• Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    211·
    9 months ago

    The only downside for me is the ad trackers. If those get disabled when we pay for no ads, then it would be perfect

    Not saying that doesn’t happen, I just don’t know…

    • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      Something I wish back on Boost for Reddit was a separate free app and a paid separate app without ads and trackers, but it’s something Google apparently doesn’t allow anymore. Reddit is fun was able to have reddit is fun gold because they had the separate app before the rules went into affect.

      • JC1@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Damn, that’s sad, I love when they make the separate since usually I can put the paid app on my family library.

    • syl@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      This is an interesting question. Maybe Ruben can answer? Or Google it and see what other apps have to say.

    • confluence@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Apparently the ad tracking is disabled when you launch the rocket. Also, I deleted the other apps pretty much right away 🤣

  • Caboose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    152·
    9 months ago

    It doesnt appear to be released for Android yet. Why you gotta get my hopes up…

  • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    I’ve been using the Photon front-end on both desktop, and mobile, pretty much since it became available on this instance, after trying a dozen different mobile apps, that weren’t an obvious 3-day hack, just to fill the niche. Boost is superior than all of them, combined, without any exaggeration

  • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    Thanks to this, I realized Boost for Lemmy is finally out! I immediately signed up for the beta and downloaded it.

  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    61·
    9 months ago

    It’s been so long that I’m fused to Liftoff. I don’t want to readapt to something new now 😩

    Maybe if I knew more about what features it has that Liftoff doesn’t I could be coaxed into it.

    • stebo02English
      4·
      9 months ago

      There are countless of QOL features. You can customise all the app’s colours, there’s a bunch of different view types for posts and you can set default views per community, you can favourite communities, select and copy on a comment, search through comments, highlight comments of the same user, … and much more! Most importantly there are a ton of settings you can toggle. If you can see it you can likely tweak it or hide it. It takes a while to change everything to your liking, but I think it’s worth it.

    • tias@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Not sure what features it has that Liftoff doesn’t (though it packs a bunch). But for me the selling point is the pretty and efficient user interface. All the gestures and buttons feel natural and intuitive, media rendering is smooth etc.

  • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    I use Sync at the moment. Is there anything Boost offers over Sync that would be worth switching over for? Always looking for a better experience when possible

    • u_tamtam@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      I was mostly using sync while waiting for boost to get a Lemmy port, and could make sync to look and feel pretty close to boost for reddit. I had a rather pleasant experience with sync overall. Both are pretty similar out of the box, very configurable and very polished, but now that boost for Lemmy is out, I’m back on boost. Not that boost has a killer feature that sync’s missing, just that I find boost subjectively better.

    • singularity@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      9 months ago

      The Android app works well when installed on Windows (Windows Subsystem for Android).