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)
Nothing wrong with someone picking a non-FOSS license for their work. And it’s a direct port of an existing closed-source client for Reddit, so there was never any reason to expect a different license.
It’s just another option with its own pros and cons. I wouldn’t pick a proprietary app if there’s a FOSS one that works for me, but I’m happy others have the option to decide for themselves what they value.
Yeah? The reddit app isn’t that smooth, mine jitters and lags every now and then but enough to annoy me. Using a S23U too so it’s not like I don’t have the power to run it.
The reddit version of infinity appears to become jittery after you go down a rabbit-hole of sorts (go to a post, go to a different subreddit linked from that post, etc). Linking one place to another was when it started lagging heavily for me. It definitely is an issue though, but infinity was an app which was more intuitive to me brain than other alternatives.
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.
Yeah, I’m using Voyager as well, but if Christian Selig would decide to retool Apollo, and bring it out for Lemmy, it would instantly introduce MILLIONS to Lemmy. That product was huge.
I guess that was Reddit’s problem, the 3rd party clients attracted eyeballs on their own. Reddit no longer owned these eyeballs.
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 has always been a superior UI/UX to anything else.
And I’m happy to pay $20 for the developers work. Ads would barely pay him anything anyway.
I feel like all you lemmings are getting way too hung up on the whole ads = spyware thing. It’s not the app that’s the issue, it’s the ad platforms - and those platforms are how he makes money. Don’t like it? Pay $20 for a lifetime without ads.
Sync is good because it’s a full time job for the Dev. That means the guy needs money to survive. I’m more than happy to help towards that, so I can have a better experience.
I used sync for Reddit for a loooong time, $20 is nothing compared to the value I’ve gotten out of it.
Thats because twitters business was advertisement and Musk fucked up one of the most important features for brands. Had they offered twitter premium in addition to verification that got you more features like youtube premium does that would have been fine.
If you can’t tell the difference between a small developer and god damn twitter, idk what to tell you other than I guess you do your job for free because paying people for their tallent is bad apparently.
That’s an absolutely understandable point of view.
I’m just disappointed in the people who seem to think they deserve everything for free.
Of course you can use free apps, that’s fine! It’s great to have options.
Personally I enjoy the experience of using sync compared to the other apps on my phone (my own activity within Lemmy has spiked since it’s release!) And for that reason I’m happy to support its development.
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.
Thunder is better than RIF, then Summit is a close second. The best part about Lemmy apps is how close in comparison they are. After an update one is better than the others, but they’re each getting updated multiple times a week.
Like Summit for example, the first week it came out you could only browse, no login, no upvoting, no anything. Now it’s pretty damn close to being better than RIF.
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.
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