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  • I’ve been using the iOS beta. I can’t speak to the Mac beta. For iOS, the execution needs work, but I think I actually agree with the sentiment that content should own the entire screen and the controls should float over the content. However, there are some serious readability concerns that they need to sort out. But think of Instagram from 5 years ago compared to TikTok. TikTok really demonstrated how the content should take over the screen, and now every major social media app has a TikTok style vertical feed that fills your entire screen. I don’t use TikTok, but I enjoy apps that let content take up the screen. Apple does things that are genuinely really frustrating like refusing to redesign the Magic Mouse or putting the power button on the bottom of the Mac Mini. But in this case, I think maybe we should let Apple Cook - pun intended - but push back on obvious flaws like readability.











  • Anything you’re willing to submit. Just say what you like and what you don’t like.

    Out of curiositity what other backends were you hoping it supported? PieFed or Mbin?

    I have actually never tried Mbin, but I was talking to the PieFed devs the other day. PieFed API isn’t even stable yet, and they emphasized that they want the flexibility to implement features independent of Lemmy. For that reason, I see their API as a moving target that will slowly drift away from Lemmy. They are differnt projects with different goals. I think I can ship a better product if I focus on doing one platform really well.

    If you were talking about Mbin, I would be happy to do more reserach to determine if it’s a similar situation or not.








  • moseschrute@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlI'm ready for the summer
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    2 months ago

    I really think the issue would be load on server bandwidth (depending who’s hosting the image). 2mb is not good for client performance, but in the grand scheme of things it’s not that much data. Video streaming consumes so much more. I would like to see smaller images so clients can load a feed of images faster. It’s also annoying because Lemmy doesn’t always tell you the size of the images. So the height of posts will shift in your feed as images are loaded.