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.
However I’m happy with eternity
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
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.
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
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!
FYI, voyager started as a hyper performant webapplication namef wefwef
I still have it as a shortcut on my phone as a backup to the official app
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.
(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!
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!
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. :)
Nice. I have been enjoying your guys app for the last 2 days.
I have some feedback but I don’t think it’s really anything that substantial right now. What is the best way to give you guys feedback on thunder bird?
Hey thanks! I think you mean Thunder. :-) Thunderbird is a mail client from Mozilla (also a great app lol).
If you have a bug or feature request to report, you can create an issue on GitHub. https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder
If you just want to have a discussion with the devs and other community members, you can check out our Matrix. https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org
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).
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?
I’ve been very happy with Summit on Android.
Edit: changed link to app website
Summit is severely overlooked. Dev fixes many bug reports same/next day as well.
Where is the source code? Is it closed source? As I see only releases are on github
What’s wrong with Jerboa? Been using it since I left reddit, seems perfectly fine to me.
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.
