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Current best lemmy clients

Hey I figured I’d make a post and see the state of current lemmy appage, since I’m looking for a good one. So far I’ve used Jerboa, Thunder, Eternity, and Voyager.

Eternity seems to be a dead project, it’s full of bugs and hasn’t recieved an update since The Exodus

Thunder seems ok and is what I’m using right now, but I can’t seem to send direct messages, and can’t “Don’t blur NSFW preview on NSFW comms” which sucks. The messaging is the dealbreaker for me.

Voyager I used momentarily but the UI was not my favorite.

Jerboa seems OK if unpolished (which is ok to me) but I don’t trust the rabid idealogue that makes it and using another instance of his site is one thing, but installing an app is another. Has it been audited to confirm lack of spyware?

Ideally through this I can find one with instance blocking, DMs, and a decent UI. What’re your experiences with the current state of lemmy apps?

darkstar ,

Voyager is the best

Aurelius ,
@Aurelius@lemmy.world avatar

I’m made Quiblr. Lot’s of cool features (For You feed, different post formats, etc.). Plus I tried to make the UI clean and intuitive.

Just a web client right now. If there’s enough demand, I’ll make a native version.

Lmk what you think

sag ,

Hey, is open-sourcing Quiblr still planned?

Aurelius ,
@Aurelius@lemmy.world avatar

Yup. I will have a full update in a few days regarding Quiblr!

sag ,

Awesome

Blaze ,

Happy cake day!

sag ,

Thanks

Blaze ,

Nice!

Aurelius ,
@Aurelius@lemmy.world avatar

Following up on this. You can find the Quiblr repo here. Enjoy!

sag ,

Awesome ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

JohnWorks ,

I used to only use Sync coming from reddit. No other app was able to replace it until I started using Summit. Now Summit is pretty much all I use for Lemmy.

asdfasdfasdf ,

What’s better about Summit?

JohnWorks ,

I wouldn’t say anything specifically better or worse compared to sync but it’s close enough, feature wise, that I found myself using it more and there’s no ads.

sag ,

After Raccon4Lemmy dies. !summit is best for me. It’s closed source though but it doesn’t show any ads unlike some other popular Lemmy apps.

threelonmusketeers ,

“The reports of RaccoonForLemmy’s death were greatly exaggerated.”

It’s back: !raccoonforlemmyapp

aloeTGL ,

So far voyager is working for me, but the UI leaves a lot desired. The reply icon looks like a share icon.

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    Zangoose ,

    Try Raccoon, the UI feels very similar to what I remember from liftoff, imo it’s worth trying. It’s still a little bit beta and I’ve run into formatting issues a few times but the UI is so much better than Jerboa’s and has a lot of nice features (like linking cross-posts within the app) that Jerboa doesn’t.

    Zangoose ,

    I normally just use Jerboa but I’ve been trying Raccoon recently and it’s been really good. It’s definitely still beta and some formatting doesn’t work but each update has made it significantly better so it’s definitely worth checking out because the UI is the best of any of the apps I’ve tried imo

    Konstant ,

    I’m using Jerboa but wasn’t aware of any issues with the devs. As far as I know the app works great. Can you go into that a little more or point somewhere to read about it?

    Zangoose ,

    Jerboa is by dessalines, the same dev as Lemmy and the owner of lemmy.ml so it’s basically just all of the drama inherited from that.

    NOT_RICK ,
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    Voyager is my go to

    DarkPassenger ,
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    Was a boost user until I heard about Voyager from another one of these post. Boost is good but Voyager is so much better.

    steal_your_face ,
    @steal_your_face@lemmy.ml avatar

    Voyager da 🐐 no 🧢

    BaroqueInMind ,

    The websites all work perfectly fine.

    cows_are_underrated ,

    So far I tried voyager, eternity, liftoff and Jerboa. Liftoff wasn’t usable and eternity and voyager weren’t exactly my type of UI. I stick with jerboa. I really like the simplicity and how clean and intuitive it is. Only thing lacking is the ability to create communities.

    Blaze ,

    Only thing lacking is the ability to create communities.

    Seems weird that it’s not implemented. I guess they assume you’re not supposed to create communities every day.

    cows_are_underrated ,

    Yeah, but I would really like that swing implemented.

    breadguyyy ,
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    try connect

    shnizmuffin ,
    @shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol avatar

    Summit.

    smeg ,

    Summit is great, and the developer seems really responsive

    anon6789 ,
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    Summit kicks so much butt! I’ve tried about a dozen apps, but this is the only one I use, though Connect was good too.

    The dev is great, and I’ve gotten lots of help and same or next day fixes whenever I’ve reported issues.

    It’s beautiful, versatile, and powerful, with a great person backing it up.

    ZebraGoose ,

    +1 on Summit

    _haha_oh_wow_ ,
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    I’ve tried Jeroba, Thunder, Voyager, Sync, Boost, LiftOff, and Connect.

    So far, my favorite is Connect.

    DamienGramatacus ,

    Connect for me too

    CMLVI ,
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    I’m a Boost truther. I loved Boost for Reddit, and the dev is usually super responsive in the subreddit when it was a thing. I also used many Reddit apps; BaconReader, Relay, and Apollo on iPhone back when I had one. Boost was easy favorite. I’m not entirely sure how it plays with every lemmy instance though, as I’m just on .world

    Bangs42 ,
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    Boost user checking in, also currently on .world but I’ve been on several and… it’s fine. No problems.

    I used to use Sync, but the sporadic updates lead to rapidly piling bugs.

    CMLVI ,
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    I remember using Sync, but it didn’t really stick for me. If it’s the one I’m thinking of, it’s like Relay but slightly worse?

    DarkThoughts ,

    No one was like Relay. I went from Boost to Relay to Infinity (Eternity for Lemmy). From all the closed source clients Relay was my favorite, but Infinity was also great if you bothered to configure it - and open source definitely has some priority for me if there's a good alternative.

    Hated Sync and many of the other praised ones, as most of them were card view focused apps, which I can't stand - it's like viewing every single submission. And those who had compact views usually had ridiculously tiny thumbnails for some reason, even though there was plenty of space left for padding around it. Never understood why apps don't fully use that space.

    Coelacanth ,
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    Don’t know when you tested, but Sync definitely has Compact. I agree with you and I’ve only ever used Compact on Sync. In fact, last time I tested a bunch of apps I felt Sync looked the nicest in Compact, but that’s of course a matter of taste. And Peek is a great feature for viewing thumbnails.

    DarkThoughts ,

    Sync's compact suffered from the mentioned tiny thumbnails. I absolutely hated that app.

    arudesalad ,

    I also use boost, everything about it seems to work apart from spoiler tags (think because the app still uses reddit’s format instead of lemmy’s).

    wjs018 ,

    Yeah, spoiler tags are the one big feature that is missing. There are also some minor things on the moderation side that aren’t there. For example, admin accounts don’t have a full list of options in the moderation menu.

    forgotaboutlaye ,

    Boost also. I had it for Reddit but used Sync mostly. I open Lemmy on my phone a few times a week, so found Sync for Lemmy a bit too pricy. Love Boost!

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