After saying goodbye to RIF and reddit, it’s time for me to move on. So far I’ve used 4 apps for Lemmy and this is my personal ranking:
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wefwef.app. Very clean design, works well and smooth experience. Overall the best implementation so far.
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Connect/Liftoff (tied). Both are solid, I prefer Connect’s sidebar and options but I prefer the design of the posts and comments on Liftoff. When the comments stack in Connect it looks awful IMO.
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Jerboa. As a first option it was good but after so many timeouts, other design issues and multiple errors I kinda gave up on the app. After its polished I’ll give it another try.
Mlem and WefWef are my favorites so far. I wish WefWef was a ‘real’ app but it’s pretty impressive what they have done in a Web App.
I’d definitely like to get ahold of their iOS stylesheet or whatever tech they are using to make that look so iOS, but the layout of the app is terrible.
The layout (and design) is a clone of the extremely popular Reddit client, Apollo.
Most people loved Apollo. Some didn’t.
Apollo users would feel right at home with wefwef.
I love iOS’s look (when it’s on an intended device, not on my giant ass monitor, like here :D ) but man is it’s organization a mess. Everything Apple produces is seriously unintuitive. If you give me an iPad, i’m going to be lost searching for basic functionality. If you give me a Mac, I can’t even operate the damn thing.
It’s not a stylesheet but Ionic framework gives you iOS looking components as HTML elements
I’m glad it’s not a “real” app
Wefwef has been great for me so far
I’m using Connect for Lemmy atm, it’s not that bad. It’s missing a decent amount of RiF features but give it time it might be a decent replacement. Atm I’m missing mostly collapsing comments and listing through the parent comments
Did you use it to post this comment 4 times? 😂
Haha given the number of times that app keeps reposting the comment I’m not sure it’s a great selling point for quality.
That’s somewhat my fault since it timed out and I kept pressing post. Server issues i guess. Give it time.
I doubt it’s the application’s fault. Not everyday your usebase grows by 1000% :)
+1 for wefwef. coming from rif, does take getting used to, but it’s nice, clean and simple.
Is wefwef and Android app? I don’t see it on the play store.
No it’s a website but if you navigate to it in Chrome you should be able to go into the wefwef settings and “install” it. Then it will practically work like an app
Edit: or any other browser you use. I used Firefox first but the site didn’t run as smooth there
Okay I figured it out myself. I went to wefwef.app in Firefox on my phone. The hit the three dot menu and went to install. That’s it. Guess it’s just a single page app run through the browser.
I can’t find wefwef on the play store, and the link leads to a dead site.
What’s going on?
Wefwef is a webapp
It’s a web app, that means that you have to go to wefwef.app and install it from there
Yeah found it.
It appears to lag behind jerboa when I compare my feed in both platforms.
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I’m using the beta of Memmy and it’s my preferred, but WefWef is a close second. The only ding against WW is it’s a web app, not a native app and that’s my own preference. either option is solid
There is a native wefwef app for android and it feels very close to rif
I wondered why the rif developer doesn’t just recode rif to point at lemmy tbh
The RIF dev, Talklittle, is building an app for tildes.net. But he’s on the ferdiverse as well.
Personally, I’m really excited about that! I’m on Tildes as well and Tildes has become on of my favorite platforms that I discovered because of the API changes at Reddit. It has a small, but really nice community with great threads. I also really love the minimal interface: Fast and no distractions. Just text.
I still doesn’t have a native app though and for some reason the mobile website is kinda sluggish on my phone. That might be my aging phone’s fault, as it is a very quick site on my PC. but a RIF-like app would be amazing!
Edit: I just found out he showed a little preview for the app and asked for donations to Tildes (not to him, to Tildes. Because he is cool like that). Preview of the Tildes app here. I can certainly see the DNA of RIF in it! Just to be clear to anyone skimming through my comment: The is NOT an app for Lemmy (or Kbin)!
Edit 2: I’m on a different connection than last week now and now Tildes feels very responsive on my phone. So it was indeed a problem on my end.
