For the people coming in asking what app for Lemmy. You don't need it. Lemmy is great on a mobile browser.
For the people coming in asking what app for Lemmy. You don't need it. Lemmy is great on a mobile browser.
The only reason why we all used third party apps for Reddit, is because their app and website is abhorrent trash. It's great to have a choice, but Lemmy's website is smooth to use. I know it's mind blowing not to use a app for everything in 2023 but Lemmy just works.
Dude, most us left reddit because we loved our app. Apps are generally more refined than websites and offer better notification interaction.
It's better than reddits mobile site but native apps always win if the dev puts in an effort to make it good.
Please do not assume to know every user's needs.
Sorry but that's not true at all. Lemmy's UI feels very unfinished/amateur project like. Even the jerboa app, which is from one of the dev, improves the mobile UI experience greatly compared to just the web version.
For Mobile users buttons should usually be bigger. But e.g. the comment collapse button is very tiny and I need to concentrate to press it correctly on mobile.
Try wefwef.app. It's a web app for mobile, the UI is based on the infamous Apollo app.
I prefer apps either now just because Android is pretty bad about reloading pages when you switch back and forth between your browser.
Also once Boost for Lemmy comes out, it'll be all I need.
No, Slide for Reddit filled a different spot than old.reddit with RES. Apps can put less load on server instances, too.
I personally like using Memmy rather than the website. Although for kbin it’s ok, but only became there’s no app currently available.
personally it's more convenient if there's a mobile app, so I'm using Liftoff right now, until Sync, Artemis or Boost release 😀
But why though? What does an app get you that you can't get by pinning the site to your home screen?
Apps are more customizable. The UI also tends to be better. The web app is fine but i find trying to upvote anything closes a post i just opened. Personally, i like seeing full images of things as I scroll by. So something like a webclient isnt very convenient and rather tedious. I'm using a whole bunch pf userscripts on my desktop to improve the pc experience, apps generally do that for me on android.
In the end, it's user preference. I prefer Jerboa, Liftoff, and Thunder atm.
notifications, and also that it doesn't show up in the app drawer on android (I only keep 5 icons on my homescreen in my setup)
Collapsing comments, better looks, multiple users
Way better ui that's faster and more responsive are the main ones that immediately come to mind. In theory those could be fixed on a web ui but it's unlikely, given how far ahead jerboa is already
Was actually disappointed with the lemmy experience till I tried wefwef.
The mobile browser website is an absolute hot mess on my phone right now. (Firefox on Android)
I'm using Connnect at the moment and it's like I haven't even left Reddit
Not everybody is the same. I use it and like it way more on wefwef, witch is a perfect Apollo replacement
Because on my phone, using Firefox, the mobile experience isn't too great. It's slow, sometimes the screen just blanks out and I need to reload, and sometimes it rapid-fires new posts on the top of the page which makes it impossible to click anything
Agreed, I'm very happy with the mobile version of the website. I keep trying the apps which are admittedly in early development and then switching back to my regular browser.
Wefwef is better
In Firefox, visit https://wefwef.app , then hit settings and choose install. Poof, it's amazing.
Sure, Lemmy's mobile website is great if you compare it to the atrocity that is the Reddit mobile website, which is really just an ugly and annoying advertisement for their app. But having a dedicated app for something I use a lot is nice.
It's sad in a way, but I've put Connect into the spot where BaconReader used to be.
Connect dev here. Glad to hear you're liking it. I uninstalled my Reddit apps yesterday as well and it was a very sad moment.
Same, but with a browser link for kbin here. Felt like the end of an age.
How about letting people be excited for things? Don't use the app if you don't want to.
It is more awesome with this UI
100% agree on this. Wefwef has really helped me grasp how Lemmy works. So impressive for a web app. Incidentally this is my 1st Lemmy post!
Tangentially, does anyone know why we stopped having cool words for different kinds of software? We used to have daemons and wizards. Now everything's an app, and it's lame.
Poorer vocabulary results in a cruder world model. Both a cause and effect of general decline of mental facilities.
Commenting from Kbin on Firefox, where I have to rotate my phone to landscape orientation to read full comments. If I keep it in portrait, some comments will randomly run off the side of my view, and zooming out doesn't help.
It's not perfect. I'm very much hanging in there until some sort of upgrade comes along. Lemmy.world has been unable to get me signed in, so there's that.
Did you purposely make your comment long to serve as an example? Because it runs right off the side of my screen lol
Ha! I wasn't trying for that outcome, but it sure worked! Even for me reading my own comment, it runs off the screen
Hmm that's weird, I use the kbin site in Firefox on my pixel 5 and haven't had this happen anywhere
Same here on a lower end Samsung, it's fine. IMHO I also think if people flock to apps for just a UI, it can take away some of the motivation to improve a site.
