Memes @lemmy.ml

1y ago

Four apps and counting, how is everyone else doing?

226 comments

Here’s a sneak peek of one I’m working on too:

A lot of good options coming up, will be fun to see how it plays out!
Edit: !lemmynade@lemm.ee for anyone wanting to follow
- Man that looks good
  
  Thank you, that means a lot!
- lemm.ee looks like it's running a pretty old version and I can't search that community :( could be a me issue though.
- Ahhh too bad I can't sub to the community right now (I guess it's a very new community and my instance isn't up to date for now)
- Man I love how new apps are coming out everyday. It feels like I'm witnessing history in the making, in the next 5 years we can probably talk about the time when Lemmy was getting a new app everyday.
- Thanks for your contribution, looks great! The more the merrier.

I started with Jerboa but now use Connect. I'm happy with it.
- Typing with connect, you can tell it's beta quality but it's pretty good so far
- Learning the gestures currently with Connect. At least it doesn't crash randomly.
- Thx you stranger, this is the boost-like app I was looking for !
- Connect feels the most like Boost, so I'm happy with it.
- +1 the same for me

Same
- Where do you get lemming and lemmotif?
- Some of those I can't find. Are those apple apps? I am using the Google Play store and can't find all those apps and I want them.
  
  Liftoff was just added to play store so it may not come up in searches yet.
  
  As far as I can tell most android Lemmy clients aren't on play store but the dev's GitHub (Liftoff, Thunder, Lemming)
- So far which is your favorite. Mine is thunder

I like jerboa because i can install it from fdroid
- Only one app? Those are rookie numbers

I use jerboa but I'd try out any libre client. I'm not interested in proprietary apps.
Funny enough I never saw the need for dedicated website apps for e.g. reddit, but the fediverse is somewhat clumsy to use in a browser (I'm aware that browser extensions can help) so an app actually improves the experience a bit.
- I'm using Jerboa, but it keeps crashing and on every statup complains that my instance is not compatible with the updated version. This drives me back to reddit and when it shuts off apps, I'll probably go back to real life.
  
  In the latest version of Jerboa I can't change from All / Active anymore. 😊 Also I can't figure out for the life of me how to make a top level comment, they're doesn't seem to be a button for it.
  Thunder didn't have sorting by top last time I checked. Liftoff can't add other instances than the 3 it comes with.
  
  It's just Jerboa. I use Connect for Lemmy and that problem doesn't exist. I think the dev for Jerboa doesn't want to spend time making it backwards compatible, but other clients are.
  
  Please report back on this "real life" thing
  
  Try Connect for Lemmy. Jerboa is just very badly bugged and a poor UX right now. Connect seems to be much less buggy as well as more usable generally.
- I'm so used to web clients I can't get myself to use third-party apps anymore.
  
  For me there's one massive flaw with the mobile web version of Lemmy - that when you go "back" after viewing a post the page scrolls near to the top of the page. If it weren't for that I'd happily give up the quest for an app.

I just found out about wefwef.app
- Same here, completely switched, it’s obviously made by the Apollo dev and no one can convince me otherwise. Wefwef has immediately made Lemmy usable to me, can barely notice a difference from Reddit running through Apollo.
  
  Talk about endorsements lol
- How do you downvote using wefwef? I can't seem to figure it out.
  
  It follows the apolloapp.io gestures. Swipe to the far right to downvote.

Liftoff, jerboa and thunder currently.
Edit: does anyone know if any android app allows hiding posts? (locally on the device, i think the servers don't support)
- I think connnect for lemmy allows it. I remember seeing it in the settings.

Using the PWA until Sync for Lemmy is released.
- You should try out wefwef.app
  It is an Apollo like web app for Lemmy.

wefwef & thunder here 🫡
- It’s absolutely crazy how great wefwef is, considering it’s a progressive web app.
- Dude, I started with Mlem, then moved on to Memmy and now I am using wefwef full time!
  I feel it’s the most polished out of all the apps on iOS.
- I started with Jerboa and just would WefWef today. Game changer! Loving it.
  
  Im waiting for the block option and hide when read.

I'm using liftoff (Android), best one I've found so far.
- How does it compare to connect for Lemmy?
  
  connect loaded slowly (especially images) for me and Liftoff had a cleaner interface imo, loaded posts fast and it resembles Infinity for Reddit more than connect (with the settings I chose), if that's anything to go by.
  
  After the few initial minutes of using both Liftoff and connect, I prefer the design of liftoff so much more. Though I seem to be having some issues adding in comments or upvoting/downvoting things via liftoff, but having no issues with Connect. So I'm not sure what's going on. Any help would be appreciated.
- I concur, It has the smoothest UX there is
- Just started testing Liftoff today. Really great looking app! Thunder is coming along nicely too.

