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’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.
As a former RIF addict, I found “Summit for Lemmy” a decent alternative.
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.
Seconded
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.
I used RiF for years, and I moved over to Jerboa when I started using Lemmy over a week or two ago.
Pretty great, the button mapping felt natural, as did the post layout, menus, account switching, etc. Definitely gets a recommendation from me!
The developer of Sync for Reddit is working on a Lemmy port, and hopes to have early access ready in a few more days.
Wefwef
Seconding wefwef on ios
How do you get it? Search returns nothing.
It’s a web-based app. In your safari browser on your iPhone go to wefwef.app and follow the directions you find there to add it to your homepage. After that it behaves like any other app!
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 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 using Connect for Lemmy at the moment and I used RIF for 9 years.
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.
It’s pretty crashy right now, though.
