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.

  • 💡dim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    “Leap”

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

    Leap for Lemmy

  • Mike@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year 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? 😁

    • Zach @bigfoot.ninjaOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I did the same thing last week, that’s how I got started on this whole thing! Hahaha

  • mykl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year 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

  • Poiar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year 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 :)

  • Evelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    1 year 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!

      • Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year 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.

  • godless@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
    3·
    1 year 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.

  • DARbarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year 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

  • morelikepinniped@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    This looks great! I never used Slide, I was a JoeyforReddit user, but I’m really excited to see all the different apps in development.

    • techgearwhips@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      There’s a workaround floating over on Reddit. You can use infinity after July 1st if you use your own perosnal api key. A guy has a one click script for it

  • jcg@halubilo.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Sweet I’m gonna use this. I always thought it kinda wild that people don’t write readers for this kind of website in RN or Flutter, considering you don’t need any extra native functionality at all. Would love to contribute too.