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The perfect Lemmy app? (lemmy.ml)
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I know there are a ton of iOS apps for Lemmy. But what are they missing? What experiences would you like? It could be quality of life or big and ambitious features Many of you often have really good ideas and feedback, I’m looking forward to responses.

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[–] 16 points 2 years ago* (12 children)

Most of them can't do the basic formatting of Lemmy, so in my mind, they are basically useless.

**Bold**
Bold

*Italic*
Italic

^Superscript^Normal~Subscript~
^Superscript^NormalSubscript

~~Strike-through~~
Strike-through

spoilerSoiled

spoilerSoiled

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Voyager supports all of these apart from spoilers.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You'd think they would have worked on the spoiler one first, slightly more important than making your text look interesting.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    I think it's because spoiler tags in lemmy have been custom-made for some reason, whereas all the other stuff is standard markdown. Voyager is a web app, so it can maybe only render whatever the engine it relies on can render.

    Edit: Turns out I'm 2 for 2 on making incorrect statements in this comment.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I’m pretty sure spoiler tags are just not part of the markdown specification. This would mean it’s probably easy enough for an application developer to just take the raw comment and pass it to what I assume would be a markdown rendering library (haven’t done app dev much), but spoiler tags won’t work without some additional work.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, this. Remark, the markdown library Voyager uses, is very powerful but also extremely complex (it has to be, to deal with Markdown edge cases).

    I made a bit of progress last week on a custom plugin but it’s a lot of work. There’s like 4 layers of parsing required.

    I wish Lemmy used GFM spoilers, which just uses normal details and summary html tags. But alas.

    It’s really annoying there’s no standard markdown syntax in common mark.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Voyager does bold and italic without needing to know those, but yea it would be nice to ^add^ the others you listed without the syntax. It also does crossposting, text faces (/¯ ಠ_ಠ)/¯ share comments and posts as images, preview,

    quoting

    , auto finding communities and users sorted by most pustular, porting subs from Reddit to communities, etc.

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