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?
You must log in or # to comment.
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’m very happy Boost is out now. I’ve been worried the Lemmy version wouldn’t be released before the mod workaround for reddit stopped working.
Now I can abandon reddit.
On mobile it’s Voyager. On desktop it’s the default Lemmy UI with the
darkly-compacttheme. 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’sline-heightis too small and videos/GIFs stretched too much:.post-listing { line-height: 1.5 !important; } video { width: 25vw !important; }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.
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 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.
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?
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?
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!
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
I tried many but since Boost came out it has been a game changer.
I really liked Mlmym (the port of the classic Reddit front-end). Unfortunately its main mirror (http://mlmym.org) has disappeared
If you used Infinity for Reddit, then Eternity for Lemmy is right for you. That’s what I use.
For me there are two big ones: Alexandrite and Photon. Photon is the most feature complete but Alexandrite fills the screen better imho.
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.
