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Boost For Lemmy

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Was wondering if anybody had any news about Boost's arrival to the Lemmy scene, or if anybody knew of any way to get news about Boost.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Well... it's not going to be especially fast, they do need to restructure the entire back end of their application and make changes to a lot of the front end too, I imagine. Going to be a good while, I predict.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Liftoff is very good, I would recommend trying it out.

The only resource for Boost for Lemmy I've seen is the relatively empty Play Store entry.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Using multiple accounts on various instances was frustrating with Liftoff. I may have needed to try for a bit longer to get it, but ended up just going back to Jerboa

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this was my complaint with Liftoff also. The inability to easily subscribe is frustrating. I usually jot down the instance and subscribe when I get on my desktop.

[โ€“] Blizzard 3 points 1 year ago

I'm tenporary using Liftoff as well, but can't wait for Boost. Checking for any news constantly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Liftoff is quite good but there's one thing that I find frustrating. When I get comment replies, I can't click on the comment to go the thread where the comment resides. I don't know if I'm totally missing something or what! (probably am)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Paper clip will bring you to the context

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It took me a while to figure out that too. Haha!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's about all I've seen too. I'm currently using Liftoff as you say. I've tried just about everything else, but this comes closest to fulfilling the use-case I had for Boost.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

https://github.com/aeharding/voyager

Check out this app, it seems to me the best of all those currently available.

[โ€“] Blizzard 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't stand the apple style.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Version 0.24 has beta Android style.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not very good yet though. Definitely beta

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well the android theme has been out for less than 24 hours. They will probably improve it with their daily updates

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might want to try later again. The app is under active development.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No the app's very good. I'm only talking about the Android theme. It says beta on it anyway though

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Voyager is okay and has a nice UI, but PWA's are always less than optimal because the browser abstraction layer is just slow.

Check Thunder for Lemmy. It's the best native app I've tried yet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The experience is very smooth for me. Seems indistinguishable from a native app. Which browser are you using it with? I am using it with Chrome on Android

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kiwi browser on Android. Kiwi is a Chrome shell browser with upgrades.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've found it runs smoother when you use it on Firefox.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I agree. Right now the idea of a web app is cool, but it doesn't really work all that well for me (scrolling up too quickly causes problems when the page thinks you want to refresh, and I like most of my apps to be in the drawer, not my home page, for instance).

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The best android app currently is connect for lemmy

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not available in F droid is no go for me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do not know the reason why you don't want to use play store.

There is a play store alternative called Aurora store on f-droid. I installed connect with Aurora store.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not because of play store. It's because not being on f-droid generally means an app is not foss. That's why I avoid connect as well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This may be a stupid question, but how does an app being on Play Store and not F-Droid make it no longer FOSS?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know boost isn't FOSS right?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not Stallman. I make some exceptions and Boost has been one if them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I find personally Jerboa to be the most stable with the richest feature base currently. Has a ways to go, but jerboa is consistently updated to keep up with Lemmy changes as well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think the same.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think it's still early for that. In the meantime, I suggest two apps that kind of resemble to our beloved Boost: Jerboa, and Connect. Check them out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've found Thunder to be quite good, it's on the Playstore

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still cycling between apps almost daily, and none so far ticks all the boxes for me. I have Liftoff, Connect, Jerboa and Voyager on my phone right now. I tried Thunder a while back but didn't like it.

Sync is on it's way and it will come down to either that or Boost in the end for me, I think.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, totally.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Nope :(. Prolly be a month or two. I liked boost for reddit. Right now I'm using Jerboa. It's not bad :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nothing was said before the API was going dark, and nothing has been said since then. The lack of communication is driving me towards sync for lemmy instead.

I get that it's a side project, but updates to your community take very little effort.

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I mean, when reddit stopped working on boost it now shows a message saying that he's working on boost for lemmy. That's not no communication. It could be much better though

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

does it? where? it just says error for me

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

As far as I know boost is made by a solo dev and depending on the person updates can be a lot of effort especially updating a crowd of impatient people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Guess you're finally in luck.

Rubรฉn created and maintained Boost for Reddit as a single dev as far as I know, and I would assume he's doing the same for Lemmy. I don't think he was ever frequently communicating on Reddit either, only now and then. Plus, he wasn't going to create a Lemmy version of Boost initially, so it really hasn't been in development long.

You just have to be a little patient.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I picked up Jerboa. Its FOSS and Boost-like. The fact its FOSS will probably keep me on it if Boost comes back but is still closed source

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"Our destination is just over the next hill. Now let's listen to the radio or I'll turn this car around."

My dad, probably.

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