Hi Mlem Community,

Mlem 2.4 is here! We’ve expanded our PieFed support, plus added a bundle of new features for you to use.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Mlem is a free and open source project. 100% of our funding, which pays for things like server time, comes from our generous donors; we do not, and will never, run ads or sell data. If you’d like to help support Mlem, you can donate here.

Features

• Posts and comments can now be exported as images
• Expanded filter functionality to allow filtering for literal strings
• Added support for the following features on PieFed:
  • Instance blocking
  • Un-deleting private messages
  • Moderators toggling posts’ NSFW status
  • Banning users from a community (available on instances running PieFed v1.3 and above)
  • Sort by “Old” (v1.3 and above)
  • Local instance community list (v1.3 and above)
  • Comment search (v1.3 and above)
  • User notes (v1.4 and above)
• Look and Feel
  • The private message chat view now uses Liquid Glass
  • Confirmation dialogs now use alerts rather than popovers on iOS 26
  • The image viewer and inline video player now have Liquid Glass UI elements
  • Improved the Dracula theme contrast
  • Updated settings styling
• Accessibility
  • Added a “distinguish interaction bar” accessibility setting, which adds a subtle background to interaction bar buttons
• Moderation
  • Moderators can now edit community descriptions
  • You can now filter the modlog by user
• Quality of Life
  • vger.to links now open in-app
  • The post editor now shows a preview for links
  • Added an “edit link” button to the post editor
  • You can now upload a custom thumbnail for link attachments in the post editor
  • Improved error handling on the instance page
  • Images that fail to load now offer a link to view the content in browser
  • The Saved and Upvoted feeds can now be filtered to posts or comments
  • Added nicer error readouts in a few places across the app
  • You can now tap on the version number in the “About Mlem” page to copy it
  • The editor now shows a confirmation before closing if it is not empty

Bug Fixes

• Links to local communities now resolve case insensitively
• Fixed account switcher in the post editor not working
• The “n more links” text in the collapsed links button now respects singular/plural
• The Search tab homepage now renders correctly when using OLED theme
• Context menus in the subscription list no longer have blue icons
• PieFed’s human-readable link format now resolves correctly
• Fixed votes not updating on page refreshes
• Creator is now shown instead of community in tile posts when inside a community view
• Fixed loops.video videos not embedding
• Theme colors are now more coherent
• The markdown toolbar’s hitbox now matches its appearance on iOS 26
• Removed “Haptic manager failed to start” error message
• Fixed tapping the tab bar to scroll to top not behaving correctly on iOS 26
• Fixed newly-created comments not showing if the post had zero comments
• Fixed user who created a report sometimes being shown as creator