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Current best lemmy clients
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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2024
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I'm a Boost truther. I loved Boost for Reddit, and the dev is usually super responsive in the subreddit when it was a thing. I also used many Reddit apps; BaconReader, Relay, and Apollo on iPhone back when I had one. Boost was easy favorite. I'm not entirely sure how it plays with every lemmy instance though, as I'm just on .world
Boost user checking in, also currently on .world but I've been on several and... it's fine. No problems.
I used to use Sync, but the sporadic updates lead to rapidly piling bugs.
I remember using Sync, but it didn't really stick for me. If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's like Relay but slightly worse?
No one was like Relay. I went from Boost to Relay to Infinity (Eternity for Lemmy). From all the closed source clients Relay was my favorite, but Infinity was also great if you bothered to configure it - and open source definitely has some priority for me if there's a good alternative.
Hated Sync and many of the other praised ones, as most of them were card view focused apps, which I can't stand - it's like viewing every single submission. And those who had compact views usually had ridiculously tiny thumbnails for some reason, even though there was plenty of space left for padding around it. Never understood why apps don't fully use that space.
Don't know when you tested, but Sync definitely has Compact. I agree with you and I've only ever used Compact on Sync. In fact, last time I tested a bunch of apps I felt Sync looked the nicest in Compact, but that's of course a matter of taste. And Peek is a great feature for viewing thumbnails.
Sync's compact suffered from the mentioned tiny thumbnails. I absolutely hated that app.
I also use boost, everything about it seems to work apart from spoiler tags (think because the app still uses reddit's format instead of lemmy's).
Yeah, spoiler tags are the one big feature that is missing. There are also some minor things on the moderation side that aren't there. For example, admin accounts don't have a full list of options in the moderation menu.
Boost also. I had it for Reddit but used Sync mostly. I open Lemmy on my phone a few times a week, so found Sync for Lemmy a bit too pricy. Love Boost!