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  • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    So far I replaced eternity with it. Eternity kept crashing and the swipe sensitivity was horrible. I’m liking liftoff. Crossing fingers.

    • FarLine99@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      photon client in browser is way better in my opinion. maybe you should try it. official instance is phtn.app

  • Galaxyboy_3598@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    Truthfully, it was my least favorite of all of the Lemmy apps. I didn’t like it’s user interface. Was it recently updated?

    • ahto@feddit.de
      0·
      2 years ago

      Same. It looks and feels like “my first flutter app”. I switched to Thunder, which is also made with flutter, but is much more pleasant to use.

    • Shortbus@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      I tried liftoff a few hours ago and same. Didn’t mind jerboa, but connect just clicked with me… I think because the flow is extremely similar to boost.

      I couldn’t shake the same feeling I get when using discord when using liftoff. Just no.

      To each their own. That’s why there are options.

    • FarLine99@lemm.eeOP
      0·
      2 years ago

      For me it is not. But the most usable (voyager, wefwef lacks some basic features still).

  • wilberfan@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    I seem to be using WefWef (just renamed “Voyager”) and Liftoff the most.

    A big fan of Sync, tho, so we’ll see where we end up when that arrives.

    • FarLine99@lemm.eeOP
      0·
      2 years ago

      Developers of this project are awesome people so I assume that it will have bright future!

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
    0·
    2 years ago

    I don’t hate it by any means. But design wise I always end up back in Jerboa which (to me) seems more old-school and familiar.

    I find it hard to put into words, and obviously it’s completely subjective, but aps like Connect and Liftoff seem too “fluffy” to me, with UI elements being larger and in-your-face. Whereas Jerboa just kind of gets the heck out of my way.

  • sleepyTonia@programming.dev
    0·
    2 years ago

    Pretty much my only nitpick is that we have no “Commenting as:” and “Posting as:” warnings. It blurs the line between accounts a bit too much in a platform that already adds lots of complexity by splitting the communities and accounts between various servers. Beyond that, its search function is everything I could ask for and it looks great! I’m sure it’ll only keep on getting better over time.

    • FarLine99@lemm.eeOP
      0·
      2 years ago

      It has really fast development cycle so yeah, it will will definetly be better.

  • Saintcloud@lemm.ee
    0·
    2 years ago

    I wanted to try liftoff but I could ever get logged in on Android. So I just used connect.

  • AlecSadler@lemmy.ml
    0·
    2 years ago

    I’m liking it. Only thing missing for me I think is aligning images on the left instead of the right.

    • FarLine99@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      It on izzyondroid repo. Developers submitted request to official repo but timing is out of their control, it is controlled by F-Droid team.

  • God@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    2 years ago

    honestly i kinda like it but it is also a bit messy and buggy, and it also has a lot of things that heavily annoy me into using the website on mobile

    the main problem is any time i get a reply, i tap the link to go to the reply and it goes to the post without context, what a mess

    i also can’t see new comments i post without reloading

    idk if they fixed it but b4 i couldn’t delete or edit posts/comments which was like ???

    i do think it’s way better than jerboa for many things, especially for a multi-account user who likes to swap onto other instances a lot. but its room to grow is obviously enormous. I won’t try to discredit the devs, this is an amazing app for something so early in the game.

    • bedheadkitten@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      Have you tried voyager (used to be wefwef) a lot of the stuff you want can be done in it. It is actually just a webapp or something not a google app or IOS equivalent, dont ask me to define the difference any more…

      • God@sh.itjust.works
        0·
        2 years ago

        I have and it is slow as fuck to type in it, it is also somewhat slow/overburdened so things take a moment and that annoys me, while Liftoff is very very fast. I much prefer the normal UI to WefWef/Vger due to the speed issues. The UI is also too iphoney but that’s a trivial issue.

        • Globulart@lemmy.world
          0·
          2 years ago

          I think that might be a problem with your phone or browser. I’m typing this out in wefwef right now and there’s no difference between this and WhatsApp or any other app where I would type. Haven’t noticed any speed issues whatsoever and it feels pretty near to RIF overall for me.

  • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
    0·
    2 years ago

    I tried it, but the “compact” view is wayyyyy too sparse. I have a phone the size of the moon, I should be able to view more than 3 and a half single-line posts on screen

  • Knightfall@lemmy.ca
    0·
    2 years ago

    I couldn’t enjoy Liftoff since it doesn’t appear to have gesture support. Connect and WefWef are what I use until Sync for Lemmy is released.

    Also, LiftOffs gigantic button at the top is an eyesore. I don’t find the UI as well done.

    • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      0·
      2 years ago

      This lack of gestures actually makes me want to give it a go. I’ve never once used gestures on purpose, I always just accidentally do stuff.

      Edit: seems pretty sweet!! It handles instances in a really weird way. If you leave the default lemmy.world account available and don’t login, you can’t interact with posts from that instance even if you are logged in with an account from another instance.

      If I login on both, all of my post and comment history I assume would be split between the relevant account. Weird.

      I really like the UI and performance of the app overall though.