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        I’m OK with the ads. The coder didn’t put disappointingly many ads. And the few ads I saw weren’t annoying. I hope the ad $ has been a 👍 reward for the coder for making and maintaining Sync.

        I <3 the user interface’s design. It’s Google’s design.

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    Voyager. It economizes on screen real estate, and has similar (therefore, familiar to me) ergonomics as Relay did back at the old place.

    Tight design that stays out of the way, and updates frequently.

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    Boost, boost have always been my favorite, on Reddit and now Lemmy. Cant say more then i just like it, and like the developer

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      I also use Boost because of one nice feature: it highlights new comments in a different color.

      I had to turn that feature on in the settings, and it’s very convenient when revisiting an active post.

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      Boost here as well, was a RIF user and I’ve been able to make boost look and feel sorta like RIF which is great.

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        Yeah, rif was my absolute favourite, and I miss a lot of the features it had. I’ve been toying with the idea of cloning it for Lemmy, but maybe I’ll give boost a try first.

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    I’m biased because I chat a lot with the developers, but I’d highly recommend Thunder - very sleek, very customizable, VERY nice compact mode, and a very welcoming group of people. If you try it and feel like something big is missing, they’re quite responsive on github! Been quite impressed with the leaps they’ve made with features on every release.

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      Thunder is a great mix of functions and UI. The compact mode is really great.

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      I second Thunder. Only a few minor gripes from me but switching from sync (gross ads) has been just fine

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      Thunder does look quite nice, but sadly my long defunct keyboard app doesn’t work with it, and they weren’t able to get the apk to test a fix for it. (But they did try.) You’d think, of all things, a keyboard and input field wouldn’t have compatibility issues, but I guess that’s Android for ya.

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          This is me typing “hello”, so it seems like it duplicates all the characters typed so far every time I add a character.

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              It’s called Kii. You can still get a version from a 3rd party site since it hasn’t been on the play store for years.

              I’m not sure how much I trust those apk sites, (so downloader beware!) but you can at least see the screenshots: https://www.apk4fun.com/apps/com.zl.inputmethod.latin/

              I don’t think it’s anything earth shattering, but it’s kinda nice, and fairly minimal, and it’s what I’m used to, so I’m happy with it.

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      Man I’ve been using Voyager since the beginning after switching off jerboa but all these thunder comments are making me want to try it out!

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        Give it a shot! Definitely check the settings if you do, the tweakability is fairly expensive - and if anything feels missing let the team know on GitHub!

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      Second this. I have had some weird freezes with the recent thunder updates so I installed raccoon. It’s not as feature-packed as thunder but you can set up enough UN’s it’s really nice looking.

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    Connect.

    I like to have posts and comments as small as possible, without large pictures being downloaded before I click the post, and it must have a dark mode.

    I also tried Jerboa and Voyager, and while they’re also customizable, I couldn’t get it exactly right. Maybe it’s possible now, but I can’t be bothered to keep up to date on three apps when Connect does it just fine.

    I’m not sure what any of them look like by default. I basically set out to recreate the way I used RiF for Reddit, which also wasn’t the default.

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      I’ve been using Jerboa for that reason. Condensed information so I’m not constantly scrolling.

      What’s Connect look like for you?

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          Might be a hold over from Reddit is Fun but I can’t say I’m keen on the way the voting is displayed there. Seems to take up too much real estate maybe?

          Either way, I’m not a fan of colouring certain text or the lines dividing each post. Both these things make is too busy for my taste.

          Then again, maybe I’m just bland.

          Here’s what posts look like in my compact configuration of Jerboa:

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            I haven’t used Jerboa in ages because of how buggy it was in the beginning, but that looks very pleasing to me as well. So many of the apps out there just look too “busy” for me. I am also coming from Reddit is Fun, so I like as simplistic looking an app as possible. Voyager fills that role for me and fixed the bugginess issues I had with Jerboa.

            I’m sure Jerboa is much more stable now, but I just haven’t had a reason to leave Voyager yet.

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    Jerboa. Because it works alright, it’s open source and it’s the Lemmy team’s app.

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    I use Connect, and I have no complaints.

    Tried Jerboa early on, but at the time it was super buggy. Hopefully it’s better now - I feel like a FOSS app is a way better option for Lemmy just on principle.

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    Voyager for iPad because is the exact same experience I had with Apollo for Reddit which was the best Reddit client back then. Boost for Android because, well, is the same as Boost for Reddit which was the best on Android :)

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    Thunder because I think it has the most features, the UI is designed pretty well and I like the user experience it offers. They are working on amazing new features like notifications over UnifiedPush and moderation tools (I think no other app has mod tools). It’s completely free and open-source and available on F-Droid via the IzzyOnDroid repository. And unlike Sync, it doesn’t have ads.

    I recently also learned that it’s one of the few open-source (and still actively maintained and developed) Lemmy apps, which is quite sad. I don’t understand why so many folks use proprietary apps like Litoff, Summit, Connect, Boost or Sync. Sync is especially bad, because it has ads and trackers.

    I tried Jerboa before I switched to Thunder and hated it, it just feels like an incomplete and buggy mess with poor UI/UX.

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    Voyager is the way. Only downside is that there is no notifications feature implemented yet.

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    Tried a bunch and landed on Thunder. It’s minimalist, tucking away all its features nicely. It’s experience is like rif if you ever used that, but lots more going on in the Settings menu to set it up how you like.