Hi fellow sync-ers,

Having joined Lemmy recently, I have been having a ton of fun. However accessing Lemmy through my mobile browser has been an awful experience, similar to my past Reddit experience till I found Sync.

I’m not sure how much longer I can tolerate the browser experience, and am hesitating jumping on a app. Where’s your head at about this?

Edit (4 days later)

I’ve been on Connect and has been 8/10 so far. Gonna dual use with liftoff after seeing the comments.

I did a 5 minute ctr+F to see which were the most popular apps/ interfaces. Not sorted by pos/neg, just mentions.

  • wefwef/ voyager - 46
  • connect - 43
  • Liftoff - 33
  • Jerboa - 23
  • Thunder - 16
  • Firefox - 13
  • Thunder - 16
  • Old.lemmy - 5
  • Alexandrite - 4
  • Vivaldi - 2
  • Dave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    471·
    1 year ago

    On mobile, I’m using the Voyager app, which lemmy.world has installed as an alternative front end. Seems to work great.

    On desktop, I’m using the amazing Alexandrite UI (https://alexandrite.app/) which solves all of my interface annoyances with the regular Lemmy UI (infinite scroll, opening posts without losing place in the feed, easily accessible communities list).

    I love how flexible Lemmy is proving with its UI options… there really does seem to be something for everyone!

  • _spiffy@lemmy.caEnglish
    312·
    1 year ago

    For now I am using connect for lemmy. Which is great! And grown in Canada.

    • Riccosuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      I second this. Been using Connect for about two weeks, and I think it’s really solid. I would give it an 8.5/10 in its current state.

      • Wabbitsmiles@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I’m gonna give Connect a go! Thanks for the recc

        And I’m guessing you’re here at Sync due to past loyalties, and may jump ship when Sync is up and/on Connect experience goes down?

        • Riccosuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Surprisingly no actually. I used RIF on Android and Apollo on iOS. I just joined the sub because I wanted to see what apps people were using too when I migrated like you, and I had seen a lot of people recommend Connect across multiple threads so seemed like a strong contender.

          I may try some others in the future, but I see no reason to do that at the moment because I’ve been having a pleasant experience so far. Let me know what you think if you give it a try!

          • Wabbitsmiles@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Reminds me of my Reddit journey before, gone through too many apps including RIF, baconreader before settling on Sync which I really loved.

            T’was a fun time lurking around other apps /r and experimenting. and I kinda like it, like now fedi/Lemmy/Kbin etc.

            No hate, just doing stuff and see what happens

  • Frog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    282·
    1 year ago

    Voyager (former wefwef) quickly turned out the best. Good updates every day just made the experience the best. Go to their webpage from your browser of choice and install it from there.

  • ouzkse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    1 year ago

    Using Voyager, the really downside was the iOS inspired theming but, with latest updates android theming is supported. It’s still in beta but promising. Better than that native iOS look 😑

  • wanderingmagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    1 year ago

    Highly recommend Connect for Lemmy. I’ve been using it practically since I started, and it’s been consistently great (as long as your instance is up of course)

    • foggianism@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I am writing this through Connect. It’s the closest thing to Rif I found, for Lemmy. I’ve had some login issues at the beginning, but that seems to have been solved.

    • BlackPenguins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Same. There were SO many bugs with Jerboa. I jumped ship fast to Connect. But it’ll be nothing but Sync once it’s released.

    • Frog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      You should try Voyager again. It wasn’t the best day one when migrating from Reddit but right now I feel it’s turned out to be undisputed.

    • Risk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Have you tried Liftoff? I’ve never had any issues with it.

      I do like Thunder, but it’s harder to navigate to people’s profiles and communities.

      • rubberducky182@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        yeah, same. from all the ones I tried, I stuck with Liftoff. seems like the most functional and simplistic one to me.

        • Risk@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yup. Things like easily editing posts or getting extra context menus up, or sorting feeds by Top Hour or 6 Hour - Liftoff can do this but Thunder can’t.

          The only feature that I can think of that Thunder has that Liftoff doesn’t is swipe actions.

          Edit: Liftoff has swipe actions! I missed the update.

      • godless@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I did, at some point settings got lost between updates and then a later version crashed on startup, that’s when I switched.

    • Johnny Utah@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thunder all the way. I tried Connect, Liftoff and Jerboa and they just didn’t work the way i liked. Thunder is filling the void of sync for me.

  • Koffiato@lemmy.mlEnglish
    141·
    1 year ago

    Connect for now. It isn’t perfect but pretty good. Feed isn’t as smooth (images load in later kicks your scrolling up) and you can’t open links in it automatically.

    • JDubbleu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      My primary issue with Connect at the moment is it desperately needs a reduction in the amount of taps to do anything. It takes 3 to download an image, and 4 to subscribe to communities. Both of these are things I feel should be in the ellipsis menu of any post, but currently you have to click through to the post or community. Meanwhile there are a dozen things in there I rarely use absolut flooding the menu. I also wish it saved comment drafts, but that is relatively minor.

      It just needs some reprioritizing of actions and it would be perfect IMO.

    • Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Liftoff as well. While it’s definitely missing some features sync had, it’s pretty decent for an early app.

    • Ilmi@lemmy.my.idEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Same here, Liftoff for mobile, and browser when I got a chance to sit in front of my computer.

  • Llamajockey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Using Jerboa app on Android…had a rocky start but it has updated a whole lot in the past weeks, getting close to 5/5 probably 3.5/5 right now

    Even with reddit I seldomly used the browser on PC, if I’m home and on my PC I generally play games or YouTube/streaming shows rarely browsed reddit on PC

  • Mixairian@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using Liftoff on Android. It’s way better than mobile browsing but no where near the same level as Sync. Biggest pain points are searching and subscribing to new instances as well as an insane amount of cache builds up and never clears on its own.

    Currently I can’t load my subscribed instances but I think that’s a temporary bug…

    I am eagerly and patiently awaiting Sync for Lemmy release.

    • Vee4@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I also had the issue with not being able to load subscribed instances. I think someone said it was tied to a forced logout of some sort that happened. I resolved it by removing the accounts from Liftoff, then re-adding them. Afterwards, it worked fine.