Now that 0.19 is in testing on a couple of servers we’re faced with the reality that Liftoff is probably not going to be functional for much longer. So I’m curious what everyone’s got planned.
Personally I’ve got my eye on [email protected] which is currently under development but looks like it might be the closest to my ideal. Developer describes it thusly:
I liked the feature richness of Liftoff (e.g. the possibility to explore all the communities of an external instance), the multi-community feature of Summit and the polished UI of Thunder and I wished I could have them all in the same app.
It’s currently very promising, but also very buggy so I’m hopeful it might be in a more usable state by the time 0.19 starts majorly rolling out. We shall see. The dev put out a call for testers a couple days ago but I’m sure more wouldn’t hurt if anyone wants to give it a whirl.
I’ve tried most of the main Android options by this point, Summit gets the most use just because of multi-communities (great for sports and other happening-right-now events) but I’m really not a fan of its interface.
Boost looks nice and simple, but I find a lot of the features to be just straight-up broken.
Sync and Eternity both put me off with their looks even though they look totally different to each other!
Connect would probably be my second choice so far, but I’d still need to keep Summit around for the multi-communities which is a bit annoying.
That’s about the extent of my investigations at this point. Would love to hear which you’ve tried and what you like / dislike from the point of view of a Liftoff user. Let’s get some recommendations ironed out before everything breaks and this group is overrun with people asking why 😅
This is just sad tbh, I wish we didn’t have to give up. But once lemmy.world upgrades, won’t have a choice.
Jumped here from voyager when it first came out, too buggy for my liking.
It is disappointing. But at least we have a lot of options!
Was kind of hoping people might reply to this thread with more actual reasoning for their faves, from the pov of us all enjoying Liftoff and wanting to find the next best thing. But it’s pretty much just turned into a list of all the apps, whoops!
Well, I’m typing this on voyager now, original comment was liftoff.
Feels different, it works but somehow it feels more sluggish in terms of processing network requests.
Dunno man, liftoff just felt lean and mean. I’ll definitely switch back once it gets developed again.