I keep switching from app to app
Don't know what app I like yet.
- Connect have the worse UI in my opinion (things are hidden).
- Jerboa crashes a lot on my phone.
- Thunder is slow to load and the search is bad.
- wefwef I like the search and exploration, but the text editing is the worse.
Where's Sync?!? 😭
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Just use liftoff. After all i've tried is the best.
When did you last use Connect? All of these apps are improving fast. Right now, I prefer Connect.
Agreed. I've been trying to rotate between Jerboa, Liftoff, and Connect and I just keep floating back to Liftoff for now. Finding I like the UI the best at this point and I've also been experiencing less issues with it as well.
But excited to see how they all continue to develop!
Liftoff feels so smooth, looks great, runs well, and is so intuitive. It's easily my favorite Lemmy browser.
I have lots like OP's pic, but keep clicking Liftoff. Well, after I've clicked Sync and closed it :(
Same. Now my only used app. Similar ish to infinity which I used before.
Just installed, I'm replying from it. Let's see if we match 😁
I've had almost zero issues with Liftoff other than switching the global sorting in the general settings causing duplicate posts from communities in the current instance I was in, but other than that it is fast, not bad looking and straightforward.
I'll have to wait for kbin support to try that one it seems. Looks decent though
I've been trying it, and I can't find a way to visit an individual community from my list of subscriptions.
Turns out it's this button:
Also waiting for Sync :(
Wefwef is kinda nice, but it's so iOS-y
I like it overall, but it's so unintuitive to me. Not a huge fan of the slide functionality, especially the dual action sliding. It probably gets easier once you get used to it though.
It definitely gets easier as you use it. Now the slides in connect irritate me, because if I overshoot and reach the save one, it saves even if I don't actually remove my finger and that's annoying because I have to unsave again.
I really didn't like the UI. Very intuitive for being on Sync for years. I'm on Jerboa while waiting for Sync to be ready.
Wasn't aware of Connect, that might actually be the one to hold me until Sync comes out. I was jumping between jerboa (for the swipe actions) and thunder (for the UI similar to sync), but connect seems to have both and a few other things that remind me of Sync (cards for posts, hold to collapse comment thread, swipe actions for post).
I know you posted out of frustration but thanks for the suggestion!
I get frustrated with the way connect does hold to collapse, because it means that I can't copy text to cite in comment replies.
You can tap the comment, go on the three dots and it will give you the option to copy text. Haven't really tried but I assume it would copy the entire comment so it would probably need some editing in case you just want to cite part of it.
Yeah, I can understand that, in sync you can at least copy while you are replying, connect still does the collapse on the reply page with the single comment you're replying to
Like /u/Danilo said; you need to tap the comment, copy text and then insert as a quote. It's not exactly intuitive, but it seems to be the way to do it. I hope it gets fixed.
Edit: spelling.
On liftoff there's an option in the three dots button to make text selectable.
Also can't delete comment from profile, have to go to post and navigate to find my comment to delete it
Connect shares a lot with sync. I will use it until sync comes out
Try liftoff
Well, I guess you already did.
Liftoff?
Liftoff is awesome!
+1
Posted from liftoff
I'm trying it right now, it's fairly good
One thing that puts me off Liftoff is the dark theme isn't dark enough for me but I find the Amoled mode too dark.
Yeah I agree completly. That puts me off too. Im using wefwef.app atm. Looks good, but too much ios like for my tastes. Also Liftoff now is crashing all the time.
I was just looking at lift off.
I was trying to look at other 3rd party apps just to see which I liked while I waited on Sync.
Liftoff is awesome. It's what I'm using now waiting on Sync.
Connect has blocking communities and hiding threads which is fantastic. I'm waiting for something better, but I need to be able to block the massive amount of futa/hentai/ai porn communities on here.
Seriously, I feel like I block 3 to 5 new porn communities per day. There's some weird shit on here. Can't wait to til we can block whole instances. I would like to be able to browse All without seeing lemmynsfw
Connect has a block instance feature. I haven't used it.
Ugh. I wish posting a comment wouldn't switch me to a single comment chain. I want to keep scrolling from where I was, not have to find it again!
That's like my list. Keep the real porn
I am using Liftoff right now, but certainly will give Sync a try once it is ready
Me too. I kept changing between Connect, Jerboa and LiftOff.
But over the last couple of days Connect has pulled into the lead and I find myself sticking with it at the moment.
Waiting for Sync though!
Same here.. flipping back and forth between connect and liftoff. Connect definitely looks and feels better but liftoff seems to have a better search 🤷♂️ Waiting patiently 😀
Same here. I have all three installed. I'm leaning towards connect, but sometimes use jerboa if something weird happens in connect
Same here. Mainly using connect. Also have jerboa and liftoff installed.
I'll likely switch to sync when there is a functional release, that was my goto reddit app.
Seems like liftoff offers uploading images into comments :)
Same here, Lemmy desperately needs Sync!
I'm holding out hope for boost lemmy. Used boost exclusively for Reddit for the longest time. Jebora seems to work best for me but Ive had both Jeb and connect for a while.
