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
  • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
    1•2 days ago

    Join the TestFlight for iOS if you haven’t already!

    I’ll probably ship hide read posts in the next update sometime next week. iOS lets you long press to share media, but I need to add that on the desktop app.

    By mark read in scroll, do you mean you manually mark things read in the feed? Or something else?

    • @fox2263English
      1•6 hours ago

      That sounds brilliant! Loving it so far.

      I actually meant “mark read on scroll” haha but my keyboard autocorrect always loves to change on to in.

      • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
        1•5 hours ago

        I should probably know this, but do other apps do that? I need to double check but I think the Lemmy API requires an API request per post you want to mark read. Idk if there is a bulk mark read. So if you scroll really fast you might send enough API requests to get rate limited temporarily. You could solve that with a queue that slows down the API requests, but I figured it’s opening a post that should mark read.

        • @fox2263English
          1•4 hours ago

          Good question :D I remmeber Apollo did but that was Reddit obviously. I use Voyager atm and yes it has a section in the general settings for marking read and hiding, one of which is to mark read on scroll.