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Introducing Connect for Lemmy (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi lemmings, I switched over from Reddit 10 days ago now but I couldn't find a mobile client that I was happy with with an experience similar to the Reddit experience I was used to. So I decided to build my own and I hope you will like it as well!

Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

Features:

Material U
Dark and Light themes
List view / Card view / Fullwidth view
Filter lists for hiding posts
Multiple accounts + switcher across multiple instances
Guest accounts for viewing an instance without signup
Search and community autofill
Markdown support + attempt to navigate links correctly (/u/foo will open that user instead of browser kickout. Same for /c/, !, and @)
Saving posts
full sort types
NSFW view options (hide, blur, show)
copy text and url on all posts and comments
add comments, replies, and new posts
comment replies with line indicators

Here's other screenshots:

Future plans:

Improving the inbox
Swipe actions
Multi-~~reddit ~~communities

Thank you for taking a look. I hope others who are migrating from Reddit like me will find the app useful and I'd love to know your thoughts!

Edit: Community for the app is here: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Will this app be compatible with kbin.social accounts? I've tried to sign in and it's throwing a whole page of an error message.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Lemmy and Kbin are entirely different Software. Fediverse just allows posts to be visible between other fediverse applications.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Any chance of adding Kbin logins?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I signed into my dataterm.digital account but when I go on profile I see my feddit.de profile even though I didn't login with it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Looks like Infinity! looks promising

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

i'm currently using this and it's great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Looks good. Now we just need a good iOS app

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I can't even be accepted to join Lemmy. I'm on Kbin right now.

Tbh, these platforms confuse me. The Kbin app is great though, so I guess I don't need to change.

Would like to know how to follow a group though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

On Kbin, Lemmy groups are called "magazines," so all you have to do is go to the magazines list, search for what you want, and subscribe. You can even subscribe to magazines hosted on other servers from there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Lemmy is not one thing, it's a way for different sites (called instances) to share content with each other.

What instances (i.e. domains) are you trying to create an account on? There have been some big bot waves in the last few days, but even without that every instance handles signup differently. Some are totally open, while others require manual review of some kind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Tried it quickly and was not well surprised. I appreciate thr approach a lot! The app is nice looking but feels too chewy. Prefer the mobile browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

runs very smooth on my 5 year old phone. Some suggestions for improvement

With All selected not all feeds were showing up on the sidebar
Adding a compact layout for sidebar and comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow, you are really fast! I've been using Jerboa and the PWA, but not super happy with either. Yours look great! Will use it more and feed back to you if that's okay.

One thing I found is that it doesn't show the number of new comments. I usually sort by NewComments, and I would expect to e.g. see "49 comments (14 new)" like Jerboa/PWA.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn that looks awesome! Did you find any good docs on the API? I only found the lemmy-js-client, which is a library, though. Wanted to do some shenanigans with Python and Lemmy, but there doesn't seem to be too much documentation...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

just a quick feedback, when being in the dark mode, the user switching remain in light mode. Also the node selection suggesting the possible nodes would be appreciated.

also, adding new accounts after the first one, doesn't seems to work.

I added my lemmy.world and it seemed to work.

anything else besides it, didn't work (tried, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc.)

overall it's a good mvp, well done, need a little more work and i would appreciate if it was a FOSS to absolutely avoid situations in which an app become the unofficial-official app but then a sudden surge of egocentrism from an individual take it away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

so far I'm really liking it. I would like alternating backgrounds on comments just to help separate them out a little.

I don't see the ability to edit my comments. I had to pull up the pwa to edit this one.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Looks amazing! I'll try it out!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

My keyboard constantly tries to switch to caps as I type in Connect. I am using Grammarly. It will flicker the upper case layout between each key press. It's unusable as it is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe bug: in list view, the width of post title and content seems to be limited to around 80% of my screen width.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hi, just wanted to make sure you saw this but that issue is now fixed. Thanks again!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The screen shots look good. I'll download it and try it out. Let me know if you make a community for it so we can give back feedback on there. The more apps the merrier now that Reddit is getting rid of all them!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm very thankful to you! I wanted a nice app to browse lemmy and I found your app a couple of days ago! I've had a very nice experience so far

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks @[email protected]! I'm glad you're enjoying it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Downloaded and used for an hour or so. I'd like to see an option to change the font size. I like my stuff to be small so I can get more content on the screen. 1.6 posts is pretty bad for me. I also couldn't find a way to change my default homepage to "subscribed - new" but maybe I just didn't search hard enough. Either way, it's good to have some competition for Jerboa!

Edit: Found Frontpage. Might be worth changing this to Subscribed since that seems to be the Lemmy equivalent.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'd also love to see an option to change the font size, but for the opposite reason - my eyes suck and I need bigger text! Lol. I love it so far either way!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm able to sign in but no posts populate the feed. Also only a small amount of my subscriptions show up in the sidebar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hi, both of those issues have been resolved in the build last night (1.0.25)!

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