There seems to be many lemmy apps available. I already tried few apps though I don’t even know where to find most of the others. Instead of trying every single one of them I’d like to know if there’s anything similar to RIF. Here’s some key features of RIF:
- Simple. Mostly text and no complicated UI elements.
- Information density. I can see a list of eight posts on my screen. Again, it’s just text with no UI decorations.
- One handed browsing. As I hold my phone with right hand I can easily access both linked url and comments of a post with my right thumb (buttons on right side of the screen).
- Comment navigation. This is not as important but in larger threads it’s useful to navigate between parent comments.
If there’s nothing similar available, maybe these could be added to an existing implementation. I could even try to help as I am programmer, though I don’t know much about mobile app development.
I used RIF for years, and kind of hope the developer makes a Lemmy port to be honest. I’ve not tried many android apps yet, but Jerboa For Lemmy is pretty good so far.
Tried a few, Jerboa is sort of good but there are things you just have to figure out. Like I’m a user on my own Lemmy, and I can’t find my own instances? Does the search only search … well what actually? Also as I have my super user, another user, a user on beehaw etc (not very rational maybe) but you don’t know whith witch obe you are browsing.
Guess it’s just too, early so for now I’m sticking with Jerboa as it’s the official app.
Everything is great though, I’m just pointing out small inconveniences.
Seconded
As a former RIF addict, I found “Summit for Lemmy” a decent alternative.
I’m also coming from RIF and have found Jerboa alright after adjusting the “look and feel” settings to the more compact options. Clicking into comments requiring being more careful with where you tap is my main complaint.
Wefwef
Seconding wefwef on ios
How do you get it? Search returns nothing.
Sadly I hate that very hard forced generic iOS design. Makes the website/app look like it has no personality at all and looks low effort design-wise, because it reminds me of those 2005 websites who don’t use styles at all and it just defaults to the browser/OS styles. I like when apps have personality and carefully designed UI and controls. We are losing creativity and personality in search of this “consistency” bs, in all OSs really, makes me sad.
The developer of Sync for Reddit is working on a Lemmy port, and hopes to have early access ready in a few more days.
I’m a former RIF user. Honestly, I recommend just downloading as many as you can to see which one you like best. I did that, and I ended up liking Liftoff the most, but you may have liked RIF for different reasons than I did.
I’m using Connect for Lemmy at the moment and I used RIF for 9 years.
I switched from RiF to Jerboa easily. The small card view and dark theme is pretty much the same as I used on RiF. I don’t remember all the settings but you can customise some stuff. I did that in Rif too, so I’m not even sure what the default is in either app anymore.
There’s been a lot of bugs and crashes lately but I hope it gets better with time, but appearance wise this is as good as RiF IMO.
I’m waiting for Sync for Lemmy. I was actually pretty well settled in Squabbles, but when I heard that the dev for Sync for Reddit was making a Lemmy app, I had to jump over here and give it a shot. His design was THAT good.
I assume Sync will be my go-to, but I’m going to give Artemis a try once it’s released. Currently using Connect, I just really miss some key features like swiping and jumping to top comments.
Thunder and liftoff seem to be rapidly moving to the front of the pack.
Can Thunder post comments yet?
Jerboa in List View is almost the same as RiF as far as functionality for me.
