Title + Why you like that client?
I am using eternity from some hours and my fav is liftoff.
Jerboa It made by dev of lemmy. And it Minimal
jerboa felt a bit rough around the edges in my opinion. it also decided one day that it had no interest in working on my phone anymore, so i was forced to switch. can’t say i would recommend it
When i tried it jerboa had all kinds of login issues, search didn’t always work great either
Otherwise is was a good app, so hopefully those things have improved
Jerboa, because it just works and doesn’t overcomplicate things.
You can’t change the default comment sort though.
Jerboah actually. Its the most complete, stable and looks very good. Used Thunder but it lacks features and is kinda buggy. I was hyped about Infinity, but I only really needed Infinity to have private subscriptions and multi accounts, which I dont have on Lemmy.
Jerboa doesn’t have proper search functionality.
So search by text? Is there an app that has it?
I mean its search is limited to finding communities and we can’t really search for posts, users or comments using keywords. Sadly, among FOSS apps only eternity has a decent search functionality but it’s still under development and lil buggy. Liftoff does categorize searches but doesn’t have the functionality of searching within communities. So far only Boost, Sync and Connect seem to have it and none of them is open source.
Very interesting! I will give Eternity another chance.
Thunder
Boost for Lemmy just released, works great so far!
Perhaps biased because I’m so used to Boost for Reddit
I just started using it an hour ago and I already paid the $3.50 for ad free (one time purchase, by the way) and I’m uninstalling all other apps I was trying. Liftoff, Jerboa, Thunder, Connect… All dead to me. 😆
Liftoff
There was a poll a week ago and it reached over 6000 votes. That won’t answer Why, but you get a general idea which clients people use.
That was before boost was released. I bet it’ll look different now.
Unless people value their data and won’t use boost
They’re using sync. I think that has the same issues
How liftoff is so far down on that list baffles me
It’s a good app, but it also hasn’t received an update in two months.
That’s a shame, well I guess I’ll keep using it till it stops working. Then I would probably be switching back to Eternity as I used to use Infinity
I used Liftoff for quite a while. It just stopped working one day about 3-ish weeks ago. Couldn’t ever get it to work again. I might be an outlier, but if others had the same experience it may explain it.
Same here my fav client
It needs to be updated to include Boost… maybe in a couple of weeks…
Thanks btw ur client
I’m using Eternity, because I used Infinity for Reddit before and it’s just the most familiar client for me.
I used infinity for reddit, so naturally I switched to eternity.
I’ve used a bunch but I like thunder the most. Jerboa is nice and emojis work best on it, but I like the general look and feel of thunder the most. Eternity is nice but its too buggy for me in its current state.
Eternity. I was using infinity for years for reddead and having an in-situ replacement is nice.
Eternity. Comfy. Nice. Etc.
Eternity, free and open source, but also because I’m used to Infinity when it was still cool.
Considering this is the FOSS sub maybe the people suggesting Boost and Sync might want to suggest something else… It’s like people suggesting dairy cheddar for someone asking for a good lactose free cheese 🥲
But yeah, Jerboa is a popular client and one of the OGs as far as I know.
I personally enjoy Jerboa which is AGPL-3 and has a very sleek interface while being cross platform. Also felt a lot more complete than Jerboa did back when I tried it in July but im sure both are more similar nowadays
Eternity, no doubt.
Switched from Liftoff and haven’t looked back.
Is it FOSS?
It sure is! Check it out.
Sync.
