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.
The same thing happened to me, except I had two accounts and I’d see the local feed of the other account than the one I was logged into. I switched to summit, but it’s buggy, unintuitive, and it’s missing critical features like subscribing to a new community or accessing my profile settings.
Have you tried WefWef?
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.
same. i only know memmy.
Im trying several others while they work out the kinks in Jerboa (it doesnt work very will if you use Lemmy.World as your instance), but it honestly geels 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.
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.
I’m loving thunder so far
Same
So far which is your favorite. Mine is thunder
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.
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?
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 use wefwef.app now, first comment in this app. Looks good. Jerbora Was crashing on me all the time…
Using the PWA until Sync for Lemmy is released.
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.
Why do I keep instinctively switching between clients when Lemmy is down thinking one will get past the 500 error better than the other one?
I’ve settled on thunder for now. Flawless since the latest update
I prefer Liftoff at the moment for the UI similarities with Infinity for Reddit.
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Really happy with Thunder, too, but the swipes are too sensitive, and the title should really be above the image in the feed view to provide context as you scroll.
It’s like what Sync was early on.
Is that iOS? I don’t see it for Android.
It’s not on the play store. https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder
Ah, thanks. I’ll probably just stick with the play store then.
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: !lemmynade@lemm.ee for anyone wanting to follow
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.
Man that looks good
Thank you, means a lot!
lemm.ee looks like it’s running a pretty old version and I can’t search that community :( could be a me issue though.
I’ve literally created a separate folder for Lemmy apps on my phone. I have 4 so far and I’ll continue to get more until I find the one. Jerboa, liftoff, connect for Lemmy and thunder. Jerboa still doesn’t let me log in with that stupid server error. Liftoff is weird. Thunder is ok, but has some quirks, like you can’t exit the app with the back button (I’m on Android). Connect is the best so far, but I feel like it doesn’t sync well. None of them sends notifications. Situation isn’t the greatest so far, but we are getting there
I’m using connect since it’s the only one I have found that have notifications, I had to turn them on in the settings, it polls every 60 seconds.
Same, I named the folder “Battle of the Lemmy’s”
😂 that’s actually a very cool name
None of them are very complete. The ones that are good are missing features and the ones that are complete aren’t good. I’m using wefwef.app for the most part. Just navigate there in your browser and bammo! Instant app.
I was using wefwef, it looks nice but it’s slow and has awkward UX. Every time I want to reply or vote, I have to take a second to think about which way to swipe
I think you’re into something about not complete or not good - I was hoping to be one of the firsts, but building a solid foundation takes time - I could’ve gotten something out there a week ago, but I’ve got big plans - I want to build discovery and sorting into the app, I want to be able to pull from multiple servers at once, and I want users new to Lemmy to have their hands held as they pick a server. And obviously, it has to feel responsive
To do that I had to build a data store and coax high performance libraries to play nice. I was pulling posts and had the account switching working on day 1, but I didn’t even start on posting until a couple days ago - and only after I made drafts that would reload when you go back
It’s easy to build something rough, fast, or inefficient Building something polished means working on the foundations, building it up, and doing and redoing things as you consider what feels “right”
Give Flemmy a shot in a few days if you’re on Android (more like a couple weeks on iphone). It’s still early days and there will be bugs and missing features, but, now that the groundwork is solid, it’s moving fast
UX may be a taste thing but I cannot second the speed critic. On Firefox it’s sluggish as hell, yeah, but using it with Chrome wefwef feels like a native app.
I‘m using wefwef.app as webapp on iOS and as website on Desktop-PC and it reminds me of the Apollo app for reddit.
Eyyy my friends on IOS were complaining about no app! Thank you!! Looks pretty nice
Which app is most like RIF? I’m using Jebora currently.
Summit is the closest from what I’ve seen. But it has some very basic things missing like an inbox. But it’s my favorite feeling app.
I use the one that I made! It was made rather early on before most of these apps became popular, but if it’s my own app, I can make it however I want…
What’s it called?
Didn’t realize there were so many options that’s great! Using Jerboa on Android now and it’s been my only experience with the platform so far so I’m definitely open to recommendations
I’ve been using jerboa (android), thunder (android), wefwef (pwa), and memmy (iPad).
Love them all, but they all have their quirks!
Wefwef and jerboa for now
