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Hi lemmings, I switched over from Reddit 10 days ago now but I couldn't find a mobile client that I was happy with with an experience similar to the Reddit experience I was used to. So I decided to build my own and I hope you will like it as well!

Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

Features:

  • Material U
  • Dark and Light themes
  • List view / Card view / Fullwidth view
  • Filter lists for hiding posts
  • Multiple accounts + switcher across multiple instances
  • Guest accounts for viewing an instance without signup
  • Search and community autofill
  • Markdown support + attempt to navigate links correctly (/u/foo will open that user instead of browser kickout. Same for /c/, !, and @)
  • Saving posts
  • full sort types
  • NSFW view options (hide, blur, show)
  • copy text and url on all posts and comments
  • add comments, replies, and new posts
  • comment replies with line indicators

Here's other screenshots:

Future plans:

  • Improving the inbox
  • Swipe actions
  • Multi-~~reddit ~~communities

Thank you for taking a look. I hope others who are migrating from Reddit like me will find the app useful and I'd love to know your thoughts!

Edit: Community for the app is here: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Nothing is showing up in my feed when signed in to lemmy.ml

Also, the Google password manager is trying to input the password into the instance text box when trying to sign in. Pixel 7 Pro.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like Infinity! looks promising

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i'm currently using this and it's great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Posting from the app. Awesome progress for only 10 days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, impressive work, in such a short time. I really like it.
Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I'm glad you like it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tried it quickly and was not well surprised. I appreciate thr approach a lot! The app is nice looking but feels too chewy. Prefer the mobile browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for making this!

My first impressions upon downloading are that I'm glad it exists but I think I'll stick to Jerboa for the time being. It looks really well made for those who are into the cards display format, however I'm personally not a fan of cards views on apps and I feel the list view isn't quite there yet.

One interesting quirk I noticed worth noting for the developer, not sure if it's a bug. I signed in with [email protected] and when I click profile it seems to display my comment history of my Kbin account by the same name. I'm not certain if the profile would display the comments and whatnot of all instances that have that name?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, you are really fast! I've been using Jerboa and the PWA, but not super happy with either. Yours look great! Will use it more and feed back to you if that's okay.

One thing I found is that it doesn't show the number of new comments. I usually sort by NewComments, and I would expect to e.g. see "49 comments (14 new)" like Jerboa/PWA.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How hard would it be to add a view to make it look more like old.reddit.com?

Not sure what the hate is about you can look at stuff multiple ways

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm trying it out on my phone. And it's functional for sure. But it doesn't go back very far on android versions. My tablet that's stuck on 10 can't access it via play store.

It's a bit garish on the dark theme, but that's not important for an early stage of things.

No bugs that I've found that aren't lemmy based rather than app based.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn that looks awesome! Did you find any good docs on the API? I only found the lemmy-js-client, which is a library, though. Wanted to do some shenanigans with Python and Lemmy, but there doesn't seem to be too much documentation...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

just a quick feedback, when being in the dark mode, the user switching remain in light mode. Also the node selection suggesting the possible nodes would be appreciated.

also, adding new accounts after the first one, doesn't seems to work.

I added my lemmy.world and it seemed to work.

anything else besides it, didn't work (tried, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc.)

overall it's a good mvp, well done, need a little more work and i would appreciate if it was a FOSS to absolutely avoid situations in which an app become the unofficial-official app but then a sudden surge of egocentrism from an individual take it away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My keyboard constantly tries to switch to caps as I type in Connect. I am using Grammarly. It will flicker the upper case layout between each key press. It's unusable as it is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, i like your app a lot! Jerboa doesnt work on my Motorola, so i installed your app. Looks very nice and works well as a first impression!

I just want to tell you good luck, we are all counting on you! :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you @[email protected]! I'm glad you like it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe bug: in list view, the width of post title and content seems to be limited to around 80% of my screen width.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hi, just wanted to make sure you saw this but that issue is now fixed. Thanks again!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sad noises...

Australia.

Thanks for putting effort into this. By far the best reddit experience I have had is with relay for reddit.

You could also check it the feature requests for jerboa for ideas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's a good idea. Added Australia to the list!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm very thankful to you! I wanted a nice app to browse lemmy and I found your app a couple of days ago! I've had a very nice experience so far

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks @[email protected]! I'm glad you're enjoying it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The screen shots look good. I'll download it and try it out. Let me know if you make a community for it so we can give back feedback on there. The more apps the merrier now that Reddit is getting rid of all them!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you, let me know what you think! I made a community here: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect

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