I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask, but i’m new to Lemmy and looking for a good client to use it with. I’ve been using Sync which is what i used to use with Reddit but i’ve noticed that it isn’t getting updates now. Any other good mobile apps I can usr Lemmy with?
I’m using Voyager — I’m a very superficial user but it gets the job done.
If you liked RIF you’re gonna like Jerboa.
NB: The jerboa dev is one of the lemmy devs and it works great for lemmy, but it is never gonna support piefed.
I’ve been pretty happy with Blorp. They have mobile and web clients available
+1 for Blorp, moved there from Voyager after seeing active development.
Blorp dev here. Thanks for the support! Not only is the app actively maintained, but I do my best to lurk in the comments and help people with any issues.
Is it possible to show downvotes? I wonder why so few apps have it.
On web/desktop you can hover over the score. I can add an option to show downvotes by default.
Out of my current apps, only voyager has it for posts and comments at all times and kinda thunder (for posts when clicked on) But it could be in the settings for more and I haven’t checked.
You are doing a great job, thx!
Oh, I forgot to mention the desktop app!!
Thanks a ton. I was really struggling with the transition when using a few of the above mentioned apps…before I settled on Blorp.
Is it possible to move profile button down to the bottom?
Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.
Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn’t a slight against any of them.
Eternity is another one that I’ve had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that’s a useful option.
Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren’t likely to enjoy that ui.
On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren’t great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.
that’s syncI was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all
boost
eternity
connect
and interstellar since it does piefed better than anything else I’ve tried, and still does lemmy just fine.Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual
thunder
annnd summitAs you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they’re even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They’re reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.
Blorp!
Blorp is slow for me. I click something and it takes almost a second to react.
Anything specific or just everything? Admittedly, I don’t spend enough time testing Blorp on older phones.
It’s when opening a post to see the comments, going back to main feed, etc. It’s not snappy. The phone is a Samsung (not premium), and is like 4-5 years old.
Is it worse on posts with more comment? What happens if you open a post with 0 comments?
The same. With comments or not.
This might be tricky then. I’ll do some poking around and see if there are any obvious performance improvements I can make. But no promises
Well, since you’re available, I’d like to tell you about another thing that annoys me a bit. Which is when I reopen the app after it has been in standby, it automaticaly refreshes the feed after a few seconds once. Which results in it refreshing while I’m already in the middle of watching the “old” feed content. Does this not happen to you?
Would be great an option to let it refresh feed automatically or not after reopening the app.
I’ve tried Jerboa, then Sync, then Summit, and now I’m using Thunder. There were always small things that annoyed me enough to start looking for a new client after a few months, but I’ve had this for… a year or so now? It’s very customizable, so that’s nice.
Thunder is cross-platform, and IMO has one of the best looking UIs.
Connect is great, extensive filtering available. I use it as my main and jerboa as backup.
Seconded. Tried others but keep coming back to connect.
It’s not the flashiest, but has the best options for me
Eternity is great
Used to be my main and fav client (after Jerboa), but it hasn’t been updated in a year and Summit is just plain better and almost as customisable
I’m so used to this UI, don’t wanna leave it. Hasn’t given me any issues
Still using Memmy even though it‘s a broken pile of rust now. The UI is still the best for me.
Eternity hasn’t been updated in a while, but it still works great.
I guess I’m the only one here actively using Boost. I like it. Been using it since long before it was a Lemmy client, haha!
Using boost, it’s fairly reliable and I enjoy it.
I use boost. I find sometimes videos don’t show but other than that it’s been good.
I use Jerboa, is fine. Haven’t tried anything else so don’t know what I might be missing.
I also am part of the “I downloaded jerboa first and it’s good enough” crew.
been using boost no complaints
Sync or Boost.
