The only reason why we all used third party apps for Reddit, is because their app and website is abhorrent trash. It’s great to have a choice, but Lemmy’s website is smooth to use. I know it’s mind blowing not to use a app for everything in 2023 but Lemmy just works.
Please do not assume to know every user’s needs.
Dude, most us left reddit because we loved our app. Apps are generally more refined than websites and offer better notification interaction.
It’s better than reddits mobile site but native apps always win if the dev puts in an effort to make it good.
Sorry but that’s not true at all. Lemmy’s UI feels very unfinished/amateur project like. Even the jerboa app, which is from one of the dev, improves the mobile UI experience greatly compared to just the web version.
For Mobile users buttons should usually be bigger. But e.g. the comment collapse button is very tiny and I need to concentrate to press it correctly on mobile.
Try wefwef.app. It’s a web app for mobile, the UI is based on the infamous Apollo app.
Because on my phone, using Firefox, the mobile experience isn’t too great. It’s slow, sometimes the screen just blanks out and I need to reload, and sometimes it rapid-fires new posts on the top of the page which makes it impossible to click anything
Wefwef is better
I prefer apps either now just because Android is pretty bad about reloading pages when you switch back and forth between your browser.
Also once Boost for Lemmy comes out, it’ll be all I need.
Tangentially, does anyone know why we stopped having cool words for different kinds of software? We used to have daemons and wizards. Now everything’s an app, and it’s lame.
Poorer vocabulary results in a cruder world model. Both a cause and effect of general decline of mental facilities.
personally it’s more convenient if there’s a mobile app, so I’m using Liftoff right now, until Sync, Artemis or Boost release 😀
But why though? What does an app get you that you can’t get by pinning the site to your home screen?
Whoever is downvoting the above comment: stop downvoting legitimate questions! Even if you don’t agree with their sentiment , the commenter isn’t a troll or rage baiting.
Apps are more customizable. The UI also tends to be better. The web app is fine but i find trying to upvote anything closes a post i just opened. Personally, i like seeing full images of things as I scroll by. So something like a webclient isnt very convenient and rather tedious. I’m using a whole bunch pf userscripts on my desktop to improve the pc experience, apps generally do that for me on android.
In the end, it’s user preference. I prefer Jerboa, Liftoff, and Thunder atm.
Sure, Lemmy’s mobile website is great if you compare it to the atrocity that is the Reddit mobile website, which is really just an ugly and annoying advertisement for their app. But having a dedicated app for something I use a lot is nice.
It’s sad in a way, but I’ve put Connect into the spot where BaconReader used to be.
Connect dev here. Glad to hear you’re liking it. I uninstalled my Reddit apps yesterday as well and it was a very sad moment.
