I got used to liftoff where I could have up vote and down vote arrows on the right, so it’s disappointing that I can’t seem to find that option here on boost. don’t feel like reaching for those vote buttons, otherwise I haven’t noticed any remarkable differences from liftoff
I was a Boost for Reddit user who made do with LiftOff for the time being. What ever happened to LiftOff - there are no releases in a long while now.
oh besides notifications. liftoff doesn’t do pushes which is a little annoying
Like it so far, will save up rewards to get it ad-free
Has anyone figured out how to change the default feed? I’m not subscribed to any communities, so I always open to a blank page before switching to all.
Settings, general then subscriptions
Thanks! Never would have guessed.
I’m brand new to Lemmy using boost now!
Welcome!
Alive as their abusive data collection.
The dev has responded on that issue
What did he say?
"Dev here.
The dialog and its content is not created by me, it is a standard solution from Google to comply with GDPR and other laws. More info here: https://support.google.com/admob/answer/10114014?hl=en
The consent dialog is also required by Google AdMob to show ads, and it is shown when the ad network is initialized.
When the app launches, first it checks for the remove ads purchase, and if it is not present, it will initialize the ads sdk. The ad network is not initialized if the remove ads purchase is detected.
Boost for Reddit was using the very same ad networks and consent dialog. "
Hey Ruben! Long time Boost user and I was wondering if there is a community for your lemmy app? I was active in the previous one :)
Also, might I suggest a small addition for my favorite feature, the image uploading! To add alt text to images for accessibility.
it’s possibly to create image captions with a simple
[reference image](reference.url)tag by addingand I could definitely see just a little extra space for adding it :)Here is the accessibility thread discussing it which will have better info: https://beehaw.org/post/686974
Thanks for everything you do!!
Just as a heads up, while Ruben was the one who made the comment in the screenshot, Ruben isn’t the one who posted the screenshot here in the comment you replied to 😅
Whoops! Haha! Thanks for letting me know :)
He does have a community on lemmy world. Here’s the link: [email protected]
Edit: link
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Saw that, isn’t it strange to never have seen that from any other app then?
Been loving this app since the preview.
Reddit became a different site for me when I used baconit and w10m. Once i went to android there were a number of apps to try but i settled on boost.
After api changes I couldn’t bring myself to install their app and i did miss it. l used liftoff here for a bit but this has been so much more functional. Truly a great job by the dev and worth the wait. The paid version seems like a steal given you can’t get a good chicken sandwich anywhere near that.
I’ll probably gift a few copies to friends and family just so i don’t feel guilty.
Lord i sound like a paid amazon review. I’m as cycnal as they come though and not easily won over for what it’s worth.
It looks exactly like Jerboa, but its smoother.
Jerboa was inspired by Boost
I think it’s the other way around: Jerboa takes heavy inspiration from how BaconReader and Boost worked. I remember a while back switching to Boost because it was basically BaconReader but better and more modern and more reliable. I was using BaconReader in like 2012. Boost for Reddit itself was launched in 2016 iirc.
Thank shit lol. I’m a kbin guy so I’m still gonna wait a while for the kbin API to come out before I can use it with my main account, but at least its out and I can use it with a compatible one in the meantime! I left Sync for Boost (with Reddit lol) and I’m glad this is here now.
Some of y’all have no appreciation for independent app developers
I’ll take my downvote now
Not having read anything else, I’m guessing ads
The same behavior happened when sync came out. Endless complaints about an app being from on app store with the option to pay the hard working developer for their work.
Do they go on public transit complaining that see ads there too? At least when you pay for the app the ads go away forever.
Sync launched with a subscription, and only after the kickback from that did it add a one time charge option. An option priced much higher than Boost, by the way.
People were right to push back on that.
Also, the public transit example doesn’t fit here. If I paid for the bus with my bus fare, or through my taxes, yes, being upset about the ads would be ok, because I already paid for the service. Same way I wouldn’t appreciate ads in the backseat of an Uber.
Last time I went to New York the Ubers had tablets with a camera and ads in your face.
I don’t really complain about seeing ads in apps i didn’t pay for, but I do complain about seeing ads on public transit and in the world in general. I don’t want the world plastered with ads.
Hell they’re on the motorways here which seems ludicrous.
I think you’re confusing “independent” with “works for free.”
I haven’t switched at this point because Connect works well for me, but people’s work has value.
Really, it’s cool that some want to make their apps for free with no ads, but I’ll support devs who put in hard work to make a good app, it’s ridiculous to think that they don’t deserve some sort of compensation.
Is boost not developed by an independent developer?
It is
Source code?
I’m using Voyager, but giving Boost some attention. We will see which I like better… I didn’t like Sync or Jerboa much.
Try Connect or Liftoff
Connect is incredibly laggy for me, it’s code needs some optimization, it’s closed source because the dev himself admitted the codebase is a mess.
Liftoff’s ui is just not intuitive, like, at all.
Liftoff’s ui is just not intuitive, like, at all.
Okay good deal. Glad it wasn’t just me.
Connect never gave me any issues. I dont even feel the lag. I am used to Liftoff UI so got no issues there as well.
Connect gives me issues because I’m subscribed to over 600 communities, something with how the sidebar renders that community list destroys the app, also the animations aren’t very refined, and there’s a lot of text and multi button clicks for things that could be single button presses.
This will most likely get better over time, but until then, I’m definitely using boost or sync.
I’m surprised there even exist 600 communities…
There are hundreds of servers, and hundreds of thousands of users, so yeah, there’s that many lol
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still using Jerboa since I joined up, and I’m so used to it now that other apps just feel off. I was a rif user in the before-times, and jerboa has the same kind of stripped-down vibe I’m comfortable with
The pricing is way more reasonable than sync. I’m still sticking with connect but at least this dev is not asking for much.
Long term sustainability is going to be challenging. The Lemmy userbase is way smaller than reddit’s regardless, and for 3.50 EUR one-off it will be challenging to cover future development efforts.
Yeah, I’m still on Connect as well. At this point, I see no reason to change, despite being a Boost user for years with reddit.
If it ain’t broke…
For me it just have too many bugs that aren’t being fixed.
Nothing major, just little annoying things like if you edit a comment it closes out of the thread. Or if you make a comment it scrolls to the top of the thread. Why?
I’ve just tested it and boost doesn’t do either of those things.
Boost is definitely a little better than connect. It also just has a feeling of being a little more solid and I can’t even say specifically why. That’s worth considering for me
Idk about you, but I paid less than the max it shows for the price in my country on the Play Store. It may be down to localised pricing or maybe I paid during some promotion.
Instantly bought the ads removal, Boost was THE reddit app for me. I’m stoked to see it for Lemmy.
Nice! Installed and purchased the ad free version immediately.
Excellent!
