Second this. I have had some weird freezes with the recent thunder updates so I installed raccoon. It’s not as feature-packed as thunder but you can set up enough UN’s it’s really nice looking.
Tried Jerboa early on, but at the time it was super buggy. Hopefully it’s better now - I feel like a FOSS app is a way better option for Lemmy just on principle.
Yeah, rif was my absolute favourite, and I miss a lot of the features it had. I’ve been toying with the idea of cloning it for Lemmy, but maybe I’ll give boost a try first.
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.
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’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.
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?
Technically, it is private. As in privately shared. Not just anyone can get your data. It’s a select club. Other than the employees handling it, it’s mostly pay per view.
Not because it inherently makes you less private, but because having bad security makes it hard to be private, and opening up a way in android to allow apps to do what they want (selective root access) usually requires punching a lot of holes.
Even with AVBRoot, which allows you to setup Magisk or KernelSU with full Verified Boot support, you’re still leaving open the possibility that something abuses the fact you’re rooted against you.
But just so you know, if you insist, you can skip the step of locking your pixel’s bootloader and install Magisk, but do not expect any support from that point onwards.
Looks like it’s also out of date, not even OS version “compatible” on Play Store. Can probably find on fdroid… So it works well for you? Mind sharing what device or OS version you’re on?
Yeah, I only buy phones with good Custom ROM support and then I flash them without Google Apps. I don’t think banking apps would be happy about that, though.
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