What's your favorite Lemmy frontend/UI?

3 years ago by HiramFromTheChi to c/asklemmy

I'm finding that I like bits and pieces from the various available frontends, but I haven't heavily gravitated towards one in particular.

If you have gravitated towards a specific UI, which one and why?

JWBananas 34 points 3 years ago

Sync for days

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tacosplease 3 points 3 years ago

Used Sync at the other place with Boost as the primary backup. Doing the same here plus keeping Jerboa around.

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AlmightySnoo 21 points 3 years ago

On mobile it's Voyager. On desktop it's the default Lemmy UI with the darkly-compact theme. The latter definitely feels like a modern old.reddit.

I'm also using these CSS overrides (using the Stylus extension on Firefox) as darkly-compact's line-height is too small and videos/GIFs stretched too much:

.post-listing {
    line-height: 1.5 !important;
}

video {
    width: 25vw !important;
}
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Hominine 20 points 3 years ago

I just got back into Lemmy and Alexandrite is nice. Boost just launched in beta on Android and seems solid and pretty to boot.

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digi7alph0enix 11 points 3 years ago

I'm very happy Boost is out now. I've been worried the Lemmy version wouldn't be released before the mod workaround for reddit stopped working.

Now I can abandon reddit.

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chase 3 points 3 years ago

Mod workaround?

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digi7alph0enix 4 points 3 years ago

If you're the mod of any subreddit, including one you create and set to private from the web interface of reddit, your account is allowed full use of the API even with 3rd party apps.

Everything mostly works as normal besides a couple bugs from an antiquated app/reddit trying to break things. Single images can't be posted but multiple at the same time can, something to do with the integration with the image hosts. NSFW and the bulk of the app work like before though.

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chase 3 points 3 years ago

😮 Wow, I had no idea. Thanks!

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digi7alph0enix 1 point 3 years ago
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Nemo 1 point 3 years ago

What's the mod workaround?

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digi7alph0enix 2 points 3 years ago

If you're the mod of any subreddit, including one you create and set to private from the web interface of reddit, your account is allowed full use of the API even with 3rd party apps.

Everything mostly works as normal besides a couple bugs from an antiquated app/reddit trying to break things. Single images can't be posted but multiple at the same time can, something to do with the integration with the image hosts. NSFW and the bulk of the app work like before though.

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d4rko 1 point 3 years ago

So if I create a sub and set it private can I use Relay without paying for a subscription?

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ShittyBeatlesFCPres 19 points 3 years ago

I’ve settled on Memmy (which I think is iOS only). I like that it’s pretty true — maybe 100% true — to the Lemmy web app’s features but with more of a designer’s eye, I guess. Just a lil’ polish. Not trying to be something the backend isn’t ready for.

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skeezix 12 points 3 years ago

Memmy is very buggy and crashes a lot. It was a strong contender 2 months ago. But the developer, by his own admission, can’t be arsed to update it in a timely fashion. In the intervening weeks strong contenders for iOS have arisen. I think Lemma is the most promising, although it’s available via TestFlight at the moment.

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Bitrot 5 points 3 years ago

I've been very happy with Memmy but noticed the updates have gone way down. It's unfortunate they've lost some interest.

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Prking 2 points 3 years ago

Basically they are rewriting it as they say they didn’t really know how to use the tools when they did v1. Which is why it’s an acquired taste.

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Slopz 16 points 3 years ago

Boost. Always has been, always will be.

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cerevant 15 points 3 years ago path: 0 3984538, hotness: undefined, score: 15, children: 1
hiramfromthechi 11 points 3 years ago

Photon's so clean. From a pure design perspective, it might be my favorite.

But after trying Alexandrite, I started missing the paneling. It seems really easy to lose your location on Photon since you gotta click into everything.

Haven't decided between Photon's nicer UI vs. Alexandrite's more convenient UX.

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reversebananimals 12 points 3 years ago

old.lemmy.world

I refuse to change

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PatFussy 5 points 3 years ago

I didnt know this existed, thanks

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Geert 4 points 3 years ago path: 0 3987618 3988423 3990853, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
scytale 9 points 3 years ago

Alexandrite on desktop. Thunder and Liftoff for mobile because they do not look like a clone of Apollo that all the other apps seem to try to emulate.

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hiramfromthechi 2 points 3 years ago

Haven't tried Liftoff, but Thunder's really clean. Just needs more features. In due time.

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sock 1 point 3 years ago

yeah are we the only ones that think apollo is clunky and gross and everyone emulating it is the same?

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Kolanaki 9 points 3 years ago

I like Liftoff.

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MrMusAddict 8 points 3 years ago

I'm still rocking Jerboa on Android. It has been totally inoffensive, and I'll probably just stick with it until it offends me somehow.

