Does anyone else use the android app Connect for Lemmy? It reminds me of Infinity for Reddit. If you use it, do you like it better than Jerboa? I also found another new Lemmy app called Liftoff.
Connect for Lemmy: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect
Anyone else just using whatever is FOSS feom f-droid?
Of course the more apps the merrier, but personally open code = a more trustworthy use for me
All the apps except connect are open source. I’ve tried jeroba, thunder and liftoff so far and liftoff has been the most robust.
Liftoff is great, has a lot of potential too. Devs in their Matrix room are cool.
Jerboa was the first showing up on F-Droid and so far it’s great: minimalistic, responsive, lightweight (only 2MB or so). Don’t know why so many people are developing apps and not simply joining efforts. Makes me think they’re doing it for the purpose of doing it, and because they’re happy to work on an app and get their software engineering brain occupied by their own little project. But what will happen once this sentiment passes? Who’s gonna maintain these apps? What we need is one robust app everyone is working on together.
I say let them be, there are (or soon were) many different third-party apps for Reddit as well and each has their own niche of users for whom it works just right. Jerboa has plenty of devs working on it, and if in doubt I’ll always prefer having a choice between different apps. Let the free FOSS market decide!
I think Connect looks nicer so I’ve been using it - very excited for Sync for Lemmy though
Connect seems cool, but I was using Infinity because it was open source. This one doesn’t seem open source (correct me if I’m wrong) so I’ll stick with Liftoff or Jerboa for now
Thanks for the recommendation of Liftoff! I really didn’t like Jerboa but liftoff seems like a nice app.
The lack of picture downloading got me fucked up lol. I’m interested to see jerbora development and liftoff. Will almost certainly jump ship to sync if its anywhere near the quality of the reddit version
Yeah, just discovered that, woof.
That is a very good point. I just found it by accident a few minutes ago and didn’t even realize that.
Interesting, I’m waiting for Sync for Lemmy, is this one open source?
No, I dont think it is unfortunately. Another commenter said it was full of trackers, although I have not verified that. I didn’t realize that when I made the post
Where is this post? I tried connect and it works fine, the guy made it in a week, it’s impressive
Here is the post: https://beehaw.org/comment/449643
I cannot verify if that comment is true or not, or how they found out the information.
I tried to reply and ask, but for some reason my comment will not postt! I have tried using the website and several Lemmy apps.
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Same for me, strange
I’m glad to see apps being made for Lemmy, but being open source for me is a must.
Just tried and it’s much more impressive than Jerboa. No laggy scrolling, UI and UX are nicer. Feels more like RiF.
Only (minor) nitpicks I have are:
- dark theme could be darker
- I’d prefer the comment form shows as a popup/overlay (like RiF does) so you can kind of glance at the context while commenting
- list view items need more padding and less margin
Jerboa is absolutely not laggy on my side. Find it super responsive and lightweight instead. it’s only 2MB
I’m guessing what they’re referring to is that it waits to fetch the next page of the timeline until relatively “late”. There’s a definite hitch in scrolling for me when it’s fetching more posts.
That said, I’m perfectly satisfied with Jerboa.
Jerboa has been crashing on me lately so I’ve been using Connect while it gets fixed. No complaints so far.
Have you tried thunder? Super slick UI, if minimalism is your thing, but also WIP.
Wow, this is actually awesome. I’ve been using Jerboa for a couple of weeks now, but Thunder feels much more inline with what a was hoping for. Good lookin out man.
Edit: precompiled APK download link so I don’t have to do it myself is very appreciated.
Oh wow I haven’t heard of this! Just downloaded it.
Very nice, it has the swipe like funcion.
Looks super nice, but won’t let me log in to my instance.
Darn. I had to give it a second try but its working now for me.
Same here, Jerboa won’t even open on my phone without crashing. :/ Connect for Lemmy has all the basic functionality down, so it’s okay to use.
