I keep flip-flopping between thunder and liftoff. I like the visual design of liftoff but thunder feels easier to use … I could probably fiddle about with their settings and make one that last bit better than the other in either direction but I’m not sure wich way to go. (Posted from Liftoff)
I am happy with Jerboa. I used to use Boost and Infinity for Reddit. I tried out Infinity, Voyager, Sync and connect. So far, Jerboa has been the best experience for me.
I did like many aspects of the official Reddit app until they enshittified it, so I’m reusing some concepts it had. It’s still in alpha phase, and even then, there’s some things I liked that I’m not sure I’ll implement. I particularly liked the second tab in the bottom navigation bar when it had your list of subscribed subreddits and an alphabetical scrollbar. That was super awesome. I’ll definitely try to add something like that in the future, probably after I get feature parity with the official UI.
I’m avoiding pop-ups by editing the current relevant components. So, when you press “submit”, the error message will be inside the form instead of as a pop-up. Or when you report a post, the form appears inside the post instead of as a pop-up. It’s much more intuitive to use and I think I can make it faster to use.
I’m new to Lemmy and using sync because it works for me. I was a relay for reddit user, but I quit reddit and this is a reasonable facsimile for me. I’m happy enough with this interface but time will tell.
Same situation here, used Relay for years. Still getting used to Sync, but it’s very customizable so I can configure it to be somewhat like Relay. But still waiting for Relay for Lemmy.
Sync user here. It’s the reason that I found reddit usable. The effort that has gone into creating and refining the app is evident. I like it better than the the other apps, because it feels like home to me. I also enjoy the concept of u/spez unintentionally spotlighting lemmy, and literally tossing over the very best that reddit had to offer. Sync is just one of several excellent options already here, or on their way.
The free apps are anywhere from very good to very work in progress. I like Connect the best from what I’ve used. I expect that they will all improve over time, and have noticed improvements over a short length of time.
I actually enjoy the controversy/buzz over pricing, pricing models, privacy, and so on. This is mostly because I’m petty,and believe that all of this is hastening reddit’s demise.
Yep. And I even prefer the Card View on Connect over the one in Sync.
Even better… if there’s something I’d like in Connect, I just have to mention it to the dev, and it almost always makes its way into the app within a day or two.
I just downloaded infinity to give it a shot and I find the UI to be a little rougher around the edges. The most noticeable is the layout of posts on the feed - the icons dont look like they are consistent sizes and the lack of grouping compared to Sync (like having a box around both vote and vote count) makes it look more cluttered. I also think the default theme color (the intense blue color) kinda hurts my eyes because it’s too high contrast maybe, so changing that was the first thing I did- I think having a milder default would provide a better out of the box experience.
I have no major gripes about the base functionality, they’re both functional enough for me but the aesthetics of sync win for now. Also it seems like both sync and infinity don’t collapse the comment you pressed and only the replies, making it seemingly impossible to collapse top level comments which inconveniences how I read threads, by collapsing top level comments as I go down the thread - long top comments stay expanded so I have to scroll past a lot more.
Those are my first impressions based on never using either sync or infinity (be it lemmy or reddit) before like this week.
Edit: Just downloaded Connect too, looks very similar to Sync in level of polish so I think those will probably be my top 2
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