Sadly I think I’m finally ready to put Sync out to pasture since it isn’t maintained.
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Voyager
Thunder is my favourite. It’s an android app and I got it from F-Droid (Izzy on Droids Repo). Clean and customizable interface, convenient features like for example multi account support. I would recommend it!
Was trying out Voyager and Thunder yesterday. Thunder seems like the winner to me. Voyager’s appearance isn’t customizable enough for my tastes. I am not a gesture person (I prefer to turn swipe actions for posts and comments off entirely) and really need more tappable things for Voyager to work for me.
One thing I would like in thunder is the ability to hide more of the interface when replying to comments. I have large thumbs and in landscape mode (which I type in exclusively) the button bar takes up a lot of space that could be better used for seeing my typed text and the comment I’m replying to.
Too bad it can’t handle private messages apart from reading; you can’t even easily mark them as read. The interface is mostly excellent, though, and hey, I’m using it for this comment right now.
I did so last week, when the amount of posts where Sync wouldn’t show me the comments became annoying. I switched to Boost, and after some tinkering got it to a state where the UI was adequate for me.
Summit is peak Lemmy!
Awesome app, awesomer dev. If it doesn’t do what you want, talk to them and they’ll probably do it.
Not FOSS, but free and no ads.
Would not be enjoying Lemmy near as much without it thanks to all the great features like multi-community support and endless customization.
Summit holds practically the same quality as Sync for Reddit had… If not more at this point.
And yeah, the dev is great and very communicative, he must love his own project to be so active regarding it, and it makes sense I have tried the app since its conception and it has greatly improved.
I don’t want to bash other Lemmy clients… But I have tried nearly all of them and Summit always speaks “smoother” for me.
I switched from Sync to Summit when I finally gave up on the sync dev ever doing anything more. Summit has frequent updates and fills the same spot for me as Sync, which is important to me as I used sync with reddit for a long time.
Yeah, it is not Sync, but it is just as good, and we can work with the dev to make it even better than what Sync was!
I agree, they definitely have to be passionate about it, and I feel it really shows. Truly shocked it never seems as popular as some others. I’ve given a number of bug reports and feedback/suggestions and they’ve all been addressed shockingly quick, and it’s fun to think this or that bit is there just because I agreed nicely. 😇
Yeah I get it, it definitely is not a competition, but if it is for the sake of sharing the love then yeah I agree that this client requires a higher user base 😁
Second Summit.
I’ve been using boost since that’s what I used for reddit. Just not been vibing with the lemmy version as much for some reason.
Decided to give summit a go after reading some comments here, and while I’ve only had the app for an hour or two I’m really happy with it so far
I’m glad that was helpful!
It looked great and I really wanted to stick with the dev on it once they originally announced they were going to make a Lemmy version, but even after a couple months going between it and some other apps, while it looked much the same as Boost for Reddit, it just didn’t feel the same.
Tried Voyager and Jerboa. I prefer Voyager slightly over Jerboa
jerboa.
summit is the only other client that i tried and wasn’t irritated by, but I’ve reverted back to jerboa after a few days. i like how streamlined jerboa is, and how it just works and always has.
it looks like the summit dev is working overtime getting everything in order and finishing several feature rollouts, so I’ll check that out again in a couple of months.
I have a hard time believing Summit Dev has time for a day job! 😂
I feel every bug is patched same/next day and they keep constantly adding to the feature set. There have been a ton of upgrades this year, and it was perfect to me once they added custom user tags, so now everything is just a bonus.
I like all their decisions and they take feedback in what works for us, and at this point you can turn almost anything on/off so you get what you want.
the dev seems very dedicated, that’s why I’ll give summit another try later. quick links don’t work yet, not all the setting toggles l are functionally tied yet to the features. there are also several tiny post/link/layout issues that I notice but don’t have to deal with on jerboa.
I’m interested to see where summit goes, it is the only other lemmy client I used for more than a couple hours.
I’ve test driven a majority of the apps at this point, and I think the variety of apps we have to choose from is impressive. They all feel pretty different too, so everyone should be able to find what works for them.
I think it was Connect I kept installed longest other than Summit and the discontinued Liftoff. I was a huge Boost fan on Reddit, but never jelled with the Lenny implementation.
me too on boost!
boost was the only way i used reddit, nothing else came close.
I can’t tell what’s different in the implementation here, but it does not click.
jerboa for lemmy is the closest to the simplicity I enjoyed in boost for reddit, and I do think summit merits another look in a month or two
Boost still looked nice, but the posting UI was terrible for me. I couldn’t figure out how to do half the things I wanted to do, and since I became a regular poster using a ton of media and formatting, it was just a no-go.
The dev has done a lot to help with my specific use cases, and I haven’t started since. I gave everything a look around the end of the year to make sure I wasn’t missing out on anything, but at this point I don’t feel I’m missing a thing from the experience.
I like the apps are all independent in that we can try one or all and hop between them at will without losing anything.
yea, it is nice that the devs are so dedicated to creating unique clients for us
and their work itself is so impressive.
Raccoon because raccoon.
On a more serious note. I have tried that one and Jerboa but I found Raccoon to be nicer, easier and more pleasant. Especially with all the colour costumizations.
Until thunder adds the ability to DM people properly I can’t really fully leave sync behind. The second thunder gets DMs working I’ll be ditching sync as well.
I’m enjoying Connect
Me too.
Large pictures is one of the niceties, but it just works wery well too!
Right now, it’s Thunder.
I have been enjoying Raccoon though development might have slowed down after a previous dev. left sometime back.
Boost is a good alternative.
Summit. I love the screenshot feature. I can pick content and share to my WA stories
Artic. Easy to navigate, very good privacy.
Yep I ditched Sync a while ago for that reason. Currently on Eternity as it supports foldable devices pretty well.
I was using Boost but noticed some missing features, so I switched to Raccoon. I like it so far