I am missing the comment collapse option on all apps except gerboa. Hope they fix it.
It’s there with a long press. I missed it too at first.
Thunder has been the most featured for me so far. It does collapse by time, and i am also able to subscribe to communities from new instances following the [email protected] formatting.
Check out liftoff too
I saw the announcement for that one, but I figured I’d leave off testing more for a little bit they mostly seem to be behind jerboa. Does liftoff support subscribing from instances your instance hasn’t seen before already?
It has been the most polished experience so far for me, probably because they had the lemmur code base to begin with. As for adding communities, I’m not sure. The community search works like in Jerboa but I haven’t tried it with new communities not indexed yet.
It looks like it can do it but it’s buggy too. Overall not bad, not a big fan of the user interface in Liftoff for some reason though.
Liftoff has it. Press and hold
Good… Good… Let the app wars begin.
Only just found Connect and its very good IMO
I tried to sign up on lemm.ee with Jerboa and it would give me constant server error messages…but Connect is great so far. Like the layout better as well 👍
I’m missing the ability to collapse threads, but otherwise it’s very sleek Edit: nevermind you just need to hold the top comment for one second
Hi, there’s also a setting to make comments collapse on single tap instead of long press.
I take it you’re the developer! Well done! As a Sync for Reddit user, this one is making me feel at home on my phone. 👍
Awesome to hear! I started working on Connect when the subreddits went private and I couldn’t find any Lemmy apps that matched the experience I was used to (Sync and Apollo). So I’m glad you feel at home!
Worth noting that the Jerboa app pushed a major update today and it’s massively improved. Definitely suggest giving it another try after today, it feels like an entirely new app.
I’ll be honest, don’t notice many changes? Feels and looks the same to me.
The entire UI got a refresh. There’s an actual search button now too.
Where did you download it? From what Ive heard the Play Store version lags behind a bit. I got it via f-droid and now have buttons to jump between top level comments (this isnt the only change but it is the most obvious on first glance). A lot of instances arent on the newest version of lemmy yet though, since the sign up captchas were temporarily removed and preventing bots to sign up is way harder without it. I dont know if there will be software conflicts due to this mismatch though.
Didn’t notice anything different. In fact, I can’t change to “All” anymore (coincidence?). That’s why I’m exploring Connect right now.
Im having the exact same issue. Im keeping bith apps on my phone atm so if one has issues I can hop on the other one
All is definitely still there. Not sure the issue on your side.
Jerboa has been very buggy for me the last few days: account switching doesn’t work, jerboa ignores my settings for what feeds to load at default, randomly losing my accounts and crashing.
I tried Connect and didn’t like its UI. The PWA isn’t very useful as the feed reloads from the top when I back out of a post by swiping from the edge.
Jerboa has been worse for me since the update. It won’t follow my feed or sorting selections.
Jerboa won’t even let me log in, says server is too outdated :(
There were big api change with lemmy 0.18 which the updated jerboa is compatible with. The instance you were trying to log into is outdated.
They all look cool, hopefully they add support for kbin in the future.
It’s awesome. I can tell I’ll be anxious for each release to watch it mature.
Won’t even open up on my galaxy fold 4 :(
I can confirm same on my fold 4 also.
Hi, this should now be working on the latest release (1.0.39). Thanks!
I’m using it, Jerboa, and standard mobile site. They each leave something to be desired, but each have their good points. I don’t know why, but Connect seems slower, with images loading slower than the other two. Don’t know why.
I have since discovered https://wefwef.app
It is amazing. Basically an open-source clone of Apollo for reddit.
I really want to like wefwef, but it jutters so much while scrolling and opening threads. Not sure if that’s just the nature of being a web or or because it’s poorly optimized.
I’m on a pixel 7 so I don’t think it’s just my phone.
Thats strange. I am using a Pixel 5 and it has been butter smooth. I am using GrapheneOS/Vanadium.
Interesting site for sure