I mean, they might, at some point. But at the moment, the entire fediverse is still much smaller than Reddit, so there’s currently less incentive…
Also, it’s certainly not as easy as you make it sound to “just recode rif to point at lemmy”! If it was, one of us would have already done it…
What do you mean with native wefwef app?
I asked the same thing about Apollo and since this is federated the data is way different than Reddit and would take a lot of work to repurpose a Reddit client. Not saying they won’t but it sounds like it’s a bigger job than one would think
Jerboa. As a first option it was good but after so many timeouts, other design issues and multiple errors I kinda gave up on the app. After its polished I’ll give it another try.
i haven’t had single issue, timeout or error with jerboa. it even worked fine when the web version of the lemmy had a problem. are you sure you tried to eliminate problems betweeen the chair and keyboard before you start backbiting someone else?
What a bizarre comment. Have you been to the Jerboa community? Users have been plagued with incessant bugs and crashes as of late. It seems to have gotten better, but it’s still a buggy mess for me. Not sure what the vitriol is for. OP isn’t making shit up. It’s a known issue for many users. Just because you magically haven’t had any issues doesn’t mean that the app is behaving that way for the majority of users.
I very much appreciate Jerboa for the pioneer it has been. But if the app doesn’t work right and there are alternatives, I’m going to use the alternatives. Sorry.
Just because you magically haven’t had any issues doesn’t mean that the app is behaving that way for the majority of users.
Just because someone is yelling on the internet about having an issue doesn’t mean that the app is behaving that way for the majority of users.
also, bugs are normal part of the development (esp. so hasty development as the lemmy is undergoing right now) and the most used app will have most reported problems. that is not a cons, that is a pros.
if you are bugged by reported bugs, you might like some closed source software, these all work nicely and have no bugs at all :D
so yeah, really bizarre comment you made there.
Are you having a bad day or something? Nowhere do I see anyone trying to actively attack and take down the app and its creators. I promise, it’s not that deep. Moving to alternatives when something is temporarily too buggy to use is not that weird and shouldn’t be seen as offensive. Hope your day gets better.
Are you having a bad day or something?
no, are you? or is there another reason that prevents you seeing that your experience is not universal and forces you to kick around when someone suggests otherwise?
I appreciate Jerboa being open source but even before the issue with reddit.world I had constant crashes while reading and it didn’t make a pleasant experience. My intention was never to talk on behalf of Jerboa users but to give my personal opinion. In fact, Jerboa gave me a pretty good first impression but after trying other options I do prefer the alternatives.
I wasn’t too impressed with Jerboa when I first installed it, but after their latest update, the UI/UX is much improved.
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I tried Connect, Jerboa and Wefwef. Wefwef has been my favorite overall, except for the fact that videos seem to auto-play (maybe I haven’t found the right option to turn that off yet). Second was probably Jerboa, it looked pretty good but something about the timeouts and performance just didn’t feel right. Plus I kept accidentally jumping back to the top of my feed, which is something I literally never want to happen. Connect wasn’t great, I couldn’t find a layout that showed full image and text posts without clicking on a thread :/
I don’t think you should dismiss Connect just because it currently hasn’t got features you want, out of all the apps that currently exist I find Connect far and above the best, bugs have been fixed pretty quickly and it’s just the closest feeling app for me personally to RIF with how clean it all is
Tried Jerboa, Thunder, Connect and Liftoff on Android already.
Sticking with Liftoff for now.
Anxious for Memmy, tho.
So far I like Thunder the best, with a similar breakdown for Connect and Liftoff. Wasn’t a fan of Jerboa. I miss the design of RIF is fun.
Wefwef until Boost is released and I’ll see which I prefer. I used to use Boost for Reddit so I’m expecting I’ll use that.
Memmy and Mlem right now are my two favorites. I much prefer the design of Mlem but I find there are some weird things about it, like the UI for posting comments.
Using Jerboa for the moment, but I’ll probably switch to Boost for Lemmy as soon as it becomes available.
I too use jerboa. I liked connect, but I couldn’t block communities with it and nsfw tags only worked on first image of multi image posts.
Jerboa has been pretty serviceable for me. It has taken some getting used to. I hope to see it continue to improve.
