Hey I figured I’d make a post and see the state of current lemmy appage, since I’m looking for a good one. So far I’ve used Jerboa, Thunder, Eternity, and Voyager.

Eternity seems to be a dead project, it’s full of bugs and hasn’t recieved an update since The Exodus

Thunder seems ok and is what I’m using right now, but I can’t seem to send direct messages, and can’t “Don’t blur NSFW preview on NSFW comms” which sucks. The messaging is the dealbreaker for me.

Voyager I used momentarily but the UI was not my favorite.

Jerboa seems OK if unpolished (which is ok to me) but I don’t trust the rabid idealogue that makes it and using another instance of his site is one thing, but installing an app is another. Has it been audited to confirm lack of spyware?

Ideally through this I can find one with instance blocking, DMs, and a decent UI. What’re your experiences with the current state of lemmy apps?

  • aloeTGL@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    So far voyager is working for me, but the UI leaves a lot desired. The reply icon looks like a share icon.

  • Aurelius@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    I’m made Quiblr. Lot’s of cool features (For You feed, different post formats, etc.). Plus I tried to make the UI clean and intuitive.

    Just a web client right now. If there’s enough demand, I’ll make a native version.

    Lmk what you think

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    3 months ago

    Sync is fantastic, IMO. I switched from Jerboa and Connect a year ago and never needed to look back.

    The dev isn’t super active, but updates seem to drop when they need to

    • CMLVI@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Ooh Sync is another one I enjoyed! I swear I bought every large 3rd party app to try out fully. Google Pay Rewards, thank you. Lol

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    Thunder 100%. Super active dev community, constant releases, and if there’s something that does cause a problem, post it as an issue and it typically gets resolved quickly.

  • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Anyone else get a lot of “Failed to load media” messages on images? I particularly see them on science memes in both Voyager and Arctic on iOS. Haven’t tested on android yet.

    • Taiatari@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      All the time on science memes, try going back to ‘best of all time’. It can also make modding on mobile quite a pain, when you as a mod can’t see the post. Though the failed to load media is, what I have heard not due to the app itself but that the link in the post is broken and the app just has not indexed the post yet. Which is why other apps may show the post correctly because they indexed it before the link broke. However I can not remember where I read that. So it might be completely false.

  • Konstant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    I’m using Jerboa but wasn’t aware of any issues with the devs. As far as I know the app works great. Can you go into that a little more or point somewhere to read about it?

    • Zangoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Jerboa is by dessalines, the same dev as Lemmy and the owner of lemmy.ml so it’s basically just all of the drama inherited from that.

  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
    24·
    3 months ago

    The Eternity Dev has returned, and released a new update for it. Last I checked the update hasn’t released on f-droid due to the build failing, but it is available on aurora or play store.

  • Makeshift@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    Was on Voyager until it updated past my old OS. Current version of Voyager no longer supports my old 6S Plus.

    So now I’m on Thunder. It works. I liked Voyager better, but I won’t complain about an app that still works on my phone.

  • yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    I started out with Memmy and was kinda meh about it. Not bad but not great. Then I found Voyager and never looked back. As a paid Apollo refugee, Voyager makes me almost forget that I’m on a different platform from the days of yore.