Boost, save us.

  • DigitalPortkey@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well that’s pretty goddamn rude. The current clients are phenomenal for brand new apps that have no preexisting framework to start on, have been progressing very quickly, and are really, really nice to use.

    Maybe let’s not put others down in our excitement for something we’re familiar with.

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    1 year ago

    For how young these apps are Wefwef, Connect, and Jerboa are definitely killing it. Its amazing how fast these sprung up.

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        1 year ago

        I second that, Lift off is fantastic. Stable with all the features you would expect to read and post. Also need to give a shout out to Jerboa

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          1 year ago

          I liked liftoff much better, jerboa seems to have this strange bug where it loses connection and I have to restart the app and then lose my scrolling

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        1 year ago

        Agreed! Liftoff has been an awesome replacement for Boost since switching to Lemmy. Can’t wait for the Boost client though.

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      Yeah if I were one of these devs and saw this thread I’d be pretty disheartened. It’s been like 4 weeks or so and people seem to expect a boost / sync / baconreader experience for a platform that for the majority is brand new.

      Cheers to the hard working devs making apps ❤️

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        1 year ago

        Seriously, OP’s post is highly disrespectful imo. We can be excited for Boost without putting down others.

    • Elindio@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Yeah they’re all really good and improving quickly. People are comparing mature stable reddit apps to alpha lemmy apps. Boost and sync will be buggy at the beginning and will get better.

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      1 year ago

      … and Wefwef updates are fast and constantly improving what is already very good. I’ve tried Memmy, but Wefwef is my favourite with some recent fixes of glitches in the matrix.

  • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Ah common, the clients out there are basically in the same state as the lemmy and kbin code, its something that has just started, and you shouldn’t set to high expectations for boost either.

    We are in the pioneer age of this social media system. Stuff is a little Rough firstly, but it will get better with time.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly, after setting wefwef to compact view and dark mode and spending a few days using it to get used to where everything is, I’m starting to really like it. Easy to digest while browsing and the swipe actions to vote/reply/mark as read work really well once you get used to it.

      • CookieJarObserver@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, i use jerboa, the “official” app, i like that its open source and i can get it from F-Droid, i hope Boost will go the open source path as well.

  • LeHappStick@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m using Jerboa and it is great, but has less customization options than Boost and you can’t save drafts of your comments… as far as I can tell.

    Appreciate everyone working on these apps, amazing work 👍