The sense of loss from the fediverse hits hard sometimes
lemdro.id

So, I was lurking using sync for Lemmy and I came upon this post.

What happened to the development with these apps? I’m not that active on lemdro.id or other instances. But apps like Sync and Boost have been updated in a year or 6 months respectively. With Boost I’m not surprised Mayo tends to be slow. I was more shocked with sync. My question is do you guys have any recommendations for other Lemmy clients?

Edit Please do not harass the devs.

Edit 2: I’m testing out thunderbird.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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    5 days ago

    A lack of updates doesn’t necessarily mean they’re inactive unless there are new features they need to work with or bugs they need to fix.

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I really liked Sync. It worked really well on my old phone, and I would gladly pay for it, but I’m so averse to ads that I can’t in good conscience support an app that

  • lorty@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I love Sync but I can’t really blame the dev. They obviously wanted an income from this but there just aren’t enough people on lemmy that would use the app, so it’s maintenance mode at best.

      • TheFrirish@jlai.luEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Well once you take out all the ads and algorithm it’s not all that bad. It wouldn’t be my favourite but it would have some character.

        • Mubelotix@jlai.luEnglish
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          4 days ago

          That’s what I believe. My lemmyfied Reddit doesn’t have any bullshit features, I was able to remove them all

            • Mubelotix@jlai.luEnglish
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              3 days ago

              That would be great. I’ll try once I have finished polishing the API compatibility and basic features. Do you want me to tell you once it’s stable and ready for you to try ?

              • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idMEnglish
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                3 days ago

                Hell yes.

                I ain’t a lover of that kinda app (aesthetics plz) and why I stick with Boost being a RiF user but having lots of alternatives is one of the many reasons we all kicked off originally over in r/Android about the API bollocks Mr Greedy Piggy Spez brought in. That, and shitting on the disabled/spam whackers/translators you name it. Pissed us off enough we made this instance.

                Does that official reddit app have decent Accessibility features yet, or was Spez yet again talking out of his pooper?

                Good work btw, and obligatory fuck spez ;)

  • micahmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    (Disclaimer, I’m one of the devs.) Thunder is cross-platform and very actively developed! There was a release two days ago. We keep up with Lemmy API changes and we’re constantly squashing bugs and adding new features. Check it out!

    • Welp_im_damned@lemdro.idOPEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Nice. I have been enjoying your guys app for the last 2 days.

      I have some feedback but I don’t think it’s really anything that substantial right now. What is the best way to give you guys feedback on thunder bird?

    • ObsidianZed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      I am very interested in Thunder, especially considering it’s open source. While it does seem packed with features, I’d love to see a bit more customizability though. I might submit some feature requests some day but looking now there are nearly 200 issues as it stands. Not a complaint, just an observation. Keep up the good work!

      • micahmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Thanks for checking it out. Yeah we do have quite a backlog of issues to work through. Obviously we prioritize bugs and the most popular feature requests. Feel free to submit an issue any time you want though! It may be that we can help come up with a workaround that gets you what you want. Otherwise sometimes if its an easy change one of the devs will knock it out quickly. But if nothing else it’ll be there for other people to react to. :)

  • Red Wizard 🪄@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Voyager has been good. They just implemented a custom emoji fix to that ensures emoji are the correct size regardless of their uploaded size.

  • Wistful@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I finally made a full switch from Sync to Thunder, because even though I know that Sync dev does take huge breaks and he comes back and fixes everything and makes the app even better, I still wanted to make sure I find a good alternative and get familiar with it just in case.

    Thunder is a really good app, especially considering its age. It also has the most features and the nicest UI (IMO) among the Lemmy apps. And it being open source is a huge plus too.

    Sync is still my favorite, it just feels really nice to use, but I’ll stay on Thunder for now.

    Voyager is also a really nice app that feels polished and works smoothly, but it’s lacking certain features that I like. So I keep it installed as a backup but I don’t use it often.

        • fuzzzerd@programming.devEnglish
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          6 days ago

          Agree. It works well, but in the context of the original meme, not getting updates is a risk to Lemmy api breaking changes breaking the app. There’s also a few annoying theming issues with eternity. For a free app its good, but leaves something wanting compared to some of the other apps. Even if it has the better UI.

        • Welp_im_damned@lemdro.idOPEnglish
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          6 days ago

          I created this post because I didn’t realize lemmy was being updated so often. So there’s a good chance eternity might be missing some features as well.

  • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    Not sure, I’ve been using Interstellar with Mbin and it’s been pretty great. Would recommend, responsive dev, works well, supports multiple platforms!