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Voyager. It economizes on screen real estate, and has similar (therefore, familiar to me) ergonomics as Relay did back at the old place.
Tight design that stays out of the way, and updates frequently.
Eternity for lemmy is peak user experience imo
Is Eternity still in development? I don’t think there has been a release for 6+ months.
No. The last commit made by the developer was 4 months ago https://github.com/Bazsalanszky/Eternity/commits/master/?author=Bazsalanszky
I use sync because that’s what I used to use for Reddit.
Doesn’t it have ads?
Yes, but not many and they aren’t ‘sneaky’ pretending to be user posts though. I think I can pay to remove them, which I probably will do eventually.
Wow okay the app is buggy AF, I thought my first comment replied to you but after submitting it showed me responding to me. So I’m high and just assume I made a booboo, no problem delete and re-reply correctly. Except it did the same thing after submitting, I refreshed and both are correctly responding to you. Wtf I’m not buying this app it makes me look like an idiot 😆
I’m biased because I chat a lot with the developers, but I’d highly recommend Thunder - very sleek, very customizable, VERY nice compact mode, and a very welcoming group of people. If you try it and feel like something big is missing, they’re quite responsive on github! Been quite impressed with the leaps they’ve made with features on every release.
Thunder does look quite nice, but sadly my long defunct keyboard app doesn’t work with it, and they weren’t able to get the apk to test a fix for it. (But they did try.) You’d think, of all things, a keyboard and input field wouldn’t have compatibility issues, but I guess that’s Android for ya.
Oh, that’s a bummer :( what happens when you try to use it?
This is me typing “hello”, so it seems like it duplicates all the characters typed so far every time I add a character.
Aw man, that’s too bad :/ what keyboard is it?
It’s called Kii. You can still get a version from a 3rd party site since it hasn’t been on the play store for years.
I’m not sure how much I trust those apk sites, (so downloader beware!) but you can at least see the screenshots: https://www.apk4fun.com/apps/com.zl.inputmethod.latin/
I don’t think it’s anything earth shattering, but it’s kinda nice, and fairly minimal, and it’s what I’m used to, so I’m happy with it.
Have you tried other options like AnySoftKeyboard or HeliBoard (fork of OpenBoard)
I’m pretty sure you’ll like AnySoftKeyboard, it’s pretty minimal and similar to your current keyboard. And it works with Thunder.
You can still submit a bug report for Thunder not working with Kii, I’m pretty sure the Thunder devs would be willing to fix this.
Connect. I came from Sync for Reddit and Connect has that nice clean layout that others lack as well as nice, simple swipey gestures.
I’ve tried pretty much all of the others ones (at least those that existed up to 3-4 months ago) and I keep coming back to Connect.
Is there a reason you still don’t use Sync?
Thunder because I think it has the most features, the UI is designed pretty well and I like the user experience it offers. They are working on amazing new features like notifications over UnifiedPush and moderation tools (I think no other app has mod tools). It’s completely free and open-source and available on F-Droid via the IzzyOnDroid repository. And unlike Sync, it doesn’t have ads.
I recently also learned that it’s one of the few open-source (and still actively maintained and developed) Lemmy apps, which is quite sad. I don’t understand why so many folks use proprietary apps like Litoff, Summit, Connect, Boost or Sync. Sync is especially bad, because it has ads and trackers.
I tried Jerboa before I switched to Thunder and hated it, it just feels like an incomplete and buggy mess with poor UI/UX.
Jerboa
Its simple and lightweight. Can optionally get it on the app store if you want.
I like Sync. It’s fast and I find it really easy to use.
Tried it, immediately uninstalled it after I saw that it has ads.
I’m OK with the ads. The coder didn’t put disappointingly many ads. And the few ads I saw weren’t annoying. I hope the ad $ has been a 👍 reward for the coder for making and maintaining Sync.
I <3 the user interface’s design. It’s Google’s design.
Sync, it has a very nice user interface, I’ve been using it for years (previously for Reddit).
Really? We switched away from Reddit because it started forcing everyone to use their crappy, proprietary, ad-infested app, and now we use proprietary, ad-infested Lemmy apps?
