I’m finding that I like bits and pieces from the various available frontends, but I haven’t heavily gravitated towards one in particular.
If you have gravitated towards a specific UI, which one and why?
Sync for days
Used Sync at the other place with Boost as the primary backup. Doing the same here plus keeping Jerboa around.
On mobile it’s Voyager. On desktop it’s the default Lemmy UI with the
darkly-compacttheme. The latter definitely feels like a modern old.reddit.I’m also using these CSS overrides (using the Stylus extension on Firefox) as
darkly-compact’sline-heightis too small and videos/GIFs stretched too much:.post-listing { line-height: 1.5 !important; } video { width: 25vw !important; }I just got back into Lemmy and Alexandrite is nice. Boost just launched in beta on Android and seems solid and pretty to boot.
I’m very happy Boost is out now. I’ve been worried the Lemmy version wouldn’t be released before the mod workaround for reddit stopped working.
Now I can abandon reddit.
Mod workaround?
If you’re the mod of any subreddit, including one you create and set to private from the web interface of reddit, your account is allowed full use of the API even with 3rd party apps.
Everything mostly works as normal besides a couple bugs from an antiquated app/reddit trying to break things. Single images can’t be posted but multiple at the same time can, something to do with the integration with the image hosts. NSFW and the bulk of the app work like before though.
😮 Wow, I had no idea. Thanks!
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What’s the mod workaround?
If you’re the mod of any subreddit, including one you create and set to private from the web interface of reddit, your account is allowed full use of the API even with 3rd party apps.
Everything mostly works as normal besides a couple bugs from an antiquated app/reddit trying to break things. Single images can’t be posted but multiple at the same time can, something to do with the integration with the image hosts. NSFW and the bulk of the app work like before though.
So if I create a sub and set it private can I use Relay without paying for a subscription?
I’ve never used Relay so I couldn’t say for certain but I believe it wouldn’t work in that case. IIRC the Relay app was updated to the subscription model of access like reddit was trying to force on everyone. If that’s the case being a mod won’t change the hardcoded behavior of the updated app.
This workaround works with Boost without any kind of updating or patching, so if there’s a third party app that did what Boost did (stopped updating but left the app otherwise intact) there’s probably a fair chance the same process will work. Any of the apps that continued to update or deleted API keys would have a much harder time I’d imagine.
I’ve settled on Memmy (which I think is iOS only). I like that it’s pretty true — maybe 100% true — to the Lemmy web app’s features but with more of a designer’s eye, I guess. Just a lil’ polish. Not trying to be something the backend isn’t ready for.
Memmy is very buggy and crashes a lot. It was a strong contender 2 months ago. But the developer, by his own admission, can’t be arsed to update it in a timely fashion. In the intervening weeks strong contenders for iOS have arisen. I think Lemma is the most promising, although it’s available via TestFlight at the moment.
I’ve been very happy with Memmy but noticed the updates have gone way down. It’s unfortunate they’ve lost some interest.
Basically they are rewriting it as they say they didn’t really know how to use the tools when they did v1. Which is why it’s an acquired taste.
Boost. Always has been, always will be.
I really like photon. It is very multi-alt friendly, and I can run my own instance of it locally.
Photon’s so clean. From a pure design perspective, it might be my favorite.
But after trying Alexandrite, I started missing the paneling. It seems really easy to lose your location on Photon since you gotta click into everything.
Haven’t decided between Photon’s nicer UI vs. Alexandrite’s more convenient UX.
old.lemmy.world
I refuse to change
I didnt know this existed, thanks
You might want to check out this post from yesterday: https://lemmy.world/post/6086181
Alexandrite on desktop. Thunder and Liftoff for mobile because they do not look like a clone of Apollo that all the other apps seem to try to emulate.
Haven’t tried Liftoff, but Thunder’s really clean. Just needs more features. In due time.
yeah are we the only ones that think apollo is clunky and gross and everyone emulating it is the same?
I like Liftoff.
I’m still rocking Jerboa on Android. It has been totally inoffensive, and I’ll probably just stick with it until it offends me somehow.
Lmao same. A couple months ago it would crash sometimes (which might have been an issue with me or my device), but not anymore. I haven’t tried anything else, but jeroba has served me well so far 乁( •_• )ㄏ
Voyager and lemm.ee for me.
I like Voyager. But the last week or so, it’s been saying update available. I go to the settings and tell it to update. The app kinda flashes and restarts, and then within a minute it says update available again.
Has anyone else has this happen?
If you used Infinity for Reddit, then Eternity for Lemmy is right for you. That’s what I use.
I’m enjoying Mlem for iOS. Quite a few display options and customizations, and runs smoothly. I haven’t totally decided on it yet though, as I am still testing quite a few.
Edit: This post got me to try out some of the apps again, and I think I may actually use Avelon on iOS for now. Seems to be closer to Apollo, which I enjoy.
Check out Voyager too. I’ve been using it for months and it’s almost 1 to 1 Apollo.
If you aren’t dead set on running FOSS only Boost is a slick running app on Android. Good filtering features and blocking. Everything loads clean and fast. The unpaid version has ads but they are unobtrusive. I barely notice them.
I like that Boost has the option to block instances.
Blocking instances from showing posts in your feed is coming to lemmy officially next update.
Alexandrite on desktop.
Switches up the doom scrolling feel of mobile and makes it feel more like a tool you can use to consume and interact with people and posts. Big part of that is desktop. But alexandrite is rather nice too!
