Does anyone else use the android app Connect for Lemmy? It reminds me of Infinity for Reddit. If you use it, do you like it better than Jerboa? I also found another new Lemmy app called Liftoff.
Using Connect because Jerboa just kept crashing on me at startup. Never got to test it out. Problems do exist in Connect, as e.g. I could not comment on this post in the app. Will check out Thunder and Lift off as well, so thanks for the suggestions!
Edit: I literally just found out that you have to hit the huge plus-button at the bottom right to add a comment… I always thought it was for creating a new post 🤦♂️
Any comment re:tracking that others have raised ITT and any plans to open the source code? Loving the UI thus far but like others here would very much prefer FOSS applications
Connect has 0 trackers of any kind and I collect no information beyond what Google Play Store collects by default. When you open up a webpage with the in-app viewer that webpage may run it’s own trackers but I don’t capture any of that data.
Same. I’m using a Surface Duo 2 and I saw a 1 star review for a Z Flip with a startup crash. So I think it’s an issue with nonstandard screen ratios/resolutions.
I made a post on it in the app’s community. May want to post there so the developer knows.
I’m guessing what they’re referring to is that it waits to fetch the next page of the timeline until relatively “late”. There’s a definite hitch in scrolling for me when it’s fetching more posts.
true, i do have that same hitch that you describe when it’s fetching more posts. but that’s not too big of an issue for me either. i guess adding a bit of pre-fetching would solve it.
Try the “Amoled” theme in the settings (remember to click save at the bottom of the page, I initially missed that). It’s a much darker theme on my phone.
I tried it and didn’t think it was much different from any other Lemmy app right now. Seems like they are only trying to differentiate with visuals at the moment.
Some things I would like to see in future apps and versions of existing apps.
Integration of the Lemmy community browser or something similar. Basic search takes too long and you need to know what your looking for
Ability to view top communities posts from the community browser in a separate view alongside “local” and “All” and “subscribed” and could even stand in as a user’s subscribed view before they have customized it to their own liking
Ability to “force pull” comments and posts from a particular remote community. Or at least compare the number of comments a post has locally to the number it has on its remote instance and present some kind of indicator if they differ.
These are all great suggestions. Is there an official place different app developers could look for these types of feature requests? That would be nice.
I feel like they should be looking here if they want to make an app that the community will appreciate.they should spend some time talking to people in the technology subs and maybe even do some polls.
I tried to sign up on lemm.ee with Jerboa and it would give me constant server error messages…but Connect is great so far. Like the layout better as well 👍
Worth noting that the Jerboa app pushed a major update today and it’s massively improved. Definitely suggest giving it another try after today, it feels like an entirely new app.
Jerboa has been very buggy for me the last few days: account switching doesn’t work, jerboa ignores my settings for what feeds to load at default, randomly losing my accounts and crashing.
I tried Connect and didn’t like its UI. The PWA isn’t very useful as the feed reloads from the top when I back out of a post by swiping from the edge.
Where did you download it? From what Ive heard the Play Store version lags behind a bit. I got it via f-droid and now have buttons to jump between top level comments (this isnt the only change but it is the most obvious on first glance).
A lot of instances arent on the newest version of lemmy yet though, since the sign up captchas were temporarily removed and preventing bots to sign up is way harder without it. I dont know if there will be software conflicts due to this mismatch though.
Tested Connect using three different privacy apps and none of them found any trackers. I don’t know if I can trust the source of that post. Instead of blindly taking my word for it you should also conduct your own tests.
you might want to re-evaluate how you are scanning for trackers. I am running duck duck go’s app tracking protection on Android and this is it’s summary of connect for lemmy from the past 22 hours.
1175 tracking attempts blocked from 40 different companies(trackers)
I think this comes down to the difference in how you and I secure our phones. I get no tracker pings on any of my apps. Not even with that DuckDuckGo app running for an hour.
Based on your sample results, Connect isn’t the problem. Your phone seems to be horribly compromised.
The developer himself responded further down the comment and said there are no trackers, and the Aurora store verifies that - it scans the app source and also found zero trackers.
Most likely the trackers the commenter was referring to were from browsing many external websites from within the app itself like when clicking links.
I’m using it, Jerboa, and standard mobile site. They each leave something to be desired, but each have their good points. I don’t know why, but Connect seems slower, with images loading slower than the other two. Don’t know why.
I really want to like wefwef, but it jutters so much while scrolling and opening threads. Not sure if that’s just the nature of being a web or or because it’s poorly optimized.
I’m on a pixel 7 so I don’t think it’s just my phone.
Liftoff is basically a fork of the “old” Lemmur. It’s kinda sad they don’t even mention it anywhere on the repo :/ (they mention in the app’s about page)
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Using Connect because Jerboa just kept crashing on me at startup. Never got to test it out. Problems do exist in Connect, as e.g. I could not comment on this post in the app. Will check out Thunder and Lift off as well, so thanks for the suggestions!
Edit: I literally just found out that you have to hit the huge plus-button at the bottom right to add a comment… I always thought it was for creating a new post 🤦♂️
I was also having the Jerboa startup crashes starting yesterday. Version 0.0.35 fixed it for me (it’s not on vanilla F-Droid yet but it is on the IzzyOnDroid repo)
Good feedback! I’ll change the plus icon to something more obvious in the next release.
Any comment re:tracking that others have raised ITT and any plans to open the source code? Loving the UI thus far but like others here would very much prefer FOSS applications
Connect has 0 trackers of any kind and I collect no information beyond what Google Play Store collects by default. When you open up a webpage with the in-app viewer that webpage may run it’s own trackers but I don’t capture any of that data.
