Not a developer, just pure interest as a user. Doing my part 🫡
So far I replaced eternity with it. Eternity kept crashing and the swipe sensitivity was horrible. I’m liking liftoff. Crossing fingers.
photon client in browser is way better in my opinion. maybe you should try it. official instance is phtn.app
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 like it, except… I can’t upvote or comment on anything. I’m signed in, as my comments/posts show up in my profile, but it tells me I’m not logged in when I try to comment. Any tips?
A quick bug is that Liftoff also only seems to show a selection of comments on my recent post. It says there are 8 comments, but Liftoff only shows 5 of them. Then I tried again and it showed 4 comments.
You should choose on the top of the feed page your instance, not default lemmy.world. To show every post you should change languages in Lemmy settings interface. Click cross near language setting and choose save in the bottom of the page.
Lemmy.world is my instance… Good tip on the language. I’ll check that out. I didn’t realize it filtered automatically.
👍🙂
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.
Thunder was pretty snappy. I didn’t know about that one, so I tried it just now. I’m afraid to say I think I like Liftoff better still, because Thunder uses swipe gestures for a few things and is missing a few “top” sorts, but it seemed like it has potential.
It didn’t have top sorting at all a few versions ago 😅
Theres a dozen of us contributing to it every day, it’s coming along very nicely, and making it usable without the gestures is a current focus. It’s already possible with posts, but next up are comments.
Keep it in mind! Check back a bit later and I’m sure you’ll be impressed.
Cool, sounds like it’s coming along well. I’ll give it another shot next update or so :)
Gestures can now be entirely disabled, and you can turn on buttons for posts and comments. All top sort options are now available.
Also play store release within next 24 hours.
Cool, thanks for the update! Coincidentally, Liftoff put gestures with no option to turn them off in their latest release, so I’ve been a little unsatisfied about that. I’ll try Thunder again.
The play store release is a huge deal too. Ngl that I probably wouldn’t have used Thunder if I had to manually update it from github for each new release.
It’s my favorite of the options so far, I wish I wouldn’t default to lemmy.world, but that may be pilot error…
You can remove the lemmy.world instance once you’ve added your own. Long press.
There are a few default instances in the settings page, and you can add your own as well.
Yeah, I think you can change the default page in settings.
Truthfully, it was my least favorite of all of the Lemmy apps. I didn’t like it’s user interface. Was it recently updated?
Same. It looks and feels like “my first flutter app”. I switched to Thunder, which is also made with flutter, but is much more pleasant to use.
I switched to Liftoff from Jerboa.
There are a few features that either don’t exist or I haven’t found (jump to next comments thread), but it’s worked really well overall.
For context, I use Relay when I’m on Reddit
Kinda same path. Jerboa -> Liftoff >< wefwef 😁
wefwef is called voyager now
Still wefwef 😁
:)
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.
