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While the apps we have now are really great, I think that number will go back up a bit once boost and sync for Lemmy are released.
I find myself missing so many features I would consider super basic from Boost. Things that would make my Lemmy experience so much better. Even if the apps we have now do those things, they feel clunky and not as good.
Even features aside, the UI makes a huge difference. There are a few Reddit apps I personally couldn't get into, because of font sizes, spacing, contrast, etc. I'm feeling the same way with Lemmy. I'm tolerating the app I currently use, only because I know Boost is on the way.
Yeah, same here with Infinity
It was my app of choice and I got so use to it, whenever I go back to it every once and a while, I just remember everything I miss since switching to jerboa
Biggest one is definitely the smoothness, idk y but jerboa has a subtly noticable stutter every time I swipe around the feeds, whereas Infinity is completely smooth, running at 90hz flawlessly
And there's alot of other small QoL and rough-around-the-edges things, too
The minute that Infinity for Lemmy comes out, if at all, is the minute that I return to my home app
Honestly I'm liking Liftoff more than I liked Infinity. Maybe you could try that.
I used connect for a while, it was ok, then liftoff, it was a little better, but I've been using voyager as of late and it's been really nice.
Honestly really wasn't a big fan of the look and functionality back when I first tried it, but it looks like it got updated recently with some more customization and theming options
Closer to Infinity but still I miss it
It also still has the weird scrolling stutter, but overall does seem more polished than jerboa
Thanks for the recommendation!
Connect is also quite clunky.
As you say it QoL stuff, like highlighting text is difficult, and not all markdown functions are supposed.
If you haven't tried it (or have but not recently), Thunder is getting better by leaps and bounds week over week - highly recommend checking it out! I'm still really excited for Boost but I think as Thunder continues to mature it will likely be my daily driver. Great that it's open source, too!
I use thunder and for the most part, it's great. I would love to be able to delete comments and copy text from other comments without needing to open a reply window, though. I think this functionality would fit perfectly as a long-press menu.
Also, sometimes on posts with lots of comments, not all of the comments will load, and there is no easy way to force the app to refresh.
I believe deleting comments is either getting implemented or refreshed in the upcoming release! If you're comfortable running nightly builds from GitHub they're usually quite stable (probably because they're not really nightly, hahah). If you don't mind filing bug reports/feature requests on GitHub, I'm sure the team can take a look at the other issues!