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Introducing Connect for Lemmy (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by kuro_neko@lemmy.ca to c/technology

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Hi lemmings, I switched over from Reddit 10 days ago now but I couldn't find a mobile client that I was happy with with an experience similar to the Reddit experience I was used to. So I decided to build my own and I hope you will like it as well!

Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

Features:

Material U
Dark and Light themes
List view / Card view / Fullwidth view
Filter lists for hiding posts
Multiple accounts + switcher across multiple instances
Guest accounts for viewing an instance without signup
Search and community autofill
Markdown support + attempt to navigate links correctly (/u/foo will open that user instead of browser kickout. Same for /c/, !, and @)
Saving posts
full sort types
NSFW view options (hide, blur, show)
copy text and url on all posts and comments
add comments, replies, and new posts
comment replies with line indicators

Here's other screenshots:

Future plans:

Improving the inbox
Swipe actions
Multi-~~reddit ~~communities

Thank you for taking a look. I hope others who are migrating from Reddit like me will find the app useful and I'd love to know your thoughts!

Edit: Community for the app is here: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect

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[–] DrPhred@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Looks good. Now we just need a good iOS app

[–] palitu@lemmy.perthchat.org 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sad noises...

Australia.

Thanks for putting effort into this. By far the best reddit experience I have had is with relay for reddit.

You could also check it the feature requests for jerboa for ideas.

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[–] AnonLordo@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow, impressive work, in such a short time. I really like it.
Thank you!

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you! I'm glad you like it.

[–] DrPhred@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Looks good. Now we just need a good iOS app

[–] nlm 1 points 2 years ago

Looks very promising!

[–] nlm 1 points 2 years ago

Looks very promising!

Got to love the explosion of both people and development around Lemmy!

[–] pixel 1 points 2 years ago

A good start! but the card view's background color is too bright, and honestly a lot of the space feels wasted. I know it's a really fine line between wasting space and having everything be too dense, but I think you erred too far towards having everything spread out -- contents are indented too far, cards are too big outside the borders of content, the space between UI elements is too large, stuff like that. Also, I can't see subscribed communities outside of my instance, which almost immediately made the app unusable for me. But with all those criticisms in mind, this app is the closest one I've seen so far to being a lemmy app I actively want to use, it's just not quite there yet imo. Good luck with your development!!

[–] CreepyRainbow 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm very thankful to you! I wanted a nice app to browse lemmy and I found your app a couple of days ago! I've had a very nice experience so far

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks @CreepyRainbow@beehaw.org! I'm glad you're enjoying it.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it!

[–] lupec@lemmy.lpcha.im 1 points 2 years ago

Getting Sync vibes, very nice! I'll give it a go.

[–] Lt_Worf@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Anyone figure out how to add a 2nd account (or log out for that matter)?

The app is great once you're logged in, but I don't see any way to do it like in the promo pic.

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[–] theory@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I may be wrong but, are you not showing all communities subscribed in the list, just the first page? I see 10 but im subbed to somewere closer to 50...

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[–] green_dot@le.fduck.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks great. Hopefully gets availabe is Irish play store soon

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[–] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The screen shots look good. I'll download it and try it out. Let me know if you make a community for it so we can give back feedback on there. The more apps the merrier now that Reddit is getting rid of all them!

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[–] Yewb@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

How hard would it be to add a view to make it look more like old.reddit.com?

Not sure what the hate is about you can look at stuff multiple ways

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[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

My keyboard constantly tries to switch to caps as I type in Connect. I am using Grammarly. It will flicker the upper case layout between each key press. It's unusable as it is.

[–] Aninjanameddaryll@outpost.zeuslink.net 1 points 2 years ago

I'm trying it out on my phone. And it's functional for sure. But it doesn't go back very far on android versions. My tablet that's stuck on 10 can't access it via play store.

It's a bit garish on the dark theme, but that's not important for an early stage of things.

No bugs that I've found that aren't lemmy based rather than app based.

[–] zettajon 1 points 2 years ago

Could you look into making the nav bar area transparent for gestures users? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38161472/how-to-create-a-fully-transparent-navigation-bar

[–] rettetdemdativ@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Have you considered creating a community for your app? Would make it a lot easier to follow development

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[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Suggestion: a setting that lets you set default sorting for comments would be great. So if I wanted post comments to be sorted by top by default, I could set that instead of needing to do it manually every time. Been looking everywhere for a Lemmy app that can do this, at least until the functionality is implemented into the site itself.

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