Hi fellow sync-ers,
Having joined Lemmy recently, I have been having a ton of fun. However accessing Lemmy through my mobile browser has been an awful experience, similar to my past Reddit experience till I found Sync.
I’m not sure how much longer I can tolerate the browser experience, and am hesitating jumping on a app. Where’s your head at about this?
Edit (4 days later)
I’ve been on Connect and has been 8/10 so far. Gonna dual use with liftoff after seeing the comments.
I did a 5 minute ctr+F to see which were the most popular apps/ interfaces. Not sorted by pos/neg, just mentions.
- wefwef/ voyager - 46
- connect - 43
- Liftoff - 33
- Jerboa - 23
- Thunder - 16
- Firefox - 13
- Thunder - 16
- Old.lemmy - 5
- Alexandrite - 4
- Vivaldi - 2
Connect for now. It isn’t perfect but pretty good. Feed isn’t as smooth (images load in later kicks your scrolling up) and you can’t open links in it automatically.
Yeah, Connect is how I’m surviving here until Sync is ready.
My primary issue with Connect at the moment is it desperately needs a reduction in the amount of taps to do anything. It takes 3 to download an image, and 4 to subscribe to communities. Both of these are things I feel should be in the ellipsis menu of any post, but currently you have to click through to the post or community. Meanwhile there are a dozen things in there I rarely use absolut flooding the menu. I also wish it saved comment drafts, but that is relatively minor.
It just needs some reprioritizing of actions and it would be perfect IMO.
Jerboa on mobile and WebUI on PC
App - Jerboa, mainly. I tried a few others and kept Liftoff installed, but keep going back to Jerboa.
But why ? Liftoff is quite good imho
I went from Liftoff to Jerboa as well. Liftoff is great but I just had a few nitpicks. Frame drops from time to time. Upvoting and commenting feels really slow. No button feedback when downloading images, I ended up downloading images multiple times.
If you have github account tell.these issue to.Dev , I.am.sure they will.fix.it
On mobile, I’m using the Voyager app, which lemmy.world has installed as an alternative front end. Seems to work great.
On desktop, I’m using the amazing Alexandrite UI (https://alexandrite.app/) which solves all of my interface annoyances with the regular Lemmy UI (infinite scroll, opening posts without losing place in the feed, easily accessible communities list).
I love how flexible Lemmy is proving with its UI options… there really does seem to be something for everyone!
Wow, Alexandrite is awesome. If it rolls in an account switcher, it seems like it’ll be just about perfect for me.
(dev here) I had an idea for how I’d build a profile switcher recently, it’s something I want to implement soon.
I’d also kill for default comment sorting, if you’re taking requests.
Awesome! Great work so far.
Thanks! :)
Wefwef, party app/site?
I’m genuinely impressed with WefWef. Works great and it’s a Progressive Web App
Wefwef is now called Voyager FYI. I’m also using it and its really good, I came here to recommend it.
Idk how I missses the name change but you are spot on!
I’m using Connect until Sync is available.
Connect is great. Big upgrade from using mobile browser.
Hey look at us Connecting here!
For now I’m holding myself over with Jerboa
While other apps offer a nice interface I find the jerboa app by far the best app for actually posting and commenting /actually interacting
This is important because I find that interacting with communities is actually a much better way to get meaningful engagement of Lemmy than it was with Reddit (I.e: lurking)
Using Voyager, formally WefWef.
It’s constantly getting updated and they welcome feedback so I would definitely recommend lol
Sync for Lemmy internal build.
It’s good, guys. Real good.
Jerboa for Lemmy for me. Pretty smooth experience.
Thunder. I tried every single Android app, and this is the only one without any major issues.
Ditto. Thunder is amazing. Connect had lots of bugs for me…
Have you tried Liftoff? I’ve never had any issues with it.
I do like Thunder, but it’s harder to navigate to people’s profiles and communities.
yeah, same. from all the ones I tried, I stuck with Liftoff. seems like the most functional and simplistic one to me.
Yup. Things like easily editing posts or getting extra context menus up, or sorting feeds by Top Hour or 6 Hour - Liftoff can do this but Thunder can’t.
The only feature that I can think of that Thunder has that Liftoff doesn’t is swipe actions.Edit: Liftoff has swipe actions! I missed the update.
I did, at some point settings got lost between updates and then a later version crashed on startup, that’s when I switched.
You should try Voyager again. It wasn’t the best day one when migrating from Reddit but right now I feel it’s turned out to be undisputed.
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I’m suffering through Jerboa, heavily anticipating Sync since it’ll change everything for me
Im using Alexandrite on desktop und Liftoff on mobile. Liftoff is great, I don’t really miss much from the famous reddit apps.
