Was wondering if anybody had any news about Boost’s arrival to the Lemmy scene, or if anybody knew of any way to get news about Boost.
Well… it’s not going to be especially fast, they do need to restructure the entire back end of their application and make changes to a lot of the front end too, I imagine. Going to be a good while, I predict.
Liftoff is very good, I would recommend trying it out.
The only resource for Boost for Lemmy I’ve seen is the relatively empty Play Store entry.
I’m tenporary using Liftoff as well, but can’t wait for Boost. Checking for any news constantly.
Using multiple accounts on various instances was frustrating with Liftoff. I may have needed to try for a bit longer to get it, but ended up just going back to Jerboa
Yeah, this was my complaint with Liftoff also. The inability to easily subscribe is frustrating. I usually jot down the instance and subscribe when I get on my desktop.
Liftoff is quite good but there’s one thing that I find frustrating. When I get comment replies, I can’t click on the comment to go the thread where the comment resides. I don’t know if I’m totally missing something or what! (probably am)
Paper clip will bring you to the context
Ahh! Thank you
It took me a while to figure out that too. Haha!
That’s about all I’ve seen too. I’m currently using Liftoff as you say. I’ve tried just about everything else, but this comes closest to fulfilling the use-case I had for Boost.
I’m using liftoff, and it’s ok. But, there is a weird situation:
if someone replies to your comment, you get a notification.
If you follow the notification to your inbox, it will show the reply.
But, it shows no context, and there’s no way I can find to get any except to manually find your comment, and then their reply.
That’s way clunky, and not the kind of thing Boost would do.
The Lemmy apps mostly are just ok (I haven’t tried all of them)
Clicking this icon will bring you to the context
I thought that was the crosspost icon, LOL. It still only adds a context button, which you have to press. Seems like it would be better to just open the context when you select the first icon.
https://github.com/aeharding/voyager
Check out this app, it seems to me the best of all those currently available.
Can’t stand the apple style.
Version 0.24 has beta Android style.
Not very good yet though. Definitely beta
Well the android theme has been out for less than 24 hours. They will probably improve it with their daily updates
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You might want to try later again. The app is under active development.
No the app’s very good. I’m only talking about the Android theme. It says beta on it anyway though
Voyager is okay and has a nice UI, but PWA’s are always less than optimal because the browser abstraction layer is just slow.
Check Thunder for Lemmy. It’s the best native app I’ve tried yet.
The experience is very smooth for me. Seems indistinguishable from a native app. Which browser are you using it with? I am using it with Chrome on Android
Kiwi browser on Android. Kiwi is a Chrome shell browser with upgrades.
I’ve found it runs smoother when you use it on Firefox.
I agree. Right now the idea of a web app is cool, but it doesn’t really work all that well for me (scrolling up too quickly causes problems when the page thinks you want to refresh, and I like most of my apps to be in the drawer, not my home page, for instance).
The best android app currently is connect for lemmy
Not available in F droid is no go for me.
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I do not know the reason why you don’t want to use play store.
There is a play store alternative called Aurora store on f-droid. I installed connect with Aurora store.
It’s not because of play store. It’s because not being on f-droid generally means an app is not foss. That’s why I avoid connect as well.
You know boost isn’t FOSS right?
I’m not Stallman. I make some exceptions and Boost has been one if them.
Gotcha
This may be a stupid question, but how does an app being on Play Store and not F-Droid make it no longer FOSS?
It doesn’t make it no longer FOSS. It’s just that usually if an app is FOSS it is on f-droid.
I find personally Jerboa to be the most stable with the richest feature base currently. Has a ways to go, but jerboa is consistently updated to keep up with Lemmy changes as well.
I think the same.
I think it’s still early for that. In the meantime, I suggest two apps that kind of resemble to our beloved Boost: Jerboa, and Connect. Check them out.
I’ve found Thunder to be quite good, it’s on the Playstore
Tried it now, looks like very good so far!
I’m still cycling between apps almost daily, and none so far ticks all the boxes for me. I have Liftoff, Connect, Jerboa and Voyager on my phone right now. I tried Thunder a while back but didn’t like it.
Sync is on it’s way and it will come down to either that or Boost in the end for me, I think.
Yeah, totally.
Boost and sync is kind of twins though, I’ve used both and exchange them often whenever an update breaks things.
On that note, since I tried those two: Do you know any app that has an optimized tablet-mode?
Thunder has a two-column feed setting, not sure about any other tablet optimizations yet! There should be a new full release this week or next, but the latest build on GitHub is quite solid and has a lot of improvements from the build currently on Google Play
Nope :(. Prolly be a month or two. I liked boost for reddit. Right now I’m using Jerboa. It’s not bad :)
Nothing was said before the API was going dark, and nothing has been said since then. The lack of communication is driving me towards sync for lemmy instead.
I get that it’s a side project, but updates to your community take very little effort.
I mean, when reddit stopped working on boost it now shows a message saying that he’s working on boost for lemmy. That’s not no communication. It could be much better though
does it? where? it just says error for me
There was literally no reason for me to have the app after the API changes went live to see a message, and there were a TON of posts asking if he had plans to either deal with the API changes, or a possible lemmy port before they took place. At one point he said a firm NO, that he was going to focus on other smaller projects.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/14ehiqs/comment/jow1le5/
Then a magazine appeared on lemmy created by the boost dev
And I’ve not seen a single update since then. Here or on the boost subreddit. His last post on reddit was 18 days ago.
Lack of communication for something so big is not seen as a positive by me. Sync on the other hand is giving daily updates, asking feedback on his discord, etc. I’ll go with the dev that’s talking to his loyal user base. He expects a build to be ready possibly this week.
Maybe some day I’ll try boost for lemmy, but I’m not actively following it or looking forward to it at this point.
No offense, but you’re way too needy. Updates would be nice, but it’ll be ready when it’s ready. It doesn’t matter when we get it, there are plenty of usable apps in the mean time. I’ll be switching because boost had all the functionality I wanted. More time means hopefully more functionality is baked in, maybe even better in-app video playing options.
Use Sync if you want, it doesn’t matter.
If wanting an update is needy, then I guess I am. Oh darn.
But what will an update really change? Just register, click auto-install. And you’ll get it when it’s available.
It wasn’t a post, it was a pop-up on the app. Boost continued working for several days after the API changes supposedly went live. And I’m not calling it a positive that he’s not communicating, I’m just pointing out that there has been some communication when you and others seem to think there’s been none.
I guess you missed the edit on the pinned post
As far as I know boost is made by a solo dev and depending on the person updates can be a lot of effort especially updating a crowd of impatient people.
Rubén created and maintained Boost for Reddit as a single dev as far as I know, and I would assume he’s doing the same for Lemmy. I don’t think he was ever frequently communicating on Reddit either, only now and then. Plus, he wasn’t going to create a Lemmy version of Boost initially, so it really hasn’t been in development long.
You just have to be a little patient.
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I picked up Jerboa. Its FOSS and Boost-like. The fact its FOSS will probably keep me on it if Boost comes back but is still closed source
“Our destination is just over the next hill. Now let’s listen to the radio or I’ll turn this car around.”
My dad, probably.
