Announcing the Blorp Mac App Preview – Available to Test Now!

Blorp is at a stage where there's still plenty of work to do, but I’m ready to start gathering feedback. The main areas that need improvement are enhancing the post creation experience and adding the ability to sign up directly through Blorp.

That said, Blorp is already very usable. I’ve chosen to launch the Mac app first because, among all the Lemmy clients, the desktop space is the least saturated. I’m starting with Mac since that’s where I’ve done all my testing, but the plan is to expand to Linux and Windows as well.

I’d love for you to download Blorp for Mac! If you’re not ready to install it yet, or you're not on a mac but still want to check it out, you can use the web version at blorpblorp.xyz.

Did I mention, Blorp is open source? You can read all the code on our GitHub.

Other platforms coming soon:

iOS

Android

Linux

Windows

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[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Looks really great on mobile! Just needs a Hide Read Posts button

[–] Saltycracker@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

My eyes enjoyed that.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Nice! Another fine third-party app to the collection!

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

LOL. Reminds me of this

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

Hey now every Lemmy app does something unique. The more competition the better ;)

[–] freamon@preferred.social 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Looks great! Is there any info about what architecture / OS versions are supported for Mac? The only Apple hardware I have is a 12 year old MacBook Air (I realise I could just download it and find out, but that would involve me getting up off the sofa). Thanks.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It might actually just work. The build I’m distributing is a universal build that should work on Intel and Apple Silicon-based Macs. I’m not 100% sure what the minimum macOS version supported currently is.

I would say just try it, but I’m curious what macOS version you are on and if it works. I’ll see what I can do to expand support to older versions if people want that.

[–] freamon@preferred.social 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, no. Sadly not. It installed okay, but just presents a big white window when I ran it. The OS version is BigSur (the highest that machine will run).

I doubt it's an Issue you'll need to prioritise, 'cos others in my position have likely just installed Linux instead.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

Appriciate you taking the time to try it! If you have time time, could you right click and "inspect element”? Then go to “console”. If possible could you paste everything in console in a DM to me? If you dont see “inspect element” as an option, then there is probably something else going on.

This sounds like it might be an issue with the app itself, not BigSur. Might be able to get it fixed easily.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 hours ago

Great project, looks very good!