So, I was lurking using sync for Lemmy and I came upon this post.
What happened to the development with these apps? I’m not that active on lemdro.id or other instances. But apps like Sync and Boost have been updated in a year or 6 months respectively. With Boost I’m not surprised Mayo tends to be slow. I was more shocked with sync. My question is do you guys have any recommendations for other Lemmy clients?
Edit Please do not harass the devs.
Edit 2: I’m testing out thunderbird.
The only good apps are Thunder on Android and Arctic on iOS, change my mind
Edit: Eternity is pretty great as well, I used to use Infinity on Android back in the Reddit days
I’ve been very happy with Summit on Android.
Edit: changed link to app website
Summit is severely overlooked. Dev fixes many bug reports same/next day as well.
Where is the source code? Is it closed source? As I see only releases are on github
It is closed source. People keep asking if it will be made open source, and the dev doesn’t necessarily seem opposed to it. I don’t recall the reasons they gave, nor would I likely understand them as someone who is not a developer, but there are threads on it on !summit@lemmy.world. They are generally very open to discussing things if you might have solutions for them.
Summit has been the closest in look and feel to my beloved old baconreader (RIP).
Summit is such a nice app I haven’t even considered changing in over a year.
It’s unfortunately proprietary :(
What about raccon for Lemmy and connect?
Never tried Raccoon, but I used Connect for a while, it’s not bad, but unfortunately proprietary :(
What’s wrong with Jerboa? Been using it since I left reddit, seems perfectly fine to me.
Jerboa was the first app I tried when there were essentially no other Lemmy apps. It worked ok in the very beginning, but then went horribly jank and turned into an almost unusable, buggy mess. Voyager was being developed at the time (then wefwef) and switching to it was like a breath of fresh air. It actually just freaking worked and wasn’t a glitchy mess as opposed to the other apps in development at the time.
If Jerboa has improved a lot since then, then that’s great! But I’d wager that I’m probably not the only one who was deeply turned off by this during its nearly broken phase of development. Voyager just worked and continues to just work, so I haven’t had any reason to try to switch back.
I tried it over and over, found the UI and UX to be pretty poor, and the app is pretty buggy. It had an issue for months that caused comments to sometimes be posted twice or more, it was incredibly annoying.