Dev lead for Mlem, the iOS Lemmy client.

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    9 months ago

    Posts are marked as read when you interact with them (vote/save/reply/etc) or tap them to view the comments.

    We have an issue open for marking read on scroll. The trouble with that feature is that the API only supports marking a single post as read at a time, so we either have to fake it locally or spam the API. The former is problematic because it either introduces what amounts to a memory leak as we track every read post or results in posts being displayed as read and then popping back up when the cache evicts that info. The latter is obviously unacceptable and constitutes extremely poor API citizenship.

    We’re currently working with the Lemmy devs to get a batch mark read endpoint, which will let us implement this feature without either of those problems.










  • That’s him! He founded Mlem a couple years ago as a pet project and is responsible for basically all of our alpha code. When Lemmy took off, he stepped away from the project for personal reasons largely driven by the scope of the app suddenly exploding from “hobby project” to “production app.” He handed ownership of the codebase over to one of the current team members, and it is now maintained collectively by the Mlem Group.