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Hi lemmings, I switched over from Reddit 10 days ago now but I couldn't find a mobile client that I was happy with with an experience similar to the Reddit experience I was used to. So I decided to build my own and I hope you will like it as well!

Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

Features:

  • Material U
  • Dark and Light themes
  • List view / Card view / Fullwidth view
  • Filter lists for hiding posts
  • Multiple accounts + switcher across multiple instances
  • Guest accounts for viewing an instance without signup
  • Search and community autofill
  • Markdown support + attempt to navigate links correctly (/u/foo will open that user instead of browser kickout. Same for /c/, !, and @)
  • Saving posts
  • full sort types
  • NSFW view options (hide, blur, show)
  • copy text and url on all posts and comments
  • add comments, replies, and new posts
  • comment replies with line indicators

Here's other screenshots:

Future plans:

  • Improving the inbox
  • Swipe actions
  • Multi-~~reddit ~~communities

Thank you for taking a look. I hope others who are migrating from Reddit like me will find the app useful and I'd love to know your thoughts!

Edit: Community for the app is here: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Downloaded and used for an hour or so. I'd like to see an option to change the font size. I like my stuff to be small so I can get more content on the screen. 1.6 posts is pretty bad for me. I also couldn't find a way to change my default homepage to "subscribed - new" but maybe I just didn't search hard enough. Either way, it's good to have some competition for Jerboa!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Nothing is showing up in my feed when signed in to lemmy.ml

Also, the Google password manager is trying to input the password into the instance text box when trying to sign in. Pixel 7 Pro.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Looks great but it says it's not available in my country (Brazil)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I signed into my dataterm.digital account but when I go on profile I see my feddit.de profile even though I didn't login with it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Posting from the app. Awesome progress for only 10 days.

[–] Nitrate55 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Suggestion: a setting that lets you set default sorting for comments would be great. So if I wanted post comments to be sorted by top by default, I could set that instead of needing to do it manually every time. Been looking everywhere for a Lemmy app that can do this, at least until the functionality is implemented into the site itself.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe bug: in list view, the width of post title and content seems to be limited to around 80% of my screen width.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's a bug! Thank you. I'd guess it's leaving the 20% space for an image thumbnail which doesn't exist. I'll fix this in the next release.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Looks like Infinity! looks promising

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Any chance of adding Kbin logins?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Looks good. Now we just need a good iOS app

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Wow, impressive work, in such a short time. I really like it.
Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Tried it quickly and was not well surprised. I appreciate thr approach a lot! The app is nice looking but feels too chewy. Prefer the mobile browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

runs very smooth on my 5 year old phone. Some suggestions for improvement

  • With All selected not all feeds were showing up on the sidebar
  • Adding a compact layout for sidebar and comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow, you are really fast! I've been using Jerboa and the PWA, but not super happy with either. Yours look great! Will use it more and feed back to you if that's okay.

One thing I found is that it doesn't show the number of new comments. I usually sort by NewComments, and I would expect to e.g. see "49 comments (14 new)" like Jerboa/PWA.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for making this!

My first impressions upon downloading are that I'm glad it exists but I think I'll stick to Jerboa for the time being. It looks really well made for those who are into the cards display format, however I'm personally not a fan of cards views on apps and I feel the list view isn't quite there yet.

One interesting quirk I noticed worth noting for the developer, not sure if it's a bug. I signed in with [email protected] and when I click profile it seems to display my comment history of my Kbin account by the same name. I'm not certain if the profile would display the comments and whatnot of all instances that have that name?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

so far I'm really liking it. I would like alternating backgrounds on comments just to help separate them out a little.

I don't see the ability to edit my comments. I had to pull up the pwa to edit this one.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Looks amazing! I'll try it out!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

My keyboard constantly tries to switch to caps as I type in Connect. I am using Grammarly. It will flicker the upper case layout between each key press. It's unusable as it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Getting Sync vibes, very nice! I'll give it a go.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey, i like your app a lot! Jerboa doesnt work on my Motorola, so i installed your app. Looks very nice and works well as a first impression!

I just want to tell you good luck, we are all counting on you! :D

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The screen shots look good. I'll download it and try it out. Let me know if you make a community for it so we can give back feedback on there. The more apps the merrier now that Reddit is getting rid of all them!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you, let me know what you think! I made a community here: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm very thankful to you! I wanted a nice app to browse lemmy and I found your app a couple of days ago! I've had a very nice experience so far

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks @[email protected]! I'm glad you're enjoying it.

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