I’m mostly on mobile for vacation reasons, so I’m chilling on wefwef, but if they don’t add blocking soon I’ll move on. Can’t handle the “blahaj”.
I’m most excited to try Liftoff because it looks like the most x-platform compatibility? I think I saw windows/macOS/iOS/android, and I use all 4. I prefer apps to website browsing for this sort of thing on desktop, so that’s attractive.
Interested to hear what other people are using/enjoying!
Liftoff feels nice, I just hope it had more theming options. Wefwef is nice but as a webapp it still feels a bit clunky.
Neato thanks for review. Will keep playing with these two as they evolve.
I think the most recent Connect updates makes it much better. I've been using it more than Liftoff the last couple of days. Is Thunder not on the Google Play store? I couldn't find it.
No, it is on GitHub and IzzyOnDroid.
First and only (?) to allow instance blocking at the user level.
I switched from Jerboa to Connect, and then stayed with Connect.
I'm switching between them too. I like Lemming, or any app that offers swipe to vote.
If your apps are slow or crashing you need to join a different instance. I switched from World to Blahaj and it's insanely fast.
May be. I'm on Brazilian instance that runs on green energy. I'll wait a little more, the instances are very young yet, let them have more time to grow 😁
I'm on Connect right now. I quite like it, especially how fast it is (or maybe that's a consequence of Lemmy being fast in general). UI seems clean enough. But I really really miss the content filtering that Sync provided.
I was really positively surprised to hear Sync is being developed for Lemmy. Hoping it releases soon!
I cycled through many of them, each of them had some bugs or the other until I settled for Jerboa. Honestly I can't wait for sync.
Lichess? :D
Yes! Wanna play? I have the same username there (razieltakato), 999 ELO o Rapid
Sure! I'm usually a correspondence player, still learning a lot.
I was too. I really improved when I stopped correspondence and started rapid.
I'll give rapid a shot, my username is the same on lichess as well if you want to start a game
Despite the iPhone-focused interface, I've found myself using Voyager/Wefwef the most. Liftoff is second. Jerboa is third as it is functional, but just doesn't seem to match my work flow.
I also have Thunder and Connect, but I don't find myself using those as much.
I'm also patiently waiting for Sync.
I love wefwef/voyager. This might not be a normal feature people use but I love wefwef's deep linking feature (on android). I have a push notification system for lemmy which detects incomming emails from lemmy and uses ntfy to send reddit sync like push notifications. In wefwefs case I can set ntfy to open voyagers inbox directly. Voyager is also nice since opening a unread message (or interacting with it) auto marks it as read (which I don't believe other clients do for some reason, I could be wrong though).
It sounds like you're on the default view in Connect. I would change it to Cards or full width and it will probably look a lot better to you.
Thunder is really slow otherwise I would consider it solid. Luckily Jerboa works fine on my phone and it is native.
I actually settled on werwef. No apparant bugs. Text size is adjustable. Easy to read.
@[email protected] @razieltakato nevermind, I finally get the hole point of this so called fediverse :amogus:
Same
Wefwef is my go to on iPad and Liftoff on Android.
Do any of these apps for Android offer a RIF style interface layout that doesnt feel like scrolling on the generic reddit app?
Maybe try liftoff
Try to reinstall jerboa, it helped for me, before each update caused crashes nearly for any action.
The new jerboa is a huge step up for me. Swiping to get back to the front page, and comment arrows to jump to level comments. Will use it until sync or boost hits.
I go between jerboa and connect as well. This all feels very Linux-y to me, and my last experience with Linux wasn't great.
I'm very sad to hear that, I love Linux!
Favorite app and why?
I don't have one =(
I'm using liftoff to look content and make posts and comments, but wefwef when I want to search for communities.
Lifoff has the best "share" in my opinion: to share an image with a friend over WhatsApp
I bounce between Jerboa for discovery(its search works best for finding communities) and Liftoff for browsing posts. Though Jerboa seems to be improving faster than Liftoff.
Try wefwef for discovery, I think it's the best
I guess it's called Voyager now, no longer wefwef
I should really give that web app a try
I use Liftoff, a relatively new app for Lemmy. It has replaced boty Jerboa and Thunder for me. So far so good
Yeah, I'm using Liftoff and wefwef interchangeably.
I was also switching regularly, but I'm now fully using wefwef for now. I'll test sync, Artemis,... When they'll be available
The only issue with wefwef is the text editing. Any other app have it better.
Today is a Connect day and within the past week they've changed it up enough that I'm really enjoying it. Mostly hiding posts, hiding read posts, and marking scrolled past posts as read (so hide on refresh). It's not perfect but it's better than it was a few days ago before the most recent update.
Right now, with the last nightly, Thunder is really good..
I'll try it again
You can preregister for Boost for Lemmy! It was the best Reddit API imho and hopefully the new App will come out soon.
Did you try Sync? I think I tried all reddit apps but never really got around to actually use reddit on a regular basis until I found Sync.
I'm waiting Sync, but I'll try boost when it launches
It was the best Reddit client*. The API is the backend service.
fr bro me too