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What app are you using to browse Beehaw on Android? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been using Sync for a while, but it repeatedly hits an error when I try to submit posts to Beehaw. I have not tried other instances, but I am assuming this issue is specific to Sync. Getting really sick of drafting posts and then having to discard them because the app errors out 🤦

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Liftoff... but I wouldn't recommend it.

It hasn't been updated in a long while, it has some even larger missing features, and some extra bugs.

Sync... was actually one of the few to update for some Beehaw-apecific bugs some time ago, you might want to contact the developer with your issues.

I keep it as a bav6for when Liftoff fails, the draft feature is pretty nice, and it has better search.

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

As someone who used Sync exclusively in the reddit days (and uses it here as well), while the dev is generally open to suggestions, he tends to take loooooong breaks, even between betas.

That means bugfixes and features do eventually come, but sometimes not before someone has moved onto something else with more active development. The funny thing is that when those updates do come, they come in speeding. Like multiple updates per day on some occasions.

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

I'm surprised you're able to continue using Liftoff at all. It doesn't work what-so-ever with any instance (like you can't log in) on any version of Lemmy beyond 0.19. I finally retired using it when my primary instance updated.

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

Yeah... Beehaw is still on 0.18.4, guess my days of using Liftoff are coming to an end sooner or later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Beehaw won't update so you are fine

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

Ride that pony as long as you can, friend. I still hope that the dev will come back 🥹

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

Looking into it, seems like Liftoff is a fork of Lemmur, which was a nlnet project [1] that got archived "due to lack of interest and political differences" a few months after the funding ended. Can't find who's now in charge of the Liftoff org on GitHub, so it's hard to tell who should come back 🤔

[1] https://nlnet.nl/project/Lemmur/