Hi, !android@lemdro.id community! It’s been exciting seeing the Lemmy apps ecosystem continue to evolve, with all sorts of options emerging. Whether you’re a seasoned resident of the Fediverse or a newcomer, we’d love to hear about your experiences and expectations for the future.
- Which Lemmy apps have you tried?
- Do you have any favourites? If so, what sets them apart from the others?
- Are there upcoming apps you’re looking forward to releasing?
- What other functionality would you like to see from a Lemmy app?
Voyager/wefwef is the best one rn honestly, even if the design language is iOS
Waiting for Sync and Boost 🙏🙏
honestly the web app is enough for me until Sync arrives.
I tried Jerboa and it was okay. I’m now using Connect and it is fantastic!
I’ve got Connect and Liftoff installed and I can’t figure out how to view all my subscriptions in a feed in Connect. Am I just tired or is this a pending feature? Thanks in advance!
Also, when you swipe from the left you can see Frontpage, Local, and All. Select Frontpage. That will show you only the what you are subscribed to.
A swipe on the left side of the screen will reveal your subscriptions.
I am a former Baconreader user. Connect, with just a few options tweaks, is very close to what Baconreader was. I’m enjoying it.
I tweaked Connect to look similar to RiF, which is what I used for Reddit. I’m really enjoying it so far.
connect doesn’t seem to let me subscribe to other instances outside of beehaw though? or I’m missing something?
Click the three dots and click subscribe while viewing a community on another instance. You can also subscribe from the left bar. Under your feeds and subscriptions, you can see top communities and subscribe. You can also search at the top of the left bar.
I have tried Jerboa, Connect for Lemmy, and Liftoff. Connect for Lemmy is my preferred option now as the UI is cleaner, available at Playstore, enough customisation for me.
Boost for Lemmy is what I am looking out for at the moment.
edit: OK, Thunder is my favorite now 😆
Tried jerboa and it’s perfectly good enough. Threading could use slightly more distinction but its snappy and lightweight.
Also am waiting for Boost for Lemmy though as that was my Reddit app of choice. Time will tell if I end up on it or stick with jerboa
Used Jerboa for a couple weeks, but got sick of the constant crashes. Connect and Liftoff were both better than Jerboa imo
So far I’ve only tried Connect and Liftoff, with Connect being the better of the two.
However, being a serious Sync user for Reddit, once that app is ready for Lemmy, I’m sure there won’t be any other alternative.
I was a Relay user for years and found that I prefer Connect followed closely by Jerboa.
I’ve also tried Thunder and Liftoff which are both great but the UI/UX of Connect and Jerboa seem to feel more at home for me.
I make an effort to use all four interchangeably but my thumb gravitates to Connect more often than not.
Jerboa, Summit, Connect, Liftoff, Lemmotif, Thunder, Wefwef
My favourites are Connect and Liftoff. And in the last couple of days Jerboa had a good catch-up run.
I mean they ALL evolved a good deal in the last 2 weeks, it’s just amazing. Thank you, devs!Upcoming? Yes. Sync. I’ve used it for Reddit for like 6 years. I miss it very, very deeply.
Infinity and Dawn for Everything now have early support for Lemmy. See here.
I can’t seem to figure out how to get infinity for everything downloaded. Any advice? I used infinity for reddit and would love to use it for lemmy!
Thunder has the best UX out of all apps I’ve tried, and it’s not even close. And I’m fairly certain I’ve tried all of them.
It has good ui, I love it too. But its inability to sort comments on post is dealbreaker for me… or am I missing the updates/features? 😅🙏
For now, I use Liftoff and web-ui…
In terms of web apps, I’ve tried:
- Voyager (formerly wefwef)
- Photon
shameless plug
For android apps, I’m waiting for Sync.
I’ve tried: Liftoff, WefWef, and Thunder.
Sticking with Liftoff for now as I like the UI more than WefWef while Thunder back gestures not working is a real deal breaker. Have found pros/cons of all of them and none has seemed perfect for me quite yet.
Waiting for Sync, as that was my Reddit app of choice.
Connect is currently updating so rapidly that it might remain on my phone even after Sync, Boost, and Artemis launch.
Agreed. I’m loving it.
It’s pretty remarkable how active development has been for a few apps thus far.
I’m making a web app at the moment for personal use. So far, you can scroll posts, sort, filter, upvote, downvote, view one comment page, view a user’s posts, view a community’s posts, subscribe / block users and communities… and that’s about it
Ironically, since it doesn’t have the blur NSFW post feature yet, it’s a much better client for browsing NSFW communities than established clients :D
Absolutely not ready for prime time yet; there’s no deployment, you have to build it from source and it you can’t even comment. https://github.com/NatoBoram/Leanish
From the screenshot it looks like you can type in the page number? That’s pretty neat
It’s honestly something I have always wanted from Reddit. You know that moment when you open a post, do stuff, go back and then suddenly you lost your scroll position and you have to go back to where you were and it takes so much time that you just close the app? Yeah, fuck that.
I’m thinking about infinite scrolling in a way that edits the page number automatically so that you can go back even if you reload the page, but it’s definitely not a priority at the moment. I’d rather add basic features like commenting and posting first. And maybe basic mod tools, since it’s always something that third-party apps lack for some reason.
Nice, I look forward to seeing how it comes along! Let me know when it’s more functional and I can also add it to our sticky post.
I have something: https://natoboram.github.io/Leanish/lemmy.world/c/leanish@lemmy.world
There’s no Android build yet since it’s easier to just focus on features first and deployment later, but I do plan on having a SSR build, a PWA build and an Android build.
