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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 is a great mix of functions and UI. The compact mode is really great.
I second Thunder. Only a few minor gripes from me but switching from sync (gross ads) has been just fine
I’d use Thunder more if they had mark as read while scroll, and hide read posts (I think they already have the later) if these requests are outdated please lemme know.
“dismiss read” is an option you can add to the FAB, and mark as read on scroll looks to be a setting now as well! Haven’t used either, but hope they meet your expectations :)
In settings , you can toggle on mark as read on scroll and hide read .
Yup. I’ve configured my thunder to look and feel really similar to the way I had Relay set up. The compact modenis great and the customizability is really good.
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.
Boost, boost have always been my favorite, on Reddit and now Lemmy. Cant say more then i just like it, and like the developer
I also use Boost because of one nice feature: it highlights new comments in a different color.
I had to turn that feature on in the settings, and it’s very convenient when revisiting an active post.
Boost here as well, was a RIF user and I’ve been able to make boost look and feel sorta like RIF which is great.
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.
I use sync because that’s what I used to use for Reddit.
Thunder is nice. I loved Liftoff but that got abandonned, transitioned to Eternity which I came to love even more but that seems to be abandonned as well. Thunder is closest experience I could find to those two.
The ol boosteroo! Nice and simple.
Voyager for iPad because is the exact same experience I had with Apollo for Reddit which was the best Reddit client back then. Boost for Android because, well, is the same as Boost for Reddit which was the best on Android :)
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?
Reddit and Lemmy have a few different nuances that Sync doesn’t properly address. A good example is blocking communities or individuals right from the post menu. Syncs development has been sporadic or at least was when I paid attention. In addition Connect has a few additional features like “hide all above” which is a nice feature to have once you get used to it.
Oh! Neat. Yeah, I’m glad I stumbled upon this thread, because I also felt like Sync hardly updated and I’m trying Connect and Thunder out now and I feel like I’m experiencing Lemmy in a whole new way. I feel bad for the guy behind Sync cause I know he put in a lot of work for the Reddit client.
Connect.
I like to have posts and comments as small as possible, without large pictures being downloaded before I click the post, and it must have a dark mode.
I also tried Jerboa and Voyager, and while they’re also customizable, I couldn’t get it exactly right. Maybe it’s possible now, but I can’t be bothered to keep up to date on three apps when Connect does it just fine.
I’m not sure what any of them look like by default. I basically set out to recreate the way I used RiF for Reddit, which also wasn’t the default.
I’ve been using Jerboa for that reason. Condensed information so I’m not constantly scrolling.
What’s Connect look like for you?
Posts:
Might be a hold over from Reddit is Fun but I can’t say I’m keen on the way the voting is displayed there. Seems to take up too much real estate maybe?
Either way, I’m not a fan of colouring certain text or the lines dividing each post. Both these things make is too busy for my taste.
Then again, maybe I’m just bland.
Here’s what posts look like in my compact configuration of Jerboa:
I haven’t used Jerboa in ages because of how buggy it was in the beginning, but that looks very pleasing to me as well. So many of the apps out there just look too “busy” for me. I am also coming from Reddit is Fun, so I like as simplistic looking an app as possible. Voyager fills that role for me and fixed the bugginess issues I had with Jerboa.
I’m sure Jerboa is much more stable now, but I just haven’t had a reason to leave Voyager yet.
A big difference I find is having the separations be padding and not a line. Even if each option took up the same number of pixels, the line makes it too visually crowded.
I’ll give Voyager a go and see how it is.
Tried a bunch and landed on Thunder. It’s minimalist, tucking away all its features nicely. It’s experience is like rif if you ever used that, but lots more going on in the Settings menu to set it up how you like.
I’ve tried a large number of apps in search of something to replace multireddits. Summit for Lemmy is the only one which managed to implement this under its multi-community functionality. The app is being consistently updated with new features and I do not feel like I’m missing out on anything other apps offer.
Jerboa, probably just because I’m used to it
Looks fine. You have better screen estate, 7.5 posts while I only have 6 posts on a screen.
I think the reason why I changed from Jerboa was the data usage at the time (July last year). It’d download the entire picture instead of thumbnails. Sometimes it lagged.
The reason why I liked RiF was basically only that I had used it so much that I knew where everything was. I’ve been using Connect long enough that I’m not eager to switch at the moment.
