However I'm happy with eternity
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
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Hasn't development slowed to a crawl?
I am using eternity to post this btw. Was using liftoff before until it broke and will continue with eternity.
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(Disclaimer, I'm one of the devs.) Thunder is cross-platform and very actively developed! There was a release two days ago. We keep up with Lemmy API changes and we're constantly squashing bugs and adding new features. Check it out!
Nice. I have been enjoying your guys app for the last 2 days.
I have some feedback but I don't think it's really anything that substantial right now. What is the best way to give you guys feedback on thunder bird?
Hey thanks! I think you mean Thunder. :-) Thunderbird is a mail client from Mozilla (also a great app lol).
If you have a bug or feature request to report, you can create an issue on GitHub. https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder
If you just want to have a discussion with the devs and other community members, you can check out our Matrix. https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org
Sorry my bad π . Been trying multiple clients for the past few days. Thank you for the contact info!
I am very interested in Thunder, especially considering it's open source. While it does seem packed with features, I'd love to see a bit more customizability though. I might submit some feature requests some day but looking now there are nearly 200 issues as it stands. Not a complaint, just an observation. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for checking it out. Yeah we do have quite a backlog of issues to work through. Obviously we prioritize bugs and the most popular feature requests. Feel free to submit an issue any time you want though! It may be that we can help come up with a workaround that gets you what you want. Otherwise sometimes if its an easy change one of the devs will knock it out quickly. But if nothing else it'll be there for other people to react to. :)
A lack of updates doesn't necessarily mean they're inactive unless there are new features they need to work with or bugs they need to fix.
Sure this is cursed but I have been turning the official Reddit app into a Lemmy client
People use the official Reddit app voluntarily?
Well once you take out all the ads and algorithm it's not all that bad. It wouldn't be my favourite but it would have some character.
That's what I believe. My lemmyfied Reddit doesn't have any bullshit features, I was able to remove them all
I haven't built / tried it yet but would getting rid of the reddit logo up top too (leddit, perhaps?) work well? Or even load up your local instance favicon etc?
That would be great. I'll try once I have finished polishing the API compatibility and basic features. Do you want me to tell you once it's stable and ready for you to try ?
Hell yes.
I ain't a lover of that kinda app (aesthetics plz) and why I stick with Boost being a RiF user but having lots of alternatives is one of the many reasons we all kicked off originally over in r/Android about the API bollocks Mr Greedy Piggy Spez brought in. That, and shitting on the disabled/spam whackers/translators you name it. Pissed us off enough we made this instance.
Does that official reddit app have decent Accessibility features yet, or was Spez yet again talking out of his pooper?
Good work btw, and obligatory fuck spez ;)
Sync was almost always like this - the Dev takes long breaks and then updates the app with lots of good stuff. He did this since reddit days, so I'm really not concerned
He probably has a day job
And family stuff, probably. Totally understandable.
Not when you charge monthly subscription fees, your app no longer fully supports the platform, and you haven't pushed a single change in 12 months.
It's acceptable to have 2 of the above issues, but not all 3 at once.
Wait I thought it was a β¬20 purchase, now it's β¬2 a month, β¬19 a year or β¬110 for lifetime? That's steep
I've just started on Lemmy very recently, but I've been trying out different Android Lemmy clients. I'm currently on 'Voyager for Lemmy' which I installed from F-Droid, and personally this has been my best experience yet
I tried a few other clients as well and settled on Voyager in the end. The experience is great, it's being actively developed and the dev is active in !voyagerapp@lemmy.world. Can recommend!
FYI, voyager started as a hyper performant webapplication namef wefwef
I still have it as a shortcut on my phone as a backup to the official app
Voyager is a fantastic experience imo. I tried other clients like Jerboa and a couple others I can't remember the names of. The others were always a buggy mess whereas Voyager actually just worked. Dunno if the other apps eventually improved, but I wasn't personally keen on sticking around through their significant growing pains when Voyager already existed.
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I really liked Sync. It worked really well on my old phone, and I would gladly pay for it, but I'm so averse to ads that I can't in good conscience support an app that
I've been very happy with Summit on Android.
Edit: changed link to app website
Summit is severely overlooked. Dev fixes many bug reports same/next day as well.
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Summit has been the closest in look and feel to my beloved old baconreader (RIP).
Summit is such a nice app I haven't even considered changing in over a year.
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What's wrong with Jerboa? Been using it since I left reddit, seems perfectly fine to me.
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I'm using Connect and it's fine. The dev sometimes pushes updates that break things but the patches come quick enough.
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Definitely thunder. I've been using it since it was in early alpha and it has improved so much and works really really well.
Too many clients for too few users...
I've switched to using Jerboa from Sync and it's absolutely fine for my casual usage and it doesn't have ads, which is a big plus point.
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I love Sync but I can't really blame the dev. They obviously wanted an income from this but there just aren't enough people on lemmy that would use the app, so it's maintenance mode at best.
I finally made a full switch from Sync to Thunder, because even though I know that Sync dev does take huge breaks and he comes back and fixes everything and makes the app even better, I still wanted to make sure I find a good alternative and get familiar with it just in case.
Thunder is a really good app, especially considering its age. It also has the most features and the nicest UI (IMO) among the Lemmy apps. And it being open source is a huge plus too.
Sync is still my favorite, it just feels really nice to use, but I'll stay on Thunder for now.
Voyager is also a really nice app that feels polished and works smoothly, but it's lacking certain features that I like. So I keep it installed as a backup but I don't use it often.
Not sure, I've been using Interstellar with Mbin and it's been pretty great. Would recommend, responsive dev, works well, supports multiple platforms!
Eternity
Connect.
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