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I have about 5 different apps installed right now, and while I plan to test them all out, curious what people's conclusions are thus far.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I prefer Connect.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Prefer connect

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Jerboa is still the best one for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I am happy with Jerboa. I used to use Boost and Infinity for Reddit. I tried out Infinity, Voyager, Sync and connect. So far, Jerboa has been the best experience for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I am using multiple apps right now. Sync feels really smooth. Summit also comes close in terms of fluidity I feel. I like Thunder and Liftoff as well. Waiting for more improvements on Thunder.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Sync is pretty good but its font options are awful on my phone. If I set the comments font size to "huge", it's still smaller than e.g. the clock in the notification bar. And then it's an unreasonably large jump from "huge" to "header".

It needs a simple font size slider instead of preset mystery values. As it is, it's just uncomfortable to use.

Not sure if Sync for Reddit had the same problem since I used other clients more.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I prefer Infinity but I did so for Reddit too so it's just my prefered app in general, Sync definitely seems to have less rough edges! I think the main advantage over fresh Lemmy apps are their UX and Animations, those are increadably hard to get right without years of user feedback!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Infinity is AWESOME although I'm not quite sure how to get automatic updates for it yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

You can install and update it using obtainium. I haven't used it before using it for infinity for lemmy and it works perfectly. Obtainium itself can be installed over android, although I'm not sure it's in the standard repo (I got it from the IzzyOnDroid repo)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I prefer my own app, but that's a given :P

I did like many aspects of the official Reddit app until they enshittified it, so I'm reusing some concepts it had. It's still in alpha phase, and even then, there's some things I liked that I'm not sure I'll implement. I particularly liked the second tab in the bottom navigation bar when it had your list of subscribed subreddits and an alphabetical scrollbar. That was super awesome. I'll definitely try to add something like that in the future, probably after I get feature parity with the official UI.

I'm avoiding pop-ups by editing the current relevant components. So, when you press "submit", the error message will be inside the form instead of as a pop-up. Or when you report a post, the form appears inside the post instead of as a pop-up. It's much more intuitive to use and I think I can make it faster to use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Neither. I'm just using my browser for now until Boost for Lemmy is ready. The mobile site is pretty good for moderate usage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Infinity! It was my go-to client for Reddit, and now it's my go-to client for Lemmy. Most basic things work. There are still some bugs lurking in the app, but it's still in Alpha so that's kinda expected.

The UI is really smooth and customizable, but I guess anyone who's ever used Infinity already knows this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I'm waiting for boost to launch until then i am using jerboa

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Having Infinity I feel back at home. The pre-release is said to be buggy but I have not seen anything yet these last few days.

Not sure if infinity has the same "issues" as sync with the data collection.i will let someone smarter chim in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Infinity hands down. It's the only app out so far that has horizontal swipe through posts which is like my only factor for a good ~~reddit~~ Lemmy app

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Neither. My two favorite are Voyager and Connect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use Sync because it's just what I'm used to. I've been using it for more than 3 years, but I've also used Jerboa, Thunder, Liftoff, Lemotiff, Connect and Voyager.

Here's what I think about those:

Jerboa is good, maybe a bit laggy and things take a bit to load, but overall good. Nothing that stands out.

Thunder is very good, but I've been unable to reply DMs and comments from my notifications, I'd have to go to the browser or use another app to reply. I'm almost sure it'll get fixed in the future.

Connect is very, very good, but, and it's a huge BUT for me, every time I'm commenting and I want to change part of my comment, I click on the part I want to add or erase more text but instead of doing that it selects the text from where I was to where I clicked, and it happens with every comment and DM, to fix it I have to copy the whole thing, go back to the post, paste the comment again and keep on writing. I stopped using it.

Liftoff is very good, but I don't like that when I collapse a comment it says "comment collapsed, tap to expand" (that's it, it's just nit picking, everything else is good), I still sometimes use the app.

Lemotiff I can't log in but the idea/design is good.

Voyager is one of the best but sometimes it jumps to random parts of the timeline, I also prefer having an app not a PAW (or was it PWA? I don't remember the correct term)

Lemmur says my instance doesn't exist so I can't even try it.

Haven't used infinity or Boost yet, just downloaded Sync and it just works perfectly.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Connect or Liftoff

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