followed by a pic followed by more text.

In memmy that’s text followed by text followed by a link to an image like in your screenshot

Edit: This post for example should have an image around the middle of the post https://lemm.ee/post/523075

[–] DuckGuy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

but this is just like posts looked since I know Memmy

Maybe for posts, but with comments, inline pics weren't displayed nor acknowledged. If you were on Memmy you wouldn't know someone had attached a pic to their comment. (basic image links worked, but it's different).

In memmy that’s text followed by text followed by a link to an image

Yep, that's how they decided to do it for comments too, now.

Edit

Pic is displayed at the end of the post still ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Taxxor@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, so I don’t have to wait for the update. For me Memmy is still pretty much useless as long as there are posts where I have to guess where there’s supposed to be which of the images.

[–] Taxxor@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm using wefwef and I switched back and forth between wefwef, memmy and mlem.
Here are some things I considered:

  • Inline images are shown in posts(instead of linked to at the end): mlem, wefwef
  • Opening images and zooming them: memmy, wefwef
  • saving images: memmy (Edit: wefwef too since on of the latest updates)
  • Adjustable text size: memmy, wefwef
  • compact view is actually compact: wefwef, mlem (Edit: memmy too since the latest update)
  • jumping to comments from your inbox: wefwef , Memmy(kind of, shows comment chain of that specific post, but not highlights the comment and has no way of switching to all comments from there)
  • edit comments: wefwef, memmy

As you can see, wefwef is present in all of these ^^ jumping to comment is a pretty big one for me, aswell as the inline images