I am very new to Lemmy, and I am using the Eternity app. But I am wondering which one you guys are using, and maybe there are better one’s than Eternity without me knowing
Summit, it’s the best.
I currently browse around through Quiblr
Eternity
Infinity was my favorite Reddit app and I saw that Eternity existed, so I switched to it the moment it releasedits first alpha. I see no reason to use anything else unless it breaks and is no longer maintained.
Boost
I used Thunder for a long time, but I have been giving Arctic a try lately and like it. I will likely give Mlem another shot after the next update. Voyager is another great one, but I have not used it for a while.
Overall, there are a lot of great Lemmy apps and I love that most of them did not get abandoned after the initial wave from the Reddit exodus died down. I think we have more high-quality Lemmy apps than there were for Reddit.
I came from reddit a few years back and was a staunch baconreader user.
Eternity for lemmy has been wonderful.
any “beef” I have is with content/community which are getting better and not related to the client I use.
I’ve bounced around several clients (mobile) and frontends (web) especially when I first started. I’ve eventually settled on Voyager (mobile) and Alexandrite (web frontend).
Voyager has a lot of neat features that makes browsing Lemmy on mobile smooth and an overall nice experience. It’s got swipe gestures (configurable, but mine has long swipe left to upvote, long swipe left to save, short swipe right to downvote, and long swipe right to reply). There’s also a feature to tag a user, and to keep track of votes (in aggregate, so I wouldn’t know if I give a user an upvote in one thread, and a downvote in another, yielding a net zero, or I just haven’t given that user a vote at all). Still a nice set of features. There might be more that I have yet to discover and use.
Alexandrite, on the other hand, presents a really good desktop experience. There’s an option to have the posts (on my feed, or a community) on the left side of the screen and the post I’m reading on the right, which is great if I am just scanning a my feed, deciding if I want to take a closer look at a post. I end up mostly just using this mode most of the time.
Both Voyager and Alexandrite allow me to switch between my Lemmy accounts easily, which is a great plus if you’re having a handful of accounts (for different purposes, like one main, another for NSFW, etc).
IMO, the clients (for mobile) have a lot of competition going on, and I wouldn’t be surprised if I find a different one I’d like better. Just keep an eye out for those, I guess?
I have tried almost all clients on Android.
Best In my opinion:
- Thunder
- Jerboa
- Raccoon for Lemmy
- Voyager
To me thunder has the best UI and UX overall, even though I prefer the “card view” feed from Raccoon and some functions of Jerboa.
Yep, tried everything and Thunder is the best for me.
I’ve moved from Boost to Thunder. It’s a great experience so far.
Did you rank these in a particular order, or is it just four that you like?
I used Jerboa when I first transitioned from Reddit, but eventually someone recommended Voyager because it is similar to the RiF app I used to use. I like the interface of Voyager more than Jerboa, and I’ve been using it for a while, but I’m still open to checking out other apps.
Did you rank these in a particular order, or is it just four that you like?
In preferred order.
Jerboa has everything you might need related to Lemmy functions, as it is the native app developed by the same Lemmy authors. But I feel the interface is not as good as Thunder’s. And as for Voyager, I dislike the interface because is reminiscent of old iPhone interfaces (even though you can change it something similar to Android). And as far as I remember Thunder’s post’s comments view is better for me. In my opinion Thunder has the better combination of Function, UI and UX.
i agree. Thunder is the best. It’s even better than paid apps
Do you use thunder on iPad? How do you exit from a video link, eg youtube? There is no back or X or gesture.
I would suppose with the same gestures as the image ones but since you mention is not that then I would assume it could work with native iOS gestures? I’m sorry, do not own any Apple devices. I suggest asking on Thunder’s community or making an issue on Github.
You can’t hide the bottom bar on thunder, can you?
Boost and got the paid version. It’s clean and responsive.
That’s what I use, too. I think most of what makes Boost so great is that the developer initially made it for Reddit, so they put a lot of work into the user experience and it runs great. Plus since I primarily used it for Reddit, it feels very familiar to use it for Lemmy.
There’s a paid version?
I mean I paid to remove ads.
Boost. I used it on Reddit, continued to use it through the mod workaround, switched to Boost for Lemmy after they shut that down yesterday, and now here I am.
Same, but you can repatch boost for reddit to work again. Check the boost Lemmy sub, it has a pretty big post on it.
I also agree with Boost. I was super bummed when it got shut down. It actually gave me the kick to join Lemmy.
Same, Boost is really good.
literally my story
I also use Boost.
The only thing I think it’s missing is a seamless way to open other instances’ homepage.
Same, boost layout is just so clean. Sad I couldn’t keep my ad free existence from the other app but guy deserves to be paid.
Eternity is a solid one, was my main for quite some time until I used Voyager while waiting for Eternity to to update to work with the latest Lemmy at the time, and ended up sticking with Voyager.
I do miss the user avatars though, voyager doesn’t have those.
Had to scroll to the bottom for this Gem!! Eternity is rock solid.
Jerboa. Of the ones I have tried, it feels the most like Baconreader (RIP) to me.
For me, it’s a close race between Boost and Connect.
Boost.
Jerboa sorely lacks the absolute basic feature of searching for keywords in posts. It only supports searching for community names. I can’t think of any other app that does NOT support general search.
So Voyager for me, mostly because it has the most active developer.
Ya, not supporting full search is weird…
And also, there is only one font size for the whole thing, ui, comments, posts, etc… Not good…
And other several minor things. Other then that, it is awesome.
I wouldn’t call a half-baked search functionality as “minor” but that’s probably just me.
I didn’t call that minor. I said “other minor things”.
Understood. Thanks for clarifying.
I had to switch away from Jerboa because it would crash any time I’d create a link with custom text in my comments. I switched to Voyager and it’s on lot more stable.
