I searched up "Lemmy" on the PlayStore and noticed that Reddit appears right before the last lemmy client in that search X3 do u guys know if there r any other lemmy clients worth trying? I randomly felt like trying all I could find and for now I'll stay on Jerboa and the Web UI but I use Voyager too now, mainly for DMs
Edit: I apparently wasn't clear enough but I was asking for OTHER clients that aren't on this list X3 but feel free to share why u use an app in this list if u want anyway :3
why do people use boost? heard it has ads in it. not to mention it collects and shares data. it baffles me why anyone would use it over something like voyager. (also its a proprietary app for a FOSS project)
the fact you pay for something that is utilizing FOSS software is crazy. its not like they are even hosting their own instance. they're just profiting off of open source devs.
LMAO Srry about that X3 it confuses me too all the time cuz I usually have apps in English unless their main language is Spanish (so, always X3) but a few r in Spanish either cuz they wont let me change the language of just that app or I forgot to check if they do :p
I use sync too but I wish the developer actually seemed to give a fuck. Seems he took all the initial money and bounced. I know he comes and goes but people pay for this app and it should be maintained properly.
Which is why even though I left Reddit because of Sync I didn't buy it again at the now much higher price. I got used to Jerboa before Sync was ready, and it's almost as good (for my use anyways) and free.
Way back when it released I said that the dev was charging so much upfront that he probably doesn't expect lemmy to take off. He even responded to my comment saying he was going all in. I guess I was right in the end.
I think I remember people talking about Sync a lot but didn't pay attention to that, why were they hating on it? I tried it yesterday and it seems pretty cool and has some neat features :3
I think a big part of the hate came from the fact that the developer was charging for a premium version. Lemmy is all about open source, power to the people kind of things, so I imagine this rubbed people up the wrong way. Plus it was a fairly popular reddit app, and people were hating on the reddit refugees as well.
Do you remember RIF? And that time reddit forced all the third party apps to change their names by adding "for Reddit" at the end? So RIF changed the name to "RIF is fun for Reddit", that is "Reddit if Fun is Fun for Reddit". Good times.
RIF is short for RIF is fun, not Reddit is fun because at a different point in time, Reddit didn't want other clients to have the word reddit in their name.
Btw fdroid just builds the apps. It is often better to use the APKs from the release pages of github etc. so that you only need to trust the devs. It is also way better for security as FDroid uses the same signing key for every single app.
Obtainium works okay for that, you enter the URL and it finds a lot of sources. It is completely overcomplicated though.
I'm not sure I agree on the trust thing. I prefer to trust a single source of curated apps, rather than many individual developers. I like to imagine that f-droid would remove a malicious update before it gets to my phone.
i use thunder and eternity, eternity's my fav bc of the ui customisability an seperating downloads into folders per community. but also thunder just cuz it looked cool an it works :3
Oh right! That downloads feature sounds so neat tho I very rarely download anything from lemmy but I bet it's great for people that download their fave memes or whatevs :3 and yeah cool+works r the main things I look for too X3
LOL U're welcome X3 It looks pretty great but for some reason it's super laggy for me?? If u tried it did u have the same issue? Like, everything I tap takes a second to open
I was using Eternity for a while, mostly because I used Infinity on Reddit and it's a fork of that. But it's still not feature complete and it hasn't been updated in ages, so I'm on Voyager now.
Im still using eternity untill this day although dev seems very slow progress in git compared to other apps but i can assure this apps rocks
Tbh why i used this apps in first place bc it can open redgif videos inside the apps not redirect it to browser apps
RiF was one of the clients that just died when the API thing happened right? I remember people being sad about that :< Oh well, glad u found a new home in Connect and Lemmy! :>
I think it's funny that Connect is in third place with a 5.0 rating and 10 million downloads, and yet nobody talks about it the way they do Jerboa and Sync and Voyager.
It's a great, simple client. No ads. Totally free.
I tried searching for keepass2android yesterday and none of the results on the Play Store were the app. There was one old icons pack, the rest was just something else.
Is that app shadow banned or something? I can open the app page if I follow a direct link
huh that's weird, maybe it's just not very popular and u get other more popular results that technically fit ur search? That has happened to me before when looking for not-very-well-known apps but I find them after scrolling down a bit
I ran into this exactly, but it turned out to be device compatibility. I could never find it in the play store on the (x86) Chromebook, while it always showed up as you'd expect on the arm android.
I've only ever used Jeroba. It's what I picked first and I like how it's fairly simple and straightforward. I used Now For Reddit before the APIpocalypse and really liked that interface even if (or perhaps because) gif support never happened for that app. I'm open to trying something else though, especially if one has an easy crosspost feature.
