If you block the bot, you won’t see its comments. I personally find the bot to be useful in most cases.

There’s not an in-app key for it currently, no. Here’s what each of them mean:

• Orange person outline - OP
• Green shield - moderator (if the moderator chose to distinguish the comment)
• Cyan crown - admin
• Indigo >_ - bot
• Purple hammer - Mlem developer
• Red X - banned

For anyone who doesn’t know what this is - Apollo had a feature (see image) that would show the weather at a location in the header of a location-related subreddit. For example, r/Tokyo would show the weather in Tokyo. This was only added in iOS 16 and was off by default iirc, which is why many people may not have heard about it.

I agree this is a cool feature, but it’s far from essential so it’ll probably be some time before we consider it properly. I’ll add it to our backlog 👍

Thanks for the info! We’ll look into it.

We’re sorry this happened! Users aren’t meant to be able to remove the info stack widget 🤔 Did the app let you remove the info stack widget, or did it bug out and remove all of the widgets itself?

Deleting the app and redownloading it from the App Store should fix this, but you’ll have to readjust all of your settings I’m afraid. I’ll add a ‘reset’ button for the interaction bar customiser in the next version, so that it’s easier to fix if this happens again.

This isn’t possible yet unfortunately. We plan to expand the functionality of the search tab to include post searching, but we haven’t got there quite yet.

Thanks for the help! Unfortunately those settings are unlikely to make any difference. We’d appreciate a screen recording if you’ve got the time, though

You can hide posts that you’ve read via the ellipsis menu in the top-right of the feed. Note that a post counts as read if you’ve opened it in the expanded view or interacted with it in some way, such as by upvoting the post.

Posts are not marked as read by simply seeing them in the feed. We’re aware of the ‘mark read on scroll’ feature that other social media apps have, and we’d like to implement this at some point. The issue is that we need to make an individual API call for every single post that is read, as posts can only be marked as read one-by-one using Lemmy’s API. Sending an api call every time a post appears on-screen could cause performance issues and would constitute poor API citizenship. We’re working with the Lemmy devs to hopefully get a way to mark many posts as read with a single API call, which would solve this issue.

To show only posts you haven’t read, you can click the ellipsis ‘…’ button in the top-right of the feed and select ‘hide read’. Note that this only hides posts that you’ve opened or interacted with in some way, not just seen. We’re planning on improving this at some point in future

To download an image you can tap the image to open it in full screen, then tap “quicklook” at the top.

We’ve got an issue open to add a more intuitive long-press option on the image itself.

We’re hoping that Lemmy will add a way to mark posts as read in batches - this would mean that we could locally store ~50 posts as being read at a time, then notify Lemmy of those changes with a single request. This would be the ideal solution for us, and we’re working with the Lemmy devs to make this happen.

Storing read posts entirely locally would certainly be possible, but doing it well would take up a significant amount of our development time. We are currently prioritising other highly-requested changes (supporting Lemmy v0.19.0, image uploading, and a better search tab to name a few) in the next few updates whilst we work things out with Lemmy :)

Nope, it doesn’t exist yet. I’ll add it to the list 👍

Sorry, this isn’t implemented yet but it’s still planned.

Image uploading is important us, but we have to decide how to best distribute our time and it’s not something we’re actively working on yet. Social media as a whole typically follows the 1% rule, which states that 99% of users on a typical online forum will lurk whilst only 1% create posts. It may well be slightly higher than 1% on Lemmy due to the culture here, but the fact remains that posting images is not something that the average Mlem user will do everyday. At the moment, we’re largely focusing on making improvements to the core Mlem experience that every user will benefit from on a daily basis.

Thanks for your patience!

This is also planned 👍

That’s the plan. We also intend to let users customise which swipe actions go where at some point

It’s on our list 👍

At the moment, the list of instances is fetched from the list of Awesome Lemmy instances that lemmy itself recommends new users to pick from. We may tweak this in future to filter out certain instances, perhaps.

We’re working on it 👍

This will be in the next release, but we’re waiting to get a few more crucial changes in before we make a new version.

Good idea. I’m working on an overhaul of the Search tab right now, and will definitely implement this 👍