I’m just here to read what everyone else is using. I only know of jerboa
I’ve tried Jerboa, Connect, Thunder, Liftoff, Lemmotif, and the PWA. Jerboa has the best interface/ux imo, by far. Thunder is the least buggy to use, and the developer is a machine, doing constant updates. These 2 I think have the most potential.
I’m trying connect now. Jerboa keeps crashing like madness on me…
I started with Jerboa, but it wouldn’t let me off the local instance after initially being pretty good. Quite buggy for me. I switched to connect and I’m impressed so far.
Funny you say that, I find Jerboa to be awful and it was the reason I didn’t want to move here until I found other apps lol. To each their own I guess!
Have you tried WefWef?
I like Summit a lot. But it’s still missing some very basic features like an inbox.
same. i only know memmy.
Im trying several others while they work out the kinks in Jerboa (it doesnt work very welll if you use Lemmy.World as your instance), but it honestly feels the best out of all of them.
I’m coming from RiF is Fun, so it reminds me a lot of their layout.
Also a former rif user, and I also really like Jerboa. But I haven’t been able to use it for awhile now, with the update/server weirdness.
Same! Have only used Jerboa so far and think it feels simple enough to use coming from RiF. If you end up liking any of the others compared to Jerboa please let me know
Also coming from RIF and I thought the same thing. It’s buggy, but it has potential to be my go-to app if the wrinkles get smoothed out.
Summit, Jerboa, and Liftoff… I’m reading the replies to you to see what to try next!
Trying Summit for the first time, it’s really good! Multiple accounts, good UI reminding me of RiF and hasn’t crashed yet. I find Jerboa clunky.
Connect is my other fave.
Thank you for trying Summit! I’m rolling out an update to add creating, editing and deleting posts as I’m typing this.
I’m loving thunder so far
I’m currently on Summit. I like it. I tried Jerboa.
Here’s a sneak peek of one I’m working on too:
A lot of good options coming up, will be fun to see how it plays out!
Edit: [email protected] for anyone wanting to follow
Man that looks good
Thank you, that means a lot!
Man I love how new apps are coming out everyday. It feels like I’m witnessing history in the making, in the next 5 years we can probably talk about the time when Lemmy was getting a new app everyday.
lemm.ee looks like it’s running a pretty old version and I can’t search that community :( could be a me issue though.
Ahhh too bad I can’t sub to the community right now (I guess it’s a very new community and my instance isn’t up to date for now)
Apologies in advanced for the name confusion you’ll be facing. Liftoff used to be named Lemmynade lol
Thanks for your contribution, looks great! The more the merrier.
I started with Jerboa but now use Connect. I’m happy with it.
Thx you stranger, this is the boost-like app I was looking for !
Typing with connect, you can tell it’s beta quality but it’s pretty good so far
+1 the same for me
Connect feels the most like Boost, so I’m happy with it.
Learning the gestures currently with Connect. At least it doesn’t crash randomly.
Jerboa scrolling was very choppy for me, but Connect is good. Main issue I see with Connect is that the comment editor is covered by my keyboard. Looking forward to Sync for Lemmy soon.
I am migrating from reddit and chose connect first. It has a layout very similar to the reddit client I used before RIF. I really like how as a comment thread gets longer the color changes to make it easier to keep track of.
Only issue I have had so far is a single crash, while loading a news article. Other than that, it has been great.
Same
Where do you get lemming and lemmotif?
Some of those I can’t find. Are those apple apps? I am using the Google Play store and can’t find all those apps and I want them.
Liftoff was just added to play store so it may not come up in searches yet.
Thanks just added it.
As far as I can tell most android Lemmy clients aren’t on play store but the dev’s GitHub (Liftoff, Thunder, Lemming)
So I get them from GitHub and install them on my phone?
Probably. Or wait a little and once the dev is happy that the app start being in decent shape for it to be published on the play store.
Yep, can find some of them here, typically wanna check the releases on the git for the apk file https://lemmy.ml/post/1162300
Thank you will check them out.