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect/latest/
Crashes on startup on my galaxy fold 4
Same. I’m using a Surface Duo 2 and I saw a 1 star review for a Z Flip with a startup crash. So I think it’s an issue with nonstandard screen ratios/resolutions.
I made a post on it in the app’s community. May want to post there so the developer knows.
!lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca
Hi, this will be fixed in the next release (tonight)!
It was! Posting this from my fold-4 as we speak. I’m loving the app so far. Great job on this!
I use it and it’s a lot less buggy than Jerboa. I also like the UI a bit better.
Just installed it. It’s great!
Just tried and it’s much more impressive than Jerboa. No laggy scrolling, UI and UX are nicer. Feels more like RiF.
Only (minor) nitpicks I have are:
dark theme could be darkerJerboa is absolutely not laggy on my side. Find it super responsive and lightweight instead. it’s only 2MB
I’m guessing what they’re referring to is that it waits to fetch the next page of the timeline until relatively “late”. There’s a definite hitch in scrolling for me when it’s fetching more posts.
That said, I’m perfectly satisfied with Jerboa.
true, i do have that same hitch that you describe when it’s fetching more posts. but that’s not too big of an issue for me either. i guess adding a bit of pre-fetching would solve it.
Probably depends on your connection and how fast your instance is
Hmm, I don’t know then. The scrolling is anything but smooth for me.
Try the “Amoled” theme in the settings (remember to click save at the bottom of the page, I initially missed that). It’s a much darker theme on my phone.
Ah! That’s perfect, thanks!
I tried it and didn’t think it was much different from any other Lemmy app right now. Seems like they are only trying to differentiate with visuals at the moment.
Some things I would like to see in future apps and versions of existing apps.
These are all great suggestions. Is there an official place different app developers could look for these types of feature requests? That would be nice.
I feel like they should be looking here if they want to make an app that the community will appreciate.they should spend some time talking to people in the technology subs and maybe even do some polls.
Connect dev here! I’m watching this thread! 👀
Love the icon, super cute :)
Is it on F-droid?
https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff#version-xxx-was-released-why-is-it-not-yet-on-f-droid
Different app
Only just found Connect and its very good IMO
I tried to sign up on lemm.ee with Jerboa and it would give me constant server error messages…but Connect is great so far. Like the layout better as well 👍
I’m missing the ability to collapse threads, but otherwise it’s very sleek Edit: nevermind you just need to hold the top comment for one second
Hi, there’s also a setting to make comments collapse on single tap instead of long press.
I love it! reminds me of infinity for reddit.
Worth noting that the Jerboa app pushed a major update today and it’s massively improved. Definitely suggest giving it another try after today, it feels like an entirely new app.
Didn’t notice anything different. In fact, I can’t change to “All” anymore (coincidence?). That’s why I’m exploring Connect right now.
All is definitely still there. Not sure the issue on your side.
Jerboa has been very buggy for me the last few days: account switching doesn’t work, jerboa ignores my settings for what feeds to load at default, randomly losing my accounts and crashing.
I tried Connect and didn’t like its UI. The PWA isn’t very useful as the feed reloads from the top when I back out of a post by swiping from the edge.
Jerboa won’t even let me log in, says server is too outdated :(
There were big api change with lemmy 0.18 which the updated jerboa is compatible with. The instance you were trying to log into is outdated.
Jerboa has been worse for me since the update. It won’t follow my feed or sorting selections.
I’ll be honest, don’t notice many changes? Feels and looks the same to me.
The entire UI got a refresh. There’s an actual search button now too.
Where did you download it? From what Ive heard the Play Store version lags behind a bit. I got it via f-droid and now have buttons to jump between top level comments (this isnt the only change but it is the most obvious on first glance). A lot of instances arent on the newest version of lemmy yet though, since the sign up captchas were temporarily removed and preventing bots to sign up is way harder without it. I dont know if there will be software conflicts due to this mismatch though.
The community for the app:
I’m also happily using it, it’s the only app which works on my old phone, haha :D
Same. I prefer it to Jerboa. But I am disquieted by the currently unverified post stating that it might be full of trackers.
Tested Connect using three different privacy apps and none of them found any trackers. I don’t know if I can trust the source of that post. Instead of blindly taking my word for it you should also conduct your own tests.
you might want to re-evaluate how you are scanning for trackers. I am running duck duck go’s app tracking protection on Android and this is it’s summary of connect for lemmy from the past 22 hours.
1175 tracking attempts blocked from 40 different companies(trackers)
https://imgur.com/a/eEHvoAb
I think this comes down to the difference in how you and I secure our phones. I get no tracker pings on any of my apps. Not even with that DuckDuckGo app running for an hour.
Based on your sample results, Connect isn’t the problem. Your phone seems to be horribly compromised.
That is concerning. Connect is not open-source I guess?
Thanks for the heads up. A shame since it looks decent. But I think I’ll pass now.
The developer himself responded further down the comment and said there are no trackers, and the Aurora store verifies that - it scans the app source and also found zero trackers.
Most likely the trackers the commenter was referring to were from browsing many external websites from within the app itself like when clicking links.
I’m using it, Jerboa, and standard mobile site. They each leave something to be desired, but each have their good points. I don’t know why, but Connect seems slower, with images loading slower than the other two. Don’t know why.
I have since discovered https://wefwef.app
It is amazing. Basically an open-source clone of Apollo for reddit.
I really want to like wefwef, but it jutters so much while scrolling and opening threads. Not sure if that’s just the nature of being a web or or because it’s poorly optimized.
I’m on a pixel 7 so I don’t think it’s just my phone.
Interesting site for sure
Liftoff is basically a fork of the “old” Lemmur. It’s kinda sad they don’t even mention it anywhere on the repo :/ (they mention in the app’s about page)
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