Memmy is developing at a crazy fast rate - it’s leapfrogged Mlem in features and stability already imho.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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The only thing they need is a better app icon and I'll be happy hahaha.
The app is SO GOOD but the icon looks like it was poorly cropped from a screenshot. Mlem is obviously going for somewhere between the apollo icon and Ivory icon and it makes the app just feel way more professional from the get-go
Yeah the icon is goofy but I can overlook it for the time being - I’d rather them focus on features and functionality and bring the fun stuff later (which seems to be how they’re approaching this)
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Memmy is developing very nicely!
I noticed that today as well.
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Sync for Lemmy is comin'
It's awesome to see Lemmy getting lots of love, and choice in the mobile app space is great for everyone. But some part of me also kind of wishes that rather than spreading so much development effort out over so many mobile apps, that more developers would jump in and contribute to polishing up the official open source Lemmy mobile app, Jerboa. I can't help but feel that it would be nice to see a focused effort somewhere in bringing that one in particular up to snuff, as a sort of "reference" app. And have a few others floating around out there just for some diversity and testing innovative ideas.
Maybe it's already that way, I don't know. It kind of feels like there's a new Lemmy mobile app announced every couple of days.
Link to f-droid page for Jeroba: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jerboa/
Similarly, Lemmur: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.krawieck.lemmur/
The Lemmur github says the project is abandoned.
Oops :)
Looks like liftoff is a fork of Lemmur and the development is continuing.
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I agree, somewhat, with your sentiment. However, the 'best' (I know that's subjective) apps will arise from a number of factors. My gut tells me that volunteer devs will flock to the repositories where people are enjoying themselves the most.
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I really like Jerboa. I'm getting a server version vs. app version pop-up at launch and the odd crash when making a comment or saving a post, but I enjoy the UX a lot issues aside. The list view is 🤌
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Developers all have their pet frameworks they want to use. Why contribute to a Kotlin app when I can finally learn Dart and Flutter??
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Currently testing out thunder (Android) and it's pretty sleek, especially for a side/hobby project.
Much prefer it to Jerboa, though it has quite a few less features.
Going to try out Liftoff later.
Edit: Okay, Liftoff is pretty impressive, but some accessibility issues and certain things are finicky.
I'd try memmy, but it looks like I'd have to build it from source for Android (I don't see an APK in their GitHub releases) and I'm far too tired to do that. It'd be great if it hit F-Droid soon.
So far, Jerboa's been the most "feature rich", but some of the bugs are very annoying. Don't want to try anything not FOSS, so Connect is out for me.
Thunder is good, extremely work in progress but what's there is really confidence inspiring for the future. Next update is already bringing stuff I was wishing for.
Thunder is my upcomer choice and i use both it and jerboa as needed. Omcecthunder gets a thing for telling me what posts i have read at a glance i will most likely use thunder exclusively. Jerboa is good, but the thunder dev has really worked on screen reader accessibility and it shows. He has fixed quite a few of my accessibility bug reports already and the app is top notch
Thunder is spectacular and it's still in alpha! Dev seems super nice. I'm still mostly using Jerboa, but Thunder will likely be my daily driver once it hits beta :) it's just so slick!
https://wefwef.app is actually insane even though it's a PWA. It's really really good
Web based PWAs should not be underestimated in this space. Mastodon has a similarly awesome PWA in elk.
Because of the tech involved they seem to be able to develop faster while giving you pretty good performance.
As lemmy has a hard separation between its backend and front end, it’s be cool to see alterntive front ends become more integrated with the mainline deployment. That is, it’d be nice if in settings I could select from a range of front ends, even ones that are acknowledged as experimental third party front ends without any guarantees.
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Its not out yet, but the Sync for Reddit dev is making Sync For Lemmy, so that should be worth checking out in the future.
Just switched from Jerboa to Connect on Android.
I actually found connect to be a little more buggy than Jerboa
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There was this thread 3 days ago on !foss@beehaw.org : https://beehaw.org/post/697402
Nice! Must have missed that one.
Switched from Jerboa to Liftoff and I'm very happy with Liftoff so far. Liftoff feels very similar to the Reddit client Infinity for me. Only thing I don't like is the color scheme. It's confusing to make buttons you can click grey...
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Memmy is already great and there are multiple updates each day!
I've, also, heard that the lead dev of Mlem handed the code over to someone else and left the project....Seems to be in limbo right now.
The development never stalled and the app has already improved. You need to access a new TestFlight link. See their latest post: https://lemmy.ml/post/1550828
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I've tried Connect and Jerboa for Android. Out of the two I prefer Jerboa.
Your relative link needs to be changed from /c/ to /m/
Oh, I wasn't aware. Coming from lemmy, the correct relative link to a kbin instance would be /m/. But since the community lives in a lemmy instance, it is /c/. Apparently coming from kbin you need /m/ in both cases. I added a link for both now, thanks.
On Android I'm liking Thunder and Connect
Memmy is incredible and makes using lemmy easy and fun. Cant see myself using any other app going forward. Its perfect.
I tried for way too long tonight to try and build memmy for Android to check it out. Couldn't get it to run unfortunately. I'll probably wait until there is a prebuilt apk to download
Connect for Lemmy works well for me where Jerboa returns a server error
Jerboa made the minimum supportes instance version 0.18, unfortunately the largest instances are still on 0.17 due to captcha reasons.
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I was using Jerboa. But I switched to Summit just today. It's a lot sleeker. It feels closer to RIF. But it doesn't show a way to save posts/comments.
Also, neither one has a way to search for keywords.
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My absolute favorite is https://wefwef.app/ . It’s a simple PWA and it feels just as good as a full app and has a better feature set than other clients for iOS.
It’s almost bizarre to me how fully featured and polished wefwef.app is. Really amazing.
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Never mind it’s back I guess
I'm currently using Liftoff and it is soo much better than Jerboa. It lacks a few features still but jerboa was wayy to buggy for me to use
No app has come close to the lemmy-ui PWA to be honest in terms of stability and featureset at the moment.
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