Hi Boost gang,

The first version of Boost for Lemmy is almost ready. If you want to test the app for bugs and give feedback before the app is published, follow this link https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.rubenmayayo.lemmy to enable an early access option on the Boost for Lemmy Play Store listing.

Thanks for your patience!

  • Max-P
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    591 year ago

    🎉🚀

    Now that’s a seamless switch between platforms!

    Ad-free already purchased!

    • Obinice
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      121 year ago

      How do I hide, or limit the height of images people embed into their comments such as this one, in Boost?

      This image is huge for example, and ideally I just want a small version I can tap to expand, and not have to scroll past this whole thing (plus it seems like it’s cropped on the sides, only showing half a phone screen on either side - or maybe that’s the full image I don’t know?).

      Thanks!!

      • Max-P
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        61 year ago

        That’s probably something Rubén needs to handle. I didn’t realize it would come out this huge lol. That’s why we’re bug testing this!

    • Max-P
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      71 year ago

      One feature that’d be nice to have is the ability to add other instances as guest accounts.

    • Prior_Industry
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      51 year ago

      Needed to change the icon colour to help differentiate the apps 👌

      • Max-P
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        51 year ago

        Yeah I switched the Reddit one to greyscale right after.

        • katy ✨
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          61 year ago

          Too bad they can’t update the Reddit one to add an icon for the rocket on a Reddit tombstone 🤭

          • Max-P
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            61 year ago

            I’d say make it a crashed rocket

      • Obinice
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        41 year ago

        Why keep the old one installed at all? Surely it doesn’t work since they disabled the API, as absolutely fantastic as it was, now it’s just a dead app taking up disk space.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Quick question. I thought Reddit’s API price debacle (the entire reason I’m here instead) forced Boost for Reddit to shut down, or at the very least charge a high price. I’m surprised to see it still working. What exactly is going on?

          • Max-P
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            11 year ago

            API keys is what identifies the client/application. So basically, Reddit sees it as me using a personal custom app or script, and it’s therefore not blocked.

            They didn’t shut down the API, they just made it prohibitively expensive to use. For most people, that falls into the free tier.

  • Otter
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    371 year ago

    Babe wake up, Boost for Lemmy just dropped

  • @fodderoh
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    311 year ago

    How would you like us to report bugs? Create a post in the community?

    • RubénOPM
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      71 year ago

      You can reply to this post, or create a post in the community if it is a more detailed bug report. Whatever you want!

  • @HerrBeter
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    291 year ago

    Can you explain the data collection usage on Google play store?

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      Yeah this honestly makes me hesitant to download idk why there are so many data sharing permissions. Maybe they’re default?

      • @Merlin404
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        91 year ago

        In my experience veta aps usually have more, to collect statistics, crashes, and things like that. Once tha app is stable usually It need less collecting but I can be wrong to

  • @MeatAndSarcasmGuy
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    261 year ago

    I just installed the app and so far it’s working pretty well, though if I’m being honest, I am definitely a little concerned by all the baked-in tracking.

    In terms of features I’d be interested in seeing there are three that come to mind:

    1. Community icons in compact/ dense views. While Lemmy is still in its infancy, I have to browse c/All most of the time and being able to visually see the community the post is coming for is definitely helpful for browsing.
    2. Multiple accounts in one feed. In my opinion, this is one thing that Lift-off has over every different Lemmy app. With so many instances with varying levels of federation, I find being able to browse all my accounts at once to be a very convenient feature.
    3. Being able to download to an SD card. I know SD cards are a dying breed, so this is probably low priority for you, but as someone with very low internal storage; but a very large SD card, it’s always a welcome feature when I can find it.

    Overall I would say this app already shows a significant amount of polish. Hopefully the development can continue even further.

  • @surli
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    211 year ago

    Let’s go! 🚀

    • @kmirl
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      31 year ago

      Same! I paid for the app as soon as I got it installed. I used Boost for reddit for years and loved it. It looks great so far!

  • stormhuskies
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    201 year ago

    It’s gorgeous. Just as I remember. Like it was never taken from us. I was trying out a couple other apps while waiting for the beta and I immediately uninstalled both of those and removed ads for Boost. It’s a really well designed app in all aspects. Thanks Rubén!

    • @kmirl
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      31 year ago

      I don’t know but am curious–honestly I bought the app just to support the developer.

  • dinckel
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    171 year ago

    Thanks for all the hard work!

    • @fodderoh
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      11 year ago

      deleted by creator

  • ⁧⁧⁧
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    1 year ago

    Can’t login due to 2FA!

    Other than that…the fact that I was able to export my Boost For Reddit settings and import them for Lemmy is just perfect 🥹🥹🥹

    Oh! and now we get picture previews in the comments! Hooray!

    • @pdxfed
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      61 year ago

      The absolute madman…to not have to start over on settings, legend!

    • @pdxfed
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      11 year ago

      deleted by creator

  • @Haggunenons
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    141 year ago

    Its so nice to have Boost back! Thanks so much for all your hard work, Im so very appreciative!

    Btw, brand new comments are showing as 9 hours old, my own included. I’m in Japan, on a Samsung S23, let me know if there is any debug info I can give.

    Thanks again!

    • RubénOPM
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      61 year ago

      There was a problem with timezones missing when formatting the time. Fixed for the next beta, thanks for reporting!

      • @Haggunenons
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        11 year ago

        Thank you so much!! For everything! For making this app for reddit, and then remaking it for here, and for taking the time to see my comment, and fixing the issue! I am so very appreciative of all the work you’ve put into it, I can’t imagine how involved a project like this must be. You’ve done such a great job. It is so nice to be back on Boost again!

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      This comment might get swallowed up. Comment in a bug or make your own post to get more attention :)

  • @CreeperODeath
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    141 year ago

    Just downloaded it and I am honestly so happy

    Another post on here said it feels like home

    And it really does and I love it so much

    I feel like now lemmy can 100% fill the void that reddit left

  • funky-rodent [he/him]
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    141 year ago

    Hello :) I love it so much! Haven’t realised how much I missed this interface!

    Ist there any chance to integrate mod-tools

  • eroc1990
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    131 year ago

    I’ll let you know how it works once I can log in. Right now, TOTP doesn’t seem to be supported so there’s no way for me to complete authentication.

    • katy ✨
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      31 year ago

      That’s weird. I have 2FA (it always prompts on the website) but I was able to log in without putting in my token (unless my 1password autofill automatically took it behind that scenes?)

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        if you can login without your token that’s a pretty serious security flaw on lemmy’s end

        • eroc1990
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          31 year ago

          Seriously. It’s one thing for MFA to be evaluated. It’s a whole other thing for it to be enforced.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        I’m not sure, I use Bitwarden and did an auto-fill, and also got the missing totp token error message sadly.

    • RubénOPM
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      31 year ago

      There was a bug showing the totp field. Fixed for the next beta.

      • eroc1990
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        11 year ago

        I saw on another comment you left. I appreciate your effort developing Boost into a Lemmy client so I’ll be nice and patient in the meantime.