• followthewhiterabbit@beehaw.org
    46·
    2 years ago

    Anyone else just using whatever is FOSS feom f-droid?

    Of course the more apps the merrier, but personally open code = a more trustworthy use for me

    • val@beehaw.org
      26·
      2 years ago

      Jerboa was the first showing up on F-Droid and so far it’s great: minimalistic, responsive, lightweight (only 2MB or so). Don’t know why so many people are developing apps and not simply joining efforts. Makes me think they’re doing it for the purpose of doing it, and because they’re happy to work on an app and get their software engineering brain occupied by their own little project. But what will happen once this sentiment passes? Who’s gonna maintain these apps? What we need is one robust app everyone is working on together.

      • BlueBockser@programming.dev
        8·
        2 years ago

        I say let them be, there are (or soon were) many different third-party apps for Reddit as well and each has their own niche of users for whom it works just right. Jerboa has plenty of devs working on it, and if in doubt I’ll always prefer having a choice between different apps. Let the free FOSS market decide!

      • Uni@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 years ago

        The UI of this app honestly makes be feel a bit braindead at times, the process of finding the drop down necessary to even log in made be feel like I unlocked an easter egg in a point and click adventure game. It could use some more thought considering the backend of it is otherwise very well put together.

    • Parsnip8904@beehaw.org
      5·
      2 years ago

      All the apps except connect are open source. I’ve tried jeroba, thunder and liftoff so far and liftoff has been the most robust.

        • Parsnip8904@beehaw.org
          1·
          2 years ago

          Yeah. I love the fact that it can aggregate feeds from multiple accounts. It is also the client that has been giving the least amount of timeouts for me.

    • keardap@lemmy.selfhost.quest
      1·
      2 years ago

      Same here, installed what was available in F-Droid.

      Will check again in a few months, as I assume different flavors will be created.

  • soda3x@kbin.social
    25·
    2 years ago

    I think Connect looks nicer so I’ve been using it - very excited for Sync for Lemmy though

  • mintyfrog@lemmy.ml
    21·
    2 years ago

    Connect seems cool, but I was using Infinity because it was open source. This one doesn’t seem open source (correct me if I’m wrong) so I’ll stick with Liftoff or Jerboa for now

    • ollien@beehaw.org
      13·
      2 years ago

      Thanks for the recommendation of Liftoff! I really didn’t like Jerboa but liftoff seems like a nice app.

      • ArtificialLink@lemmy.ml
        4·
        2 years ago

        The lack of picture downloading got me fucked up lol. I’m interested to see jerbora development and liftoff. Will almost certainly jump ship to sync if its anywhere near the quality of the reddit version

    • sibloure@beehaw.orgOP
      4·
      2 years ago

      That is a very good point. I just found it by accident a few minutes ago and didn’t even realize that.

  • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca
    20·
    2 years ago

    Just tried and it’s much more impressive than Jerboa. No laggy scrolling, UI and UX are nicer. Feels more like RiF.

    Only (minor) nitpicks I have are:

    • dark theme could be darker
    • I’d prefer the comment form shows as a popup/overlay (like RiF does) so you can kind of glance at the context while commenting
    • list view items need more padding and less margin
    • val@beehaw.org
      10·
      2 years ago

      Jerboa is absolutely not laggy on my side. Find it super responsive and lightweight instead. it’s only 2MB

      • hoyland@beehaw.org
        9·
        2 years ago

        I’m guessing what they’re referring to is that it waits to fetch the next page of the timeline until relatively “late”. There’s a definite hitch in scrolling for me when it’s fetching more posts.

        That said, I’m perfectly satisfied with Jerboa.

        • val@beehaw.org
          3·
          2 years ago

          true, i do have that same hitch that you describe when it’s fetching more posts. but that’s not too big of an issue for me either. i guess adding a bit of pre-fetching would solve it.

    • warg@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      dark theme could be darker

      Try the “Amoled” theme in the settings (remember to click save at the bottom of the page, I initially missed that). It’s a much darker theme on my phone.

        • seang96@spgrn.com
          2·
          2 years ago

          I saw the announcement for that one, but I figured I’d leave off testing more for a little bit they mostly seem to be behind jerboa. Does liftoff support subscribing from instances your instance hasn’t seen before already?

          • Parsnip8904@beehaw.org
            1·
            2 years ago

            It has been the most polished experience so far for me, probably because they had the lemmur code base to begin with. As for adding communities, I’m not sure. The community search works like in Jerboa but I haven’t tried it with new communities not indexed yet.

            • seang96@spgrn.com
              1·
              2 years ago

              Just tried it out, but couldn’t login since they don’t have 2FA support yet. I don’t think any of them really do yet, but if you logged in before setting it up the current apps still work. They got a PR for it so I guess I’ll wait till that merges to try it out.

            • seang96@spgrn.com
              1·
              2 years ago

              It looks like it can do it but it’s buggy too. Overall not bad, not a big fan of the user interface in Liftoff for some reason though.

    • val@beehaw.org
      5·
      2 years ago

      on Jerboa it was long press but they fixed it in recent releases. now just press once on the comment and it collapses. i was missing that but now the UX is great

    • tool@r.rosettast0ned.com
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’m seriously missing the ability to jump to the current/next/previous parent comment. I make heavy use of that and only Jerboa has it right now, I think.

