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.
However I’m happy with eternity
Me To!
Hasn’t development slowed to a crawl?
I am using eternity to post this btw. Was using liftoff before until it broke and will continue with eternity.
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
He probably has a day job
And family stuff, probably. Totally understandable.
Not when you charge monthly subscription fees, your app no longer fully supports the platform, and you haven’t pushed a single change in 12 months.
It’s acceptable to have 2 of the above issues, but not all 3 at once.
Wait I thought it was a €20 purchase, now it’s €2 a month, €19 a year or €110 for lifetime? That’s steep
I’ve just started on Lemmy very recently, but I’ve been trying out different Android Lemmy clients. I’m currently on ‘Voyager for Lemmy’ which I installed from F-Droid, and personally this has been my best experience yet
I tried a few other clients as well and settled on Voyager in the end. The experience is great, it’s being actively developed and the dev is active in [email protected]. Can recommend!
FYI, voyager started as a hyper performant webapplication namef wefwef
I still have it as a shortcut on my phone as a backup to the official app
Voyager is a good client but it’s a variation of infinity which with Infinity I don’t really vibe with. Its not a bad client just not for me.Sorry I’m thinking of eternity 😅. My bad
Voyager is a fantastic experience imo. I tried other clients like Jerboa and a couple others I can’t remember the names of. The others were always a buggy mess whereas Voyager actually just worked. Dunno if the other apps eventually improved, but I wasn’t personally keen on sticking around through their significant growing pains when Voyager already existed.
I haven’t seen bugs in Jerboa in ages.
That’s great to hear! Makes sense that they would have worked them out eventually. I just never saw a reason to try to switch back. I tried out a bunch of different apps until I found one that I liked and worked well is all.
(Disclaimer, I’m one of the devs.) Thunder is cross-platform and very actively developed! There was a release two days ago. We keep up with Lemmy API changes and we’re constantly squashing bugs and adding new features. Check it out!
I am very interested in Thunder, especially considering it’s open source. While it does seem packed with features, I’d love to see a bit more customizability though. I might submit some feature requests some day but looking now there are nearly 200 issues as it stands. Not a complaint, just an observation. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for checking it out. Yeah we do have quite a backlog of issues to work through. Obviously we prioritize bugs and the most popular feature requests. Feel free to submit an issue any time you want though! It may be that we can help come up with a workaround that gets you what you want. Otherwise sometimes if its an easy change one of the devs will knock it out quickly. But if nothing else it’ll be there for other people to react to. :)
Nice. I have been enjoying your guys app for the last 2 days.
I have some feedback but I don’t think it’s really anything that substantial right now. What is the best way to give you guys feedback on thunder bird?
Hey thanks! I think you mean Thunder. :-) Thunderbird is a mail client from Mozilla (also a great app lol).
If you have a bug or feature request to report, you can create an issue on GitHub. https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder
If you just want to have a discussion with the devs and other community members, you can check out our Matrix. https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org
Sorry my bad 😅. Been trying multiple clients for the past few days. Thank you for the contact info!
I second Thunder (also an (early) Dev). The repo is still super active.
I’ve been very happy with Summit on Android.
Edit: changed link to app website
Summit is severely overlooked. Dev fixes many bug reports same/next day as well.
Where is the source code? Is it closed source? As I see only releases are on github
It is closed source. People keep asking if it will be made open source, and the dev doesn’t necessarily seem opposed to it. I don’t recall the reasons they gave, nor would I likely understand them as someone who is not a developer, but there are threads on it on [email protected]. They are generally very open to discussing things if you might have solutions for them.
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.
Jerboa was the first app I tried when there were essentially no other Lemmy apps. It worked ok in the very beginning, but then went horribly jank and turned into an almost unusable, buggy mess. Voyager was being developed at the time (then wefwef) and switching to it was like a breath of fresh air. It actually just freaking worked and wasn’t a glitchy mess as opposed to the other apps in development at the time.
If Jerboa has improved a lot since then, then that’s great! But I’d wager that I’m probably not the only one who was deeply turned off by this during its nearly broken phase of development. Voyager just worked and continues to just work, so I haven’t had any reason to try to switch back.
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
People use the official Reddit app voluntarily?
Well once you take out all the ads and algorithm it’s not all that bad. It wouldn’t be my favourite but it would have some character.
That’s what I believe. My lemmyfied Reddit doesn’t have any bullshit features, I was able to remove them all
I haven’t built / tried it yet but would getting rid of the reddit logo up top too (leddit, perhaps?) work well? Or even load up your local instance favicon etc?
That would be great. I’ll try once I have finished polishing the API compatibility and basic features. Do you want me to tell you once it’s stable and ready for you to try ?
Hell yes.
I ain’t a lover of that kinda app (aesthetics plz) and why I stick with Boost being a RiF user but having lots of alternatives is one of the many reasons we all kicked off originally over in r/Android about the API bollocks Mr Greedy Piggy Spez brought in. That, and shitting on the disabled/spam whackers/translators you name it. Pissed us off enough we made this instance.
Does that official reddit app have decent Accessibility features yet, or was Spez yet again talking out of his pooper?
Good work btw, and obligatory fuck spez ;)
I’m using Connect and it’s fine. The dev sometimes pushes updates that break things but the patches come quick enough.
It’s an extremely familiar app experience as a very long time Redditor. The app works great.
Also a satisfied Connect user here.
There are dozens of us
Boost
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Boost here as well…why it’s missing from the lineup is a bit odd. I figured there is a good number of people using it.
We are working in getting it in F-Droid!
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!!
Yeah I tried a few others, and since Jerboa is FOSS and official, I just stopped trying other apps.
The only thing I wish it could do is share a post as an image, like how Apollo did.
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.
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
Not sure, I’ve been using Interstellar with Mbin and it’s been pretty great. Would recommend, responsive dev, works well, supports multiple platforms!
