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Thunder App

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An open-source, cross-platform Lemmy client for iOS and Android.

This community is intended to discuss features and feature suggestions for Thunder; as well as friendly, respectful talks about Lemmy in general.

Please use the GitHub repository linked below to submit bug reports, so keeping track of them is easier, and make sure to search first if you already can find an issue for your report.

If there are any developers who would like to contribute, feel free to reach out on GitHub!

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TestFlight Beta: Link

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Nightly Community: Link

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Thunder is now on the App Store (apps.apple.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey everyone, I just wanted to provide a big announcement that Thunder is now available on the App Store! This includes compatibility with iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch (apparently), and Macs using Apple Silicon

The direct link to the App Store listing is here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/thunder-for-lemmy/id6450518497. As this was just published, it may take some time to show up within your country/region so if you do not see it yet, try again later!

The App Store version will follow the same version as Google Play and will be used for general releases. The TestFlight version will now be used for nightly/pre-release builds. Again, I’ll try to keep all the versions in sync with one another, but there may be slight delays in processing times due to the different platforms.

Thunder is a community-driven project, and all your contributions towards the project help shape the way it is. If you are interested in contributing to Thunder in any way, feel free to reach out!

If you would like to join in on the conversation for Thunder, we have a Matrix page here: https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org

If you would like to check out the GitHub page, it is linked here: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This app seems very nice, especially since it uses its own layout and not the same old that every other Lemmy app seems to use.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I have tried a number of apps on android for Lemmy and Thunder has been so far my favourite! Thanks for all the hard work on such a great app!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Since I tend to go by Thundernerd I feel like I have to try it out.

Like the others mentioned, the UI is refreshing, it feels slick!

ETA: I do notice a tiny bit of stutter when scrolling. Not quite sure why that happens.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The scrolling stutter on the feed can be smoothed out a bit by disabling external link previews. There is a bit of an overhead constantly calling out to external sites to scrape for an image to show. As for the comment feed. I think it could be better and I'm hoping it's something we can improve on.

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

Oh neat, I’ll try that out! To be good, they are only minor things :D

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your comment led me to take another look at where we display external links and I think there is an improvement that can be made. Currently that option I mentioned disables all external link thumbnails. But what we should do instead is only disable the image scraping and still show the thumbnails if Lemmy has them. Expect a fix soon :)

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

Great to hear! Thanks for the work :D

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

Today's new nightly release has my changes that should make the post feed smoother :)

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

Just updated and it feels great so far!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

This ticks many boxes for me! Nice easy swiping gestures, double tap and hold to zoom on images, a lot of customisation of the feed ++

I like it!

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

This is the app I would use on android if Sync wasn't available! Actually that's what I did.

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

Another small thing I noticed is that when looking at a post the buttons on the bottom of the screen feel quite close to the content/comments, it also overlaps some text when you’ve reached the bottom

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

This should be fixed up in the next general release! There's been a lot of changes piling up which are almost ready to be released

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Awesome!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks you for your hard work! Thunder is amazing.

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

LEGEND!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Been awhile since any news. Any news?

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

Haven't been on the Matrix chat in a bit, had no idea this was happening! Congrats, what an achievement!

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

Surprise! :D