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sorghum 104 points a year ago

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Az_1 15 points a year ago

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end0fline 15 points a year ago

At least in iOS, it reminds me a lot of what used to be the Apollo app for Reddit. Voyager is fantastic and currently includes working, but limited Piefed compatibility.

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ordnance_qf_17_pounder 11 points a year ago

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SlurpingPus 3 points a year ago

For me it reminds more of some rather spartan apps that are economic with their interface — namely RedReader for Reddit. No fluff in the UI. Which is why I like both these apps, however Voyager would be better if it was implemented natively instead of in React or whatever it uses.

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SlurpingPus 8 points a year ago

There's a problem that it seems to use a lot of memory, because it's a web browser in disguise. As a consequence, any time another app needs memory, Voyager is killed by Android and starts again from the main page, forgetting what I was doing. Oftentimes it's enough to switch to the actual browser and back again for Voyager to restart, which is ironic for a link-aggregator app.

Its animations are janky for the same reason, and get in the way of some functionality like collapsing comments.

Voyager's UI is great, mainly because it's not flashy, but a native app with that UI would be a lot better. RedReader for Reddit is much smoother to use.

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kudra 8 points a year ago

I'm quite happy with Voyager, never used anything else.

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CosmoNova 7 points a year ago

Maybe you should use something else in order to see the larger picture. It‘s hard to know what you really want when you don‘t compare.

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sem 1 point 10 months ago

I tried blorp, and voyager is much better

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otter 3 points a year ago

That says more than you might know, respectfully.

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Az_1 1 point 10 months ago

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SlurpingPus 1 point 10 months ago

That's understandable, but the result is what it is. Plus, native apps seem to have built-in remedy for being kicked out of the memory, in that the stack of activities is remembered and the input is kept, so after a brief loading screen I'm back to where I was and can back out through the previous screens too. Voyager should probably explicitly implement something like this.

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CosmoNova 4 points a year ago

How do I enable seeing downvotes weighted against upvotes in it? It doesn‘t do it on iOS on default which is weird.

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sorghum 7 points a year ago

Settings > Appearance > Other > Display votes

I prefer seperate

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CosmoNova 2 points a year ago

Thank you!

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Realspecialguy 3 points a year ago

Nah hands up definitely

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bonenode 2 points a year ago

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sorghum 2 points a year ago

Yeah, the one that gives a great deal of ways to customize sharing of links for those that aren't already using Lemmy Redirect.

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bonenode 1 point a year ago

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sorghum 1 point a year ago

It is related to how sharing links is handled especially in the Fediverse where anything could be on a different server and who you are sending it to could likely be on a different server. Not trying to change your mind about Voyager, but that's the reason why it is the way it is. It was really aggravating in the early days of the 3rd party app rexodus when opening a link would instead open a web link to said server in a browser instead of in app if you wanted to interact.

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RaoulDuke25 1 point a year ago

Only issue, is sometimes the feed is blank if you refresh. It comes back if you wait a few minutes, but can get annoying.

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ZebraGoose 37 points a year ago

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Blaze 17 points a year ago

Seconding Summit, it's a good one

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ininewcrow 15 points a year ago

Third for Summit

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PhobosAnomaly 16 points a year ago

Fourth for Summit.

Say what you like, Summit Squad are nothing if not dedicated.

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anon6789 10 points a year ago

Summit is peak!

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calamitycastle 8 points a year ago

I replaced Sync which is what I used for Reddit, for Summit. No issues at all and actively developed, unlike Sync. It's clearly taken a lot of inspiration from Sync's feature set and I am very happy with it.

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Sunshine 5 points a year ago

That's the client I use alongside Mlem.

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ArrrborDAY 3 points 10 months ago

Summit is the best I've found that includes piefed integration.

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SolarPunker 32 points a year ago

Thunder. The only one which is FLOSS, on F-Droid, updated, and actually good.

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wowwoweowza 25 points a year ago

I’m using Voyager — I’m a very superficial user but it gets the job done.

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Blaze 21 points a year ago

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mbirth 20 points a year ago

Mlem - replaced Voyager for me.

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Az_1 11 points a year ago

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garretble 6 points a year ago

I’m trying this app out now based on your comment, and so far it seems really nice. I may replace Voyager with it as well.

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CosmoNova 1 point a year ago

Same thing I asked about Voyager: How do I enable seeing downvotes weighted against upvotes? It‘s a dealbreaker if I can‘t.

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mbirth 1 point a year ago

Settings --> Posts --> Interaction Bar

Then remove the combined up/down thingy and add the separate up and down chips. They show separate numbers.

Then do the same thing under Settings --> Comments --> Interaction Bar.

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Unforeseen 16 points a year ago

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Akasazh 3 points a year ago

Seconded. Tried others but keep coming back to connect.

