Now that 0.19 is in testing on a couple of servers we’re faced with the reality that Liftoff is probably not going to be functional for much longer. So I’m curious what everyone’s got planned.
Personally I’ve got my eye on [email protected] which is currently under development but looks like it might be the closest to my ideal. Developer describes it thusly:
I liked the feature richness of Liftoff (e.g. the possibility to explore all the communities of an external instance), the multi-community feature of Summit and the polished UI of Thunder and I wished I could have them all in the same app.
It’s currently very promising, but also very buggy so I’m hopeful it might be in a more usable state by the time 0.19 starts majorly rolling out. We shall see. The dev put out a call for testers a couple days ago but I’m sure more wouldn’t hurt if anyone wants to give it a whirl.
I’ve tried most of the main Android options by this point, Summit gets the most use just because of multi-communities (great for sports and other happening-right-now events) but I’m really not a fan of its interface.
Boost looks nice and simple, but I find a lot of the features to be just straight-up broken.
Sync and Eternity both put me off with their looks even though they look totally different to each other!
Connect would probably be my second choice so far, but I’d still need to keep Summit around for the multi-communities which is a bit annoying.
That’s about the extent of my investigations at this point. Would love to hear which you’ve tried and what you like / dislike from the point of view of a Liftoff user. Let’s get some recommendations ironed out before everything breaks and this group is overrun with people asking why 😅
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I’m using voyager. And happy with it. Just wanted to at it to the list
Same just miss being able to sort posts
Edit: you can now sort posts
I really love Boost and haven’t noticed broken features. It was a Reddit client before, so it’s already really polished and offers, in my experience, a great UX.
The only downside I see is that it isn’t open source, but I don’t care for now.
I also used Voyager for a while and it’s really good too.
I switched to Thunder. It’s not perfect (search could use some work).
It doesn’t reload my main feed everytime I return after looking at an article, and lets me hid posts I’ve ‘read’. ¯_(ツ)_/¯. It supports amoled black themes, swipe gestures and is reasonably unobtrusive.
Also, it’s cross platform for iOS and android, and I switch back and forth on a daily basis.
Thunder has been decent in my experience as well. I just wish the icon was nicer… Not even sure what it’s supposed to be? An S? No idea
It could possibly be a lightning bolt?
I’m currently using Jerboa. It’s become much better since its launch.
Does it actually support 0.19 now? It still had login issues last I checked, two days ago
No idea, my instance is still on 0.18. But judging by the last commit 0.19 support is only partially done.
Thunder is my new favorite.
It looks like v0.19 has been released, so over the next days instances will update. So unless there’s a sudden new compatible version, we’re at the end of Liftoff!
Just to add that when an instance upgrades to v0.19 all logins are invalidated. So you’ll need to log back in. So it would be good to choose your new app before that happens.
Interestingly, Lemmy World has stayed on 0.18.5 (for the moment) which might give Liftoff! a little longer to update.
I’ll probably go back to Connect which is what I was using like a few days before Liftoff. They’re extremely similar, but I just preferred Liftoff’s UI.
I would have possibly gone with Boost; but I’d rather not have ads and since there are plenty of free, adless alternatives I’m not paying for ad-free Boost.
Liftoff was the closest thing I could find to reddit is fun, in terms of muscle memory, hopefully I find a replacement
Eternity felt right to me
Currently have six apps installed and periodically jump between them. But for some time now I have unexpectly found myself mostly using Voyager. I just love poking the eyeball?
I’m currently up to 11, might be developing a problem lol
Eternity is so far the second best app I’ve found, after Liftoff ofc
Infinity is pretty good
Thunder! It’s amazing and has exactly the functionality I need 🙃
BOOST FOR LEMMY every day
