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.
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
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)
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)
https://github.com/aeharding/voyager
Check out this app, it seems to me the best of all those currently available.
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
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.
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.
On that note, since I tried those two: Do you know any app that has an optimized tablet-mode?
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.
Nope :(. Prolly be a month or two. I liked boost for reddit. Right now I’m using Jerboa. It’s not bad :)
