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?

    • Swyper
      4•2 years 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.

  • HEISENBERG
    3•2 years 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]English
    20•2 years ago

    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.

    • SkeezixEnglish
      13•2 years ago

      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.

        • Phil K
          2•2 years 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.

    • HiramFromTheChi
      OPEnglish
      11•2 years 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]
      1•2 years ago

      I like Voyager. But the last week or so, it’s been saying update available. I go to the settings and tell it to update. The app kinda flashes and restarts, and then within a minute it says update available again.

      Has anyone else has this happen?

  • Krotiuz
    1•2 years 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

  • maegul (he/they)English
    6•2 years 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!

  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦
    20•2 years 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]
      3•2 years ago

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

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 years ago

    I bounce between Eternity and Jerboa. Both are really great and I’m happy to see progress being made on them. It’s nice to have options!

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
    4•2 years ago

    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.