So far which is your favorite. Mine is thunder
I just found out about wefwef.app
Same here, completely switched, it’s obviously made by the Apollo dev and no one can convince me otherwise. Wefwef has immediately made Lemmy usable to me, can barely notice a difference from Reddit running through Apollo.
Talk about endorsements lol
How do you downvote using wefwef? I can’t seem to figure it out.
Edit: Ah ok I got it. You swipe to do so. It still seems to be missing very basic features like editing comments and blocking communities though.
It follows the apolloapp.io gestures. Swipe to the far right to downvote.
It’s slick. I can’t believe it’s a web app. The reply buttons are a bit different, I had to find the swipe to reply.
Just tried it out and I can’t believe a web app can feel so native! It’s awesome.
I legitimately keep forgetting it’s not native, and am quite happy not needing to install another app to use it. Game changer right here.
I’m using Connect for Lemmy right now, because Jerboa keeps showing the server version error when opening it.
This is where I’m at, but Connect seems to freeze up on me a lot, so I’m thinking of getting a third lol
i switched to thunder after connect kept crashing whenever i tried to open it. so far it seems alright but i can’t see any way to vote on comments.
I see an option for upvotes and down votes when you tap on a comment
Swipe the comment right to upvote and swipe even further to downvote
I use wefwef.app now, first comment in this app. Looks good. Jerbora Was crashing on me all the time…
is wefwef an actual downloadable app or is it a webpage? i’d prefer an app but i’ll give it a go either way.
I use jerboa but I’d try out any libre client. I’m not interested in proprietary apps.
Funny enough I never saw the need for dedicated website apps for e.g. reddit, but the fediverse is somewhat clumsy to use in a browser (I’m aware that browser extensions can help) so an app actually improves the experience a bit.
I’m using Jerboa, but it keeps crashing and on every statup complains that my instance is not compatible with the updated version. This drives me back to reddit and when it shuts off apps, I’ll probably go back to real life.
In the latest version of Jerboa I can’t change from All / Active anymore. 😊 Also I can’t figure out for the life of me how to make a top level comment, they’re doesn’t seem to be a button for it.
Thunder didn’t have sorting by top last time I checked. Liftoff can’t add other instances than the 3 it comes with.
I definitely added more instances on liftoff
Edit: profile > settings > accounts > bottom right corner has a button that allows you to add instances
It’s definitely not intuitive, I admit
Oh I found that but it doesn’t seem to work for feddit.nl, the final “add” button never lights up. I’ve tried writing it as “feddit.nl” or “https://feddit.nl”, same thing.
There’s going to be a Liftoff update released later today that fixes this. There was an issue for v0.18.1 that impacted ability to add instances that I just fixed. Your instance just happened to update a bit early!
Ah right, I did notice they updated to 0.18.1 sometime yesterday. The web UI for 0.18 is pretty cool btw. 😃
No worries, it’s to be expected for stuff to break right now, with all the client apps and instances developing like crazy. 😺
The pace is certainly quick at the moment lol
So you don’t see a speech bubble in the row under the picture?
No, just number of comments, upvote/downvote buttons and scores, and the button to save the post. I’m on 0.0.36 right now.
It’s just Jerboa. I use Connect for Lemmy and that problem doesn’t exist. I think the dev for Jerboa doesn’t want to spend time making it backwards compatible, but other clients are.
back to real life.
which app do you use for that?
I’m so used to web clients I can’t get myself to use third-party apps anymore.
For me there’s one massive flaw with the mobile web version of Lemmy - that when you go “back” after viewing a post the page scrolls near to the top of the page. If it weren’t for that I’d happily give up the quest for an app.
What are you using instead?
A mixture of Mobile Web and Connect. I’ll probably re-evaluate in a couple of weeks. I really liked Jerboa, but new posts never seemed to refresh on my instance, I’ll probably try that again.
