They are honestly both good, but can’t beat the native ios experience.

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      Trying Mlem for the first time, the only thing that bothers me is that it shows total post scores and not individual numbers for up/down votes. I like seeing when something is controversial vs ignored.

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        Funny you should mention that, I’m actually working on implementing that exact feature right now! It’ll be out in the next build.

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          That sounds great! I will be following the app’s progress for sure.

          By the way, the other thing that stood out was not being able to tap on an image and view just that image full screen. Being able to do that leads to things like zooming in on the image, or long pressing to copy/share it.

          You also included features I didn’t even know I wanted, like the privacy option to hide your username. You’re doing good work, my friend. o7

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        That, plus the zooming didn’t work well

        I’m an idiot, though. I was in the TestFlight beta, then left it when they released it to the App Store (before realizing that the TestFlight beta would be ongoing and get earlier releases than the App Store version). That is to say — it’s probably already fixed.

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        It’s coming! We’ve got development slated to start early August, it should enter TestFlight beta sometime shortly after then.

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            Good news–we decided that “some support is better than none,” and quietly released the iPad app to the App Store as well. It’s not perfect–we’re pretty heavily leaning on SwiftUI’s automagic cross-platform–and while we finish filling out our core features it’s not going to get much dev time, but come 1.2 we’ll make it all nice and shiny

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              Okay, thanks! I grabbed it and two things: switching accounts is terrible, and it’s making me nuts that I can’t swipe right to get back to the feed list (the “back” button isn’t doing it for me).

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        There already is an iPad version! It’s in the App Store release! It’s also there in the GitHub version

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      Ok good, I’m not the only one! Feel like Mlem doesn’t get enough love! I like Memmy too, don’t get me wrong.

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        Interesting — is the former compiled? Seems smoother vs Swift UI, which is the opposite of what I’d expect for something that sounds like it has more bloat (React).

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          In theory swift should be smoother, but in reality React Native is good enough for it to be really smooth. It comes down to the coding itself.

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            Hm, yeah. The comment collapsing, for example, is animated in Mlem, whereas in Memmy it’s a simple disappear/ appear transition.

            The latter makes Memmy feel more snappy, even though Mlem’s smooth animation is actually kind of more impressive from a pure performance point of view.

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              Yeah that’s true. React native do support very smooth transitions as well though. Another app that is extremely smooth - albeit not as complete as Mlem or Memmy is Beans for Lemmy. I do believe it’s written in Swift as well.

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                Avelon is also another that I believe is Swift. It’s smoother than both Lemmy and Mlem, but lacks swipe actions at the moment, which turns out to make it unusable for me.

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        Yeah I liked the old name wefwef over voyager. It rolls off the tongue in a satisfying aspiration.

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          Ngl I prefer Voyager as a name over Wefwef lol. But I like the word voyager in general so I might he biased.

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      I use all three (Voyager/WefWef being the third)! Sometimes one does something better than the others or has a feature I need.

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    Mostly Voyager for me because it’s almost a 1:1 clone of what I know and love.

    But I have Memmy installed too and sometimes use that instead with no particular rhyme or reason.

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      Imagine touting the benefits of an open, decentralized, user-centric platform, and ONLY releasing your app for it on the most closed, centralized, corporate mobile operating system.

      Not sure if this is hypocrisy or a lack of self awareness or what, but memmy is a joke for doing this

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      Mlem dev here—couldn’t agree more about Gavin, he’s a fantastic guy. Gave us some helpful tips about getting through App Store review. Massive props to him for getting that app up and running so fast.

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        I just want to say I love the friendly “competition” between you guys. It just results in better and better products. I have both and I use them equally. Great work on Mlem, and thanks for opening up the beta signup when I asked a couple of days ago. lol

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      That and being unable to swipe-collapse a comment tree. The right-left swipe only being reply (when there’s already that giant reply button) there is certainly a design choice.

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      If you want a good Android Lemmy client app, get Connect.

      It blows Jerboa and liftoff out of the water.

      It’s even getting updates once or twice a week!

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        Was like "oh cool, gonna try this connect app’, only to realize I was reading this comment on Connect. So many apps, man.

        Jokes aside I’m loving that there’s so many different clients.

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      No clue about memmy but WefWef aka Voyager is also available on android (as a Web app).

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    Might as well ask here. I am waiting on Sync for Lemmy to be released, and more importantly reach a non-alpha/beta release. But for now I am also down to try out others. Are there any that are able to handle Android tablets correctly? At the moment I have only used Jerboa. It is great on my phones, but it looks like the old days of apps for Android being forced to run on early tablets on my Galaxy Tab S8+. It just stretches out and feels off in both landscape and portrait orientations.

    Adding this to be more specific, as I blanked on it originally. The thing I was somehow forgetting to mention was having cards in multiple columns. With Sync for Reddit, you could have posts show as cards that had smallish preview thumbnails in multiple columns. So posts would show more like a grid. Not sure why I blanked on saying that when talking about how currently posts just stretch all the way across the width of the display (especially in landscape mode). I am not sure if this is even currently an option with how Lemmy itself works. So hopefully that helps better. lol.

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        I was on jerboa before and liked it. However I tried connect and it’s much better. Jerboa had a lot of bugs still. And the UI is smoother, cleaner and better functionality on connect.

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        Installed and it does seem to be smooth, so I do thank you for pointing it out! I am beginning to think what I am looking for is more an issue with Lemmy. The thing I liked about Sync was the ability to have multiple columns of posts in the card format. So each post in a community doesn’t just span the whole width of the screen (which is much more dramatic in landscape). Also keeps it easy to scroll more posts and preview images being smaller, but not as tiny as the super small list view.

        That all being said, I do think Connect is very clean and will be using it more for the moment. It is good to see attention from devs being put towards Lemmy.

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      I have no clue if it has tablet support, but I like Liftoff much better than Jerboa

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        Installed and seems to have the same issue. But I will keep it installed along with Connect and any others I come across. I like to jump between different apps over time to see how they evolve and compare to each other. Thanks for sharing it!