The sense of loss from the fediverse hits hard sometimes
lemdro.id

So, I was lurking using sync for Lemmy and I came upon this post.

What happened to the development with these apps? I’m not that active on lemdro.id or other instances. But apps like Sync and Boost have been updated in a year or 6 months respectively. With Boost I’m not surprised Mayo tends to be slow. I was more shocked with sync. My question is do you guys have any recommendations for other Lemmy clients?

Edit Please do not harass the devs.

Edit 2: I’m testing out thunderbird.

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
    1·
    16 minutes ago

    I really liked Sync. It worked really well on my old phone, and I would gladly pay for it, but I’m so averse to ads that I can’t in good conscience support an app that

  • micahmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    24 hours ago

    (Disclaimer, I’m one of the devs.) Thunder is cross-platform and very actively developed! There was a release two days ago. We keep up with Lemmy API changes and we’re constantly squashing bugs and adding new features. Check it out!

    • ObsidianZed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      16 hours ago

      I am very interested in Thunder, especially considering it’s open source. While it does seem packed with features, I’d love to see a bit more customizability though. I might submit some feature requests some day but looking now there are nearly 200 issues as it stands. Not a complaint, just an observation. Keep up the good work!

      • micahmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        Thanks for checking it out. Yeah we do have quite a backlog of issues to work through. Obviously we prioritize bugs and the most popular feature requests. Feel free to submit an issue any time you want though! It may be that we can help come up with a workaround that gets you what you want. Otherwise sometimes if its an easy change one of the devs will knock it out quickly. But if nothing else it’ll be there for other people to react to. :)

  • calm.like.a.bomb@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    272·
    1 day ago

    Sync was almost always like this - the Dev takes long breaks and then updates the app with lots of good stuff. He did this since reddit days, so I’m really not concerned

        • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
          18·
          1 day ago

          Not when you charge monthly subscription fees, your app no longer fully supports the platform, and you haven’t pushed a single change in 12 months.

          It’s acceptable to have 2 of the above issues, but not all 3 at once.

  • Keshara@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    1 day ago

    I’ve just started on Lemmy very recently, but I’ve been trying out different Android Lemmy clients. I’m currently on ‘Voyager for Lemmy’ which I installed from F-Droid, and personally this has been my best experience yet

    • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 hours ago

      Voyager is a fantastic experience imo. I tried other clients like Jerboa and a couple others I can’t remember the names of. The others were always a buggy mess whereas Voyager actually just worked. Dunno if the other apps eventually improved, but I wasn’t personally keen on sticking around through their significant growing pains when Voyager already existed.

    • squirrelEnglish
      17·
      1 day ago

      I tried a few other clients as well and settled on Voyager in the end. The experience is great, it’s being actively developed and the dev is active in !voyagerapp@lemmy.world. Can recommend!

    • Welp_im_damned@lemdro.idOPEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      Voyager is a good client but it’s a variation of infinity which with Infinity I don’t really vibe with. Its not a bad client just not for me.

      Sorry I’m thinking of eternity 😅. My bad

  • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 day ago

    I’m using Connect and it’s fine. The dev sometimes pushes updates that break things but the patches come quick enough.

    • unique_hempEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      What’s wrong with Jerboa? Been using it since I left reddit, seems perfectly fine to me.

      • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        Jerboa was the first app I tried when there were essentially no other Lemmy apps. It worked ok in the very beginning, but then went horribly jank and turned into an almost unusable, buggy mess. Voyager was being developed at the time (then wefwef) and switching to it was like a breath of fresh air. It actually just freaking worked and wasn’t a glitchy mess as opposed to the other apps in development at the time.

        If Jerboa has improved a lot since then, then that’s great! But I’d wager that I’m probably not the only one who was deeply turned off by this during its nearly broken phase of development. Voyager just worked and continues to just work, so I haven’t had any reason to try to switch back.

      • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        51·
        1 day ago

        I know that this is stupid and petty, but I dislike Voyager, because it’s essentially a web app. I prefer native or near-native apps (things like Flutter or React Native). I tried it out and it’s pretty nice UI/UX-wise, but I still prefer Arctic on iOS, because it’s an actual native app written in SwiftUI, and thus closer to Apollo for Reddit (which Voyager tries to imitate).

        • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          I am not an iOS user in any way. Does Voyager actually look/feel different than a native Swift app in any way? Or does it just bother you to know, in the back of your mind, that it is not native?

          • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            5·
            1 day ago

            Or does it just bother you to know, in the back of your mind, that it is not native?

            That’s why I said that this is stupid and petty, but the thought alone makes my blood boil. And it’s not the same as with normal Electron apps on desktop, I also hate those, but for different reasons. Voyager looks just like a native iOS app, which makes this even worse for me, as I’m allergic to this kind of HTML/CSS/JS imitation of native UI libraries. Something about it just feels so wrong to me as a developer, I don’t know.

            But I recommend you don’t actually listen to me, just use whatever you like.

      • veroxii@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        15 hours ago

        Summit has been the closest in look and feel to my beloved old baconreader (RIP).

        Summit is such a nice app I haven’t even considered changing in over a year.

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        1 day ago

        Summit is severely overlooked. Dev fixes many bug reports same/next day as well.

        • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
          7·
          1 day ago

          Where is the source code? Is it closed source? As I see only releases are on github

          • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            1 day ago

            It is closed source. People keep asking if it will be made open source, and the dev doesn’t necessarily seem opposed to it. I don’t recall the reasons they gave, nor would I likely understand them as someone who is not a developer, but there are threads on it on !summit@lemmy.world. They are generally very open to discussing things if you might have solutions for them.

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    1 day ago

    Definitely thunder. I’ve been using it since it was in early alpha and it has improved so much and works really really well.

  • WistfulEnglish
    8·
    1 day ago

    I finally made a full switch from Sync to Thunder, because even though I know that Sync dev does take huge breaks and he comes back and fixes everything and makes the app even better, I still wanted to make sure I find a good alternative and get familiar with it just in case.

    Thunder is a really good app, especially considering its age. It also has the most features and the nicest UI (IMO) among the Lemmy apps. And it being open source is a huge plus too.

    Sync is still my favorite, it just feels really nice to use, but I’ll stay on Thunder for now.

    Voyager is also a really nice app that feels polished and works smoothly, but it’s lacking certain features that I like. So I keep it installed as a backup but I don’t use it often.