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samsy @feddit.de

2y ago

sooo many updates, I love it, and cant decide

https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff

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someone need to whoosh me because I have no idea what's going on
- Obtainium ist a packetmanager pulling updates/new versions from the source (i.e. some form of git)
  And the three apps are Lemmy/kbin clients (under heavy development) where some are not available at more conventional packagemanagers like F-Droid.
  
  Thank you! Didn't know about Obtanium and kept track of updates with "Change Detector" from F-Droid which caused daily false alerts. Within minutes I'm now able to conveniently keep track of six apps (including 3 Lemmy clients 😅)

What's everyone's preference at the moment?
I've been using Jerboa since I migrated and it's been great.
Installed Liftoff today, but it seems less polished at the moment, though admittedly I've not yet had a chance to dive into the features properly.
Haven't yet touched thunder.
- Jerboa is the oldest and I am familiar with it. It has the most features actually.
  Liftoff feels really nice. Amoled-Dark-mode. But has some federation issues. You can't like or comment stuff on other instances, but it is viewable.
  Thunder, another type of UI. Looks good, got new features in the last update. Has some trouble showing images sometimes.
  That's my experience. Actually I watch thunder growing, use liftoff for scrolling and interact/write on jerboa.
  
  Jerboa feels kinda sluggish during scrolling, thunder feels snappier. I am currently using thunder for all my needs.
  
  Had the same problem with Liftoff. It let you view other instances timeline. Switching to my instance's timeline resolved this problem for me.
- I like liftoff but jerboa is the only one with font accessibility settings. Need a magnifying glass for some stuff on others.
  Also jerboa has collapsible comments, others do not. Liftoff let's me use multiple instances at once, others do not. Thundar feels like RiF but not the same features yet.
- I'm enjoying connect for Lemmy. Jerboa is also very good.

Obtanium is the absolute GOAT

Add Memmy to the list. This app is amazing!
- The... What?
  A checked it, iOS App. Sry, I am on android.
  
  Me waiting for ipadOS apps 💀
  
  I’m pretty sure Memmy is cross-platform.
- It’s currently my “official” app to browse Lemmy.
  It is incredibly good for an early build!
  
  But there's no APK file. Obtanium wouldn't grab anything. Was hoping to test it without having to compile it myself. Unless I missed something.

So far I like Thunder best because it has the swipe left right functionality for comments.
You swipe comment left to upvote, far left to downvote and right to comment or I think favourite it.
Slide and Dank/Dawn had functionality like that and I quite missed it.
- My only issue with Thunder is the animations are waaay to slow

thanks for introducing me to obtainuim.
- You're welcome.

~~what is obtainium?~~ Nevermind
- Its a f-droid alternative store, it is clean without apps at the start and you have to add your favorite apps from github, gitlab, codeberg or F-droid.
  I use it because github provides faster updates than f-droid.
  https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
  
  I'm confused. Does it build the app on your device?
  edit: nvm, I see it just downloads the binary from the source.
  
  does it provides store feature? I thought you could only manually add the app you wanted to track
- Obtainium allows you to install and update Open-Source Apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.

I just downloaded Obtainium but I'm noticing an issue. Maybe you can help me? For Thunder, because it's using an unconventional version naming system, Obtainium isn't detecting that my version wasn't actually the latest. Mine was 0.2.1+6 but 0.2.1+7 was out, and Obtanium said that I'm on 0.2.1+7.
- Idk, sounds bad. I have pre-release selected and it just works:

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