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With all these new options springing up, I'm a little outdated. What's the best app to use right now?

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[–] rancidity9480@beehaw.org 28 points 1 year ago (16 children)

I'll put my thoughts on this post as it showed up as I scrolled to get to the one from a day or two ago...I have 5 different Lemmy apps installed right now. Figure that there is going to be a lot of experimentation and work being done right now, so it's nice to see what everyone is doing.

  • Jerboa - Personally, I really like Jerboa. Being the most mature of the bunch shows. It's well laid out, has just enough UI options, and works. Except that now Beehaw isn't on v0.18.

  • Connect - Not open source at this time, I get why that matters to people, but not a deal breaker for me. Typing this comment in Connect. Just updated this morning with additional and redesigned settings. There is about a thumbs width of space between this comment box and my keyboard. That's kind of yucky.

  • Liftoff - I'm hopeful for this one. It LOOKS the best to me, but there's some weird UX issues. Biggest being that the only place to see your replies/notifications is the top of the Home feed with no quick way to get there if you've been scrolling.

  • Thunder - I can see the potential, but it's not for me right now. No buttons on comments, you have to use swipe gestures. But posts have buttons. Changing UI options doesn't actually change anything 95% of the time.

  • Summit - You want a zero frills, dark mode way of browsing and interacting? This is that. I'd love a FEW options (like light mode), but it's fast and easy. Uhh...just realized I can't find a way to make a new post...

  • Wefwef.app - Last one. Really slick looking and responsive, but too iOS-y for me. It also claims to have light mode, but I can't figure out how to switch it. Really polished though.

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I just want one that will allow me to hide a posts so I'm not scrolling past the same things over and over. None of them do it.

[–] natryamar@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On Jerboa tap once on the comment to collapse it

[–] br3d@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's a useful feature, but I think what the other person meant was posts on the front page. A lot of Reddit apps let you permanently/temporarily hide posts that you'd already seen, which was really useful as a way of 'resetting' your feed when you've already scrolled through it recently

[–] capwiz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want Jerboa to add swipe to go back from a post and then I'm set

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

They just did and its great

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