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      I’ve tried Jerboa, Connect, Thunder, Liftoff, Lemmotif, and the PWA. Jerboa has the best interface/ux imo, by far. Thunder is the least buggy to use, and the developer is a machine, doing constant updates. These 2 I think have the most potential.

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        I’m trying connect now. Jerboa keeps crashing like madness on me…

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          I started with Jerboa, but it wouldn’t let me off the local instance after initially being pretty good. Quite buggy for me. I switched to connect and I’m impressed so far.

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            The same thing happened to me, except I had two accounts and I’d see the local feed of the other account than the one I was logged into. I switched to summit, but it’s buggy, unintuitive, and it’s missing critical features like subscribing to a new community or accessing my profile settings.

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            fwiw Jerboa fixed that with the latest update that dropped about 8 hours ago. It was frustrating for a couple days there

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        Trying Summit for the first time, it’s really good! Multiple accounts, good UI reminding me of RiF and hasn’t crashed yet. I find Jerboa clunky.

        Connect is my other fave.

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      Im trying several others while they work out the kinks in Jerboa (it doesnt work very welll if you use Lemmy.World as your instance), but it honestly feels the best out of all of them.

      I’m coming from RiF is Fun, so it reminds me a lot of their layout.

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        Also a former rif user, and I also really like Jerboa. But I haven’t been able to use it for awhile now, with the update/server weirdness.

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        Also coming from RIF and I thought the same thing. It’s buggy, but it has potential to be my go-to app if the wrinkles get smoothed out.

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        Same! Have only used Jerboa so far and think it feels simple enough to use coming from RiF. If you end up liking any of the others compared to Jerboa please let me know

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    Here’s a sneak peek of one I’m working on too:

    A lot of good options coming up, will be fun to see how it plays out!

    Edit: [email protected] for anyone wanting to follow

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    I use jerboa but I’d try out any libre client. I’m not interested in proprietary apps.

    Funny enough I never saw the need for dedicated website apps for e.g. reddit, but the fediverse is somewhat clumsy to use in a browser (I’m aware that browser extensions can help) so an app actually improves the experience a bit.

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      I’m using Jerboa, but it keeps crashing and on every statup complains that my instance is not compatible with the updated version. This drives me back to reddit and when it shuts off apps, I’ll probably go back to real life.

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        In the latest version of Jerboa I can’t change from All / Active anymore. 😊 Also I can’t figure out for the life of me how to make a top level comment, they’re doesn’t seem to be a button for it.

        Thunder didn’t have sorting by top last time I checked. Liftoff can’t add other instances than the 3 it comes with.

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              There’s going to be a Liftoff update released later today that fixes this. There was an issue for v0.18.1 that impacted ability to add instances that I just fixed. Your instance just happened to update a bit early!

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                Ah right, I did notice they updated to 0.18.1 sometime yesterday. The web UI for 0.18 is pretty cool btw. 😃

                No worries, it’s to be expected for stuff to break right now, with all the client apps and instances developing like crazy. 😺

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            No, just number of comments, upvote/downvote buttons and scores, and the button to save the post. I’m on 0.0.36 right now.

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        It’s just Jerboa. I use Connect for Lemmy and that problem doesn’t exist. I think the dev for Jerboa doesn’t want to spend time making it backwards compatible, but other clients are.

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        For me there’s one massive flaw with the mobile web version of Lemmy - that when you go “back” after viewing a post the page scrolls near to the top of the page. If it weren’t for that I’d happily give up the quest for an app.

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            A mixture of Mobile Web and Connect. I’ll probably re-evaluate in a couple of weeks. I really liked Jerboa, but new posts never seemed to refresh on my instance, I’ll probably try that again.

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      Same here, completely switched, it’s obviously made by the Apollo dev and no one can convince me otherwise. Wefwef has immediately made Lemmy usable to me, can barely notice a difference from Reddit running through Apollo.

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    Liftoff, jerboa and thunder currently.

    Edit: does anyone know if any android app allows hiding posts? (locally on the device, i think the servers don’t support)

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    Why do I keep instinctively switching between clients when Lemmy is down thinking one will get past the 500 error better than the other one?

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    I’ve used the PWA, Jerboa, Liftoff, and Connect.

    Jerboa is probably my favorite of the bunch. I prefer how compact everything is and the 0.0.33 version was working well. I upgraded to 0.0.36 and performance took a bit of a hit so I figured I would explore alternatives. Also when I looked at other options 2FA support had not been added (it’s working as of this post)

    The PWA is more than functional,and I like it quite a bit. Don’t like that backing out of a post navigates to the top of the page though.

    Connect is good too, just personally not a fan of the larger interface, even in list/compact mode.

    Currently using liftoff. Performance is good, 2FA support is available, and in list/compact mode it’s tolerable. I still do prefer the compactness of Jerboa though.

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      How does it compare to connect for Lemmy?

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        connect loaded slowly (especially images) for me and Liftoff had a cleaner interface imo, loaded posts fast and it resembles Infinity for Reddit more than connect (with the settings I chose), if that’s anything to go by.

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        After the few initial minutes of using both Liftoff and connect, I prefer the design of liftoff so much more. Though I seem to be having some issues adding in comments or upvoting/downvoting things via liftoff, but having no issues with Connect. So I’m not sure what’s going on. Any help would be appreciated.

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      Just started testing Liftoff today. Really great looking app! Thunder is coming along nicely too.

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    I’m using Connect for Lemmy right now, been using Jebora and also Liftoff. Sticking with Connect for now, I’m liking the swipe actions

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      Same, but I >need< the Sync for Reddit feature of swiping left-to-right to get out of posts

      Can’t wait for Sync for lemmy to drop

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      Indeed, the swipe actions are really nice. Wefwef and Thunder also have them, but they from what I can tell don’t have a page for my saved posts/comments, so right now Connect’s my favorite.

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    I’m using Connect for Lemmy right now, because Jerboa keeps showing the server version error when opening it.

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      This is where I’m at, but Connect seems to freeze up on me a lot, so I’m thinking of getting a third lol

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        i switched to thunder after connect kept crashing whenever i tried to open it. so far it seems alright but i can’t see any way to vote on comments.