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I switched to Liftoff from Jerboa.
There are a few features that either don't exist or I haven't found (jump to next comments thread), but it's worked really well overall.
For context, I use Relay when I'm on Reddit
Check out Thunder! It's my favorite Lemmy app so far coming from Relay. Similar to Jerboa but a lot smoother in my experience.
I couldnt figure out how to post pictures with that app and there were a few bugs, but then again, it's Lemmy.
It's my favorite of the options so far, I wish I wouldn't default to lemmy.world, but that may be pilot error..
There are a few default instances in the settings page, and you can add your own as well.
Yeah, I think you can change the default page in settings.
I'm on Jerboa for the moment, it gets the job done, was more intuitive for me than Liftoff. With that said I will 100% be switching to Boost when it's available.
Truthfully, it was my least favorite of all of the Lemmy apps. I didn't like it's user interface. Was it recently updated?
I tried liftoff a few hours ago and same. Didn't mind jerboa, but connect just clicked with me.. I think because the flow is extremely similar to boost.
I couldn't shake the same feeling I get when using discord when using liftoff. Just no.
To each their own. That's why there are options.
It immediately replaced connect for me. Absolutely incredible. I think I'll have to pick around for some actual feedback, but that's a damn good sign so early.
Love the layout, organization and it's immediately captured my entire Lemmy usage.
The UI is a little too cluttered and messy for my liking but it's a solid app! Love FOSS software
I tried about five different android apps and LiftOff was the one I picked. Looks the best, runs smooth, nice interface, fast with updates. Love it.
Liftoff is what I've settled on, so far. I've found it to have the best performance of all the Android options.
I think it's much better now than it was. You can block a community without opening a post. The community and OP are listed at the top. All fonts seen to be customizable. My only current issue is the color around the cards - it's gray and if you're in dark mode it's not as obvious where one end and the next begins. I would like to see color options for that and/or color options for headings. I could switch from Jerboa if they add that.
I'm not a fan of the bottom navigation. Needlessly takes up space.
CONNECT for me.
Liftoff feels like a love letter to Relay for Reddit. It's just missing a quick toggle to move thumbnails to the left or right in compact view.
Props for referencing the NoPoop meme in the settings too 🤣
I'm not a fan. It's laid out weird, like a Apple app or something. I just couldn't get used to it.
Connect and Jerboa are the two I'm trying to decide between now.
I'm using it on Linux (Manjaro) I liked it that the dev brought it to Linux world.
So far liftoff has been my favorite and I love the ability to have multiple accounts logged in at once and the ease of browsing from different instances. The UI is nice and clear and it's my favorite from the ones I've tried. I still wanna try boost out!
Coming from the Reddit is Fun app, I tried Jerboa first, thought it was fine, then tried Liftoff and it feels a lot better to me so far. But I'm still new to this universe, so I might try other apps and change my mind! Loving the diversity so far at least!
I'm also a RIF refugee. Liftoff is the first app I've tried for Lemmy. Overall I'm pretty happy. The updates get better and better. I'm still leaning how to Lemmy, but I really like it so far. One of the few things throwing me off at the moment is that I either can't or don't know how to easily tell what posts I've already seen. RIF would change the color of the text from white to blue. If they can add that then I'll have nothing to complain about.
I'd love options to disable the Tap to Hide feature, and have Make Text Selectable always on.
This is currently my daily driver. Awesome work!
It'll be a little confusing to have both lift off and boost as rocket themed Lemmy apps, but I guess it can't be helped
as a former boost user, i came here for the rocket
I don't think it will be an issue since they both have very different designs in their logos
It's my go-to for random lemmy browsing. If I want to read interesting and/or thoughtful stuff I log in to my home instance where I'm subscribed to all my favourite content, but if I feel like mindlessly scrolling some memes and go where the internet mainstream goes, I use liftoff. Good interface, good speed.
I'm using Liftoff until Boost (formerly Boost for Reddit) releases their app. Boost was an amazing experience on Reddit so I have to imagine it'll be equally good with Lemmy. So far Liftoff has been very good though. No real complaints but would love to see more customization options in the future.
The main issue I'm having with liftoff is that I cannot upvote or comment posts from other instances with my lemmy.ml account, so I'm still using jerboa
I like it a lot. I tried Connect but it feels clunky, LiftOff feels more refined.
As a reader it's vastly better than Jeroba but the notifications are hidden in a very awkward way and I haven't seen access to the mod tools yet or figured out how to search for new communities.
I'm using it right now. I'm torn between it and Thunder. They've both made lots of improvements in the last couple weeks.
I was going to say that I loved it, but right now it's no longer showing me posts on my subscribed account on lemmy.world.
So I'm currently on my backup app, voyager.
Its decent but I would like an option to hide the bottom navigation bar
Does it / will it have mod tools available? The only way I've found so far to access the mod inbox, pin threads etc is through the Lemmy website
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