There seems to be many lemmy apps available. I already tried few apps though I don’t even know where to find most of the others. Instead of trying every single one of them I’d like to know if there’s anything similar to RIF. Here’s some key features of RIF:
- Simple. Mostly text and no complicated UI elements.
- Information density. I can see a list of eight posts on my screen. Again, it’s just text with no UI decorations.
- One handed browsing. As I hold my phone with right hand I can easily access both linked url and comments of a post with my right thumb (buttons on right side of the screen).
- Comment navigation. This is not as important but in larger threads it’s useful to navigate between parent comments.
If there’s nothing similar available, maybe these could be added to an existing implementation. I could even try to help as I am programmer, though I don’t know much about mobile app development.
As a former RIF addict, I found “Summit for Lemmy” a decent alternative.
I tried summit but despite being somewhat similar to RIF it’s not enough. I guess my muscle memory for RIF is so deeply ingrained.
I’m waiting for Sync for Lemmy. I was actually pretty well settled in Squabbles, but when I heard that the dev for Sync for Reddit was making a Lemmy app, I had to jump over here and give it a shot. His design was THAT good.
Is Squabbles also Lemmy? It looks/feels different than other lemmy instances.
No, Squabbles is its own platform. It isn’t federated so the UX is simpler, which makes it more popular amongst some people.
Thanks. Not sure I want to get out of the Fediverse now.
I assume Sync will be my go-to, but I’m going to give Artemis a try once it’s released. Currently using Connect, I just really miss some key features like swiping and jumping to top comments.
I used RIF for years, and kind of hope the developer makes a Lemmy port to be honest. I’ve not tried many android apps yet, but Jerboa For Lemmy is pretty good so far.
Seconded
Tried a few, Jerboa is sort of good but there are things you just have to figure out. Like I’m a user on my own Lemmy, and I can’t find my own instances? Does the search only search … well what actually? Also as I have my super user, another user, a user on beehaw etc (not very rational maybe) but you don’t know whith witch obe you are browsing.
Guess it’s just too, early so for now I’m sticking with Jerboa as it’s the official app.
Everything is great though, I’m just pointing out small inconveniences.
I’m also coming from RIF and have found Jerboa alright after adjusting the “look and feel” settings to the more compact options. Clicking into comments requiring being more careful with where you tap is my main complaint.
The developer of Sync for Reddit is working on a Lemmy port, and hopes to have early access ready in a few more days.
I used RiF for years, and I moved over to Jerboa when I started using Lemmy over a week or two ago.
Pretty great, the button mapping felt natural, as did the post layout, menus, account switching, etc. Definitely gets a recommendation from me!
I second this. It’s not as compact as RIF, but I think I like the layout better.
Thunder and liftoff seem to be rapidly moving to the front of the pack.
For context, I have tried Connect, Summit and Jerboa as well.
Coming from Boost on Reddit. I quite like Thunder so far. Reminds me of Apollo when I was on iOS.
Can Thunder post comments yet?
Yes. There’s a floating reply button to comment on a post and you can slide any existing comment to the left to reply.
I switched from RiF to Jerboa easily. The small card view and dark theme is pretty much the same as I used on RiF. I don’t remember all the settings but you can customise some stuff. I did that in Rif too, so I’m not even sure what the default is in either app anymore.
There’s been a lot of bugs and crashes lately but I hope it gets better with time, but appearance wise this is as good as RiF IMO.
Jerboa in List View is almost the same as RiF as far as functionality for me.
It’s pretty crashy right now, though.
Memmy should have an android build soon and I’m a big fan of it
I’m a former RIF user. Honestly, I recommend just downloading as many as you can to see which one you like best. I did that, and I ended up liking Liftoff the most, but you may have liked RIF for different reasons than I did.
Wefwef
Seconding wefwef on ios
How do you get it? Search returns nothing.
Sadly I hate that very hard forced generic iOS design. Makes the website/app look like it has no personality at all and looks low effort design-wise, because it reminds me of those 2005 websites who don’t use styles at all and it just defaults to the browser/OS styles. I like when apps have personality and carefully designed UI and controls. We are losing creativity and personality in search of this “consistency” bs, in all OSs really, makes me sad.
Eh. I don’t need a UI to have “personality.” It just needs to work. The content is the personality. I’d actually hate it if the app inserted its personality between me and the content.
Looks like that dev took a lot of cues from Apollo which is a good thing to do.
It’s a web-based app. In your safari browser on your iPhone go to wefwef.app and follow the directions you find there to add it to your homepage. After that it behaves like any other app!
Thanks. Very nice for a webapp. I couldn’t figure out for the life of me how to reply to your comment though. No reply button came up no matter what I did. This is one of my gripes with the web apps you add to home: you don’t get a refresh button and sometimes you need it.
I like Summit > Connect > Jerboa in that order.
But they’re getting updated everyday, so far summit is my favorite.
I’m using Connect for Lemmy at the moment and I used RIF for 9 years.
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