We've released a new update to the Stable Pre-Release beta group (and, of course, the weekly), bringing video support, more markdown options, and a bunch of bug fixes. We've also refined our design—check it out and let us know what you think!
.gif, .webp, .mp4, .m4v, and .mov media can now be played by tapping the play button; tapping elsewhere opens the media viewer.
Currently the only controls are tap to play/stop.
Planned features, roughly in order include:
Autoplay
.gifv support
Thumbnails for .mp4/.m4v/.mov/.gifv content
Pausing
Scrubbing
Updated design to use rounded rectangles
Added the ability to edit posts
Added more Markdown buttons: inline link, code block, and user/community/instance links
Added a new comments indicator
Added instance uptime statistics
Expanded post can now be refreshed
Added sign up prompts for new users
Expanded posts now show if they've been crossposted with links to the crossposts
Added a page for rendering deeply nested comment threads. Navigating to a comment (e.g., from inbox) will open this page.
Added the ability to create crossposts from the post share menu
Bug Fixes
Fixed iPad confirmation dialog appearing in the wrong place
Fixed iPad sidebar navigation
Fixed Markdown blocks would sometimes being truncated
Fixed mark read on scroll not respecting the setting
Fixed an issue preventing swipe actions on the account list and subscription list views
Fixed some crashes
Mlem is a free and open source project. 100% of our funding, which pays for things like server time, comes from our generous donors; we do not, and will never, run ads or sell data. If you'd like to help support Mlem, you can donate here.
The preliminary video support is exciting! Don’t forget an option to autoplay, please.
Sorry to harp on this again, but some of us really need a pure black dark mode to make the contrast ratio between text and background comfortable for reading.
Yes! You can join the weekly beta, which gets an automatic build every Friday, or the stable beta, which gets more polished updates as we complete development cycles.
Eric's posted the links :) Worth noting is that Mlem v2 doesn't yet support mod/admin stuff, so if you use Mlem for administration duties you may want to consider waiting until the full release.
Then I guess you're really doing everything from scratch. I just tried stable beta and it looks really good. There are some small things, but I guess that's the reason why it's beta :) Yes, I was using it for moderation, but I’m gonna happily wait.