The one I’m using is becoming so buggy to the point of being unusable. It was never really great tbh, what are most people using?
As an added question, are bookmarks associated with the lemmy account or the app?
I’ve tried Jerboa, Liftoff, and Connect. They all seem fine, but Connect is the one I stick with.
I just switched from Liftoff because it hasn’t received an update in 6 months and is now breaking. As of last week, it no longer opens the subbed list for me.
I tried Voyager and Connect. It looks like I may be sticking with Connect, as I’m way happier with how smooth it is and the fact that it’s not harvesting my data like some of the more popular browsers.
Disclaimer: I use kbin 99% of the time.
That said, I love using Connect when I use Lemmy
Are there any kbin apps yet?
There was one, Artemis
It was developed prior to Kbin having a proper API for user interactions, and thus only worked on the developer’s instance - which was running a modified Kbin version with some APIs implemented.
I believe it’s all packed up shop now due to the developer’s instance unexpectedly going offline, and possibly some IRL circumstances with the dev… more info here: https://wedistribute.org/2023/12/artemis-shuts-down/
Sadly, no. One was in production and was pretty stable, but suffered performance issues (at least for me? But an S21 Ultra really shouldn’t have performance issues) and now the Dev has gone inactive…
Ha, I was going to say jerboa is my favorite so far.
I’m having a different experience, haven’t had any bugs and the updates seem to add features/stability without introducing any bugs on my device, I’m also on Android.
What kind of things are making it unusable for you?
I’m considering switching too. When my instance updated to .19 or whatever Jerboa would crash if I tried to log in. It sorted itself out after a few days, but it was still a bummer that I couldn’t upvote or save anything for three days.
It also randomly crashes on some posts. I’ve never been able to see a pattern because I am just instantly back at my phone’s home screen. Once every two or three days there is a post that throws it off.
It also doesn’t seem to handle network issues well. If my Internet goes out or my wifi is acting up my screen gets flooded with json errors.
Nothing major, but enough to make me interested in alternatives.
Eternity
Use to use sync a lot but I gotta say summit has been working really really well. The dev is active and has actually fixed a bug I posted about in their community.
Boost
Is there really the need for an app specifically for it?
There’s no “need” for it, but some give extra features that I find useful, such as post hiding and things like that.
I have tried a vast majority of them and there were many I like some features of, but they end up falling to the way side. I always go back to using, “Connect” For Lemmy. Has every thing I want.
Does connect have mark read on scroll? Seems that’s missing from boost. :(
Yes, it does.
Noticed it’s not FOSS :(
The dev does plan to open source it I believe.
haven’t seen any comments mentioning connect yet, so that would be my recommendation. by far the most fully featured and smooth lemmy app imo and its my favorite. I’ve used most other apps but I always come back to connect because of all the different ways I can customize it and all the settings I can change that I simply don’t see in a lot of other apps.
I use Voyager. It gets updates fast but it looks like an iOS app. I rarely encounter any bugs here.
Sync. Voyager was good too.
Was super excited for Boost as I was a paid user
Then it came out and was missing many of the features of Connect
Came back to Connect and haven’t looked back
I’m also on Connect. Despite the fact that developer occasionally is a bit slow, I found nothing better. It was annoying to be locked out of my main server when they silently upgraded to 0.19 and Connect dev did not add support for it for several weeks.
What’s missing from Boost that’s in connect?
Photon is great! It has all the features of lemmy-ui and looks really nice
Link: https://phtn.app
I wish I knew about Photon before. Just spun up my own instance and loving it!
What about for iOS? I can’t seem to find one I like.
Arctic is usually praised
The absolute bare minimum is to show text as it was written. Most of the apps don’t even deal with formatting post correctly, so I am happy to stick with a browser.
If your app of choice does not display the following correctly, let the devs know via a bug report
Bold = Bold v. normal.
Italic = Italic v. normal.
Superscript = SuperScript v. normal.
Subscript = Subscript v. normal.
Strike-through =Strike-throughv. normal.
