So, I was lurking using sync for Lemmy and I came upon this post.
What happened to the development with these apps? I’m not that active on lemdro.id or other instances. But apps like Sync and Boost have been updated in a year or 6 months respectively. With Boost I’m not surprised Mayo tends to be slow. I was more shocked with sync. My question is do you guys have any recommendations for other Lemmy clients?
Edit Please do not harass the devs.
Edit 2: I’m testing out thunderbird.
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Sync was almost always like this - the Dev takes long breaks and then updates the app with lots of good stuff. He did this since reddit days, so I’m really not concerned
I use Voyager on Android.
I know that this is stupid and petty, but I dislike Voyager, because it’s essentially a web app. I prefer native or near-native apps (things like Flutter or React Native). I tried it out and it’s pretty nice UI/UX-wise, but I still prefer Arctic on iOS, because it’s an actual native app written in SwiftUI, and thus closer to Apollo for Reddit (which Voyager tries to imitate).
I am not an iOS user in any way. Does Voyager actually look/feel different than a native Swift app in any way? Or does it just bother you to know, in the back of your mind, that it is not native?
Or does it just bother you to know, in the back of your mind, that it is not native?
That’s why I said that this is stupid and petty, but the thought alone makes my blood boil. And it’s not the same as with normal Electron apps on desktop, I also hate those, but for different reasons. Voyager looks just like a native iOS app, which makes this even worse for me, as I’m allergic to this kind of HTML/CSS/JS imitation of native UI libraries. Something about it just feels so wrong to me as a developer, I don’t know.
But I recommend you don’t actually listen to me, just use whatever you like.
I’ve been very happy with Summit on Android.
Edit: changed link to app website
Summit has been the closest in look and feel to my beloved old baconreader (RIP).
Summit is such a nice app I haven’t even considered changing in over a year.
It’s unfortunately proprietary :(
What about raccon for Lemmy and connect?
Never tried Raccoon, but I used Connect for a while, it’s not bad, but unfortunately proprietary :(
What’s wrong with Jerboa? Been using it since I left reddit, seems perfectly fine to me.
I tried it over and over, found the UI and UX to be pretty poor, and the app is pretty buggy. It had an issue for months that caused comments to sometimes be posted twice or more, it was incredibly annoying.
Sure this is cursed but I have been turning the official Reddit app into a Lemmy client
I use Thunder too, I like it. But you accidentally added a space in the first hyperlink, so it’s not rendered correctly.
Fixed. Thanks.
Ok il look into it. But f droid has been funky for a few months now.
You can also get it from the Play Store, or directly from GitHub via Obtainium
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Definitely thunder. I’ve been using it since it was in early alpha and it has improved so much and works really really well.
I’ve switched to using Jerboa from Sync and it’s absolutely fine for my casual usage and it doesn’t have ads, which is a big plus point.
Jerobs is awesome!!
Boost
Not sure, I’ve been using Interstellar with Mbin and it’s been pretty great. Would recommend, responsive dev, works well, supports multiple platforms!
I finally made a full switch from Sync to Thunder, because even though I know that Sync dev does take huge breaks and he comes back and fixes everything and makes the app even better, I still wanted to make sure I find a good alternative and get familiar with it just in case.
Thunder is a really good app, especially considering its age. It also has the most features and the nicest UI (IMO) among the Lemmy apps. And it being open source is a huge plus too.
Sync is still my favorite, it just feels really nice to use, but I’ll stay on Thunder for now.
Voyager is also a really nice app that feels polished and works smoothly, but it’s lacking certain features that I like. So I keep it installed as a backup but I don’t use it often.
Eternity
Eternity is the best
I enjoy eternity as well, but its also been a while since any updates were published.
As long as it works, I don’t see a problem not receiving updates so often
I created this post because I didn’t realize lemmy was being updated so often. So there’s a good chance eternity might be missing some features as well.
Agree. It works well, but in the context of the original meme, not getting updates is a risk to Lemmy api breaking changes breaking the app. There’s also a few annoying theming issues with eternity. For a free app its good, but leaves something wanting compared to some of the other apps. Even if it has the better UI.
Connect.
I really liked Sync. It worked really well on my old phone, and I would gladly pay for it, but I’m so averse to ads that I can’t in good conscience support an app that
Raccoon is also nice.
I have been testing it as well. From what I have seen it’s still in the beta stage.
