So, I was lurking using sync for Lemmy and I came upon this post.
What happened to the development with these apps? I’m not that active on lemdro.id or other instances. But apps like Sync and Boost have been updated in a year or 6 months respectively. With Boost I’m not surprised Mayo tends to be slow. I was more shocked with sync. My question is do you guys have any recommendations for other Lemmy clients?
Edit Please do not harass the devs.
Edit 2: I’m testing out thunderbird.
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Sure this is cursed but I have been turning the official Reddit app into a Lemmy client
People use the official Reddit app voluntarily?
Well once you take out all the ads and algorithm it’s not all that bad. It wouldn’t be my favourite but it would have some character.
That’s what I believe. My lemmyfied Reddit doesn’t have any bullshit features, I was able to remove them all
I haven’t built / tried it yet but would getting rid of the reddit logo up top too (leddit, perhaps?) work well? Or even load up your local instance favicon etc?
That would be great. I’ll try once I have finished polishing the API compatibility and basic features. Do you want me to tell you once it’s stable and ready for you to try ?
Hell yes.
I ain’t a lover of that kinda app (aesthetics plz) and why I stick with Boost being a RiF user but having lots of alternatives is one of the many reasons we all kicked off originally over in r/Android about the API bollocks Mr Greedy Piggy Spez brought in. That, and shitting on the disabled/spam whackers/translators you name it. Pissed us off enough we made this instance.
Does that official reddit app have decent Accessibility features yet, or was Spez yet again talking out of his pooper?
Good work btw, and obligatory fuck spez ;)
Boost works fine
Left Sync for it, temporarily, until Sync is back to updating. It’s been like this back in the Reddit years too.
I remember boost taking it’s sweet time. But sync always updated more regularly.
ljdawson was always gone for months back in the day. A year is a long time, but I’m not that surprised. The only reason it’s a problem is because, unlike Reddit, Lemmy isn’t really stable.
Both Sync and Boost are stable apps, so to speak. But it is a problem when the site itself gets a lot of stuff updated. The app devs need to sort their schedule out tbh.
I’ve been very happy with Summit on Android.
Edit: changed link to app website
Summit is severely overlooked. Dev fixes many bug reports same/next day as well.
Where is the source code? Is it closed source? As I see only releases are on github
It is closed source. People keep asking if it will be made open source, and the dev doesn’t necessarily seem opposed to it. I don’t recall the reasons they gave, nor would I likely understand them as someone who is not a developer, but there are threads on it on !summit@lemmy.world. They are generally very open to discussing things if you might have solutions for them.
Summit has been the closest in look and feel to my beloved old baconreader (RIP).
Summit is such a nice app I haven’t even considered changing in over a year.
It’s unfortunately proprietary :(
I use Voyager on Android.
I know that this is stupid and petty, but I dislike Voyager, because it’s essentially a web app. I prefer native or near-native apps (things like Flutter or React Native). I tried it out and it’s pretty nice UI/UX-wise, but I still prefer Arctic on iOS, because it’s an actual native app written in SwiftUI, and thus closer to Apollo for Reddit (which Voyager tries to imitate).
I am not an iOS user in any way. Does Voyager actually look/feel different than a native Swift app in any way? Or does it just bother you to know, in the back of your mind, that it is not native?
Or does it just bother you to know, in the back of your mind, that it is not native?
That’s why I said that this is stupid and petty, but the thought alone makes my blood boil. And it’s not the same as with normal Electron apps on desktop, I also hate those, but for different reasons. Voyager looks just like a native iOS app, which makes this even worse for me, as I’m allergic to this kind of HTML/CSS/JS imitation of native UI libraries. Something about it just feels so wrong to me as a developer, I don’t know.
But I recommend you don’t actually listen to me, just use whatever you like.
What about raccon for Lemmy and connect?
Never tried Raccoon, but I used Connect for a while, it’s not bad, but unfortunately proprietary :(
We are working in getting it in F-Droid!
I use Thunder too, I like it. But you accidentally added a space in the first hyperlink, so it’s not rendered correctly.
Ok il look into it. But f droid has been funky for a few months now.
You can also get it from the Play Store, or directly from GitHub via Obtainium
However I’m happy with eternity
Me To!
