Honesty, I am tired of accidentally hitting "back" on my phone and having my feed reset, so I was wondering if any of your clients didn't do that, while also wanting to check out the competition for Sync.

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[–] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Voyager, foss, with the auto hide enabled

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    No love for Summit here? I've tried almost every android app and ended up with this one. Very smooth UI and full of features.

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    It's not smooth at all, IMO. Lots of visual annoyances which makes it feel stuttery and just bad. Been a Sync user for years and going from that to any other app is just a bad experience... I try all lemmy apps I come across and they either just look bad, no matter how much I change settings or they lack several major things that I just won't be without. None has come close to feeling like a replacement yet, and it really sucks that it seems Sync is actually dead now.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    +1 for Voyager. It's my first and so far only client that I've used, having been on infinity for reddit before switching.

    I like it. it's smooth, works well, and has fairly granular settings for how to handle "read" posts, gesture controls within posts / comments, and so on.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    do you have issues with redgifs? they don't work for me on Voyager

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    I don't have issues with redgifs. I thought I recalled a setting similar to media player defaults but I can't find it, so I must've been thinking of infinity for reddit.

    does it have anything to do with default browser, I wonder? I'm on grapheneOS with vanadium as my browser.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Voyager works like a charm for me.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thunder. Cross platform, great UI, and now has piefed support.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    I've used Jerboa for years now, and have the press back twice to exit setting enabled:

    My configuration for it is very minimal, to mimic RedReader that I used to use.

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    Extremely happy with Voyager.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Connect.

    I actually want the opposite of what you want. I am used to Jerboa and Liftoff refreshing the front page if you hit back on the main feed. Connect just asks it you want to close it and I have to manually scroll back up to the top to refresh, and its annoying af when I'm hella far down the page.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Scroll down slightly in the feed, hit the ellipses that appears on top and choose refresh? This is how I do it with Connect.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Connect looks awesome, but I can't for the life of me find a feed for only my subbed communities, Do you know if that is an option?

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    There must be another setting that controls when the top bar with those dots actually shows up, because that's why I have to scroll all the way back up; that bar doesnt move or stay at the top of my screen but literally at the top of the page. Scrolling down one post makes it completely disappear until I go all the way back up.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Voyager here, can't complain.

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    I used boost for reddit back when that was a thing. The dev got the lemmy up in like a week, very impressive to me. I give $5 every now and then when I feel like it and remember. I'd recommend the app for sure

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    The dev being alone does not mean they should make it closed source.

    For example, Mindustry, which is an open source game, is only developed by one person, Anuke.

    And, who knows tf they doing behind the scenes?

    That's why i HATE anything closed-source. Making a software open-source does not have any downsides, it's free contributions from more experienced people. And it also means people can fork your project if you just can't do it anymore. Or want to improve it.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Connect for lemmy,

    Back button asks if you want to exit the app

    Looks just like RIF

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    "Looks just like RIF"

    I seriously don't understand how that's a positive. RIF always looked and felt like it was badly designed on purpose. Like some shitty thing from the early 2000s. But seeing the shit people do with theming on their phones and other stuff it's weirdly not surprising, still doesn't make sense. It's actually vile looking.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    You know what's nice, we have sooooo many more options than we deserve. Thanks all you devs!

    Reddit has one official one that kinda sucks.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Jerboa. Made by the Lemmy devs.

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    Boost for Lemmy since Boost for Reddit was my old app

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    I second that! It’s great. I tried a few different ones at the start, then tried Mlem and never looked back.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Shocked there’s so little love for Mlem in here. It rocks

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I completely agree! I guess there are more people on Lemmy using android than iOS. It’s a bit more in line with the ethos I guess? And Mlem is only iOS.

    I used to be android as well, but honestly I won’t ever go back I don’t think. But to each there own

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Voyager

    Has sync been updated lately? I left sync because the dev fell off the face of the earth or so it seems but I really miss the long hold to view images.

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    Jerboa gives you a confirmation prompt before exiting, when you press back from the main feed.

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    I been using Voyager so have felt the back button pain a lot. I installed Blorp just recently but an update seems to have broke it, it's not working for me today.

    I just installed Jerboa, there's no back button.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • It’s how crazy a good UI never gets old. I was using Apollo, now Voyager. Holy cow. It’s been so long I feel old.

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    Jerboa, it's got that RIF feel.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Boost works pretty well on my phone.

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    Boost for Lemmy

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Eternity was the one I settled on.

    Used jerboa, liftoff, thunder and a few other to name a few.

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  • Eternity. I don't know the last time the dev has updated this shit but it kinda works. I still love the UI

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Firefox

    The less apps I have on my phone the better and I mostly browse Lemmy on desktop anyway.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I recently switched to Blorp. It’s still somewhat early in development, but overall is really nice.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Voyager and Interstellar

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    Jerboa on mobile, the website on desktop.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I just use the browser interface

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Sync for lemmy

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    Boost for Lenmy

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Raccoon 🦝 The best one so far for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Tor Browser

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I use connect. It also has a function where you can hit twice to exit.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've been trying to find a sync replacement as well, but nothing can quite give me what I want from the interface. Double tap to zoom (also double tap with hold and swipe to zoom in and out would be a plus), zoom on gifs and videos, single tap (or swipe) to dismiss pic or video, and a deep limit on how far you can zoom in. Oh and swipe gestures to upvote and return to the main page.

    Thunder comes closest but there's no zoom on videos.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wef wef I think? That’s what the app says on my phone.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Brave browser

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