Liftoff. Lemmy app. Do you like the way it works now?

I switched to Liftoff from Jerboa.

There are a few features that either don't exist or I haven't found (jump to next comments thread), but it's worked really well overall.

For context, I use Relay when I'm on Reddit

It's my favorite of the options so far, I wish I wouldn't default to lemmy.world, but that may be pilot error..

I'm on Jerboa for the moment, it gets the job done, was more intuitive for me than Liftoff. With that said I will 100% be switching to Boost when it's available.

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

The UI is a little too cluttered and messy for my liking but it's a solid app! Love FOSS software

It immediately replaced connect for me. Absolutely incredible. I think I'll have to pick around for some actual feedback, but that's a damn good sign so early.

Love the layout, organization and it's immediately captured my entire Lemmy usage.

Coming from the Reddit is Fun app, I tried Jerboa first, thought it was fine, then tried Liftoff and it feels a lot better to me so far. But I'm still new to this universe, so I might try other apps and change my mind! Loving the diversity so far at least!

Liftoff is what I've settled on, so far. I've found it to have the best performance of all the Android options.

I tried about five different android apps and LiftOff was the one I picked. Looks the best, runs smooth, nice interface, fast with updates. Love it.

I prefer connect. It has a cleaner ui with less clutter imo

I think it's much better now than it was. You can block a community without opening a post. The community and OP are listed at the top. All fonts seen to be customizable. My only current issue is the color around the cards - it's gray and if you're in dark mode it's not as obvious where one end and the next begins. I would like to see color options for that and/or color options for headings. I could switch from Jerboa if they add that.

So far liftoff has been my favorite and I love the ability to have multiple accounts logged in at once and the ease of browsing from different instances. The UI is nice and clear and it's my favorite from the ones I've tried. I still wanna try boost out!

Liftoff feels like a love letter to Relay for Reddit. It's just missing a quick toggle to move thumbnails to the left or right in compact view.

Props for referencing the NoPoop meme in the settings too 🤣

I've tried a couple and Liftoff is my preferred app

I'm using it on Linux (Manjaro) I liked it that the dev brought it to Linux world.

I'm not a fan of the bottom navigation. Needlessly takes up space.

CONNECT for me.

I'm not a fan. It's laid out weird, like a Apple app or something. I just couldn't get used to it.

Connect and Jerboa are the two I'm trying to decide between now.

It's the only app I've tried so I know it's the best one.

I'd love options to disable the Tap to Hide feature, and have Make Text Selectable always on.

This is currently my daily driver. Awesome work!

The main issue I'm having with liftoff is that I cannot upvote or comment posts from other instances with my lemmy.ml account, so I'm still using jerboa

It’s not bad, but the “compact” view is in no way compact. On liftoff on iOS I can see maybe 4 posts versus on Memmy I can see almost double that. The thumbnails need to be in line with the title and content, not just the content.

It'll be a little confusing to have both lift off and boost as rocket themed Lemmy apps, but I guess it can't be helped

It's my go-to for random lemmy browsing. If I want to read interesting and/or thoughtful stuff I log in to my home instance where I'm subscribed to all my favourite content, but if I feel like mindlessly scrolling some memes and go where the internet mainstream goes, I use liftoff. Good interface, good speed.

It's one of the better ones so far.

Is there no way to hide seen posts or did I just not find it yet?

I'm using Liftoff until Boost (formerly Boost for Reddit) releases their app. Boost was an amazing experience on Reddit so I have to imagine it'll be equally good with Lemmy. So far Liftoff has been very good though. No real complaints but would love to see more customization options in the future.

I was going to say that I loved it, but right now it's no longer showing me posts on my subscribed account on lemmy.world.

So I'm currently on my backup app, voyager.

Liftoff for me has been fantastic... I was a RIF user...

I was an infinity user, so I appreciate Liftoff has similar elements. I'm rooting for the dev!

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.

I like it a lot. I tried Connect but it feels clunky, LiftOff feels more refined.

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

I found it yesterday, and I like it so far.

It’s ok. I got it on Android now.