It's not the flashiest, but has the best options for me

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aarch0x40 14 points a year ago

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Hominine 4 points a year ago

+1 for Blorp, moved there from Voyager after seeing active development.

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moseschrute 10 points a year ago

Blorp dev here. Thanks for the support! Not only is the app actively maintained, but I do my best to lurk in the comments and help people with any issues.

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lorski 5 points a year ago

You are doing a great job, thx!

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MyMindIsLikeAnOcean 4 points a year ago

Thanks a ton. I was really struggling with the transition when using a few of the above mentioned apps…before I settled on Blorp.

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CosmoNova 4 points a year ago

Is it possible to show downvotes? I wonder why so few apps have it.

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moseschrute 3 points a year ago

On web/desktop you can hover over the score. I can add an option to show downvotes by default.

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dil 3 points a year ago

Out of my current apps, only voyager has it for posts and comments at all times and kinda thunder (for posts when clicked on) But it could be in the settings for more and I haven't checked.

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aarch0x40 3 points a year ago

Oh, I forgot to mention the desktop app!!

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sem 2 points 10 months ago

Is it possible to move profile button down to the bottom?

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srasmus 11 points a year ago

May be unpopular, but I haven't found anything that works better than jerboa. It's maintained by the Lemmy devs. It's simple, open source, customizable.

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MedicPigBabySaver 11 points a year ago

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Az_1 4 points a year ago

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MedicPigBabySaver 3 points a year ago

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Steve 3 points a year ago

The current Lemmy version is very customizable. I think it has seven basic types of views, which are further customizable how you like. You can kinda make it look like whatever you want.

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MedicPigBabySaver 2 points a year ago

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olafurp 1 point a year ago

I've been using boost for the past year, and I just switched to Summit last week. Recommend trying it out.

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MedicPigBabySaver 2 points a year ago

Why? Be specific?

Boost has anything I can think of and it's a one man show. I like to support him.

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olafurp 2 points 10 months ago

There are around 10% more settings. I really like the ones "Automatically save drafts" and "Separate up and down votes"

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MedicPigBabySaver 2 points 10 months ago

I'm taking a look.

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MedicPigBabySaver 1 point 10 months ago

I tried it for 2 days. Has some interesting features.

However, I definitely prefer being able to control the color spectrum of the fonts in the Title, Comments and Instance.

Makes the flow much easier to identify each section. And the colors I use are less stress on the eyes.

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ripcord 0 points a year ago

Apparently I can't have separate up/downvote counts and that vexes me

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MedicPigBabySaver 1 point a year ago

I found it: "Detailed View".

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MedicPigBabySaver 1 point a year ago

If that count bothers you, I suggest you stop giving a fuck about "vote" counts. They're utterly meaningless in Lemmy/ Fediverse.

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MedicPigBabySaver 1 point a year ago

So, where exactly in the Summit app can you have the setting to show BOTH up/down votes?

I can't find it.

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xcel 11 points a year ago

I use Raccoon. It's on Fdroid. Pretty neat UI :)

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voracread 5 points a year ago

What is happening with Raccoon? There is no update in a long while now.

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xcel 2 points 10 months ago

hmm I didn't realise, but nothing is broken for now, nor I'm missing any fratures. Perhaps the dev hasn't thought of anything new to add

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voracread 2 points 10 months ago

When I started using Raccoon there was one developer who was very active and used to interact regularly. After he burned out it has been almost abandoned like. It is still working. One developer said something like upcoming changes to Lemmy needing too much work to implement.

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southsamurai 9 points a year ago

Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.

Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn't a slight against any of them.

Eternity is another one that I've had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that's a useful option.

Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren't likely to enjoy that ui.

On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren't great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.

The sync visual that's sync

I was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all

boost boost

eternity eternity

connect connect

interstellar and interstellar since it does piefed better than anything else I've tried, and still does lemmy just fine.

Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual

thunder thunder

summit annnd summit

As you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they're even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They're reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.

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pr06lefs 9 points a year ago

I use Jerboa, is fine. Haven't tried anything else so don't know what I might be missing.

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Dozzi92 3 points a year ago

I also am part of the "I downloaded jerboa first and it's good enough" crew.

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scytale 9 points a year ago

Thunder is cross-platform, and IMO has one of the best looking UIs.

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Diddlydee 9 points a year ago

I tried a few and stuck with Eternity.

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Lonewolfmcquade 1 point a year ago

I'm eagerly awaiting an update to Eternity. It was the best! For now I'm using Connect

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joshg253 8 points a year ago

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a_person 8 points a year ago

Blorp has been amazing for me, thats what I am using rn.

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lorski 3 points a year ago

2nd blorp!

