Hey guys, a week ago I started working on a lemmy app like many others as an excuse to learn flutter. Along the way I found an old app that was abandoned but very well built.

After a couple of days I was able to get things running and semi-useable again. Including posting this post from the app! The main effort being updating to 0.17.x.

Here’s some screenshots:

I’ll be renaming the app (so I can republish it), tentatively under the name “Lem”… but really open to ideas here.

  • MikeEnglish
    15•2 years ago

    Haha, how ironic. I downloaded the old Lemmur from F-Droid today, having no idea it had been abandoned. When I couldn’t add lemmy.world, I knew something was up.

    It’s a good looking app, so good on your resurrecting it!

    As for a name… Given it’s a resurrected app, how about Zommur? 😁

  • 💡dimEnglish
    13•2 years ago

    “Leap”

    Because, that’s what lemmings allegedly do, but also encouraging people to take the leap and embrace the fediverse

    Leap for Lemmy

  • @mykl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12•2 years ago

    Hey Zack, we should probably talk!

    I follwed the same route but focused on the iOS side and so I have “Limbo” in TestFlight! Lemmur is such a great base isn’t it? It’s such a shame that the original devs moved on.

    Have a look at my take at https://lemmy.world/c/limbo

    • Zach OPEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      Woah! Yeah we should talk!

      Can’t believe they abandoned it.

      Matrix: @zachatrocity:matrix.org

      Here is my latest write up on progress and alpha re-release for Android:

      https://bigfoot.ninja/post/4042

  • EvelynEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    Holy crap, this reminds me so much of Infinity for Reddit (my favorite reddit client.) If this releases I’d love to try it out!

    • Zach OPEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      If you’re game to test while I get the wheels back on we’re making progress!

      https://bigfoot.ninja/post/4042

      Note: significant bug with the comments due to API redesign that happened in the last 4 months.

  • @Poiar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    If you don’t go with any of the other people’s suggestions, I’d like to inform you that in Danish, Lem basically means penis :)

    • perezosoEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      These things are important when it comes to international products 🤣

  • suokoEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    You could make THE LEMMY app:

    1. By scraping all communities with the same name hosted in different instances and letting us subscribe to some/all of them all at once.
    2. By scraping kbin magazines too
    • Zach OPEnglish
      7•2 years ago

      Yeah I’m working on that separately as an instance utility.

      But Lemmynade (new name) does aggregate multiple instances and user accounts into a single feed which is nice

  • godlessEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    Looking great, can’t wait to test it! Nothing against Jerboa for the time being, but alternatives are always welcome. Been testing summit yesterday that someone posted as well, and I think every app has some unique features about it, so let’s see where the journey goes.

    Ideally I’d love to have something as close to Reddit Sync as possible :-P

    As for the name, isn’t Lem a bit short? Not that I dislike it, but in terms of being properly searchable on google and the likes it might be better to go for a longer, unique search string, else it could get a bit cluttered.

    • Zach OPEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Should have a testable android APK on the repo tomorrow and I’ll work on getting the iOS app out for people to sideload.

      Over all it works pretty well, there’s a few bugs but it’s a solid foundation!

      Yeah I suck at names, I’ll keep thinking

    • @TurtleTourParty@midwest.socialEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Ideally I’d love to have something as close to Reddit Sync as possible :-P

      I have good news for you. Sync for Lemmy is happening!

      !SyncForLemmy@lemmy.world

      I second Lem being too short unless op plans on doing a lot of SEO or making people search Lem for Lemmy.

  • DARbarianEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    Honestly, I think Lem is too similar to Mlem and Memmy and whatnot. I’d go with something Fed- or Thread- or Verse-related. Like Threader (could style it differently) or something

    • Zach OPEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Don’t get Lemmy from the play store. That’s not mine. The original devs abandoned the project.

      Lemmy.ml is no longer required and will likely be removed as the default for the app.

      I’ve renamed it and here is some info on how you can get the first Alpha release:

      https://bigfoot.ninja/post/4042

      • @Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        Any idea why a newer project would elect for the GPL 2.0 over the 3.0? I know that the Linux kernel is GPL 2.0 still and I think it had something to do with changes regarding DRM (Tivoization). But I don’t see how that would apply here.

  • @Cybermass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    A group of lemmings is called a slice, the app could be something like

    LemSlice

    SliceOLem

    Or maybe just Slice

    Just some ideas