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.
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~SuperscriptNormalSubscript
~~Strike-through~~Strike-through::: spoiler spoiler Soiled :::spoiler
Soiled
Eternity works for all of them except spoilers
Voyager supports all of these apart from spoilers.
Voyager added support for spoilers since the comment I’m responding to.
Just in case anyone wanders in here and is considering Voyager.
You’d think they would have worked on the spoiler one first, slightly more important than making your text look interesting.
They seem to be having some difficulties but it is being worked on: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/9
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.
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.
A quick Google suggests you’re correct - big sites have implemented their own versions, but it looks like everyone has spent the last decade arguing with other about a CommonMark standard.
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.
It’s not just a web app anymore.
Voyager
does
Easily
Boost did not do superscript and spoiler for some reason.
Arctic had all these covered. It’s not perfect but my fave so far
Those all work on Sync
Thunder failed the formatting test. Still like it though.
Jerboa supports all of them .
Doesn’t do super/subscript for me…
On my client (Jerboa), all of these worked except for
^Superscript^Normal~Subscript~, honestly I don’t know why it doesn’t support this very specific formatting thing.