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pineapplelover 8 points a year ago

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alsaaas 3 points a year ago

Used to be my main and fav client (after Jerboa), but it hasn't been updated in a year and Summit is just plain better and almost as customisable

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pineapplelover 2 points a year ago

I'm so used to this UI, don't wanna leave it. Hasn't given me any issues

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Munkisquisher 6 points a year ago

Connect is good for me, don't know what the situation with the dev is though, seems like development might have stopped

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kuro_neko 9 points a year ago

I'm still here and actively developing :) all the latest updates are on beta while I polish things up. Glad you're liking Connect. Cheers!

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Munkisquisher 3 points a year ago

Awesome to hear that! I've only half been paying attention to the Connect channel

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atrielienz 6 points a year ago

I use Voyager (and boost, and sync before that). I like Voyager (now that I'm used to it), but I wish the medium sized thumbnails in compact mode were slightly larger.

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OpenStars 3 points a year ago

I think there's a way to make that happen. Sorry I don't use apps, I just played around with it in the past, but I recall not liking it until someone told me how to make the images larger - buried VERY deep in the customizations somewhere - and then afterwards it became my favorite app (except I don't actually use apps, but IF I did, it would be Voyager. Or Thunder. And with full sized images that don't cut parts out.)

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atrielienz 2 points a year ago

I'll mess with it one day. Just gotta remember to poke around with it.

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Kolanaki 5 points a year ago

I main Connect since LiftOff died and Jerboa has been breaking more and more.

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spicehoarder 5 points a year ago

I guess I'm the only one here actively using Boost. I like it. Been using it since long before it was a Lemmy client, haha!

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RisingSwell 2 points a year ago

Using boost, it's fairly reliable and I enjoy it.

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lazynooblet 2 points a year ago

I use boost. I find sometimes videos don't show but other than that it's been good.

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defaultusername 4 points a year ago

Eternity hasn't been updated in a while, but it still works great.

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Cavemanfreak 4 points a year ago

I've tried Jerboa, then Sync, then Summit, and now I'm using Thunder. There were always small things that annoyed me enough to start looking for a new client after a few months, but I've had this for... a year or so now? It's very customizable, so that's nice.

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njm1314 3 points a year ago

I like Connect its the most customizable. Boost is my backup.

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Unfold1127 3 points 10 months ago

Blorp! 

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Konstant 1 point 10 months ago

Blorp is slow for me. I click something and it takes almost a second to react.

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moseschrute 1 point 10 months ago

Anything specific or just everything? Admittedly, I don’t spend enough time testing Blorp on older phones.

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Konstant 1 point 10 months ago

It's when opening a post to see the comments, going back to main feed, etc. It's not snappy. The phone is a Samsung (not premium), and is like 4-5 years old.

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moseschrute 1 point 10 months ago

Is it worse on posts with more comment? What happens if you open a post with 0 comments?

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RymrgandsDaughter 3 points a year ago

been using boost no complaints

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boonhet 3 points 10 months ago

Apollo for reddit was considered one of the best apps. Unfortunately, it was iOS-only.

Voyager for Lemmy is pretty much a clone of it and it also runs on Android. It's also a progressive web app so you don't have to download the app off the store if you don't want to - you can just go to vger.app on your phone and either browse it like that, or install the PWA (basically creates a separate browser profile and everything so it feels like an app, but really you're using the website, with some of the files living on your phone). If you really wanted to, you could even run it on a desktop browser (or as a PWA on desktop), but it's really meant for touchscreens, not mouse and keyboard usage.

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frog 3 points 10 months ago

Oh that's crazy! I had no idea it was a PWA. Im using Voyager downloaded from f-droid but it's fun to hear that the core of this is a web app

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Doorknob 1 point 10 months ago

Yeah hey. It does not feel like a web app at all, never would've guessed!

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1984 2 points a year ago

Sync or Boost.

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CosmoNova 2 points a year ago

Still using Memmy even though it‘s a broken pile of rust now. The UI is still the best for me.

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Crozekiel 2 points 10 months ago

I've mostly been using https://alexandrite.app/ on both PC and mobile. I have Jerboa installed as well as back-up but only occasionally use it.

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dil 2 points a year ago

Thunder for general browsing, voyager when thunder doesn't work for something. Like no dms in thunder, so I'll swap to voyager for that. I just like the look and feel of thunder.

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Nemo 2 points a year ago

If you liked RIF you're gonna like Jerboa.

NB: The jerboa dev is one of the lemmy devs and it works great for lemmy, but it is never gonna support piefed.

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Avicenna 1 point a year ago

I used sync for a while then once it became sort of dead tried a couple others and settled with boost. The most important factor is that it is the only Lemmy app (that I could find) that orders saved posts according to the time you saved them and not when it was created.

ps: After looking at some of the comments here I checked a couple others and jerboa also does the same

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cupcakezealot 1 point 10 months ago

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