What's your favorite Lemmy frontend/UI?
I'm finding that I like bits and pieces from the various available frontends, but I haven't heavily gravitated towards one in particular.
If you have gravitated towards a specific UI, which one and why?
Sync for days
Used Sync at the other place with Boost as the primary backup. Doing the same here plus keeping Jerboa around.
On mobile it's Voyager. On desktop it's the default Lemmy UI with the darkly-compact theme. The latter definitely feels like a modern old.reddit.
I'm also using these CSS overrides (using the Stylus extension on Firefox) as darkly-compact's line-height is too small and videos/GIFs stretched too much:
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I just got back into Lemmy and Alexandrite is nice. Boost just launched in beta on Android and seems solid and pretty to boot.
I’ve settled on Memmy (which I think is iOS only). I like that it’s pretty true — maybe 100% true — to the Lemmy web app’s features but with more of a designer’s eye, I guess. Just a lil’ polish. Not trying to be something the backend isn’t ready for.
Memmy is very buggy and crashes a lot. It was a strong contender 2 months ago. But the developer, by his own admission, can’t be arsed to update it in a timely fashion. In the intervening weeks strong contenders for iOS have arisen. I think Lemma is the most promising, although it’s available via TestFlight at the moment.
Boost. Always has been, always will be.
I really like photon. It is very multi-alt friendly, and I can run my own instance of it locally.
Photon's so clean. From a pure design perspective, it might be my favorite.
But after trying Alexandrite, I started missing the paneling. It seems really easy to lose your location on Photon since you gotta click into everything.
Haven't decided between Photon's nicer UI vs. Alexandrite's more convenient UX.
old.lemmy.world
I refuse to change
I didnt know this existed, thanks
You might want to check out this post from yesterday: https://lemmy.world/post/6086181
I like Liftoff.
Alexandrite on desktop. Thunder and Liftoff for mobile because they do not look like a clone of Apollo that all the other apps seem to try to emulate.
Haven't tried Liftoff, but Thunder's really clean. Just needs more features. In due time.
yeah are we the only ones that think apollo is clunky and gross and everyone emulating it is the same?
I'm still rocking Jerboa on Android. It has been totally inoffensive, and I'll probably just stick with it until it offends me somehow.
Lmao same. A couple months ago it would crash sometimes (which might have been an issue with me or my device), but not anymore. I haven't tried anything else, but jeroba has served me well so far 乁( •_• )ㄏ
If you used Infinity for Reddit, then Eternity for Lemmy is right for you. That's what I use.
I’m enjoying Mlem for iOS. Quite a few display options and customizations, and runs smoothly. I haven’t totally decided on it yet though, as I am still testing quite a few.
Edit: This post got me to try out some of the apps again, and I think I may actually use Avelon on iOS for now. Seems to be closer to Apollo, which I enjoy.
Check out Voyager too. I’ve been using it for months and it’s almost 1 to 1 Apollo.
Voyager and lemm.ee for me.
I like Voyager. But the last week or so, it’s been saying update available. I go to the settings and tell it to update. The app kinda flashes and restarts, and then within a minute it says update available again.
Has anyone else has this happen?
Thunder
Seconding Thunder as it is the only Android app I've found that I like the design of and doesn't lag whenever scrolling through loads of image posts.
Eternity for Android and Alexandrite (at https://a.lemmings.world) on desktop.
Alexandrite on desktop.
Switches up the doom scrolling feel of mobile and makes it feel more like a tool you can use to consume and interact with people and posts. Big part of that is desktop. But alexandrite is rather nice too!
If you aren't dead set on running FOSS only Boost is a slick running app on Android. Good filtering features and blocking. Everything loads clean and fast. The unpaid version has ads but they are unobtrusive. I barely notice them.
I like that Boost has the option to block instances.
Blocking instances from showing posts in your feed is coming to lemmy officially next update.
As an avid Boost user for years, I've been using Connect because it was billed as the closest thing to Boost. However, now that Boost is out I've found myself sticking with Connect. I've just grown to love the look and feel of it.
I'm the reverse. I never used Boost for Reddit (relay was my drug of choice) and started with Connect as it was billed as most similar to a lot of the 3rd party Reddit apps. Now that Boost is out I find myself looking it more. I do miss gesture voting though.
Jerboa. It was billed to me as "RIF for lemmy" and that's right on the money. It lacks community browsing right now, though, I go to the web UI for that.
if you want rif experience, try connect.
Is community browsing different than community searching? Because Jerboa has Searching.
Started with sync, but actually prefer Boost.
I really liked Mlmym (the port of the classic Reddit front-end). Unfortunately its main mirror (http://mlmym.org) has disappeared
I tried many but since Boost came out it has been a game changer.
For me there are two big ones: Alexandrite and Photon. Photon is the most feature complete but Alexandrite fills the screen better imho.
Mobile apps, Sync and Boost.
I am on iOS and I use Liftoff. I actually don’t particularly like the looks of it but it is the ONLY app that can do swipe right anywhere to go back.
It is also the only app which allows for a very large text size span. Most apps just have ultra tiny text on the largest settings and that is just unusable on a mini phone.
There are lots and lots of apps but almost all of them fail on the basics.
i use wefwef/voyager and thunder
I like Eternity very much
I really like Photon so far, but I had to tweak the Dark Reader settings a little, as the default look was way to high contrast for me.
Disable dark reader on sites that already support dark theme, as it ruins the colors.
My point is that the Photon's dark theme is too dark for me, and I'm making it less dark
I bounce between Eternity and Jerboa. Both are really great and I'm happy to see progress being made on them. It's nice to have options!
I'm accessing via kbin through Firefox, with a shortcut 'installed' through the Firefox feature on Android. Started on Kbin, the UI wasn't terrible and didn't change