It was announced back in June but I haven’t heard anything about it since.
I started Lemmy with Jerboa, switched to Sync, tried Eternity (Infinity), un-installed immediately, and am now very happy using Voyager.
So for me personally, Boost is a little late.
What’s your opinion on photon or alexandrite? I like those even more personally.
Alexandrite is very nice when you’re on PC, but on a phone screen its a lot easier to just use a third party app.
Voyager is pretty good, but it has a lot of missing features. Not only that but it doesn’t behave as well as a native app, because it isn’t. It’s pretty smooth for a PWA, but still no match for a native app.
What missing features are you looking for?
Also worth noting that Voyager now has a native version on the App Store/Play Store that enables more features compared to the PWA version!
You can have it fast, good, or cheap: pick two, and unless you’re bankrolling the developer you’ve already chosen cheap.
Bankroll means just pay the app fee, its not that high for someone from any first world countries, right?
Just be patient. The developer has been active in the boost community, and has stated that he expects release before the end of August. I’m using sync for now til it drops. Boost was my favorite way to surf Reddit and I don’t think it’s gonna change on lemmy
I was originally a sync user and switched to boost when the developer stopped releasing updates. Then sync made a comeback but boost was way better. Im using sync right now as well and im grateful for the option but i fully intend to move to boost
I haven’t used sync, but content filtering was one of my favorite features on boost. I had filters like “opinion” to reduce the amount of opinion pieces on news subs.
I used to use Boost for Reddit, and thought it was the best app. I’ve been using Connect for Lemmy for ages now and I’ve found it to be very good - there are some teething issues, but on the whole it does a really good job for me of replacing Boost, and it’s always getting updated with info from the users’ own experiences. I will gladly try the Boost for Lemmy app when it does arrive, but for now Connect is just fine.
Are you me? Very close to how I would have written the exact same thoughts!
I tried a slew of lemmy apps but none were are clean and smooth as what I wanted. Connect has some rough edges but visually and features wise is closest to what I want. I’m hoping boost is very similar to how it was on reddit because it struck all the right balances for me, and felt more solid than connect. Plus the icon is way better than connect’s. :)
I tried sync and I don’t get the hype. It’s fine, I’d use it if I didn’t have other options. But for me the UI is just like 15% too busy. It’s just annoying enough to deter me from it.
I just started using Eternity (formerly Infinity for Lemmy), and it’s about as good as Boost used to be. Kinda killed any hype I had for Boost for Lemmy at this point.
