So, I was lurking using sync for Lemmy and I came upon this post.
What happened to the development with these apps? I’m not that active on lemdro.id or other instances. But apps like Sync and Boost have been updated in a year or 6 months respectively. With Boost I’m not surprised Mayo tends to be slow. I was more shocked with sync. My question is do you guys have any recommendations for other Lemmy clients?
Edit Please do not harass the devs.
Edit 2: I’m testing out thunderbird.
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I miss Liftoff
Never heard about it. What was so go about that client?
It was the app most like reddit if fun (rif). I liked it. To me it was the most intuitive layout.
I started with liftoff then moved to connect. Has all the stuff I was used to with RIF.
Definitely thunder. I’ve been using it since it was in early alpha and it has improved so much and works really really well.
No Lemmy 1.0 preparation commits, though.
Too many clients for too few users…
Not sure, I’ve been using Interstellar with Mbin and it’s been pretty great. Would recommend, responsive dev, works well, supports multiple platforms!
Eternity
I really liked Sync. It worked really well on my old phone, and I would gladly pay for it, but I’m so averse to ads that I can’t in good conscience support an app that
Sync was almost always like this - the Dev takes long breaks and then updates the app with lots of good stuff. He did this since reddit days, so I’m really not concerned
He probably has a day job
And family stuff, probably. Totally understandable.
Not when you charge monthly subscription fees, your app no longer fully supports the platform, and you haven’t pushed a single change in 12 months.
It’s acceptable to have 2 of the above issues, but not all 3 at once.
Wait I thought it was a €20 purchase, now it’s €2 a month, €19 a year or €110 for lifetime? That’s steep
Ok il look into it. But f droid has been funky for a few months now.
You can also get it from the Play Store, or directly from GitHub via Obtainium
I use Thunder too, I like it. But you accidentally added a space in the first hyperlink, so it’s not rendered correctly.
We are working in getting it in F-Droid!
I’m using Connect and it’s fine. The dev sometimes pushes updates that break things but the patches come quick enough.
Also a satisfied Connect user here.
There are dozens of us
It’s an extremely familiar app experience as a very long time Redditor. The app works great.
Raccoon is also nice.
Eternity is the best
I enjoy eternity as well, but its also been a while since any updates were published.
As long as it works, I don’t see a problem not receiving updates so often
Agree. It works well, but in the context of the original meme, not getting updates is a risk to Lemmy api breaking changes breaking the app. There’s also a few annoying theming issues with eternity. For a free app its good, but leaves something wanting compared to some of the other apps. Even if it has the better UI.
I created this post because I didn’t realize lemmy was being updated so often. So there’s a good chance eternity might be missing some features as well.
However I’m happy with eternity
Hasn’t development slowed to a crawl?
I am using eternity to post this btw. Was using liftoff before until it broke and will continue with eternity.
Me To!
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A lack of updates doesn’t necessarily mean they’re inactive unless there are new features they need to work with or bugs they need to fix.
Boost works fine
Left Sync for it, temporarily, until Sync is back to updating. It’s been like this back in the Reddit years too.
I remember boost taking it’s sweet time. But sync always updated more regularly.
ljdawson was always gone for months back in the day. A year is a long time, but I’m not that surprised. The only reason it’s a problem is because, unlike Reddit, Lemmy isn’t really stable.
Both Sync and Boost are stable apps, so to speak. But it is a problem when the site itself gets a lot of stuff updated. The app devs need to sort their schedule out tbh.
