I need your opinion and suggestions on the best Lemmy client to use.
P.S., I currently use Voyager as my client.
I use both Voyager and Eternity.
Voyager is my favorite, but mlem is a close second for me
i’m on boost. i’ve tried quite a few options, but even with the ads, boost just feels like home.
Glad to hear you’re happy with boost, mate.
Mlem looks the best but it feels choppy as hell. So I’m using voyager instead still quite good and runs smooth.
Yeah, that’s exactly how I feel. The threads look so distracting.
Mlem on ios as it has the best ui made with swift.
But my head feels dizzy after using it. 🥲
How does it make you feel dizzy?
The thread on the feed. Maybe just not suited to me.
I just use Jerboa since that was the most mature app when the Reddit drama happened. I haven’t tried other clients because it’s Good Enough™ for me
Good for you, mate.
Liking Voyager, after trying a few unsuccessfully. This is the first one that rivals the old Reddit Is Fun for me
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Thunder … I currently use it Eternity if you’re used to infinity for reddit
Thanks for the suggestion, mate.
Voyager is the best for me. Used Apollo for Reddit for years on my iPhone, so Voyager on Android just feels familiar and comfortable. Like sleeping in your own bed.
iOS design language in an Android app creeps me out tbh
I’m using iOS but still feel comfortable to use Voyager in my iPhone.
In use Voyager for my daily driver here on this account and Jerboa for my NSFW account.
I love Voyager for the “hide read posts” and the some of the sitting and layout stuff. I like Jerboa for the erections!
Yeah, the ‘hide read post’ feature really helps me to focus on particular reply that I want to read. 🔥
Jerboa is also good
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I really enjoy Sync.
I was using Voyager until Sync got ported over to Lemmy. Voyager is great, but I find Sync more responsive. I also really appreciate Sync’s appearance customization. I’m old, so I like cranking the size of some text.
I think there’s an ad supported version of Sync if you want to try it. I paid the CDN$10 or whatever it cost on release. It’s worth it to me.
I also really like sync. I also paid for the ad free version.
But there are still some issues and the dev is, again, inactive.
Yeah. As much as I like Sync, I’m envious of aeharding’s constant improvements to Voyager.
yep. i lived Avelon until development stopped, and Voyager passed it up. the continued development is the long term play. my only problem with voyager is it doesnt let you come back to where you left off. i leave the app to google up something before i post it and when i go to return the post has vanished.
i want non-volatile Voyager.
I feel like Sync doesn’t really need an update? It seems complete to me.
Sync has had serious issues in the past such as an easily triggered, reproducible, guaranteed crash on open, with the dev not putting out a fix for months. This neglect goes back several years, to back when Sync was a Reddit client. Most infamously he disappeared for over a year when his UI refresh wasn’t well received.
The app is great (I’m only on Boost due to user tags requiring a paid subscription in Sync), but his response time to issues is glacial. And it doesn’t help that it’s by far the most expensive client if you want it ad-free, and features that used to be free now require an even more expensive subscription to use.
First I’ve heard of any show stopping bugs. Been running fine for me (lemmy and reddit) and countless others. Maybe some niche incompatibility with your device.
The crash I referenced was caused by having the scrollbar enabled IIRC, and it was fixed earlier this year. It made it impossible to launch the main activity without crashing if you’d enabled that setting, so users were sharing workarounds to launch directly to the settings screen without loading any communities so they could disable it.
It’s feature complete, but there are bugs.
Big +1 for Sync.
I was paying for Sync back when it was a Reddit client, and I moved to Lemmy mostly because that is where Sync moved.
It’s an awesome app. Best app purchase I’ve ever made. (There is a free version too.)
I think I want to give a try to Sync soon. Thanks for the suggestion.
I find Sync more responsive.
I like cranking the size of some text
I’m on iOS and Voyager has many customizations and the ability to change text sizes. I’ve never noticed any issues with responsiveness.
Is this another one of those “well I was on Android and used sync vs well I was iOS and used AlienBlue / Apollo ” comments? Perhaps androids Voyager not as good as the iOS version? I guess it depends on what OP is using for mobile.
If you where a RIF user, go with boost. It’s as close to rif as it gets. Since the rif dev went to that ban happy tildes site.
Is tildes still around? I haven’t heard from it since the blackout.
I loved Reddit Is Fun. I’ve been using Connect for Lemmy because it seemed very similar to me. I wonder if I should try boost out.
When I started using lemmy I just grabbed every app for it and tried them all. Boost is the closest I was able to find, and it has a ton of options to get it looking and feeling like RIF. The others were good, but just different. I liked RIF because of how simplistic it was, boost thankfully gives that same simplistic feel.
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Welp, I’m on voyager too lol
The search is powerful!
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No one here using Jerboa??
It’s fine but if you compare Jerboa side to side with Sync, you see that Sync is much smoother.
Yep, the only decent mobile client.
Use use jerboa! I like the fact that you can see downvotes although I’m not sure if it’s specifically a jerboa thing or some apps just don’t do it
I tried a bunch of apps last year and settled on jerboa. My only complaint is the inability to default sort comments by old.
I use it. Had tried Voyager for a day or so, but came back to Jerboa.
I’m curious about Eternity, since I am a Infinity user. Haven’t tried it yet.
I settled on it after trying Sync
I found one person that reply to me using it.
when I tried it, it lagged like no other app does. it genuinely had 10-20 fps
