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
The rate these are coming out are astounding.
Absolutely. I’ve since found another one I like even more: https://wefwef.app
That’s an interesting one, appears to be a PWA.
It’s awesome. I can tell I’ll be anxious for each release to watch it mature.
Looks cool but if it’s not on F-Droid I ain’t using it.
Is your phone 100% un-Googled?
A man/woman of principles
I am missing the comment collapse option on all apps except gerboa. Hope they fix it.
I’m seriously missing the ability to jump to the current/next/previous parent comment. I make heavy use of that and only Jerboa has it right now, I think.
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.
Just tried it out, but couldn’t login since they don’t have 2FA support yet. I don’t think any of them really do yet, but if you logged in before setting it up the current apps still work. They got a PR for it so I guess I’ll wait till that merges to try it out.
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
It’s there with a long press. I missed it too at first.
Thank you so much!! This has been driving me crazy. idk why “long press” just never occurs to me as an option!
on Jerboa it was long press but they fixed it in recent releases. now just press once on the comment and it collapses. i was missing that but now the UX is great
Upvoting this post from Connect for Lemmy. Actually I think I still prefer Jerboa. Unfortunately it has stopped working since I updated my instance to 0.18 so this will have to do for now.
Yeah I prefer the look and feel of Jerboa. It’s working fine for me now but I have experienced some glitches in the past.
Exactly the same error I received as well, which led me to find Connect
Just downloaded it, exactly what I needed. Thanks!
Crashes on startup on my galaxy fold 4
Hi, this will be fixed in the next release (tonight)!
It was! Posting this from my fold-4 as we speak. I’m loving the app so far. Great job on this!
Same. I’m using a Surface Duo 2 and I saw a 1 star review for a Z Flip with a startup crash. So I think it’s an issue with nonstandard screen ratios/resolutions.
I made a post on it in the app’s community. May want to post there so the developer knows.
I’ve been using Connect for the last few days and so far really enjoy it. it’s still missing a few features but I really like the UI.
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
dark theme could be darker
Try the “Amoled” theme in the settings (remember to click save at the bottom of the page, I initially missed that). It’s a much darker theme on my phone.
Ah! That’s perfect, thanks!
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.
true, i do have that same hitch that you describe when it’s fetching more posts. but that’s not too big of an issue for me either. i guess adding a bit of pre-fetching would solve it.
Hmm, I don’t know then. The scrolling is anything but smooth for me.
They all look cool, hopefully they add support for kbin in the future.
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.
Yeah. I love the fact that it can aggregate feeds from multiple accounts. It is also the client that has been giving the least amount of timeouts for me.
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.
The UI of this app honestly makes be feel a bit braindead at times, the process of finding the drop down necessary to even log in made be feel like I unlocked an easter egg in a point and click adventure game. It could use some more thought considering the backend of it is otherwise very well put 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!
Same here, installed what was available in F-Droid.
Will check again in a few months, as I assume different flavors will be created.
Much better! Feels more similar to the old app I was using for reddit.
Using it to make this answer, and loving it Jerboa just keeps crashing instantly for me (android 12, Fairphone 4). Not sure why. But connect has just worked out of the box.
Jerboa works just fine for me. I’m also on a Fairphone 4, but running CalyxOS with Android 13. Maybe you can try Jerboa from another source like F-droid instead of Google Play or vice versa. You can also try the IzzyOnDroid repository on F-droid.
My jerboa was crashing so I tried to install it from Fdroid, and now I can’t sign into either version. (Server isn’t updated because of captcha issues with new update. Jerboa is preventing login because of this.)
So that prevented me from using jerboa.
Connect works still, shame jerboa is having issues.
The F-Droid version is now updated. Give it a shot.
I wish. I’ve updated it from both F droid and the play store and both say my instance version isnt on the current update so I can’t sign in at all.
My instance isn’t updated because the new update is fucky with captchas idk the fine details
These kind of growing pains certainly suck. I hope it settles down for you soon.
Mine has been crashing ever since the recent update specifically when I try to switch my filter from hot to new it seems to only happen if you do it right as you open the app
Which of these apps allows me to hide posts? At this point that is the only feature I care about.
I have not looked at that feature yet.
Here is a nice chart comparing Lemmy apps https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/73564
https://wefwef.app is the most polished one I have seen.
Connect is pretty good. Stil missing some important features, like block, and the instance name is missing from usernames and communities, which is a pretty major oversight, but other than that it’s solid and being developped surprisingly fast.
If I am logged into Lemmy.ml, can I reply in other instances’ posts like in any one of beehaw’s?
Looks like you can.
Thanks for confirming. I am new here and thought others can’t see my comments haha.
