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I'm finding that I like bits and pieces from the various available frontends, but I haven't heavily gravitated towards one in particular.

If you have gravitated towards a specific UI, which one and why?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Used Sync at the other place with Boost as the primary backup. Doing the same here plus keeping Jerboa around.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On mobile it's Voyager. On desktop it's the default Lemmy UI with the darkly-compact theme. The latter definitely feels like a modern old.reddit.

I'm also using these CSS overrides (using the Stylus extension on Firefox) as darkly-compact's line-height is too small and videos/GIFs stretched too much:

.post-listing {
    line-height: 1.5 !important;
}

video {
    width: 25vw !important;
}
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just got back into Lemmy and Alexandrite is nice. Boost just launched in beta on Android and seems solid and pretty to boot.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm very happy Boost is out now. I've been worried the Lemmy version wouldn't be released before the mod workaround for reddit stopped working.

Now I can abandon reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're the mod of any subreddit, including one you create and set to private from the web interface of reddit, your account is allowed full use of the API even with 3rd party apps.

Everything mostly works as normal besides a couple bugs from an antiquated app/reddit trying to break things. Single images can't be posted but multiple at the same time can, something to do with the integration with the image hosts. NSFW and the bulk of the app work like before though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

😮 Wow, I had no idea. Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve settled on Memmy (which I think is iOS only). I like that it’s pretty true — maybe 100% true — to the Lemmy web app’s features but with more of a designer’s eye, I guess. Just a lil’ polish. Not trying to be something the backend isn’t ready for.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Memmy is very buggy and crashes a lot. It was a strong contender 2 months ago. But the developer, by his own admission, can’t be arsed to update it in a timely fashion. In the intervening weeks strong contenders for iOS have arisen. I think Lemma is the most promising, although it’s available via TestFlight at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been very happy with Memmy but noticed the updates have gone way down. It's unfortunate they've lost some interest.

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

Basically they are rewriting it as they say they didn’t really know how to use the tools when they did v1. Which is why it’s an acquired taste.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Boost. Always has been, always will be.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really like photon. It is very multi-alt friendly, and I can run my own instance of it locally.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Photon's so clean. From a pure design perspective, it might be my favorite.

But after trying Alexandrite, I started missing the paneling. It seems really easy to lose your location on Photon since you gotta click into everything.

Haven't decided between Photon's nicer UI vs. Alexandrite's more convenient UX.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

old.lemmy.world

I refuse to change

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didnt know this existed, thanks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You might want to check out this post from yesterday: https://lemmy.world/post/6086181

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Alexandrite on desktop. Thunder and Liftoff for mobile because they do not look like a clone of Apollo that all the other apps seem to try to emulate.

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

Haven't tried Liftoff, but Thunder's really clean. Just needs more features. In due time.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I like Liftoff.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still rocking Jerboa on Android. It has been totally inoffensive, and I'll probably just stick with it until it offends me somehow.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If you used Infinity for Reddit, then Eternity for Lemmy is right for you. That's what I use.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’m enjoying Mlem for iOS. Quite a few display options and customizations, and runs smoothly. I haven’t totally decided on it yet though, as I am still testing quite a few.

Edit: This post got me to try out some of the apps again, and I think I may actually use Avelon on iOS for now. Seems to be closer to Apollo, which I enjoy.

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

Check out Voyager too. I’ve been using it for months and it’s almost 1 to 1 Apollo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voyager and lemm.ee for me.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Eternity for Android and Alexandrite (at https://a.lemmings.world) on desktop.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Alexandrite on desktop.

Switches up the doom scrolling feel of mobile and makes it feel more like a tool you can use to consume and interact with people and posts. Big part of that is desktop. But alexandrite is rather nice too!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you aren't dead set on running FOSS only Boost is a slick running app on Android. Good filtering features and blocking. Everything loads clean and fast. The unpaid version has ads but they are unobtrusive. I barely notice them.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Seconding Thunder as it is the only Android app I've found that I like the design of and doesn't lag whenever scrolling through loads of image posts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As an avid Boost user for years, I've been using Connect because it was billed as the closest thing to Boost. However, now that Boost is out I've found myself sticking with Connect. I've just grown to love the look and feel of it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm the reverse. I never used Boost for Reddit (relay was my drug of choice) and started with Connect as it was billed as most similar to a lot of the 3rd party Reddit apps. Now that Boost is out I find myself looking it more. I do miss gesture voting though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I really liked Mlmym (the port of the classic Reddit front-end). Unfortunately its main mirror (http://mlmym.org) has disappeared

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Started with sync, but actually prefer Boost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Mobile apps, Sync and Boost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me there are two big ones: Alexandrite and Photon. Photon is the most feature complete but Alexandrite fills the screen better imho.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I am on iOS and I use Liftoff. I actually don’t particularly like the looks of it but it is the ONLY app that can do swipe right anywhere to go back.

It is also the only app which allows for a very large text size span. Most apps just have ultra tiny text on the largest settings and that is just unusable on a mini phone.

There are lots and lots of apps but almost all of them fail on the basics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I tried many but since Boost came out it has been a game changer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jerboa. It was billed to me as "RIF for lemmy" and that's right on the money. It lacks community browsing right now, though, I go to the web UI for that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

if you want rif experience, try connect.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is community browsing different than community searching? Because Jerboa has Searching.

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

i use wefwef/voyager and thunder

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

I like Eternity very much

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm accessing via kbin through Firefox, with a shortcut 'installed' through the Firefox feature on Android. Started on Kbin, the UI wasn't terrible and didn't change

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