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Kase 1 point 3 years ago

Lmao same. A couple months ago it would crash sometimes (which might have been an issue with me or my device), but not anymore. I haven't tried anything else, but jeroba has served me well so far 乁⁠(⁠ ⁠•⁠_⁠•⁠ ⁠)⁠ㄏ

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Psythik 7 points 3 years ago

Voyager and lemm.ee for me.

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smort 1 point 3 years ago

I like Voyager. But the last week or so, it’s been saying update available. I go to the settings and tell it to update. The app kinda flashes and restarts, and then within a minute it says update available again.

Has anyone else has this happen?

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silencer 7 points 3 years ago

If you used Infinity for Reddit, then Eternity for Lemmy is right for you. That's what I use.

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chase 7 points 3 years ago

I’m enjoying Mlem for iOS. Quite a few display options and customizations, and runs smoothly. I haven’t totally decided on it yet though, as I am still testing quite a few.

Edit: This post got me to try out some of the apps again, and I think I may actually use Avelon on iOS for now. Seems to be closer to Apollo, which I enjoy.

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CarlosCheddar 2 points 3 years ago

Check out Voyager too. I’ve been using it for months and it’s almost 1 to 1 Apollo.

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Pat_Riot 5 points 3 years ago

If you aren't dead set on running FOSS only Boost is a slick running app on Android. Good filtering features and blocking. Everything loads clean and fast. The unpaid version has ads but they are unobtrusive. I barely notice them.

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Geert 1 point 3 years ago

I like that Boost has the option to block instances.

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can 1 point 3 years ago

Blocking instances from showing posts in your feed is coming to lemmy officially next update.

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maegul 5 points 3 years ago

Alexandrite on desktop.

Switches up the doom scrolling feel of mobile and makes it feel more like a tool you can use to consume and interact with people and posts. Big part of that is desktop. But alexandrite is rather nice too!

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Ward 5 points 3 years ago

Thunder

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Swyperider 4 points 3 years ago

Seconding Thunder as it is the only Android app I've found that I like the design of and doesn't lag whenever scrolling through loads of image posts.

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hactar42 4 points 3 years ago

As an avid Boost user for years, I've been using Connect because it was billed as the closest thing to Boost. However, now that Boost is out I've found myself sticking with Connect. I've just grown to love the look and feel of it.

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TopTierKnees 4 points 3 years ago

I'm the reverse. I never used Boost for Reddit (relay was my drug of choice) and started with Connect as it was billed as most similar to a lot of the 3rd party Reddit apps. Now that Boost is out I find myself looking it more. I do miss gesture voting though.

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1984 3 points 3 years ago

Mobile apps, Sync and Boost.

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Vub 3 points 3 years ago

I am on iOS and I use Liftoff. I actually don’t particularly like the looks of it but it is the ONLY app that can do swipe right anywhere to go back.

It is also the only app which allows for a very large text size span. Most apps just have ultra tiny text on the largest settings and that is just unusable on a mini phone.

There are lots and lots of apps but almost all of them fail on the basics.

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Nemo 3 points 3 years ago

Jerboa. It was billed to me as "RIF for lemmy" and that's right on the money. It lacks community browsing right now, though, I go to the web UI for that.

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ulemmyagain 6 points 3 years ago

if you want rif experience, try connect.

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MrMusAddict 4 points 3 years ago

Is community browsing different than community searching? Because Jerboa has Searching.

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Geert 3 points 3 years ago

For me there are two big ones: Alexandrite and Photon. Photon is the most feature complete but Alexandrite fills the screen better imho.

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SubArcticTundra 3 points 3 years ago

I really liked Mlmym (the port of the classic Reddit front-end). Unfortunately its main mirror (http://mlmym.org) has disappeared

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AWittyUsername 3 points 3 years ago

Started with sync, but actually prefer Boost.

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d4rko 3 points 3 years ago

I tried many but since Boost came out it has been a game changer.

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speq 2 points 3 years ago

I like Eternity very much

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pewgar_seemsimandroid 2 points 3 years ago

i use wefwef/voyager and thunder

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Krotiuz 1 point 3 years ago

I'm accessing via kbin through Firefox, with a shortcut 'installed' through the Firefox feature on Android. Started on Kbin, the UI wasn't terrible and didn't change

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droidpenguin 1 point 3 years ago

I bounce between Eternity and Jerboa. Both are really great and I'm happy to see progress being made on them. It's nice to have options!

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zhenyapav 1 point 3 years ago

I really like Photon so far, but I had to tweak the Dark Reader settings a little, as the default look was way to high contrast for me.

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Xylight 5 points 3 years ago
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zhenyapav 1 point 3 years ago

My point is that the Photon's dark theme is too dark for me, and I'm making it less dark

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