Honesty, I am tired of accidentally hitting “back” on my phone and having my feed reset, so I was wondering if any of your clients didn’t do that, while also wanting to check out the competition for Sync.
+1 for Voyager. It’s my first and so far only client that I’ve used, having been on infinity for reddit before switching.
I like it. it’s smooth, works well, and has fairly granular settings for how to handle “read” posts, gesture controls within posts / comments, and so on.
do you have issues with redgifs? they don’t work for me on Voyager
No love for Summit here? I’ve tried almost every android app and ended up with this one. Very smooth UI and full of features.
I swapped from Sync to Summit and have been loving it. The dev’s super responsive too, which is a big plus.
Plus Summit works with piefed
summit is great
It’s not smooth at all, IMO. Lots of visual annoyances which makes it feel stuttery and just bad. Been a Sync user for years and going from that to any other app is just a bad experience… I try all lemmy apps I come across and they either just look bad, no matter how much I change settings or they lack several major things that I just won’t be without. None has come close to feeling like a replacement yet, and it really sucks that it seems Sync is actually dead now.
Voyager, foss, with the auto hide enabled
Auto Hide?
Settings > General > Marking read / hiding
Thunder. Cross platform, great UI, and now has piefed support.
I’ve used Jerboa for years now, and have the press back twice to exit setting enabled:
My configuration for it is very minimal, to mimic RedReader that I used to use.
Thunder
Boost
Called “Boost for Lemmy”. It’s great. All kinds of custom options. Integration with instances are really good.
Try it… give a dollar… It’ll be Ad free.
It’s closed-source 🤮
Eww
Blah, blah, blah… one Dev. Get a grip.
The dev being alone does not mean they should make it closed source.
For example, Mindustry, which is an open source game, is only developed by one person, Anuke.
And, who knows tf they doing behind the scenes?
That’s why i HATE anything closed-source. Making a software open-source does not have any downsides, it’s free contributions from more experienced people. And it also means people can fork your project if you just can’t do it anymore. Or want to improve it.
it’s not as easy to monetize open-source software, and even solo devs gotta eat.
until UBI gets implemented worldwide, expect people to continue wanting monetary returns on their work.
Simple Mobile Tools were open source and made by a single dev and then he decided to sell everything to a shady company.
That dev is a traitor.
Meh, I’ve used his app for many years now from when it was for the other shit site.
From my experience trying other apps. Boost is best. I’ll take top quality v. whiny wanker.
I used boost for reddit back when that was a thing. The dev got the lemmy up in like a week, very impressive to me. I give $5 every now and then when I feel like it and remember. I’d recommend the app for sure
Only issue is embed videos don’t work rn, I’m currently trying out summit and really like it so far, pressing back does reset your feed to the top though, which is annoying
Voyager works like a charm for me.
Eternity
Isn’t Eternity stalled?
Boost works pretty well on my phone.
Firefox
The less apps I have on my phone the better and I mostly browse Lemmy on desktop anyway.
Connect.
I actually want the opposite of what you want. I am used to Jerboa and Liftoff refreshing the front page if you hit back on the main feed. Connect just asks it you want to close it and I have to manually scroll back up to the top to refresh, and its annoying af when I’m hella far down the page.
Scroll down slightly in the feed, hit the ellipses that appears on top and choose refresh? This is how I do it with Connect.
Connect looks awesome, but I can’t for the life of me find a feed for only my subbed communities, Do you know if that is an option?
It’s the Frontpage feeding on the sidebar.
You know what’s nice, we have sooooo many more options than we deserve. Thanks all you devs!
Reddit has one official one that kinda sucks.
Voyager
Has sync been updated lately? I left sync because the dev fell off the face of the earth or so it seems but I really miss the long hold to view images.
Nope, still on the March 26th, 2024 version. It works for me though.
Eternity was the one I settled on.
Used jerboa, liftoff, thunder and a few other to name a few.
