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.
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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.
Boost works fine
Left Sync for it, temporarily, until Sync is back to updating. It’s been like this back in the Reddit years too.
I remember boost taking it’s sweet time. But sync always updated more regularly.
ljdawson was always gone for months back in the day. A year is a long time, but I’m not that surprised. The only reason it’s a problem is because, unlike Reddit, Lemmy isn’t really stable.
Both Sync and Boost are stable apps, so to speak. But it is a problem when the site itself gets a lot of stuff updated. The app devs need to sort their schedule out tbh.
I started with Voyager and eventually moved to Mlem, which has given me zero issues thus far
You should try [Thunder] (https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder). It is available on Izzysoft. Its is FOSS (AGPL) but I don’t know why it is not in official f-droid repository.
We are working in getting it in F-Droid!
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
I use Thunder too, I like it. But you accidentally added a space in the first hyperlink, so it’s not rendered correctly.
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.
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.
Jerobs is awesome!!
What’s wrong with Jerboa? Been using it since I left reddit, seems perfectly fine to me.
I use Voyager on Android.
I know that this is stupid and petty, but I dislike Voyager, because it’s essentially a web app. I prefer native or near-native apps (things like Flutter or React Native). I tried it out and it’s pretty nice UI/UX-wise, but I still prefer Arctic on iOS, because it’s an actual native app written in SwiftUI, and thus closer to Apollo for Reddit (which Voyager tries to imitate).
I am not an iOS user in any way. Does Voyager actually look/feel different than a native Swift app in any way? Or does it just bother you to know, in the back of your mind, that it is not native?
Or does it just bother you to know, in the back of your mind, that it is not native?
That’s why I said that this is stupid and petty, but the thought alone makes my blood boil. And it’s not the same as with normal Electron apps on desktop, I also hate those, but for different reasons. Voyager looks just like a native iOS app, which makes this even worse for me, as I’m allergic to this kind of HTML/CSS/JS imitation of native UI libraries. Something about it just feels so wrong to me as a developer, I don’t know.
But I recommend you don’t actually listen to me, just use whatever you like.
I’ve been very happy with Summit on Android.
It’s unfortunately proprietary :(
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 !summit@lemmy.world. 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.
What about raccon for Lemmy and connect?
Never tried Raccoon, but I used Connect for a while, it’s not bad, but unfortunately proprietary :(
However I’m happy with eternity
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.
Me To!
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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
Eternity
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.
There are dozens of us
Also a satisfied Connect user here.
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
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.
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 !voyagerapp@lemmy.world. Can recommend!
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
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
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.
Not sure, I’ve been using Interstellar with Mbin and it’s been pretty great. Would recommend, responsive dev, works well, supports multiple platforms!
A lack of updates doesn’t necessarily mean they’re inactive unless there are new features they need to work with or bugs they need to fix.
I really liked Sync. It worked really well on my old phone, and I would gladly pay for it, but I’m so averse to ads that I can’t in good conscience support an app that
