I’m using Voyager — I’m a very superficial user but it gets the job done.
Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.
Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn't a slight against any of them.
Eternity is another one that I've had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that's a useful option.
Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren't likely to enjoy that ui.
On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren't great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.
that's sync
I was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all
boost
eternity
connect
and interstellar since it does piefed better than anything else I've tried, and still does lemmy just fine.
Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual
thunder
annnd summit
As you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they're even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They're reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.
Apollo for reddit was considered one of the best apps. Unfortunately, it was iOS-only.
Voyager for Lemmy is pretty much a clone of it and it also runs on Android. It's also a progressive web app so you don't have to download the app off the store if you don't want to - you can just go to vger.app on your phone and either browse it like that, or install the PWA (basically creates a separate browser profile and everything so it feels like an app, but really you're using the website, with some of the files living on your phone). If you really wanted to, you could even run it on a desktop browser (or as a PWA on desktop), but it's really meant for touchscreens, not mouse and keyboard usage.
Oh that's crazy! I had no idea it was a PWA. Im using Voyager downloaded from f-droid but it's fun to hear that the core of this is a web app
Yeah hey. It does not feel like a web app at all, never would've guessed!
Blorp!
Bloop is slow for me. I click something and it takes almost a second to react.
Anything specific or just everything? Admittedly, I don’t spend enough time testing Blorp on older phones.
It's when opening a post to see the comments, going back to main feed, etc. It's not snappy. The phone is a Samsung (not premium), and is like 4-5 years old.
Is it worse on posts with more comment? What happens if you open a post with 0 comments?
The same. With comments or not.
This might be tricky then. I’ll do some poking around and see if there are any obvious performance improvements I can make. But no promises
Well, since you're available, I'd like to tell you about another thing that annoys me a bit. Which is when I reopen the app after it has been in standby, it automaticaly refreshes the feed after a few seconds once. Which results in it refreshing while I'm already in the middle of watching the "old" feed content. Does this not happen to you?
Would be great an option to let it refresh feed automatically or not after reopening the app.
I think what’s happening is the app is refreshing in the background, and it’s not smart enough to tell the difference between initial launch and background refresh. I would either have to think of a solution to tell the difference, or have a toggle to disable automatic refresh entirely, so you always have to pull to refresh. But even I solved the refresh issue, I think it will still throw you to the top of the feed :/
been using boost no complaints
I've mostly been using https://alexandrite.app/ on both PC and mobile. I have Jerboa installed as well as back-up but only occasionally use it.
!boostforlemmy@lemmy.world :) it also has piefed support!
I like Connect its the most customizable. Boost is my backup.
Thunder for general browsing, voyager when thunder doesn't work for something. Like no dms in thunder, so I'll swap to voyager for that. I just like the look and feel of thunder.
I used sync for a while then once it became sort of dead tried a couple others and settled with boost. The most important factor is that it is the only Lemmy app (that I could find) that orders saved posts according to the time you saved them and not when it was created.
ps: After looking at some of the comments here I checked a couple others and jerboa also does the same
Still using Memmy even though it‘s a broken pile of rust now. The UI is still the best for me.
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