Good catch, I completely overlooked that. I’ll rename it in the next release. Thanks for letting me know!
You can view instance and community modlogs with !arctic@lemmy.world
My app Arctic falls into the free, closed source, privacy respecting category. I see what your going for as far as a direction for the community, but it is limiting for apps such as mine. Just because software is free, and doesn’t track its users does not necessarily mean it needs to be open source. Closed source software also does not equate to being nefarious or tracking users.
I’m a big fan of FOSS, and am working towards open sourcing components of Arctic, but I haven’t decided whether I want to fully open source the project.
What I’d prefer to see is requirements for post formatting. So all submissions need to include information about the client
I’m a fan of this community because it is the only one I’ve found that is targeted specifically at providing information about lemmy clients, and with the proposed changes, I see that information becoming more fragmented. I’d rather see changes along the lines of what I suggested, or similar, and then maybe a new community could be born (FOSSLemmyApps) which could be advertised in a stickied post here, and included in the sidebar.
Ultimately, it is up to you as the moderator, but I do hope you’ll consider feedback from the existing subscribers. Perhaps an open discussion, or a poll would be good for getting feedback about the proposed changes.
Arctic supports all available mod actions, and also has a mod-zone in the sidebar. I do need to work on improving them, but the support is there.
[edit] it also supports push notifications for reports and applications.
Hopefully if all goes well in review, and review times are not extremely long right now, then I will be releasing Arctic on the AppStore within the next week or so.
Thank you to all the great testers for all your support and feedback!
TestFlight builds are not going anywhere, I will be continuing to push new builds as often as possible, though releases may change a bit. Going forward we will have RC (release candidate) builds which will be targeted at bug and stability testing to ensure updates are not introducing new issues into the AppStore releases. I’ll have more information on this when I release the next TestFlight build.
My pleasure, this update was a pleasure to work on as it addressed some of my biggest gripes about markdown rendering.
I haven’t set up any donation points for Arctic aside from BuyMeACoffee since I’m so planning to add a Tip Jar using in app purchases with the AppStore release. Since apple doesn’t allow payments via 3rd party in AppStore apps, I decided not to set up alternatives. I may add my PayPal and maybe crypto donation links in the sidebar for !arctic@lemmy.world, but I’ll need to look into Apple’s policy around that.
As for the AppStore release, I had originally planned to release at the end of September, but I’ve gotten a little carried away with features and fixes. As you said, Arctic is quite stable at this point, and I would like to roll out an official release in the next couple of weeks.
One thing I’d like to polish a little before releasing is branding. I’d like to have a professional looking icon for the app, as none of the ones I’ve made quite feel right to me. Along with that, I need to put together all the promotional content for the AppStore page. Either way, I’d like to have Arctic submitted to the AppStore before February.
More customization options are coming soon as well, I had planned to already have a lot of that done, but the 0.19.x breaking changes took some extra time. I’ll get back to working on these soon.
!arctic@lemmy.world supports in-line gifs/webp/videos/etc, basically all media types supported by iOS except for webm. I would assume most clients are only displaying the thumbnails in-line to reduce data consumption, and memory requirements, but that is just a guess.
The mobile theme on lemmy.world is Voyager. You can see it linked on the lemmy.world sidebar. Voyager is just a web app, so it can be hosted by instances as a mobile UI.
Arctic v0.2.7 is out on TestFlight. This update is focused on backend optimization and push notification features.
You can now setup notifications for individual communities. Notifications can by filtered by post keywords, post author, and post score. In the coming releases I will add support for more filtering options. To list a few, filter by phrase rather than keyword, upvote/downvote rather than just score, multiple authors, comment count, pinned(stickied) posts, etc. I’ll also be adding support for temporary notifications,community notifications that will automatically expire after a set amount of time.
Account notifications can now be toggled by type, you can toggle notifications for: badges, replies, mentions, and messages. This also adds support for mods/admins. You can enable mod notifications for new post/comment reports, and admin notifications for new user registration applications. note that user application cannot currently be viewed within Arctic.
You can now tap the title in any posts feed and quickly jump to a different community using the community selector.
Arctics Lemmy API wrapper has now been extracted into a swift package (Swimmy) for improved maintainability and so it can be utilized as a shared code base for Arctics Push Notification server. In doing so, I also added support for Combine allowing for improved error handling with the API.
I’ve migrated Arctics notification server to a new hosting provider. With the new provider, I may be able to offer all notification options as a free service provided I can sustain off of small donations. This would be ideal, as I never wanted to paywall any features in Arctic. I’ve also setup getarctic.app a new home for Arctic. The website is quite barebones at the moment, but I will be updating it as my time allows.
As always, thank you to everyone for helping test Arctic, and providing feedback. I know new features have slowed in the last few releases. Going forward I’ll be working on polishing the current feature set in hopes of an AppStore release in the next couple of weeks.
I added crossposting support in Arctic recently, I’m not sure if any other iOS clients support crossposting at the moment.
Here is a shameless plug for my own Lemmy app Arctic. It’s a fully native pure Swift based app built with performance and content presentation in mind. It’s packed full of features, and more are being added all the time.
More information is available over at !arctic@lemmy.world
You can try my Lemmy app, Arctic. It’s a pure swift based iOS app, written with performance, and content presentation in mind. It’s packed full of features, and new ones are being added constantly.
You can read more about Arctic over at !arctic@lemmy.world
Here is a shameless plug for my own Lemmy app Arctic. It’s not left TestFlight just yet, but it hopefully will soon. It’s a pure Swift based app built with performance and content presentation in mind.
More information is available over at !arctic@lemmy.world
Thank you! This is something I’d been holding out for a while now waiting to see if it’d be implemented in the Lemmy API. I finally decided to roll my own solution in the meantime.
There are a couple of issues with sorting, for instance Scaled and New Comments sort modes are not accurate in multi-communities. This is due to limitations in the API where I don’t have access to the necessary information to accurately implement the sorting algorithms client side. However, the pages are still fetched from the API using the proper sort mode, so all the same posts will be present in the per-page feed, the sorting just won’t be quite as accurate.
Other than that, I am not aware of any other issues. Though this is new and I only tested it for a few hours before releasing the update. I do think I will add an option to the editor so that multi-communities can be linked to accounts. This will allow setting multi-communities for a single, or multiple accounts. I may do the same for favorite communities as well.