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So, I was lurking using sync for Lemmy and I came upon this post.

What happened to the development with these apps? I'm not that active on lemdro.id or other instances. But apps like Sync and Boost have been updated in a year or 6 months respectively. With Boost I'm not surprised Mayo tends to be slow. I was more shocked with sync. My question is do you guys have any recommendations for other Lemmy clients?

Edit Please do not harass the devs.

Edit 2: I'm testing out thunderbird.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

However I'm happy with eternity

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Hasn't development slowed to a crawl?

I am using eternity to post this btw. Was using liftoff before until it broke and will continue with eternity.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sync was almost always like this - the Dev takes long breaks and then updates the app with lots of good stuff. He did this since reddit days, so I'm really not concerned

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And family stuff, probably. Totally understandable.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Not when you charge monthly subscription fees, your app no longer fully supports the platform, and you haven't pushed a single change in 12 months.

It's acceptable to have 2 of the above issues, but not all 3 at once.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I've just started on Lemmy very recently, but I've been trying out different Android Lemmy clients. I'm currently on 'Voyager for Lemmy' which I installed from F-Droid, and personally this has been my best experience yet

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

I tried a few other clients as well and settled on Voyager in the end. The experience is great, it's being actively developed and the dev is active in [email protected]. Can recommend!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

FYI, voyager started as a hyper performant webapplication namef wefwef

https://wefwef.app/

I still have it as a shortcut on my phone as a backup to the official app

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

(Disclaimer, I'm one of the devs.) Thunder is cross-platform and very actively developed! There was a release two days ago. We keep up with Lemmy API changes and we're constantly squashing bugs and adding new features. Check it out!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am very interested in Thunder, especially considering it's open source. While it does seem packed with features, I'd love to see a bit more customizability though. I might submit some feature requests some day but looking now there are nearly 200 issues as it stands. Not a complaint, just an observation. Keep up the good work!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Thanks for checking it out. Yeah we do have quite a backlog of issues to work through. Obviously we prioritize bugs and the most popular feature requests. Feel free to submit an issue any time you want though! It may be that we can help come up with a workaround that gets you what you want. Otherwise sometimes if its an easy change one of the devs will knock it out quickly. But if nothing else it'll be there for other people to react to. :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice. I have been enjoying your guys app for the last 2 days.

I have some feedback but I don't think it's really anything that substantial right now. What is the best way to give you guys feedback on thunder bird?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey thanks! I think you mean Thunder. :-) Thunderbird is a mail client from Mozilla (also a great app lol).

If you have a bug or feature request to report, you can create an issue on GitHub. https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder

If you just want to have a discussion with the devs and other community members, you can check out our Matrix. https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

The only good apps are Thunder on Android and Arctic on iOS, change my mind

Edit: Eternity is pretty great as well, I used to use Infinity on Android back in the Reddit days

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I've been very happy with Summit on Android.

Edit: changed link to app website

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Summit is severely overlooked. Dev fixes many bug reports same/next day as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where is the source code? Is it closed source? As I see only releases are on github

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It is closed source. People keep asking if it will be made open source, and the dev doesn't necessarily seem opposed to it. I don't recall the reasons they gave, nor would I likely understand them as someone who is not a developer, but there are threads on it on [email protected]. They are generally very open to discussing things if you might have solutions for them.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What about raccon for Lemmy and connect?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm using Connect and it's fine. The dev sometimes pushes updates that break things but the patches come quick enough.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

There are dozens of us

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It's an extremely familiar app experience as a very long time Redditor. The app works great.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Also a satisfied Connect user here.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

People use the official Reddit app voluntarily?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

You should try Thunder. It is available on Izzysoft. Its is FOSS (AGPL) but I don't know why it is not in official f-droid repository.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use Thunder too, I like it. But you accidentally added a space in the first hyperlink, so it's not rendered correctly.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Definitely thunder. I've been using it since it was in early alpha and it has improved so much and works really really well.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've switched to using Jerboa from Sync and it's absolutely fine for my casual usage and it doesn't have ads, which is a big plus point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Jerobs is awesome!!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I finally made a full switch from Sync to Thunder, because even though I know that Sync dev does take huge breaks and he comes back and fixes everything and makes the app even better, I still wanted to make sure I find a good alternative and get familiar with it just in case.

Thunder is a really good app, especially considering its age. It also has the most features and the nicest UI (IMO) among the Lemmy apps. And it being open source is a huge plus too.

Sync is still my favorite, it just feels really nice to use, but I'll stay on Thunder for now.

Voyager is also a really nice app that feels polished and works smoothly, but it's lacking certain features that I like. So I keep it installed as a backup but I don't use it often.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Not sure, I've been using Interstellar with Mbin and it's been pretty great. Would recommend, responsive dev, works well, supports multiple platforms!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Too many clients for too few users...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Boost works fine

Left Sync for it, temporarily, until Sync is back to updating. It's been like this back in the Reddit years too.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

A lack of updates doesn't necessarily mean they're inactive unless there are new features they need to work with or bugs they need to fix.

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