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
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! :)
Jerboa for Android
For now I am using connect for lemmy. Which is great! And grown in Canada.
I second this. Been using Connect for about two weeks, and I think it’s really solid. I would give it an 8.5/10 in its current state.
I’m gonna give Connect a go! Thanks for the recc
And I’m guessing you’re here at Sync due to past loyalties, and may jump ship when Sync is up and/on Connect experience goes down?
Surprisingly no actually. I used RIF on Android and Apollo on iOS. I just joined the sub because I wanted to see what apps people were using too when I migrated like you, and I had seen a lot of people recommend Connect across multiple threads so seemed like a strong contender.
I may try some others in the future, but I see no reason to do that at the moment because I’ve been having a pleasant experience so far. Let me know what you think if you give it a try!
Reminds me of my Reddit journey before, gone through too many apps including RIF, baconreader before settling on Sync which I really loved.
T’was a fun time lurking around other apps /r and experimenting. and I kinda like it, like now fedi/Lemmy/Kbin etc.
No hate, just doing stuff and see what happens
Using Connect as well. It’s working great so far.
Voyager (former wefwef) quickly turned out the best. Good updates every day just made the experience the best. Go to their webpage from your browser of choice and install it from there.
(vger.app for those wondering)
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I’m using Connect until Sync is available.
Connect is great. Big upgrade from using mobile browser.
Hey look at us Connecting here!
Highly recommend Connect for Lemmy. I’ve been using it practically since I started, and it’s been consistently great (as long as your instance is up of course)
I am writing this through Connect. It’s the closest thing to Rif I found, for Lemmy. I’ve had some login issues at the beginning, but that seems to have been solved.
Same. There were SO many bugs with Jerboa. I jumped ship fast to Connect. But it’ll be nothing but Sync once it’s released.
Thunder. I tried every single Android app, and this is the only one without any major issues.
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.
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.
Ditto. Thunder is amazing. Connect had lots of bugs for me…
Thunder all the way. I tried Connect, Liftoff and Jerboa and they just didn’t work the way i liked. Thunder is filling the void of sync for me.
Using Voyager, the really downside was the iOS inspired theming but, with latest updates android theming is supported. It’s still in beta but promising. Better than that native iOS look 😑
The “native iOS” look looks pretty good even on Android IMO
Mostly browser. But when I’m off the computer, I use Liftoff.
Liftoff as well. While it’s definitely missing some features sync had, it’s pretty decent for an early app.
Same here, Liftoff for mobile, and browser when I got a chance to sit in front of my computer.
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
I use Connect for Lemmy, the UI design is great.
Using Jerboa app on Android…had a rocky start but it has updated a whole lot in the past weeks, getting close to 5/5 probably 3.5/5 right now
Even with reddit I seldomly used the browser on PC, if I’m home and on my PC I generally play games or YouTube/streaming shows rarely browsed reddit on PC
Jeroba is nice. Closest thing to Baconreader
I’ve been using Liftoff on Android. It’s way better than mobile browsing but no where near the same level as Sync. Biggest pain points are searching and subscribing to new instances as well as an insane amount of cache builds up and never clears on its own.
Currently I can’t load my subscribed instances but I think that’s a temporary bug…
I am eagerly and patiently awaiting Sync for Lemmy release.
I also had the issue with not being able to load subscribed instances. I think someone said it was tied to a forced logout of some sort that happened. I resolved it by removing the accounts from Liftoff, then re-adding them. Afterwards, it worked fine.
That fixed my issue. Thank you very much!
