Not a developer, just pure interest as a user. Doing my part 🫡

  • @[email protected]
    4•2 years ago

    Does it / will it have mod tools available? The only way I’ve found so far to access the mod inbox, pin threads etc is through the Lemmy website

  • Ataraxia
    1•2 years ago

    So far I replaced eternity with it. Eternity kept crashing and the swipe sensitivity was horrible. I’m liking liftoff. Crossing fingers.

    • FarLine99OPEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      photon client in browser is way better in my opinion. maybe you should try it. official instance is phtn.app

  • @[email protected]
    4•2 years ago

    when i click a inbox message it doesnt bring me to the comment just to the general thread, that sucks

  • @[email protected]
    2•2 years ago

    It’s the fastest lemmy app I’ve tried and I’ve tested all the ones I can find on android

  • @[email protected]
    7•2 years ago

    It’s my go-to for random lemmy browsing. If I want to read interesting and/or thoughtful stuff I log in to my home instance where I’m subscribed to all my favourite content, but if I feel like mindlessly scrolling some memes and go where the internet mainstream goes, I use liftoff. Good interface, good speed.

  • @[email protected]
    3•2 years ago
    • The top menus are buttons and look weird and cheapen the experience.
    • Voting can’t be done via swipe.
    • You should be able to search all communities across all federated instances.
    • You should be able to browse the full list of communities for a selected instance.
    • The sorter for message replies doesn’t make sense. Why would I need to sort Active message replies?
    • If I check a message reply as read, their doesn’t appear to be a way to see it again.

    To be very honest, Memmy is currently my favorite and I have been testing them all pretty extensively.

  • sunbunman
    4•2 years ago

    Definitely my favourite one so far! Though I will still be experimenting with newer ones when they come out.

    A couple features I’d like to see implemented:

    • Setting a base instance/account and having links open through that instance. I understand this will put increased pressure on the base instance but from a user perspective this is a massive qol update.
    • Finding a way to upload videos or converting small videos to gifs before uploading without having to go into a third party source or implementing third party connectivity for this purpose. This is probably out of scope for what the app is trying to achieve, but would be a great addition for content creation on Lemmy in general.
    • @[email protected]
      2•2 years ago

      The first one already happens, no? Before the last few updates, if you opened a link to a community that “via” another instance, you were kinda screwed. You could see it as a “guest”, but not interact to it. In the recent updates, if you try to interact with it, it will open a popup to ask if you wanna open it in one of the instances you have an account.

      Dunno if I misunderstood your point, tho.

      The second one is kinda hard, because images already put a lot of pressure on instances storage-wise. Videos would be even more, and not only much more storage needed, but also throughput. I don’t really see it happening any time soon, not really because of the apps, but because of the platform itself and its federated nature.

      • sunbunman
        1•2 years ago

        For the first point. If I were to click on a link in the comments which points to another instance, I’m basically taken out of my instance and as far as I’m aware, there is no way to comment or like anything in that post within my account. I have hop out of the post, switch to my instance and then go back into the post. It has happened enough times to be annoying for me.

        100% agree with the 2nd point. Why I said that it’s probably out of scope. Maybe if there was a site like Imgur for Lemmy. But it only makes sense if it were federated which I don’t know how that would work.

        • sloonark
          1•2 years ago

          This has not been the case for a while now. It was fixed a few updates ago.

    • FarLine99OP
      1•2 years ago

      Very good points! Maybe you should create issues on GitHub 🙂

  • @[email protected]
    11•2 years ago

    So far liftoff has been my favorite and I love the ability to have multiple accounts logged in at once and the ease of browsing from different instances. The UI is nice and clear and it’s my favorite from the ones I’ve tried. I still wanna try boost out!

  • God
    2•2 years ago

    honestly i kinda like it but it is also a bit messy and buggy, and it also has a lot of things that heavily annoy me into using the website on mobile

    the main problem is any time i get a reply, i tap the link to go to the reply and it goes to the post without context, what a mess

    i also can’t see new comments i post without reloading

    idk if they fixed it but b4 i couldn’t delete or edit posts/comments which was like ???

    i do think it’s way better than jerboa for many things, especially for a multi-account user who likes to swap onto other instances a lot. but its room to grow is obviously enormous. I won’t try to discredit the devs, this is an amazing app for something so early in the game.

    • @[email protected]
      3•2 years ago

      Have you tried voyager (used to be wefwef) a lot of the stuff you want can be done in it. It is actually just a webapp or something not a google app or IOS equivalent, dont ask me to define the difference any more…

      • God
        2•2 years ago

        I have and it is slow as fuck to type in it, it is also somewhat slow/overburdened so things take a moment and that annoys me, while Liftoff is very very fast. I much prefer the normal UI to WefWef/Vger due to the speed issues. The UI is also too iphoney but that’s a trivial issue.

        • @[email protected]
          1•2 years ago

          I think that might be a problem with your phone or browser. I’m typing this out in wefwef right now and there’s no difference between this and WhatsApp or any other app where I would type. Haven’t noticed any speed issues whatsoever and it feels pretty near to RIF overall for me.

  • @[email protected]
    40•2 years ago

    It’s my favorite of the options so far, I wish I wouldn’t default to lemmy.world, but that may be pilot error…