Thunder. It was the first I found when leaving Reddit and it had been a good experience so I’ve not looked at other ones.
No joke, I use my self-hosted Friendica instance as a PWA and browse Lemmy/PieFed threads from there. I even get notifications for new topics via Firefox.
Why? Because an extra app on my phone means extra battery usage, basically.
Um… I don’t think it does… but the friendica thing is pretty cool
Summit. Reminds me of Sync on Reddit 5 years ago
I’ve been on Summit forever now. Very active development, and they’ve added every feature request I’ve had along with many others’. I lose track of all the options it gets anymore.
It looks good, works good, and when it doesn’t, it gets fixed quickly.
I share lots of posts and articles and put them in quote blocks and just bring able to select all text and guy a single button that auto quotes all paragraphs won me over for good, and then multi-communities was the icing on the cake.
If you ever ask what app has feature X, it’s likely already in Summit.
I wonder why I had written it off months ago, because giving it another shot now, that app sure seems to suit all my needs. Perhaps I had just tried it out when it was very new and lacked many of the features that I wanted and could find in Thunder.
It went open source a bit ago if that may have been a sticking point.
+1 for Summit!
It has been the best clean user experience for me so far
Summit here too. I changed up some of the display settings so it feels like Relay for Reddit 😀
The things that got me to move from Voyager were that when images didn’t load first time, there was no way to re-try - Summit has that. And I don’t think Voyager handled drafts that well. Summit has drafts but I do wish there was a client that had drafts like Relay did, where if you come back to the same comment/post and hit reply it has your draft from where you left off on that comment/reply.
what does summit give you over using a browser on lemmy on your phone?
Voyager, reminds me a bit of Apollo for Reddit and has a good webapp for desktop usage.
did you make voyager’s app for apple watch work? mines always crash at home feed
Boost mainly. Then I found it struggles getting posts in the “hot” feed so I’ll switch to Voyager for that.
I went from Android to iOS due to reasons and this is one of the few apps I truly miss. Voyager comes close, but I was willing to pay for Boost when I was using it for Reddit.
I’ve stuck with Boost for like…8 years now? It does everything I need it to so I stick with it.
Blorp.
It’s the only client I have found that loads all images, regardless of source. When I used voyager, about half of the images didn’t load.
loads all images, regardless of source
Is it certain websites that were the problem, or file formats, or something else?
Probably because of Anubis protection. When the whole “AI scrapes the internet over and over so servers get flooded to death” (effectively an unintended DDoS attack) thing got wild, several websites incl image hosts enabled Anubis, which somewhat works in a browser, but often not so great in apps. Possibly it’s partially the apps fault for setting the correct headers or whatever.
Interesting, thank you. I have some research to do. Any idea if you can mitigate this on the client side?
Unless you plan on joining the app’s development effort: no I don’t think you can.
Certain instances and some individual users
Phone, it’s connect or summit, depending on which phone. I like summit’s looks better on oled screens. Otherwise it’s connect
Jerboa.
I dunno, it was on F-Droid and it’s really simple and lightweight, like its namesake critter. I’m sure there’s some more full featured options out there. (Voyager’s gestures kept throwing me off I think lol)
But I don’t hear a lot of people talking about this one much! Wonder why…
Can’t set a default sort for comments which is absolutely crazy. You have to resort every comment section you click into.
(Voyager’s gestures kept throwing me off I think lol)
I disabled all gestures in Voyager. I also found them annoying.
It was the first one I used and I never bothered with anything else. It works great
It doesn’t have some basic search features which sucks but same
Voyager. I’m not sure why. Never thought about trying others but now I’m curious.
Blorp because it works fine and I liked the name.
A web browser. Why limit myself with an app, when Firefox can do anything I want?
Firefox. I used jerboa for a while but it got confused one of the times the admins forgot to renew the domain or cert or something plus you have to remember all the names for the emotes.
Connect. First one I happened to try, it works well, gets good updates, and is Canadian
I have Jerboa installed from F-Droid, but I use Firefox.
The same one I use on my laptop, Firefox/lemmy-ui.
