This is great feedback. Honestly I’ve been primarily focused on integrating features so far. In the next couple of releases I plan to go through and focus on refining the UI making it more readable, reactive, and customizable.

I hadn’t really considered adding a jump button, but I can absolutely look into that as an option. I might even see if I can fit that in the next release, as it should be quite simple to implement.

As for open sourcing, I have not decided just yet. I would prefer open source, but I need to put some more thought into it before I make a decision.

Free, yes. Open Source, not as of now. I just haven’t decided yet if I’ll be open sourcing the project or not.

Thank you! I don’t have a firm release date just yet, though I am pushing for a release date sometime at the end of October. This is largely dependent on how much I can get done in that timeframe, so this could change.

That’s great, glad your liking it so far! I definitely plan on adding a lot more customization options going forward. Right now there is not much in terms of customization, I’ve primarily been focusing on making sure all the core features of Lemmy are supported before transitioning to appearance settings.

Arctic is at a point now where virtually everything except for Admin tools are supported, so I am planning to start adding more customization options, and detail adjustments in the next couple of releases. I try to push at least one update a week with new features and fixes.

I’m always open to suggestions so if you have any feedback, don’t hesitate to ask.

Great question! No information is provided by TestFlight to the developer by joining a test group. When submitting feedback such as crash reports, or screenshots, then only anonymous device information is provided such as iOS version, device type, connection type, time zone, battery level, free disk space, and screen size. Optionally users can also provide their email address when submitting feedback so the developer can contact them, but this is not required.

There are also private TestFlight groups where you need to share your email with the developer so they can specifically add you to the test group, but that is the only difference between private and public groups.

So you can rest easy, you’ve not been sharing any information just by joining a public TestFlight.

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

My pleasure. I’m really excited for the next release. I have a bunch of new features, enhancements, and fixes in this release that should make the app as a whole, feel more polished.

Ayyy, thanks for the shoutout! This is the first time seeing Arctic mentioned in the wild.

Thank you!

I implemented collapsible comment chains in v0.2.1 which should be out within the next day or two. I added settings as well to choose between (tap|swipe|both|disabled) for the feature. I’ve been testing it for a few days and it seems to be working great.

I’m also working on a feature to automatically collapse low score chains when opening a post, though that needs some work and likely won’t be included in this next release.

Thanks for the feedback!

Thank you, much appreciated!

Yes, I’ll definitely add that option in. I actually broke a few things with the compact cells while working on some performance optimization yesterday, so I have some work to do on those anyway. I was also planning to add a medium cell option as well.

This will all be included in v0.2.1 which should be out within a couple of days.

Thank you for checking Arctic out, and for the suggestion.

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

Just to clarify, you do not need to pay the subscription when building an iOS app. Apple does have free tier developer accounts with limitations. Such as you can only install 3 development apps on an actual device at a time, you need to resign (reinstall) the apps every 7 days, certain capabilities are not available such as Push Notifications, etc.

Now, for releasing to the AppStore or TestFlight, you will need to pay the subscription fee. You also need to continue paying the subscription in order to keep you apps on the AppStore.

Yeah, I remember when the policy was implemented and Christian had to remove the toggle in Apollo. I don’t really want to slide under the radar because I’m sure it would come back to bite me in the review process someday.

I’m hoping it’s okay to do exactly that and have a client side option to filter out nsfw content that would just have no effect if the profile settings have nsfw disabled.

And for profile settings in the app I’ll just have to provide a link to the website for that option.

Okay, thank you for the clarification. So an option to blur the content in app should be okay.

I’m wondering if It would be okay having an option to hide the content as long as it is enabled by default, and it clearly states that the toggle does not enable/disable your profile settings on the website. I know for instance Memmy does this.

I may have to ask the AppStore review team for clarification on that.