• @Potatisen
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    823 hours ago

    Which FOSS Lemmy app do you recommend?

    • @3aqn5k6ryk
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      2223 hours ago

      For android, thunder. Best one imo, great customization but idk if its my phone but scrolling is stuttery.

      For iOS, i’d go with Voyager.

      • Thales
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        35 hours ago

        Voyager is fantastic. Very much the spiritual successor to Apollo.

      • @[email protected]
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        9 hours ago

        I’m on android and never used/had ios but I’m loving voyager and have been using it for months.

        Edit: Oh, after reading the comments I tried the ios mode and it really does look different. I like the android one more.

      • @[email protected]
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        212 hours ago

        It’s not just you, scrolling is a little stuttery for me too. And I don’t like the “mark as read” animation, it takes forever to clear all the cards, I wish it was instant

      • @[email protected]OP
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        623 hours ago

        They are both available for both platforms. Do they perform differently on each platform?

        • @3aqn5k6ryk
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          722 hours ago

          For me personally, i prefer material you theme that thunder offers. Voyager has ios ui, since it follows Apollo ui.

          • @[email protected]
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            413 hours ago

            I never noticed. Even though I’m on Android I definitely prefer the Apple setting on voyager.

          • @[email protected]OP
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            21 hours ago

            Voyager does have an experimental Android UI that you can enable in the settings. But even though that does make it more Android-y, it is still very iOS-y.

            • @3aqn5k6ryk
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              421 hours ago

              Huh. Never knew that since i use thunder exclusively afer moving to android. Used Voyager on iOS before and it was great. Maybe ill check the experimental UI later, thanks for the heads up.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      523 hours ago

      Thunder! Voyager seems to have more features, but the one killer feature that it lacks is gesture navigation, so Thunder it is.

      • @ObsidianZed
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        20 hours ago

        Damn, I was all ready to switch but I gotta have an option for columns. I downloaded it to check it out, and that’s the first thing I look for.

        EDIT: I found a setting. It seems it’s under “Tablet Mode” though it only allows for 2 columns. I generally prefer 2 columns for my phone in portrait mode. If I was actually using a tablet, I’d go for 4+ columns.

        • Andrew
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          417 hours ago

          I have a version of Thunder compiled for desktop, and it’s surprisingly easy to change the number of columns for Tablet Mode. There’s probably other places too, but the line I changed (from ‘2’ to ‘4’) is here

          Screenshot:

          Full-size image link: https://postimg.cc/hzsFj4rj

          I realise you might not want to compile your own version, but it suggests that the developers could add ‘number of columns for tablet mode’ option relatively easily.

    • burgersc12
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      I liked Thunder when I used it. But I have been on Connect a lot more which is not FOSS, but I liked it better than the rest of the apps I tried when I first switched to Lemmy. Actually testing Thunder again right now, might be my go-to from now on