After saying goodbye to RIF and reddit, it’s time for me to move on. So far I’ve used 4 apps for Lemmy and this is my personal ranking:

  1. wefwef.app. Very clean design, works well and smooth experience. Overall the best implementation so far.

  2. Connect/Liftoff (tied). Both are solid, I prefer Connect’s sidebar and options but I prefer the design of the posts and comments on Liftoff. When the comments stack in Connect it looks awful IMO.

  3. Jerboa. As a first option it was good but after so many timeouts, other design issues and multiple errors I kinda gave up on the app. After its polished I’ll give it another try.


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Jerboa. As a first option it was good but after so many timeouts, other design issues and multiple errors I kinda gave up on the app. After its polished I’ll give it another try.

i haven’t had single issue, timeout or error with jerboa. it even worked fine when the web version of the lemmy had a problem. are you sure you tried to eliminate problems betweeen the chair and keyboard before you start backbiting someone else?

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What a bizarre comment. Have you been to the Jerboa community? Users have been plagued with incessant bugs and crashes as of late. It seems to have gotten better, but it’s still a buggy mess for me. Not sure what the vitriol is for. OP isn’t making shit up. It’s a known issue for many users. Just because you magically haven’t had any issues doesn’t mean that the app is behaving that way for the majority of users.

I very much appreciate Jerboa for the pioneer it has been. But if the app doesn’t work right and there are alternatives, I’m going to use the alternatives. Sorry.

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Just because you magically haven’t had any issues doesn’t mean that the app is behaving that way for the majority of users.

Just because someone is yelling on the internet about having an issue doesn’t mean that the app is behaving that way for the majority of users.

also, bugs are normal part of the development (esp. so hasty development as the lemmy is undergoing right now) and the most used app will have most reported problems. that is not a cons, that is a pros.

if you are bugged by reported bugs, you might like some closed source software, these all work nicely and have no bugs at all :D

so yeah, really bizarre comment you made there.

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Are you having a bad day or something? Nowhere do I see anyone trying to actively attack and take down the app and its creators. I promise, it’s not that deep. Moving to alternatives when something is temporarily too buggy to use is not that weird and shouldn’t be seen as offensive. Hope your day gets better.

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I appreciate Jerboa being open source but even before the issue with reddit.world I had constant crashes while reading and it didn’t make a pleasant experience. My intention was never to talk on behalf of Jerboa users but to give my personal opinion. In fact, Jerboa gave me a pretty good first impression but after trying other options I do prefer the alternatives.

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Tried Jerboa, Thunder, Connect and Liftoff on Android already.

Sticking with Liftoff for now.

Anxious for Memmy, tho.

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I can’t find wefwef on the play store, and the link leads to a dead site.

What’s going on?

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It’s a web app, that means that you have to go to wefwef.app and install it from there

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Yeah found it.

It appears to lag behind jerboa when I compare my feed in both platforms.

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Wefwef is a webapp

https://wefwef.app

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+1 for wefwef. coming from rif, does take getting used to, but it’s nice, clean and simple.

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Is wefwef and Android app? I don’t see it on the play store.

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Okay I figured it out myself. I went to wefwef.app in Firefox on my phone. The hit the three dot menu and went to install. That’s it. Guess it’s just a single page app run through the browser.

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No it’s a website but if you navigate to it in Chrome you should be able to go into the wefwef settings and “install” it. Then it will practically work like an app

Edit: or any other browser you use. I used Firefox first but the site didn’t run as smooth there

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Memorial to “rif is fun for Reddit” Android app, aka “reddit is fun”, shut down after June 30, 2023

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