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It's my favorite of the options so far, I wish I wouldn't default to lemmy.world, but that may be pilot error..
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I'm not a fan of the bottom navigation. Needlessly takes up space.
CONNECT for me.
Liftoff is what I've settled on, so far. I've found it to have the best performance of all the Android options.
Thunder has gotten a lot better, as well. It's now the fastes for me, by far.
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I'm using Liftoff until Boost (formerly Boost for Reddit) releases their app. Boost was an amazing experience on Reddit so I have to imagine it'll be equally good with Lemmy. So far Liftoff has been very good though. No real complaints but would love to see more customization options in the future.
I couldn't enjoy Liftoff since it doesn't appear to have gesture support. Connect and WefWef are what I use until Sync for Lemmy is released.
Also, LiftOffs gigantic button at the top is an eyesore. I don't find the UI as well done.
This lack of gestures actually makes me want to give it a go. I've never once used gestures on purpose, I always just accidentally do stuff.
Edit: seems pretty sweet!! It handles instances in a really weird way. If you leave the default lemmy.world account available and don't login, you can't interact with posts from that instance even if you are logged in with an account from another instance.
If I login on both, all of my post and comment history I assume would be split between the relevant account. Weird.
I really like the UI and performance of the app overall though.
I'm using it right now. I'm torn between it and Thunder. They've both made lots of improvements in the last couple weeks.
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I'm not a fan. It's laid out weird, like a Apple app or something. I just couldn't get used to it.
Connect and Jerboa are the two I'm trying to decide between now.
Try Thunder. Jerboa like layout but made better.
Thunder is great, but it's got some issues I hope they work out. I don't like that you can't block communities in thunder, or if you can its so convoluted that I haven't figured it out yet. I also don't like that it struggles to seamlessly refresh. You'll be scrolling through the feed then two seconds later go through the exact same ten posts you just saw because it refresh glitched.
On the other hand I think their feed aesthetic is the nicest of the bunch, and they have my absolute favorite feature where you can tap to unblur NSFW and then re-tap to reblur it all without leaving the feed. That is SUCH a nice feature.
I'm using connect as my main ATM but I'll def jump back to thunder if they can clean up some of the bugs!
Try the latest release! I saw in the changelogs recently that both of these have been addressed.
I tend to switch back and forth from Thunder to Liftoff and back. I like the layout and gestures of Thunder but Liftoff allows me to share memes directly from the app. That's a surprisingly rare feature.
I tried it, but the "compact" view is wayyyyy too sparse. I have a phone the size of the moon, I should be able to view more than 3 and a half single-line posts on screen
I was an infinity user, so I appreciate Liftoff has similar elements. I'm rooting for the dev!
I like Liftoff but the one thing that stops me from using it more is the dark theme is still a bit too light. Trouble is, I don't like complete black Amoled mode either. Maybe I'm just hard to please π
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Just downloaded and almost immediately switched from Jerboa. So much less glitchy, smoother.
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Fat thumbs means when I go to upvote a post it often brings me to the post itself because the "hit box" for the arrows are kinda small.
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Hitting home button doesn't bring me back to top. Might be nice to be able to toggle that on and off.
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Would be cool if I could swipe left on a post card to hide it. As of now I'm upvoting and then un-upvoting to register a post as read so it won't pop up when I refresh. Refer to #1, this really slows down the doom scrolling :p
I couldn't get it installed. It kept telling me "app not purchased", but only gives me an option to install. It looks promising, though.
It's become my default app for Lemmy.
I am still waiting to try Boost, though.
Only thing I think I can find missing is to set a default download folder. Outside of that, it's now my daily driver.
Itβs not bad, but the βcompactβ view is in no way compact. On liftoff on iOS I can see maybe 4 posts versus on Memmy I can see almost double that. The thumbnails need to be in line with the title and content, not just the content.
I'm liking it. Only thing missing for me I think is aligning images on the left instead of the right.
Pretty much my only nitpick is that we have no "Commenting as:" and "Posting as:" warnings. It blurs the line between accounts a bit too much in a platform that already adds lots of complexity by splitting the communities and accounts between various servers. Beyond that, its search function is everything I could ask for and it looks great! I'm sure it'll only keep on getting better over time.
It's my go-to for random lemmy browsing. If I want to read interesting and/or thoughtful stuff I log in to my home instance where I'm subscribed to all my favourite content, but if I feel like mindlessly scrolling some memes and go where the internet mainstream goes, I use liftoff. Good interface, good speed.
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The UI is a little too cluttered and messy for my liking but it's a solid app! Love FOSS software
Yeah, it is pretty stable among other options. Definetly good choice usability wise.
LIftoff is fine, but I like Thunder better.
For me Thuder has better UI but lacks functionality, f.e. answering to replies is nightmare because no context of comment.
The main issue I'm having with liftoff is that I cannot upvote or comment posts from other instances with my lemmy.ml account, so I'm still using jerboa
It is kinda bad UI decision, not a bug. You should login into your account on some instance and choose through which instance you get content on the top of the screen. After that you will not have problems with commenting. Same thing with search, under search rectangle choose your instance! β€οΈ
I don't hate it by any means. But design wise I always end up back in Jerboa which (to me) seems more old-school and familiar.
I find it hard to put into words, and obviously it's completely subjective, but aps like Connect and Liftoff seem too "fluffy" to me, with UI elements being larger and in-your-face. Whereas Jerboa just kind of gets the heck out of my way.
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