    • sibloure@beehaw.orgOP
      9·
      2 years ago

      No, I dont think it is unfortunately. Another commenter said it was full of trackers, although I have not verified that. I didn’t realize that when I made the post

      • Papamousse@beehaw.org
        2·
        2 years ago

        Where is this post? I tried connect and it works fine, the guy made it in a week, it’s impressive

        • sibloure@beehaw.orgOP
          7·
          2 years ago

          Here is the post: https://beehaw.org/comment/449643

          I cannot verify if that comment is true or not, or how they found out the information.

          I tried to reply and ask, but for some reason my comment will not post! I have tried using the website and several Lemmy apps.

          • Xerø@infosec.pub
            5·
            2 years ago

            That comment seems to be an attempt at disinformation. I have not detected any of those trackers. You should also run your own checks just to be sure.

          • Kuro@lemmy.ca
            2·
            2 years ago

            Connect dev here, we use 0 trackers of any kind beyond what the Play store tracks by default.

          • redfellow@sopuli.xyz
            2·
            2 years ago

            If I had to take a guess: he’s opening posts that use the internal browser, and sites he’s browsing are the ones i initiating those connections. The app opening the webview doesn’t have much in the way to prevent that.

            Don’t open external links if you don’t know what that entails.

          • redfellow@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            2 years ago

            If I had to take a guess: he’s opening posts that use the internal browser, and sites he’s browsing are the ones i initiating those connections. The app opening the webview doesn’t have much in the way to prevent that.

            Don’t open external links if you don’t know what that entails.

          • jherazob@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            That screenshot is from the DuckDuckGo app when set up to blocking trackers, that means that while it was running it tried to connect to known tracker addresses and the DDG app stopped it and logged the attempts.

            We would need somebody else that uses DDG as blocker too to install this app and run it for a bit and see if they can replicate this result

  • stown@sedd.itEnglish
    17·
    2 years ago

    I tried it and didn’t think it was much different from any other Lemmy app right now. Seems like they are only trying to differentiate with visuals at the moment.

    Some things I would like to see in future apps and versions of existing apps.

    • Integration of the Lemmy community browser or something similar. Basic search takes too long and you need to know what your looking for
    • Ability to view top communities posts from the community browser in a separate view alongside “local” and “All” and “subscribed” and could even stand in as a user’s subscribed view before they have customized it to their own liking
    • Ability to “force pull” comments and posts from a particular remote community. Or at least compare the number of comments a post has locally to the number it has on its remote instance and present some kind of indicator if they differ.
    • sibloure@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      These are all great suggestions. Is there an official place different app developers could look for these types of feature requests? That would be nice.

      • stown@sedd.itEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        I feel like they should be looking here if they want to make an app that the community will appreciate.they should spend some time talking to people in the technology subs and maybe even do some polls.

  • Zer0Rank@sopuli.xyz
    16·
    2 years ago

    Using Connect because Jerboa just kept crashing on me at startup. Never got to test it out. Problems do exist in Connect, as e.g. I could not comment on this post in the app. Will check out Thunder and Lift off as well, so thanks for the suggestions!

    Edit: I literally just found out that you have to hit the huge plus-button at the bottom right to add a comment… I always thought it was for creating a new post 🤦‍♂️

  • McBinary@kbin.social
    15·
    2 years ago

    This app looks really good. It looks almost exactly how I have my kbin account set up with scripts in a browser, and the gestures are very nice. - I hope it adds kbin support or one of the kbin apps ends up looking like this or better.

  • mbrx@vlemmy.net
    15·
    2 years ago

    Using it to make this answer, and loving it Jerboa just keeps crashing instantly for me (android 12, Fairphone 4). Not sure why. But connect has just worked out of the box.

    • fabian_drinks_milk@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      4·
      2 years ago

      Jerboa works just fine for me. I’m also on a Fairphone 4, but running CalyxOS with Android 13. Maybe you can try Jerboa from another source like F-droid instead of Google Play or vice versa. You can also try the IzzyOnDroid repository on F-droid.

      • Gatsby@lemm.ee
        1·
        2 years ago

        My jerboa was crashing so I tried to install it from Fdroid, and now I can’t sign into either version. (Server isn’t updated because of captcha issues with new update. Jerboa is preventing login because of this.)

        So that prevented me from using jerboa.

        Connect works still, shame jerboa is having issues.

          • Gatsby@lemm.ee
            1·
            2 years ago

            I wish. I’ve updated it from both F droid and the play store and both say my instance version isnt on the current update so I can’t sign in at all.

            My instance isn’t updated because the new update is fucky with captchas idk the fine details

    • ContentSpy@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      Mine has been crashing ever since the recent update specifically when I try to switch my filter from hot to new it seems to only happen if you do it right as you open the app

  • Linnce@beehaw.org
    14·
    2 years ago

    Jerboa has been crashing on me lately so I’ve been using Connect while it gets fixed. No complaints so far.

  • Nerd02@forum.basedcount.com
    12·
    2 years ago

    Upvoting this post from Connect for Lemmy. Actually I think I still prefer Jerboa. Unfortunately it has stopped working since I updated my instance to 0.18 so this will have to do for now.