Didn’t want to say anything and jinx it but Blorp has been working perfectly for me. I’ve recommended it to my friends who complain about their app/client constantly refreshing.
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2025
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Thanks! Blorp is far from perfect. For example, private messaging can and will be improved when I get around to it. But I’m pretty proud of what I built so far!
The other users!
Sync. It still works well for having been abandoned, but I can't do things that would be trivial on PC, like reference server rules, identify moderators, and access modlogs. I have Voyager installed, but it's so hard for me to set up another UI. I still get upset that menus aren't like Windows 98 anymore.
A feature from RSS readers known as grouping, where instead of a wall of posts you could see an overview:
Mechanical Keyboards (5)
Lemmy (3)
Not Just Bikes (2)
Another Community (7)
Some Community (1)
...
...
For each community you see the number of unreads. If you click on one of these entries, you get the posts of that community of course, ideally being able to set up a "read" marker that "I've read until this post here".
One practical idea to not require API changes for this feature could be to use bookmarks as read indicators. It's more in the "quick and dirty" realm of course..
Great idea
I'm completely happy with Boost
This. Ditched Reddit for good the day Boost finally stopped working. I'm so happy the dev made this Lemmy version.
I use blurp for lemmygrad and Voyager for Lemmy.ml, my main. My favorite is interstellar but it's new and buggy. You can use Lemmy redirect with Voyager as well.
Using connect. A new bug came in that I can't save images anymore, makes the app hang, so I have to make screenshots
Went to the connect sub and multiple times got told that naaaahh, must be me
So I'm game for a new client! Which would you recommend.?
Try summit! I've tried Boost, Connect, Summit, Thunder and Voyager but only Summit checked all of those boxes:
- Feature complete (shows crossposts, community descriptions)
- Customizable enough (layout, post appearance, show upvotes and downvotes instead of sum)
- Aesthetical design (completely black theme, animations)
- Good user experience (gestures, automatic mark as read)
Only con I can think of right now is that the settings page is a bit cluttered and confusing.
That sounds great! I'll give that a try right away
Sorry connect, I notified the devs multiple times about this and all I got was "it's you, works for me", so I'll be leaving
Tried searching for "Summit Lemmy" on either play store and f-droid, and got nothing. Is the name correct?
That's weird, can't find it on F-Droid either but on Play it's called: "Summit for Lemmy". The icon is an orange pyramid with a blue tip.
ME TOO. .
It's inconsistent for me but when it happens is lame
Love it otherwise have no other recommendations.
Jerboa, no cross post button. Otherwise perfection
Scrolling on jebora one handed is janky. It's too quick to interpret a slightly angular vertical movement as a horizontal movement.
I disabled horizontal scroll actions
I didn't even think to look. Thanks!
That, and it regularly gets stuck on a reply when trying to scroll back up
For me it's double tap on images. The zoom is way too much.
Have you figured out a way to not vote up or down on something and just mark it "read". I don't care for having to vote on stuff I don't care about one way or another just so I don't have to see it when I refresh.
Yeah there's a setting for marking read on scroll, and another for only showing unread
Personally I bookmark the last read post, and upon reading, bookmark the new one and unbookmark the old.