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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago* (last edited 3 minutes ago)

Chrome. (let the downvotes commence)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 28 minutes ago

Voyager app in Android, vger.app on my laptop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 31 minutes ago

Was using connect for nearly two years but more and more issues are being introduced and old ones not solved despite a few updates this last month. So currently I have moved over to Voyager, I prefer the way connect is laid out etc but Voyager actually works and as a bonus I can moderate from it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

Voyager, because it was the most mature and feature complete app available when I left Reddit and I don’t fancy switching again without good reason.

It was a bit of a learning curve initially, coming from RiF, but I’m used to it now and rarely encounter any issues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Eternity (infinity for Lemmy)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Wish I could have used Thunder but it didn't support older phones (think it was related to something about a certificate with Flutter???). I just use Connect now and customized it to be how Baconreader was for me. Been a great app so far.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

Agree, and I have tested a bunch of them so far. It's just so clean!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

It's so cool to see so many different ways to experience Lemmy.

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

I use Boost. I tried a few others, and wanted to pick an open source option, but I never found one with UI I was satisfied with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Just saying, I'm a huge Boost fan (donated, even) and still use its Reddit app to this day. Thunder is marvelous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I tried a few and settled on Voyager. I like it a lot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Surprised I'm the first to say Eternity

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

@[email protected] mentioned it, so you're the 2nd.

I just prefer to use something recent if possible; Eternity was last updated in August versus Thunder, just this month, in F-Droid. It looks probably fine, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 50 minutes ago (1 children)

Ah, I guess I didn't read the full comment haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 48 minutes ago

Where's your search bar, soldier?!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Boost on Android

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I do the Voyager. Can't remember how I landed on it, but it works good

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

I only remember switching to Voyager because I was having problems with images and other such things loading when I was using Jerboa when I first jumped ship to Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

In my heart it's still wefwef, complete with the little rainbow background lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Thunder has become my main, has the least issues for me, been meaning to customize arctic since its a bit quicker being native. Thunder will sometimes take a bit to post a comment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Hmm, I haven't noticed any such delay. Hopefully that will get fixed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Connect. It feels like RIF

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Voyager on iOS, Firefox on PC

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Mlem (TestFlight version)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Photon or tesseract (for admin stuff) on PC, thunder on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Currently on mbin

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago
[–] mp3 5 points 3 hours ago

Firefox on all the platforms I use.

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

one i wrote myself in rust

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

"Impressive." - Darth Vader

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

it does render post comments at full depth (so all of them) in about 60% of the time of JS frameworks

that equates to a fraction of a second on most computers but it really does work better than the others. you can only really tell on massive posts with over 300 comments

ooh actually the other good feature is that from a cold start (empty window) it will render the page on the server side which means the page displays much quicker. the JS frameworks normally load the skeleton/engine first and then load the data and render the page

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Share this magnificent creation already!

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

it's a minimalist experience at the moment so it's very useful but far from full featured

i do use it all the time though (using it to write this) so maybe i should release it officially soon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Hey, some people crave minimalism and speed!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

cool, well thanks for the encouragement

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

I actually still use Boost for Reddit because it's so incredible and unbeatable (especially for moderating), but I decided to lean more open-source otherwise.

[–] Syer10 5 points 4 hours ago

Old reddit/mlmym on desktop and Sync on Android for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

PieFed in Firefox on the desktop and Chrome on Android, because this way I can make it full screen there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

The standard Lemmy Web UI on desktop. Eternity on Android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Firefox in Linux.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Just the web interface for me - it does everything I want, so I have an instance of Firefox on my phone dedicated to social media, with always open tabs for Lemmy, Discuit, Tildes and Pixelfed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Been using Connect, and currently trying Summit (very nice interface).

I might give Thunder a try.