I’m only using connect because it has the hide read/scrolled past post feature. With all the other apps I’ve tried and I’ve tried them all they always show the exact same post for like a day straight because they don’t go away when I have already looked at them.
It’ll be different for everyone but it’s just the Reddit app the had the best layout for me, it had all the features I liked, multiple accounts, posts reliably marked as read while scrolling and then you could hide read posts whenever you want with a button (connect does it automatically so you sometimes lose posts you’d rather see again) You can choose the content type you want to see, I’d often hide albums/images so I only see GIFs/vids for… reasons.
Edit: the comment problem is already fixed in an update, I’m not dissing Connect. It’s very feature rich already. I just want what I know better.
Easier OP and myself identifiers in comments, right now on Connect I’m really struggling to find my own comments in threads because I just have the same colour as everyone else. Notifications actually showed you the context when you clicked on them, with connect I’m having to click the post I got a comment on, then go and find my comment (harder without myself identifiers) and then figure out which comment was new.
It’s probably just because I’m familiar with it as I’m sure a lot of Reddit 3PA’s had similar features but the layout felt very readable while also being minimalist. Whatever features Connect has right now, Boost has but it’s better and has more features. But I understand Connect is still pretty new. But I’m hoping Boost releases as just a port of the Reddit version with all the features already baked in because they’ve done it before, just changing where it loads the content from.
I went to the playstore, and looked for boost. Although it’s not yet released, it already lists the data that will be collected (quite a lot).
Meanwhile jerboa states that it collects and shares no data. It has room for improvement, but it’s fully functional and fits my needs for browsing Lemmy.
Jerboa seems to work fine for me. Reviews complained about minor issues and crashing but I haven’t experienced any of that.
Connect doesn’t collect or share any data either. I’ve personally had a better experience with Connect than I had with Jerboa.
Wewef is my go to. It is so far the fastest and it gets updates frequently. Also love the swipe to vote and swipe to replay.
I use liftoff and I like it.
So far I’ve been using mainly jerboa and connect, swapping between the two when one gets annoying.
Jerboa has the best features and customizing, but is also the worst. I get more errors on Jerboa that I can handle.
Jerboa and Connect have been mostly stable for me (not without bugs). My biggest problem is the beehaw.org instance really really likes to 502
Omg same but Connect is horrible so I uninstalled it. Only tried it because Lemmy had a bug and wouldn’t work for a bit.