Well this post's comments have some neat suggestions! :D (tho that's not what I was asking for, everyone is talking about the clients I already know X3 but that's fine :3) So u could try those out and see if u like them :3
Also gif support didn't occurr to me, I wanted to have a gif as my banner but it didn't work at all, maybe that's a Jerboa issue? And I can't remember if gifs work in posts but I think u need to tap them to open them in fullscreen and then they start moving
No, it's 50 000. It says mil, which means thousand in Portuguese (and in Spanish and Italian, if I'm not mistaken?) imo it's confusing, because Google likes using 50mil when it's 50 000 and using 50M when it's 50 000 000.
Yea kinda funny how I thought I would still want to use Reddit after moving to Lemmy but I just never opened the app and ended up removing it :p Same as with Windows when I moved to Linux years ago! X3
I think it's been like 8 months since the mass migration thing? maybe nine?
What app is it?? :o That's why I made this post, to find more lemmy clients, but so far out of the 150+ comments only one has told me of a client I didn't know of and I can't install it for some reason LOL X3
LMAO so I've heard ye X3 Tho jokes aside I'm guessing it was called Eternity cuz the original reddit app may be gone but the community is eternal or something like that?
My only problem with Raccoon is that I can't make post titles large and the comment text normal. Everything is either too big or too small because there's only like 1 setting for all the text.
I really wish the dude who started Liftoff would give us an update or something. It's pretty damn perfect but it won't work with 0.19+ of Lemmy currently and it still has an issue where it repeats posts all the time.
Hi and thanks for trying it out! I have been working on content font sizes (there were some rendering problems I realized) but I'm curious about having different dimensions for different parts of the content (currently there are two options, one for the menus/buttons of the app, the other for posts and comments). What more fine-grained control do you think would be useful?
I dunno, Raccoon seemed cool to me :3 It did feel similar to other apps but in a good way, but it's super laggy on my phone for some reason, apparently other people here dont have that issue but someone did have a different problem so I guess we all get a different bug at random LOL X3
Thanks, I'll look into it: does it happen only in some screens (e.g. community detail or comment detail or settings) or in general the whole UI is lagging?
What features are missing that you would like to see? Apart from the text size, what are the other bugs you found? I just ask you to take a couple of minutes to answer, I think the project is very poorly maintained but no one's voice has ever been ignored.
Lots of dialogs where a bit messed up, for example the answer or the report one. Not sure. It was mainly that text boxes appeared on wrong places, too low or high and the rest was black.
Not sure tbh, cannot give a good report sorry.
Missing:
view absolute ratings like jerboah (not only the final score, like 100+ 200- instead of just 100-)
Oh ye, many just kept using the client they used in Reddit, very cool of the developers for moving over to lemmy and inviting their users to do the same :3
o damn, never happened to me but I hope they fixed that, I also had issues with two other clients that made them unusable and apparently other people didn't X3
Yeah I hate when that happens... I used Boost for Reddit cuz I don't remember why but I liked it way more than the others and oh well, it's Reddit anyway X3 But using it for Lemmy felt silly now that I had an excuse to move to a more privacy-friendly alternative
I was a Reddit-Boost user too! :D but when I moved to Lemmy, Boost hadn't moved yet so I tried Jerboa and honestly no other app has convinced me to change since :3 except for the Web UI for the missing features in Jerboa (which seems to be a design choice??) and Voyager for prettier DMs, I could just use Voyager but I like the look and feel of this one :3
I started on Jeroba and switched to Connect. I like the UI much, much better. It does seem a little slower though and it crashes everyone in a while. Generally happy with connect though.
ooo I think I had seen that one before! or maybe it used to be a Reddit client and that's when I saw it? I can't find it on the PlayStore and if I go to it from my web browser it says it's "not available" :< might either be a regional thing or maybe it's not compatible with my phone tho it should specify so in either of those cases as usual
Sync does look very neat yeah :3 Did it not have a premium version or something? or maybe it did at first? Did u pay for that or is/was the free version good enough?
The dev hasn't updated it in a bit and it's getting more broken for me, especially with loading certain image types. I did pay for ad free on it when it came out but I'm starting to get a bit frustrated with the issues lately.
You can pay 20$ to remove the ads from within the app. The ads never bothered me. I used to have Sync for Reddit and that one I had paid like $5 to remove ads. But I think the developer had stopped updating it for like a year before sync for Lemmy came out. Maybe not enough incentive
Yeah that was neat on Reddit :3 I think it's also missing the ability to sort by New Comments? either that or hiding votes, I think that was one of the reasons that I chose Jerboa over it for X3