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Hey, Mlem Community.
You might have noticed our community has been closed for the past few days and that several posts have been removed. If you’re especially keen, you might have noticed that we momentarily migrated to vlemmy.net.
We recently parted ways with the team member responsible for most of our community outreach. We had hoped that he would agree to smoothly step away from the project. He did not. On his way out, he used his power as the primary (active) mod on this community to shut it down and remove several posts. He also refused to relinquish control of the Mlem Official accounts on Lemmy and Mastodon.
First and foremost we apologize deeply for his behavior. He is not, nor will he ever again be, affiliated with this project, and we have enacted greater redundancies and shared authority to prevent anything like this from happening again.
WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
We continue developing, of course! The core dev team is intact and as excited as ever to bring you the best Lemmy app that we can. We’ve got a new TestFlight build coming down the pipeline soon and an App Store application just around the corner from that. The community is open, and we look forward to hearing all your voices again.
Cheers,
The Mlem Team
Wondered what happened to BrooklynMan, was stalking your GitHub and knew there was more drama behind the scenes with the original developer leaving and now this, hopefully you guys can catch a break. As it doesn’t give people the most confidence, either way I’m loving Mlem! :)
Haha yeah it’s definitely been a bit bumpy, but the core team works really well together and we’re optimistic that it’s smooth sailing from here on out. We’re hoping our next release will restore some of that confidence–it’s got some exciting features planned!
So, the original developer wasn’t the guy causing trouble?
So maybe he left because of a toxic environment?
Small boring projects have small boring problems, but big awesome projects have problems… like this one :) Stay strong, it’s only a challenge! Mlem is awesome and you guys are an inspiration for less experienced developers and Mlem is the face (like in front end) of lemmy communities for many people! Thank you for your work!
What did this community manager do that resulted in them being asked to leave the project?
Incredibly toxic behavior. We had a side chat and decided that all of us were working on this project for fun as a hobby and him being on the team no longer made it fun for any of us.
Almost every team has 1+ toxic member. Ugh I hate it.
Well we tried to cut it out before it ruined the project for all of us so we are still having fun :)
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So much drama… I’ll stick with Memmy, I think… Hopefully, this project can stabilize itself eventually!
They’re doing great work over there too! We saw they just launched–congrats to them!
For what it’s worth, we don’t like the drama either, and we’re hoping that this will be the end of it and we can focus all our energies on what matters: updates!
Thanks for the congrats! I’m glad you guys are ironing these issues out, really hope you guys get up soon too. If you have any questions about what all Apple complained about or what you need to include to get approved, shoot me a PM or you can add me on Discord, g_k_d . Or, if you guys have a Matrix let me know.
Edit: Just saw you guys have a Matrix link in the post. I’ll just drop in and you can message me if you have questions.
Congrats on getting Memmy on the App Store !🖖 Been using it for a few hours and I love it, I’ll still use both memmy and Mlem till I find which one works for me. It’s great to have different choices.
Memmy’s great. I think mlem has a lot of potential as well. I think we can do some fun stuff with it if we stick with it. There are a lot of creative things we can do once we get the core functionality built out and functioning, and then fine-tuned a bit. Once that’s good, then comes the fun part, in my opinion. But I’m a designer, so that’s where my mind goes. The little fun animations and the way the app reacts to your interactions, that we’ll be able to incorporate.
Apollo was great, but there’s also a lot of potential to do our own things, having used and learned from Apollo, and now knowing how different the fediverse and Lemmy are from Reddit.
Sucks that happened but I’m glad y’all are continuing the amazing work! Mlem is so great
Thanks for the kind words!
Community hype definitely helps keep the development moving a long, you all are amazing!
Thanks for the transparency. Very excited for the next release :)
So excited for the first AppStore release!
Just curious, the new/remaining Mlem dev team is different than the original creators of the app?
The app was originally created as a solo project. When Lemmy suddenly took off, the founder started looking for devs to help out, and several of us showed up; for personal reasons, the founder chose to back out shortly thereafter. The dev team has remained largely consistent since then, though we’ve gained a couple new contributors.