The sense of loss from the fediverse hits hard sometimes
lemdro.id

So, I was lurking using sync for Lemmy and I came upon this post.

What happened to the development with these apps? I’m not that active on lemdro.id or other instances. But apps like Sync and Boost have been updated in a year or 6 months respectively. With Boost I’m not surprised Mayo tends to be slow. I was more shocked with sync. My question is do you guys have any recommendations for other Lemmy clients?

Edit Please do not harass the devs.

Edit 2: I’m testing out thunderbird.

  • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
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    10 days ago

    Not sure, I’ve been using Interstellar with Mbin and it’s been pretty great. Would recommend, responsive dev, works well, supports multiple platforms!

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Definitely thunder. I’ve been using it since it was in early alpha and it has improved so much and works really really well.

        • Welp_im_damned@lemdro.idOPEnglish
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          10 days ago

          I created this post because I didn’t realize lemmy was being updated so often. So there’s a good chance eternity might be missing some features as well.

        • fuzzzerd@programming.devEnglish
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          10 days ago

          Agree. It works well, but in the context of the original meme, not getting updates is a risk to Lemmy api breaking changes breaking the app. There’s also a few annoying theming issues with eternity. For a free app its good, but leaves something wanting compared to some of the other apps. Even if it has the better UI.

  • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I’m using Connect and it’s fine. The dev sometimes pushes updates that break things but the patches come quick enough.

      • veroxii@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Summit has been the closest in look and feel to my beloved old baconreader (RIP).

        Summit is such a nice app I haven’t even considered changing in over a year.

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 days ago

        Summit is severely overlooked. Dev fixes many bug reports same/next day as well.

        • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
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          10 days ago

          Where is the source code? Is it closed source? As I see only releases are on github

          • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            10 days ago

            It is closed source. People keep asking if it will be made open source, and the dev doesn’t necessarily seem opposed to it. I don’t recall the reasons they gave, nor would I likely understand them as someone who is not a developer, but there are threads on it on !summit@lemmy.world. They are generally very open to discussing things if you might have solutions for them.

      • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        10 days ago

        I know that this is stupid and petty, but I dislike Voyager, because it’s essentially a web app. I prefer native or near-native apps (things like Flutter or React Native). I tried it out and it’s pretty nice UI/UX-wise, but I still prefer Arctic on iOS, because it’s an actual native app written in SwiftUI, and thus closer to Apollo for Reddit (which Voyager tries to imitate).

        • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
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          10 days ago

          I am not an iOS user in any way. Does Voyager actually look/feel different than a native Swift app in any way? Or does it just bother you to know, in the back of your mind, that it is not native?

          • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            10 days ago

            Or does it just bother you to know, in the back of your mind, that it is not native?

            That’s why I said that this is stupid and petty, but the thought alone makes my blood boil. And it’s not the same as with normal Electron apps on desktop, I also hate those, but for different reasons. Voyager looks just like a native iOS app, which makes this even worse for me, as I’m allergic to this kind of HTML/CSS/JS imitation of native UI libraries. Something about it just feels so wrong to me as a developer, I don’t know.

            But I recommend you don’t actually listen to me, just use whatever you like.

  • Keshara@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I’ve just started on Lemmy very recently, but I’ve been trying out different Android Lemmy clients. I’m currently on ‘Voyager for Lemmy’ which I installed from F-Droid, and personally this has been my best experience yet

    • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Voyager is a fantastic experience imo. I tried other clients like Jerboa and a couple others I can’t remember the names of. The others were always a buggy mess whereas Voyager actually just worked. Dunno if the other apps eventually improved, but I wasn’t personally keen on sticking around through their significant growing pains when Voyager already existed.

    • Welp_im_damned@lemdro.idOPEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Voyager is a good client but it’s a variation of infinity which with Infinity I don’t really vibe with. Its not a bad client just not for me.

      Sorry I’m thinking of eternity 😅. My bad

  • spacedogroy@feddit.ukEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I’ve switched to using Jerboa from Sync and it’s absolutely fine for my casual usage and it doesn’t have ads, which is a big plus point.

  • micahmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    (Disclaimer, I’m one of the devs.) Thunder is cross-platform and very actively developed! There was a release two days ago. We keep up with Lemmy API changes and we’re constantly squashing bugs and adding new features. Check it out!

    • ObsidianZed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I am very interested in Thunder, especially considering it’s open source. While it does seem packed with features, I’d love to see a bit more customizability though. I might submit some feature requests some day but looking now there are nearly 200 issues as it stands. Not a complaint, just an observation. Keep up the good work!

      • micahmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Thanks for checking it out. Yeah we do have quite a backlog of issues to work through. Obviously we prioritize bugs and the most popular feature requests. Feel free to submit an issue any time you want though! It may be that we can help come up with a workaround that gets you what you want. Otherwise sometimes if its an easy change one of the devs will knock it out quickly. But if nothing else it’ll be there for other people to react to. :)

    • Welp_im_damned@lemdro.idOPEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Nice. I have been enjoying your guys app for the last 2 days.

      I have some feedback but I don’t think it’s really anything that substantial right now. What is the best way to give you guys feedback on thunder bird?