I’m finding that I like bits and pieces from the various available frontends, but I haven’t heavily gravitated towards one in particular.
If you have gravitated towards a specific UI, which one and why?
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Sync for days
Used Sync at the other place with Boost as the primary backup. Doing the same here plus keeping Jerboa around.
On mobile it’s Voyager. On desktop it’s the default Lemmy UI with the
darkly-compacttheme. The latter definitely feels like a modern old.reddit.I’m also using these CSS overrides (using the Stylus extension on Firefox) as
darkly-compact’sline-heightis too small and videos/GIFs stretched too much:.post-listing { line-height: 1.5 !important; } video { width: 25vw !important; }I just got back into Lemmy and Alexandrite is nice. Boost just launched in beta on Android and seems solid and pretty to boot.
I’m very happy Boost is out now. I’ve been worried the Lemmy version wouldn’t be released before the mod workaround for reddit stopped working.
Now I can abandon reddit.
I’ve settled on Memmy (which I think is iOS only). I like that it’s pretty true — maybe 100% true — to the Lemmy web app’s features but with more of a designer’s eye, I guess. Just a lil’ polish. Not trying to be something the backend isn’t ready for.
Memmy is very buggy and crashes a lot. It was a strong contender 2 months ago. But the developer, by his own admission, can’t be arsed to update it in a timely fashion. In the intervening weeks strong contenders for iOS have arisen. I think Lemma is the most promising, although it’s available via TestFlight at the moment.
I’ve been very happy with Memmy but noticed the updates have gone way down. It’s unfortunate they’ve lost some interest.
Basically they are rewriting it as they say they didn’t really know how to use the tools when they did v1. Which is why it’s an acquired taste.
Boost. Always has been, always will be.
old.lemmy.world
I refuse to change
I didnt know this existed, thanks
You might want to check out this post from yesterday: https://lemmy.world/post/6086181
I really like photon. It is very multi-alt friendly, and I can run my own instance of it locally.
Photon’s so clean. From a pure design perspective, it might be my favorite.
But after trying Alexandrite, I started missing the paneling. It seems really easy to lose your location on Photon since you gotta click into everything.
Haven’t decided between Photon’s nicer UI vs. Alexandrite’s more convenient UX.
I’m still rocking Jerboa on Android. It has been totally inoffensive, and I’ll probably just stick with it until it offends me somehow.
Lmao same. A couple months ago it would crash sometimes (which might have been an issue with me or my device), but not anymore. I haven’t tried anything else, but jeroba has served me well so far 乁( •_• )ㄏ
Alexandrite on desktop. Thunder and Liftoff for mobile because they do not look like a clone of Apollo that all the other apps seem to try to emulate.
Haven’t tried Liftoff, but Thunder’s really clean. Just needs more features. In due time.
yeah are we the only ones that think apollo is clunky and gross and everyone emulating it is the same?
Voyager and lemm.ee for me.
I like Voyager. But the last week or so, it’s been saying update available. I go to the settings and tell it to update. The app kinda flashes and restarts, and then within a minute it says update available again.
Has anyone else has this happen?
Eternity for Android and Alexandrite (at https://a.lemmings.world) on desktop.
As an avid Boost user for years, I’ve been using Connect because it was billed as the closest thing to Boost. However, now that Boost is out I’ve found myself sticking with Connect. I’ve just grown to love the look and feel of it.
I’m the reverse. I never used Boost for Reddit (relay was my drug of choice) and started with Connect as it was billed as most similar to a lot of the 3rd party Reddit apps. Now that Boost is out I find myself looking it more. I do miss gesture voting though.
Alexandrite on desktop.
Switches up the doom scrolling feel of mobile and makes it feel more like a tool you can use to consume and interact with people and posts. Big part of that is desktop. But alexandrite is rather nice too!
If you used Infinity for Reddit, then Eternity for Lemmy is right for you. That’s what I use.
I tried many but since Boost came out it has been a game changer.