Would be nice if there was an option in the settings to turn on the ability to see upvote and downvote counts for every post and comment. It's pretty much the only reason I keep going back to Jerboa. I really like being able to see the amount of downvotes something might've gotten.

Best app for my taste, similar to Infinity for Reddit.

I love it. The best Option for now.

LIftoff is fine, but I like Thunder better.

I like the ability of the "everything" feed

I'm using it right now. I'm torn between it and Thunder. They've both made lots of improvements in the last couple weeks.

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.

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.

I like Liftoff but I miss Reply notifications.

..Nvm I found it

As a reader it's vastly better than Jeroba but the notifications are hidden in a very awkward way and I haven't seen access to the mod tools yet or figured out how to search for new communities.

Just installed it like 10 minutes ago. For an early access app, it's not too bad, easy to get around.

Keep improving and keep it up

Also, thanks

Please post this kind of thing in our stickied thread - we get a lot of posts similar to this.

I'm getting to like it a lot.

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I tend to switch back and forth from Thunder to Liftoff and back. I like the layout and gestures of Thunder but Liftoff allows me to share memes directly from the app. That's a surprisingly rare feature.

I tried it for a while, but ended up yp with Jerboa. I'm not a fan of how it makes you choose which instance to search and view from rather than just contextually basing everything off of what instance you're signed into.

It's become my default app for Lemmy.

I am still waiting to try Boost, though.

I'm okay with it. Performs well, no bloat, does what I need.

Does it / will it have mod tools available? The only way I've found so far to access the mod inbox, pin threads etc is through the Lemmy website

Its decent but I would like an option to hide the bottom navigation bar

Definitely my favourite one so far! Though I will still be experimenting with newer ones when they come out.

A couple features I'd like to see implemented:

• Setting a base instance/account and having links open through that instance. I understand this will put increased pressure on the base instance but from a user perspective this is a massive qol update.
• Finding a way to upload videos or converting small videos to gifs before uploading without having to go into a third party source or implementing third party connectivity for this purpose. This is probably out of scope for what the app is trying to achieve, but would be a great addition for content creation on Lemmy in general.

I keep bouncing between this one and Jerboa. I like Liftoff a little more, as it's easier to handle multiple instances and accounts, but I wish that it had mod tools so I wouldn't have to go my communities in the browser or PC to do anything mod related.

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Oooh, just tried it and it looks pretty nice so far!!

I'd like the ability to open links with my browser of choice instead of the default in-app browser.

• The top menus are buttons and look weird and cheapen the experience.
• Voting can’t be done via swipe.
• You should be able to search all communities across all federated instances.
• You should be able to browse the full list of communities for a selected instance.
• The sorter for message replies doesn’t make sense. Why would I need to sort Active message replies?
• If I check a message reply as read, their doesn’t appear to be a way to see it again.

To be very honest, Memmy is currently my favorite and I have been testing them all pretty extensively.

I don't like the way it has a different color than the status bar. Looks jarring and incomplete.

I love it. Some things are a bit awkward ui wise but it's smooth, fast and doesn't heat up my oneplus one

This is awesome work. I wish posts had a thumbnail on the left or right to give you a snippet of the topic similar to the RIF app. I'd not then it mainly feels like a lot of words and read which is not horrible but the experience is slightly lessened and cluttered.

I tried Liftoff, ran into some login issues, and some other minor annoyances and switched to Connect. So far I'm liking connect

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

It's pretty nice, definitely prettier than jerboa. I still haven't found an app that will let me swipe between post comment sections like Joey (for reddit) could. Heck, even the official reddit app could do it, it's like the only feature it had that all of the 3rd party apps don't. Once I find an app that can do that, I'll probably stick with it

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.

It was buggy and the "Subscribed" feeds weren't showing anything. I just deleted and reinstalled and it's working well now.

I like that it shows the full community/instance name with each post. That lets me see where the content is coming from. It seems hidden on another apps I've tried.

I couldn't get it installed. It kept telling me "app not purchased", but only gives me an option to install. It looks promising, though.

I like Liftoff but the one thing that stops me from using it more is the dark theme is still a bit too light. Trouble is, I don't like complete black Amoled mode either. Maybe I'm just hard to please 😁

I think it's missing a few key features. But for the most part I really like it

I have been using it extensively including on Desktop. Overall I am super happy I have a cross platform Lemmy app across different platforms from desktop to mobile.

