For the people coming in asking what app for Lemmy. You don't need it. Lemmy is great on a mobile browser.
The only reason why we all used third party apps for Reddit, is because their app and website is abhorrent trash. It's great to have a choice, but Lemmy's website is smooth to use. I know it's mind blowing not to use a app for everything in 2023 but Lemmy just works.
Sorry but that's not true at all. Lemmy's UI feels very unfinished/amateur project like. Even the jerboa app, which is from one of the dev, improves the mobile UI experience greatly compared to just the web version.
For Mobile users buttons should usually be bigger. But e.g. the comment collapse button is very tiny and I need to concentrate to press it correctly on mobile.
Not to mention that I tend to have my mobile browser clear cookies and history automatically when closing it, which means I'd have to sign in everytime unlike a dedicated app.
Whoever is downvoting the above comment: stop downvoting legitimate questions! Even if you don’t agree with their sentiment , the commenter isn’t a troll or rage baiting.
Apps are more customizable. The UI also tends to be better. The web app is fine but i find trying to upvote anything closes a post i just opened. Personally, i like seeing full images of things as I scroll by. So something like a webclient isnt very convenient and rather tedious. I'm using a whole bunch pf userscripts on my desktop to improve the pc experience, apps generally do that for me on android.
In the end, it's user preference. I prefer Jerboa, Liftoff, and Thunder atm.
A really big one I'm surprised no one has mentioned is gestures. On a huge phone I do NOT want to have to click a small button to do something. The lemmy website does not support this. Wefwef, however, does!
For some reason Lemmy crashes repeatedly for me if I pin it to my home. I also have issues with it refreshing the whole page when I vote on comments (and it undoes any collapsed threads). These might be issues related to the instance I'm on, but I haven't tested that out.
Way better ui that's faster and more responsive are the main ones that immediately come to mind. In theory those could be fixed on a web ui but it's unlikely, given how far ahead jerboa is already
That isn’t the only reason tbh. Sometimes different apps can completely alter how we use the service. There already exist some apps that do Lemmy better than Lemmy itself and this will continue to grow. Hence everyone asking for apps
Sure, Lemmy's mobile website is great if you compare it to the atrocity that is the Reddit mobile website, which is really just an ugly and annoying advertisement for their app. But having a dedicated app for something I use a lot is nice.
It's sad in a way, but I've put Connect into the spot where BaconReader used to be.
Because on my phone, using Firefox, the mobile experience isn't too great. It's slow, sometimes the screen just blanks out and I need to reload, and sometimes it rapid-fires new posts on the top of the page which makes it impossible to click anything
Tangentially, does anyone know why we stopped having cool words for different kinds of software? We used to have daemons and wizards. Now everything's an app, and it's lame.
Agreed, I'm very happy with the mobile version of the website. I keep trying the apps which are admittedly in early development and then switching back to my regular browser.
I could never log in to any of the Lemmy servers I tried using Firefox on mobile. All I'd get is an endlessly spinning circle. No error message or anything... just the online equivalent of the middle finger. Finally I installed Connect for Lemmy and now I'm at least able to log on to Lemmy World.
Kbin, conversely, has proven to be amazing on mobile Firefox.
Commenting from Kbin on Firefox, where I have to rotate my phone to landscape orientation to read full comments. If I keep it in portrait, some comments will randomly run off the side of my view, and zooming out doesn't help.
It's not perfect. I'm very much hanging in there until some sort of upgrade comes along. Lemmy.world has been unable to get me signed in, so there's that.
Same here on a lower end Samsung, it's fine. IMHO I also think if people flock to apps for just a UI, it can take away some of the motivation to improve a site.