I've used the PWA, Jerboa, Liftoff, and Connect.
Jerboa is probably my favorite of the bunch. I prefer how compact everything is and the 0.0.33 version was working well. I upgraded to 0.0.36 and performance took a bit of a hit so I figured I would explore alternatives. Also when I looked at other options 2FA support had not been added (it's working as of this post)
The PWA is more than functional,and I like it quite a bit. Don't like that backing out of a post navigates to the top of the page though.
Connect is good too, just personally not a fan of the larger interface, even in list/compact mode.
Currently using liftoff. Performance is good, 2FA support is available, and in list/compact mode it's tolerable. I still do prefer the compactness of Jerboa though.

Just Jerboa normally.. but it's so buggy that I discovered Connect. It's amazing.
- Same path for me. Looking at options here to see what might work best for me

Why do I keep instinctively switching between clients when Lemmy is down thinking one will get past the 500 error better than the other one?

I'm using Connect for Lemmy right now, because Jerboa keeps showing the server version error when opening it.
- This is where I'm at, but Connect seems to freeze up on me a lot, so I'm thinking of getting a third lol
  
  i switched to thunder after connect kept crashing whenever i tried to open it. so far it seems alright but i can't see any way to vote on comments.

They each have their own bugs and quirks so I hop around, currently on connect and it's been stable enough today. Tomorrow, who knows, maybe back to liftoff or jerboa.
- Seconded for connect, works great!
  
  Switched from jerboa to connect cause it was crashing constantly on my pixel, but the UI has some weird things about it

Which app is most like RIF? I'm using Jebora currently.
- Jebora is glitched in my phone so now I'm using liftoff, the UI is not the best, but at least it works
- Summit is the closest from what I've seen. But it has some very basic things missing like an inbox. But it's my favorite feeling app.
- I tried using Jerboa but it's very badly bugged right now. Have been using Connect for Lemmy. As a long-time (10yr ) RIF user it doesn't even get close to RIF, but it's the best I've used so far. Here's hoping TalkLittle or someone else makes an app for Lemmy (as I understand it he's making RIF for Tildes, but Tildes has its own problems). Connect for Lemmy is OK, and is quite usable.

I used mlem for a bit but memmy is my go to right now
- Same, Memmy rocks

Oh My God There are apps? I’m sitting here using my browser
- https://lemmy.world/post/465785
  
  I'm using liftoff btw
  Finding it better than others as of now.
- Try this! https://wefwef.app/posts/lemmy.world/all
  
  Is this a weapon for Lemmy?

I've settled on thunder for now. Flawless since the latest update
- I prefer Liftoff at the moment for the UI similarities with Infinity for Reddit.
- Really happy with Thunder, too, but the swipes are too sensitive, and the title should really be above the image in the feed view to provide context as you scroll.
  It's like what Sync was early on.
- Is that iOS? I don't see it for Android.
  
  It's not on the play store. https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder

Didn't realize there were so many options that's great! Using Jerboa on Android now and it's been my only experience with the platform so far so I'm definitely open to recommendations
- I've been using jerboa (android), thunder (android), wefwef (pwa), and memmy (iPad).
  Love them all, but they all have their quirks!
- I'm trying out connect for lemmy at the moment. I find it more stable than jerboa and quite nice over all, though I dislike some design aspects.
  
  For me there are things I like and don't like. It's the first time I've encountered the "swipe a little to upvote" feature but I'm finding I like it.
- Try Connect for Lemmy, it's much more stable than Jerboa and has 4 different views. I really like the full size card view myself. It's beautiful.

Jerboa 0.0.37 is awesome. Huge Liftoff user past week :D
- I strongly disagree.
  0.0.37 is completely unusable for me. It crashes on startup. And the updates before are terrible when it comes to playing with anything but the bleeding edge of lemmy versions. Switching profiles is also shit.
  
  Jerboa started crashing on me after the latest release. Then it updated and has worked great ever since
  I also tried Lemur, but never got it to actually load after logging in
  
  That's because the instance you're using is not updated to 18. Im in jerboa right now and it's buttery smooth. I use liftoff and connect but jerboa is still tops. Currentlyat .0.37
- Crashfest
  
  Ditto. Wasn't working well yesterday. Updated this morning and now it won't even open.
  Installed Connect and am very happy.

I‘m using wefwef.app as webapp on iOS and as website on Desktop-PC and it reminds me of the Apollo app for reddit.

Sounds about right!
I keep alternating between Mlem, Memmy, Thunder, and the Lemmy ‘add to homescreen’ ‘app’
- I’m finding that Memmy has all the features I need at the moment so I’m very happy with that. The developer leaves funny patch notes and updates it at least once a day with new bug fixes and features.
  I can edit comments, post content, log in with my porn account 🥰, and reply to people and get inbox messages. Crazy how fast all these apps have popped up.
  
  Wait, I can edit my comments? How?

I use the one that I made! It was made rather early on before most of these apps became popular, but if it's my own app, I can make it however I want...
- What's it called?
- Sounds interesting, any chance you want to share your work?
  
  Yeah, it's at https://slemmy.libdb.so, the source code is also on my github!
  Heads up, it doesn't currently work with Lemmy v0. 18.0. PR https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3301 tracks this. If you or anyone can contribute to this, please do!

Mlem, Memmy, wefwef, and the browser pwa. So far wefwef is my main go to, followed by Memmy.

