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[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Which FOSS Lemmy app do you recommend?

[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

For android, thunder. Best one imo, great customization but idk if its my phone but scrolling is stuttery.

For iOS, i'd go with Voyager.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

They are both available for both platforms. Do they perform differently on each platform?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

For me personally, i prefer material you theme that thunder offers. Voyager has ios ui, since it follows Apollo ui.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Voyager does have an experimental Android UI that you can enable in the settings. But even though that does make it more Android-y, it is still very iOS-y.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Huh. Never knew that since i use thunder exclusively afer moving to android. Used Voyager on iOS before and it was great. Maybe ill check the experimental UI later, thanks for the heads up.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I never noticed. Even though I'm on Android I definitely prefer the Apple setting on voyager.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Voyager just feels iosy in design, and Thunder feels androidy

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I recommend thunder as well! It has all expected features and is customizable as hell in case you need something specific.

It just got a big update to 0.6.0 that the dev has been working on for a while

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Voyager is fantastic. Very much the spiritual successor to Apollo.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It's not just you, scrolling is a little stuttery for me too. And I don't like the "mark as read" animation, it takes forever to clear all the cards, I wish it was instant

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm on android and never used/had ios but I'm loving voyager and have been using it for months.

Edit: Oh, after reading the comments I tried the ios mode and it really does look different. I like the android one more.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago
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Voyager da 🐐 no 🧢

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

That is not open source

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Thunder! Voyager seems to have more features, but the one killer feature that it lacks is gesture navigation, so Thunder it is.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Damn, I was all ready to switch but I gotta have an option for columns. I downloaded it to check it out, and that's the first thing I look for.

EDIT: I found a setting. It seems it's under "Tablet Mode" though it only allows for 2 columns. I generally prefer 2 columns for my phone in portrait mode. If I was actually using a tablet, I'd go for 4+ columns.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I have a version of Thunder compiled for desktop, and it's surprisingly easy to change the number of columns for Tablet Mode. There's probably other places too, but the line I changed (from '2' to '4') is here

Screenshot:

Full-size image link: https://postimg.cc/hzsFj4rj

I realise you might not want to compile your own version, but it suggests that the developers could add 'number of columns for tablet mode' option relatively easily.

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Eternity is great too!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Connect is fine.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I liked Thunder when I used it. But I have been on Connect a lot more which is not FOSS, but I liked it better than the rest of the apps I tried when I first switched to Lemmy. Actually testing Thunder again right now, might be my go-to from now on

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