After using Apollo for years, yesterday I decided to completely stop using Reddit for obvious reasons.
I found Lemmy to be a very competent alternative, but the only catch is the mobile situation: it seems that there aren't many good mobile clients for Lemmy.
So I decided to take matters into my own hands and develop a new mobile client for Lemmy.
After a couple hours, I have a good looking and working subscription feed; super glad to see that the API is easy to use :)
What do you think about the look of the app? Any suggestions?
No apple devices here, but still...
AMOLED friendly black theme
easily accessed donation for the instance host and lemmy devs, maybe even include the option to monitor individual user load on the various server instances the user has posted on
integrate, suggest, and/or streamline 3rd party image hosting options. Maybe set a target file size and quality with a jpeg converter to get any images posted as small as useful by default, even prompting a cropping tool initially as a path of least resistance for optimization.
build in a converter for MP4 to GIF to WEBP with a small size and maximum size optimization/compression. Like, for technical utility it can be important to show video, but mp4/gifs are not currently supported but animated webp is and can be uploaded directly/embedded in posts
mod sub activity monitoring separate from other feeds with options to notify by new posts, comments, reports, user, etc.
Great suggestions there (AMOLED fan here, it will happen).
A feature that I think it's very important is the ability to donate super easily to lemmy instances. I wouldn't be able to write this comment if not for the support of the rest of the community ❤️