Jerboa is the first I tried, it’s good but the scrolling is very choppy for me, kind of a deal breaker honestly. Connect has much smoother scrolling, it seems alright. I’m stoked to try Sync for Lemmy, Sync for Reddit was my favourite client for years.
I’m using liftoff (Android), best one I’ve found so far.
How does it compare to connect for Lemmy?
connect loaded slowly (especially images) for me and Liftoff had a cleaner interface imo, loaded posts fast and it resembles Infinity for Reddit more than connect (with the settings I chose), if that’s anything to go by.
After the few initial minutes of using both Liftoff and connect, I prefer the design of liftoff so much more. Though I seem to be having some issues adding in comments or upvoting/downvoting things via liftoff, but having no issues with Connect. So I’m not sure what’s going on. Any help would be appreciated.
Just started testing Liftoff today. Really great looking app! Thunder is coming along nicely too.
I concur, It has the smoothest UX there is
I like jerboa because i can install it from fdroid
Only one app? Those are rookie numbers
They each have their own bugs and quirks so I hop around, currently on connect and it’s been stable enough today. Tomorrow, who knows, maybe back to liftoff or jerboa.
Seconded for connect, works great!
Switched from jerboa to connect cause it was crashing constantly on my pixel, but the UI has some weird things about it
I think the problem was due to the upgrade issues lemmy.world is having. I switched to Connect, too, for that reason, but I plan on going back to Jerboa when it’s resolved.
Was experiencing the crashes before 1.18 but it definitely got worse after that.
Do you also get the thing where chunks of comments are just repeated over and over? Or like 4 posts loop for a while?
No to the comment loop, yes to post loop. Also sometimes when I open a post, the comments from the last opened post show for a few seconds before new ones load.
wefwef & thunder here 🫡
It’s absolutely crazy how great wefwef is, considering it’s a progressive web app.
Dude, I started with Mlem, then moved on to Memmy and now I am using wefwef full time!
I feel it’s the most polished out of all the apps on iOS.
I started with Jerboa and just would WefWef today. Game changer! Loving it.
Im waiting for the block option and hide when read.
Just found wefwef and am very impressed. Probably gonna stick with this one for awhile.
Liftoff, jerboa and thunder currently.
Edit: does anyone know if any android app allows hiding posts? (locally on the device, i think the servers don’t support)
I’ve got a short list to finish before I release Flemmy on the play store this weekend, and a dynamic filter system is one of them… The UI is the hard part, so it’ll probably be rough and hidden in a subtle menu initially, but one of the things I’m adding for the next big release is configurable feeds… The idea is you can take an account, a server feed (sub, local, all), apply filters to it, and it’ll save where you left off if you switch between them or leave the app. I’ve done similar stuff in the past for data analysis screens, and it’s one of those things that is magical when it’s done well, and destroys everything when it’s done poorly
I got requests for hiding read, nsfw, and keyword filtering (I’m iffy on if that last one is a good idea, but I’m going to give out a shot).
I also got a request for a “block all communities on a server button”, which would work on your account globally.
What did you have in mind?
I think connnect for lemmy allows it. I remember seeing it in the settings.
I’ve used the PWA, Jerboa, Liftoff, and Connect.
Jerboa is probably my favorite of the bunch. I prefer how compact everything is and the 0.0.33 version was working well. I upgraded to 0.0.36 and performance took a bit of a hit so I figured I would explore alternatives. Also when I looked at other options 2FA support had not been added (it’s working as of this post)
The PWA is more than functional,and I like it quite a bit. Don’t like that backing out of a post navigates to the top of the page though.
Connect is good too, just personally not a fan of the larger interface, even in list/compact mode.
Currently using liftoff. Performance is good, 2FA support is available, and in list/compact mode it’s tolerable. I still do prefer the compactness of Jerboa though.
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Using the PWA until Sync for Lemmy is released.
You should try out wefwef.app
It is an Apollo like web app for Lemmy.
Check out this PWA app
Just Jerboa normally… but it’s so buggy that I discovered Connect. It’s amazing.
Same path for me. Looking at options here to see what might work best for me
