Hi there! So there’s been a ton of work by a bunch of developers that are really frustrated with Apollo going away end of month.
That’s why I created (yet another) Apollo-like Lemmy client called wefwef - https://wefwef.app.
Right now it’s targetting iOS - you can still use it on Android phones, but it’s untested. An Android theme is in the works!
So, why wefwef?
- Progressive web app — It’s easy to try, and works cross platform. Get the same experience on your phone, tablet and computer. If you like it, add to home screen for a like-native experience.
- Open source! Self hosting and hacking is totally doable
There’s a TON of work to be done, but the basics are there (browsing, commenting and voting). More to come soon! Let me know what you think.
Overall it looks great! Just a couple of notes: the colors for up/down votes being inverted from Apollo keeps throwing me off. Also, the save button doesn’t work. I don’t know if Lemmy really has an option for saving posts, and if not it might be better to not show the save bookmark icon. If I’m wrong and there is a way to find what I saved, please let me know where to find it!
Nope, saving is soon!
Im actually shocked at how well this works! Never expected a Webapp to be this great! Do you plan to make a native app for iOS at some point? I mostly ask because a lot of my favorite features from Apollo (widgets was a big one, FaceID, lockscreen widgets) are afaik only possible through native right? I would love to see stuff like that in the long run here too!
Regardless, this is really an awesome PWA and I can’t wait to see what you do with it!
If there was an ios native app even half as good as this one i’d be sold, please make an app!!
I decided to use this for now instead of the other iOS apps. It feels less clunky than most app. I’m still waiting on Artemis to come out of alpha to commit to anything.
For real! I would definitely be all in on this.
I’m actually amazed how amazing this PWA feels to use. I’ve always been critical on web apps and preferred native apps, but wefwef absolutely surprised me.
Thanks very much! 💙
This is just one more truly amazing experience in the fediverse. I didn’t know an experience this great could happen so fast, and in a web app. Thank you!
Wow, thank you! 😊
Lots of credit goes to Ionic (https://ionicframework.com)!
Two quick feature requests.
- Cannot see how to make a top level post on a community. I am commenting from wefwef here, so that is clear.
- Can you enable a “pull down to refresh” in the web app? Maybe this doesn’t make sense, but for me in iOS, it is just second nature and feels weird when it doesn’t stretch and bounce.
Oops, I think you found a bug where pull to refresh isn’t working on feeds. I’ll fix that.
EDIT: Pull to refresh on feeds should be working now. Might have to open and force close the app a couple times to force it to update.
And new creating a new post in a community is also coming soon! 😊
Pull to refresh now works after killing all and reopening. New bug, keyboard doesn’t load when trying to search. Maybe this is just my phone, but just want to share what im seeing.
Thanks! The keyboard is showing on my device on search, but I’ll keep an eye out.
FYI, this is what I’m seeing. I killed app and restarted to verify it is still doing it.
Wow! So far the best client I’ve tried for iOS, and also the best PWA I’ve ever used! Congrats :)
As someone who stopped using Reddit after Apollo quit working, wefwef is amazing so far! It really does look and feel like Apollo. It’s very helpful with the transition to Lemmy.
Would you be able to add themes in the future like Apollo had? I loved using majestic purple.
Thank you so much for making this!
Themes won’t be implemented any time soon, but absolutely something I’d like to add :)
Awesome app. Came from boost for reddit. This is so well done for a webapp. Made my move to lemmy a lot less of a hassle than I expected.
Oh yeah first post on Lemmy.
Screw reddits money grabbing owners.
Likewise. I actually like the ios theme, even though I use android
This app looks lit, it almost feel illegal to have Apollo like experience on Android LMAO.
Definitely looking forward to a more native android theme although I’m sure it’s not a priority rn
My first post post Apollo shutdown and am really happy with wefwef! Feels very familiar, and I’m actually excited for a fresh start getting away from the dumpster fire Reddit has become. Happy to be here!
If this becomes a native iOS app, it would be a game-changer!
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It’s now my favorite lemmy app. Thanks for your hard work 🙏
I didn’t know web apps could work this well. Fantastic work so far. Do we know how Christian feels about this?
Hey, this is amazing work! I’m using it right now as a standalone app on the macOS Sonoma beta and it feels really good. The biggest problem I’ve had with Lemmy so far is that most instances use the default frontend, and I just don’t really like it that much. This is a lot better! Can’t wait to see what you do with it.
Could you add access to kbin to the app? That would be great. Thanks for making the app!
