Me too! The differences really become apparent when more features are added. Battery life I notice. Also just the way the thing feels; I can intuit where things are in the app because I already know how to use my iPhone.

The image viewer is our #1 priority right now. To zoom you can tap the image once in the post view--we're working on getting a hotfix out shortly to make that work the intuitive way, where tapping the image in feed opens the quick viewer.

Longer-term, we're working on a much more robust, fully-featured media viewer, but it's a complex piece of code and we want to get it right--it's slated for our next milestone (1.1, targeted Aug 5).

To be fair Plex is pretty awesome.

lol

That functionality has been moved into the widget customizer. You can configure the layout of your buttons in Settings -> Appearance -> Posts or Comments -> Customize Widgets

There are a couple smaller reasons, but the big one is that we use NavigationStack to handle our core view navigation--it's a truly monumental improvement over the old NavigationView, and lets us do things like build an iPad version without rewriting all our nav stuff, but it is unfortunately only compatible with iOS 16+.

I know that's probably not a super satisfactory answer, but I'd rather be transparent than spin some PR nonsense at you.

Thanks for giving us a try! We're constantly improving, and your feedback is invaluable--we're working on adding confirmations to more destructive actions for the next build.

For credentials, we don't use oauth because Lemmy doesn't support it--there's an issue open on their GitHub that should resolve that, but until then it's passwords or bust.

Yes! We will continue using TestFlight to try out our beta features, so if you want the cutting (and maybe buggy) edge of our development, stay on there. If you just want the stable, reliable app, the App Store version is your friend.