Hi fellow sync-ers,

Having joined Lemmy recently, I have been having a ton of fun. However accessing Lemmy through my mobile browser has been an awful experience, similar to my past Reddit experience till I found Sync.

I’m not sure how much longer I can tolerate the browser experience, and am hesitating jumping on a app. Where’s your head at about this?

Edit (4 days later)

I’ve been on Connect and has been 8/10 so far. Gonna dual use with liftoff after seeing the comments.

I did a 5 minute ctr+F to see which were the most popular apps/ interfaces. Not sorted by pos/neg, just mentions.

  • wefwef/ voyager - 46
  • connect - 43
  • Liftoff - 33
  • Jerboa - 23
  • Thunder - 16
  • Firefox - 13
  • Thunder - 16
  • Old.lemmy - 5
  • Alexandrite - 4
  • Vivaldi - 2
  • radarsat1English
    3·
    1 year ago

    I was using Jerboa because i was used to Sync for reddit. But, I got a bit tired of how rough around the edges it is, so I switched to just installing my Lemmy instance front page as Firefox “app” on my phone and realized it’s not that bad as a UI, so sticking with it for now.

    I’ll probably try apps again in the future but I feel more open to “installing” good web apps now. Incidentally I tried the same trick with Reddit’s mobile interface after Sync stopped working and realized it’s also not so awful as I remembered. I did prefer Sync but I’ll see how it goes with this method. So it’s mobile web interfaces on Android for me for now.

    Having said that, in both cases I think I’d prefer a more “simple HTML” type experience like old reddit over these dynamic SPA things they both have going.

    • Miimikko@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m also using the Firefox “app” and every time I switch to another app or minimize the FF app it crashes FF. Does this happen for you too? Decided to just suffer through it cause I couldn’t find any fix for it.