This is just a rant post about the shortage and quality of currently available Lemmy apps on Android… I started with Jerboa, and honestly was pleasantly surprised at its feature set. But it looks… off. I recently started using Connect. I myself (using another account) like to post content, particularly GIFs (hard G btw). Perhaps this issue is simply embedded into mobile apps for Lemmy in general, but I can see the GIFs on desktop just fine… And not on either mobile app. Keeping in mind the GIFs are hyperlinked, not attached. It all just feels sloppy.

Anyways, I can’t wait for Boost… It was the only reason I ever even got into Reddit. I hope it helps with some of these issues, although in my particular case, it may come down to how Lemmy handles gif/image links on mobile.

*Edited for grammar/spelling

  • waltuh@feddit.ukEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    I can’t get used to Liftoff. Too much bold text, font sizes are off - some text is far too big and some far too small. Spacing feels weird too. Jerboa feels better designed.

    • fish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      This is exactly why I’m still on Jerboa. Was a boost user but I’m not sure if I’ll go back to it, depends on how it turns out. Jerboa is super minimalistic and pleasing to my eyes. Plus text is large and well spaced. I’m always cranking up text size on all these apps (I’m still in my 20s I swear)

      It definitely needs some adjustments but I think it’s an app in progress and it will improve as time goes on

      • LegionElite@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I just installed this app and so far, I like it. I’m new to Lemmy… I recently ditched reddit bc of the changes they made for 3rd party apps… definitely looking forward to trying out boost for this platform.

    • numinous@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Jerboa’s definitely the one that feels like Boost the most for me right now, at least UI-wise.

      • MrAnderson@feddit.nlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Same here - I was pleasantly surprised at how similar it felt as a newcomer from Reddit to Lemmy. Sure it’s definitely buggy, but it’s version 0.18, nowhere near a 1.0 release so that was expected. Honestly I can’t get mad at that when I’m enjoying the fruits of multiple others’ labor and passion for free, when I didn’t even expect there to be a single App out there for Lemmy in the first place. Naturally I’m excited for boost to release but Jerboa feels pretty nice to me too.

    • Coelacanth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Jerboa was unstable to the point of unusability when I first started using Lemmy but I’m checking it out again now and it seems to work at least. Not quite Boost though.

      I’ve been using WefWef to tide me over but it’s not what I’m looking for and it’s missing a lot of stuff still.

      EDIT: Jerboa is still extremely unstable and in addition to crashing it suddenly thought I was not logged in while refusing to let me log in. It’s the most Boost like interface but for now I’m sticking to WefWef and also trying Liftoff.