Me Thre
Hasn’t development slowed to a crawl?
I am using eternity to post this btw. Was using liftoff before until it broke and will continue with eternity.
(Disclaimer, I’m one of the devs.) Thunder is cross-platform and very actively developed! There was a release two days ago. We keep up with Lemmy API changes and we’re constantly squashing bugs and adding new features. Check it out!
I second Thunder (also an (early) Dev). The repo is still super active.
I am very interested in Thunder, especially considering it’s open source. While it does seem packed with features, I’d love to see a bit more customizability though. I might submit some feature requests some day but looking now there are nearly 200 issues as it stands. Not a complaint, just an observation. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for checking it out. Yeah we do have quite a backlog of issues to work through. Obviously we prioritize bugs and the most popular feature requests. Feel free to submit an issue any time you want though! It may be that we can help come up with a workaround that gets you what you want. Otherwise sometimes if its an easy change one of the devs will knock it out quickly. But if nothing else it’ll be there for other people to react to. :)
Nice. I have been enjoying your guys app for the last 2 days.
I have some feedback but I don’t think it’s really anything that substantial right now. What is the best way to give you guys feedback on thunder bird?
Hey thanks! I think you mean Thunder. :-) Thunderbird is a mail client from Mozilla (also a great app lol).
If you have a bug or feature request to report, you can create an issue on GitHub. https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder
If you just want to have a discussion with the devs and other community members, you can check out our Matrix. https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org
Sorry my bad 😅. Been trying multiple clients for the past few days. Thank you for the contact info!
I’ve just started on Lemmy very recently, but I’ve been trying out different Android Lemmy clients. I’m currently on ‘Voyager for Lemmy’ which I installed from F-Droid, and personally this has been my best experience yet
Voyager is a good client but it’s a variation of infinity which with Infinity I don’t really vibe with. Its not a bad client just not for me.Sorry I’m thinking of eternity 😅. My bad
I tried a few other clients as well and settled on Voyager in the end. The experience is great, it’s being actively developed and the dev is active in !voyagerapp@lemmy.world. Can recommend!
FYI, voyager started as a hyper performant webapplication namef wefwef
I still have it as a shortcut on my phone as a backup to the official app
Voyager is a fantastic experience imo. I tried other clients like Jerboa and a couple others I can’t remember the names of. The others were always a buggy mess whereas Voyager actually just worked. Dunno if the other apps eventually improved, but I wasn’t personally keen on sticking around through their significant growing pains when Voyager already existed.
I haven’t seen bugs in Jerboa in ages.
Sync was almost always like this - the Dev takes long breaks and then updates the app with lots of good stuff. He did this since reddit days, so I’m really not concerned
He probably has a day job
And family stuff, probably. Totally understandable.
Not when you charge monthly subscription fees, your app no longer fully supports the platform, and you haven’t pushed a single change in 12 months.
It’s acceptable to have 2 of the above issues, but not all 3 at once.
Wait I thought it was a €20 purchase, now it’s €2 a month, €19 a year or €110 for lifetime? That’s steep
Boost
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Boost here as well…why it’s missing from the lineup is a bit odd. I figured there is a good number of people using it.
I’m using Connect and it’s fine. The dev sometimes pushes updates that break things but the patches come quick enough.
It’s an extremely familiar app experience as a very long time Redditor. The app works great.
Also a satisfied Connect user here.
There are dozens of us
Definitely thunder. I’ve been using it since it was in early alpha and it has improved so much and works really really well.
I’ve switched to using Jerboa from Sync and it’s absolutely fine for my casual usage and it doesn’t have ads, which is a big plus point.
Jerobs is awesome!!
Eternity
Too many clients for too few users…
I finally made a full switch from Sync to Thunder, because even though I know that Sync dev does take huge breaks and he comes back and fixes everything and makes the app even better, I still wanted to make sure I find a good alternative and get familiar with it just in case.
Thunder is a really good app, especially considering its age. It also has the most features and the nicest UI (IMO) among the Lemmy apps. And it being open source is a huge plus too.
Sync is still my favorite, it just feels really nice to use, but I’ll stay on Thunder for now.
Voyager is also a really nice app that feels polished and works smoothly, but it’s lacking certain features that I like. So I keep it installed as a backup but I don’t use it often.
