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Honesty, I am tired of accidentally hitting "back" on my phone and having my feed reset, so I was wondering if any of your clients didn't do that, while also wanting to check out the competition for Sync.

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[–] RevolverSly@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Boost for Lemmy

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 21 hours ago
[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Jerboa on mobile, the website on desktop.

[–] mrslt@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Voyager works like a charm for me.

[–] lustrum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup. I use the PWA so I don't even need to install it. Wish this was more widespread.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Wildly_Utilize@infosec.pub 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)
[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Connect for lemmy, reminds me of rif

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Jerboa. Made by the Lemmy devs.

[–] Ashiggan@eviltoast.org 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Boost for Lemmy since Boost for Reddit was my old app

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[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Fun fact. If you search up reddit on android bar sync comes up.

[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

The app is just called sync what used to be Sync for Lemmy. It still says sync for Lemmy on the play store, I'm not sure if that hasn't been updated or it's the official name still.

[–] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago
[–] FarrellPerks@feddit.uk 13 points 2 days ago

Voyager here, can't complain.

[–] Dynn@jlai.lu 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Feature requests are welcome!

And from my friends in the Zip team

[–] modular950@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

+1 for Voyager. It's my first and so far only client that I've used, having been on infinity for reddit before switching.

I like it. it's smooth, works well, and has fairly granular settings for how to handle "read" posts, gesture controls within posts / comments, and so on.

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[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Connect for lemmy,

Back button asks if you want to exit the app

Looks just like RIF

[–] M137@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Looks just like RIF"

I seriously don't understand how that's a positive. RIF always looked and felt like it was badly designed on purpose. Like some shitty thing from the early 2000s. But seeing the shit people do with theming on their phones and other stuff it's weirdly not surprising, still doesn't make sense. It's actually vile looking.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago

Remember that some really like old reddit for some reason.

While I sort of get it on the desktop, I really not get it on the phone.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

I liked Rif and I like this. I'm an old man who has my text messages zoomed in and my wife laughs at me

[–] Dequei@sopuli.xyz 46 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Voyager, foss, with the auto hide enabled

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Eternity. I don't know the last time the dev has updated this shit but it kinda works. I still love the UI

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 day ago
[–] simple@piefed.social 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

No love for Summit here? I've tried almost every android app and ended up with this one. Very smooth UI and full of features.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's not smooth at all, IMO. Lots of visual annoyances which makes it feel stuttery and just bad. Been a Sync user for years and going from that to any other app is just a bad experience... I try all lemmy apps I come across and they either just look bad, no matter how much I change settings or they lack several major things that I just won't be without. None has come close to feeling like a replacement yet, and it really sucks that it seems Sync is actually dead now.

[–] alianne@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I swapped from Sync to Summit and have been loving it. The dev's super responsive too, which is a big plus.

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[–] swollengoat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wef wef I think? That’s what the app says on my phone.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Wefwef was the original name for Voyager. If it’s still named that, it simply means you’re using the browser-based PWA instead of the actual App Store app. Not a huge difference between the two, except that the PWA isn’t technically “installed” on your phone in the traditional sense.

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 1 points 22 hours ago

I think that was the OG name for Voyager lol

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Boost

Called "Boost for Lemmy". It's great. All kinds of custom options. Integration with instances are really good.

Try it.... give a dollar... It'll be Ad free.

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[–] RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I recently switched to Blorp. It’s still somewhat early in development, but overall is really nice.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago

I've used Jerboa for years now, and have the press back twice to exit setting enabled:

My configuration for it is very minimal, to mimic RedReader that I used to use.

[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 8 points 2 days ago

Jerboa gives you a confirmation prompt before exiting, when you press back from the main feed.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thunder. Cross platform, great UI, and now has piefed support.

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago

You know what's nice, we have sooooo many more options than we deserve. Thanks all you devs!

Reddit has one official one that kinda sucks.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Connect.

I actually want the opposite of what you want. I am used to Jerboa and Liftoff refreshing the front page if you hit back on the main feed. Connect just asks it you want to close it and I have to manually scroll back up to the top to refresh, and its annoying af when I'm hella far down the page.

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[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago

Extremely happy with Voyager.

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago

Firefox

The less apps I have on my phone the better and I mostly browse Lemmy on desktop anyway.

[–] Monster96@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago
[–] MakingWork@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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