I've got 8 installed 😅
- Which ones?? 👀

I'm using Connect for Lemmy right now, been using Jebora and also Liftoff. Sticking with Connect for now, I'm liking the swipe actions
- Indeed, the swipe actions are really nice. Wefwef and Thunder also have them, but they from what I can tell don't have a page for my saved posts/comments, so right now Connect's my favorite.

4? Can you name them all please? I know jerboa and thunder.
- I know Connect and lemmur. So far, the one I like best is Connect. I'm on Android.
  
  Lemmur is dead. It got resurrected as Liftoff.
- I've been using liftoff
- Jerboa, Thunder, Liftoff and Lemming. I don't count the PWA (mobile site) as app but otherwise I switch between five apps

None of them are very complete. The ones that are good are missing features and the ones that are complete aren't good. I'm using wefwef.app for the most part. Just navigate there in your browser and bammo! Instant app.
- I was using wefwef, it looks nice but it's slow and has awkward UX. Every time I want to reply or vote, I have to take a second to think about which way to swipe
  I think you're into something about not complete or not good - I was hoping to be one of the firsts, but building a solid foundation takes time - I could've gotten something out there a week ago, but I've got big plans - I want to build discovery and sorting into the app, I want to be able to pull from multiple servers at once, and I want users new to Lemmy to have their hands held as they pick a server. And obviously, it has to feel responsive
  To do that I had to build a data store and coax high performance libraries to play nice. I was pulling posts and had the account switching working on day 1, but I didn't even start on posting until a couple days ago - and only after I made drafts that would reload when you go back
  It's easy to build something rough, fast, or inefficient Building something polished means working on the foundations, building it up, and doing and redoing things as you consider what feels "right"
  Give Flemmy a shot in a few days if you're on Android (more like a couple weeks on iphone). It's still early days and there will be bugs and missing features, but, now that the groundwork is solid, it's moving fast
  
  UX may be a taste thing but I cannot second the speed critic. On Firefox it's sluggish as hell, yeah, but using it with Chrome wefwef feels like a native app.

I've only used Jerboa, now I think I need to try Connect/Liftoff
- Liftoff is great, just migrated from Jerboa
  
  I installed liftoff, liking it at the moment!
- Liftoff seems to want you to log in to an instance to be able to like or comment on a thread there. So for now that's a no for me.

4 here
- Update, 6 now.

The only one I use is mlem

On iOS I have Liftoff, Mlem, and Memmy. While they all work well, Memmy is easily my favorite. It’s stable and fast, has several color themes already, and the developer literally updates it multiple times per day. It already feels like a complete app.

I'm just using jerboa - seems fine?
I mostly interact from my desktop though so

I have been using memmy for iOS and it’s been great. Same feeling as Apollo!
- https://wefwef.app/settings/install
  Godsend when running as a web app, the most Apollo one of them all.
- Is it in the App Store?
  
  https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD
- Memmy is king on iOS as a heavy Apollo user, the others feature slowness and bad text leading (vertical line spaces) and some other weird line breaks and behaviours. If Memmy can get the 'scroll past posts to mark as read' it will basically be apollo for me already which is great.
  Still, it's fuckin awesome we have so much choice already. I thought this would be weeks/months where w we'd have a single app, let alone multiple to choose from.

Wefwef and jerboa for now

I'll keep downloading new ones until i find one that feels like home. Still waiting for infinity to make a Lemmy app.
- Thunder looks like infinity a bit. Saw someone making an infinity for lemmy by the name of Beyond but not released yet. Connect for lemmy looks almost exactly like Infinity but I cant figure some stuff out on there so Thunder for now.
  
  There's also Infinity for Everything in Development
  
  Can't wait to try beyond, thunder is super buggy on my phone with infinite loading for a lot of stuff.

I have so many new icons on my home screen it's starting to look like an iPhone

Me too. I have been using Jerboa, Liftoff, summit and connect. Thunder won't load for me,so, I've stopped trying to get that to work. All the others work to my satisfaction. I'm leaning on Connect's side a little bit more than others because I like its UI better.
- Yea I'm getting used to them. Hoping they have better mod capabilities in the future

Liftoff, because my phone is apparently too old for Jerboa

Any of them have multi account support?
Edit: liftoff, Connect for Lemmy and thunder do

I have jerboa, thunder, and connect installed. I like the compactness of jerboa the best but something about thunder keeps drawing me back to that one too. I haven't given connect much of a chance yet.

Using summit, it's quite new and has a few features missing but the UI is great, it blurs NSFW, and is quick.

I was using Jerboa first, but performance was terrible. I've now switched to Liftoff which seems way better.
- Same, Thunder is mid with perfomane, how they can't make the scrolling smooth is really weird.
  Liftoff is the first really decent one for me

Yup, me too. Jerboa for the first few weeks, tried Thunder, but it is still an unfinished work, so as Connect.
Trying Liftoff since earlier today and so far looks like the best. Really enjoying it.

I've settled on connect for lemmy. But of course install everyone I see on the play store :)
- I will try any app that makes it to F-Droid without any warnings. So Jerboa it is...