My only gripe is that there does not seem to be a "context" button as the website has when people reply to my comments. Other than that, seems pretty solid.

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.

It's 2nd best to wefwef.app. The only thing wefwef needs is a grey theme, then it would be perfect. Also it's web based and no dedicated app. But the PWA app is quite good.

I like it. My only criticism so far is that I use Dex pretty frequently and it is not very usable through Dex.

I’m a Mlem guy myself. I like a well designed and native (Swift on Apple platforms) UI. I’ve been absolutely loving it! I can’t say I used Liftoff for very long when I was testing as I ruled it out due to its non native UI relativity quickly haha. But as far as apps go, it looked alright. Just not for me. It sounds like there are many out there loving it (Liftoff)!

It's the fastest lemmy app I've tried and I've tested all the ones I can find on android

I like the minimalistic approach of Lerboa, but liftoff looks really solid. Totally see why it would appeal more to general masses, it's beautiful!

This is the best app ever on android and ios. i mainly use it on ios thought. Thanks devs

e: Trying Memmy it’s also good

The interface is fast on an oldish Android tablet and I like the way images swipe up and away smoothly. But I couldn't vote or comment on non-local posts that I could do on Connect. Not sure if that was a config setting I missed though.

Trying it out as I wait for Boost. I didn't try any others. I like it enough to just stick with it I think since I'm waiting for Boost.

Yes, totally 👍

I like it, except... I can't upvote or comment on anything. I'm signed in, as my comments/posts show up in my profile, but it tells me I'm not logged in when I try to comment. Any tips?

A quick bug is that Liftoff also only seems to show a selection of comments on my recent post. It says there are 8 comments, but Liftoff only shows 5 of them. Then I tried again and it showed 4 comments.

I liked it so much that now I'm using it on my Linux install.

I think it's excellent.

I like it. I just miss being able to search for text in comments and show results in any community.

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

I think it’s nice

I'm really happy that it is on Izzy

I have no issues with it and I think the user experience is awesome

Seems to work good!

Yes I really like Liftoff.

I use Liftoff on my Android. Memmy on my iPhone. Voyager (wefwef) on my desktop.

I am not a regular app user (I prefer my stuff on browsers) and I'm finding it excellent.

easy to use, fast, simple and functional and I absolutely love features such as "make texts selectable". it's infuriating when apps don't allow that.

imo it doesn't need to get much more complex than that... nowadays most mobile devs simply don't care about performance and target only high end devices

It works. I wish the counter next to the notification bell would clear after I read the notifications. Instead I have to force close the app to force it to reload.

I'm sure time will make it better tho.

I had some issues, but after I remembered to update everything is great.

no, I cant even access my community list... I had that bug for a two/three weeks, it makes app unusable. Interface is okey, could use some work

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

Yes. At the moment it is my preferred one over jeroba and connect

Will it be available on F-droid?

Liftoff is good, but it needs UX design overhaul. Connect is good after recent update. I switched from Liftoff to Connect.

I was using connect and preferred that, but it stopped working on me. I use liftoff now. Dont like it as much, but it allows you to navigate to other instances easier

I started with Jerboa and moved to Liftoff due to bugginess. Then moved from Liftoff to Connect because it's easier to flip between accounts with fewer taps. I was on Boost for R and am hoping the new upcoming Lemmy app is as good.

Connect almost does it for me, but it doesn't let me set default to Front Page or Subscribed sorted by New. I don't want to have to tap multiple times to get to that view every time I open the app.

Only thing I think I can find missing is to set a default download folder. Outside of that, it's now my daily driver.

Good UX so far! Boost seems popular so will try that. But liftoff is great.

It's my favorite, so far. A few things could be better. Like when you have large cards set, you still have to click to see the whole image of posts. Most of the time it's only cutting off the top and bottom so it's annoying when it should just show the whole image. Some other small things like that. But otherwise the best I've tried so far!

Edit: I think I'd like an option to enable the karma calculation to be visible or not, now that words spreading it's actually there.