What client do Android users use for Lemmy these days? I’ve been using Jerboa from the start but it’s a bit basic and lacks any good search functionality. So I want to try some others. What do other Android users recommend?

Things I like about Jerboa:

  • It just works. It’s pretty simple.
  • It has actual private browsing in app. You never have to leave the app and it knows how to never save your history.
  • It can do the above even when setting your main browser to Firefox (so as blocking works even in open links in app).

Things I don’t like about Jerboa:

  • Text entry is oftentimes buggy.
  • Lack of any decent search for communities or in threads.
  • No draft capability.
  • paraplu@piefed.socialEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Voyager for me. The compact mode is fairly compact, with small enough thumbnails that it can feel text-first. The few others that support piefed have had huge images with no easy way to fix that.

    • whimsy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Me too. But it refuses to load images of a fraction of the posts and I don’t really know why. And cross linking to some other instances is occasionally borked, it tries and then opens the browser.

      Apart from that it’s been fantastic

    • M137@lemmy.today
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      7 months ago

      I stayed with sync until I was forced to switch due to bugs and missing features, I all alternatives I could find and settled on Summit. Highly recommend, it has a ton of options and both looks and feels great to use.

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I’m using Voyager and happy with it. Of course, now. I need to trial these listed by others.

  • cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    After much complaining about sync’s descent into mediocre abandonware, i finally switched to Summit - i still miss sync’s ui/ux - but its nice being able to use a non buggy product

    • TrippaSnippa@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Likewise. I left Reddit when they killed third party apps because Sync was Reddit to me. I stuck with it here for a lot longer than I should have, but I finally accepted that it was dead and settled on Summit after trying a few others. Connect is also good, but I felt like it wasn’t quite as flexible as Summit last I tried.

    • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I still use Sync every day, and I can’t think of any issues I’ve had with it. What sort of bugs do you mean?

      • cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        The one that finally pushed me over the edge was, while i could (barely) tolerate the ads, some time after his last update, something in the code broke or wasnt updated, and the ads would play an audible blip, as if the first 5ms of audio played before it was then caught and automatically muted - and that was just a bridge too far. There were smaller things and features unimplemnted - but having to hear blips catching me off guard and at times when scrolling is appropriate but audio wasnt was too frustrating for me and so i switched. Was using sync forever, was a true fan, was frustrated how he changed and milked the pay structure for sync for lemmy as conpared to how he did it for reddit, and then he had the gal to just dip entirely, such a shame for such a good ux.

        • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          That ad thing is weird, I’ve not seen anything like that at all. In fact I don’t even see video ads. Where is this, in your feed? Or when you open a thread?

          I wonder if it’s to do with how the feed is set up? I use Small Cards view, don’t know if that’s maybe preventing me seeing the ads in the first place? I do sometimes see small static ads at the top of a thread, but that’s all.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I also use Jerboa and I have never tried anything else. It’s great imo but lacking in the more interesting features I have seen from other clients. User tagging is super cool