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Hi lemmings, I switched over from Reddit 10 days ago now but I couldn't find a mobile client that I was happy with with an experience similar to the Reddit experience I was used to. So I decided to build my own and I hope you will like it as well!

Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

Features:

  • Material U
  • Dark and Light themes
  • List view / Card view / Fullwidth view
  • Filter lists for hiding posts
  • Multiple accounts + switcher across multiple instances
  • Guest accounts for viewing an instance without signup
  • Search and community autofill
  • Markdown support + attempt to navigate links correctly (/u/foo will open that user instead of browser kickout. Same for /c/, !, and @)
  • Saving posts
  • full sort types
  • NSFW view options (hide, blur, show)
  • copy text and url on all posts and comments
  • add comments, replies, and new posts
  • comment replies with line indicators

Here's other screenshots:

Future plans:

  • Improving the inbox
  • Swipe actions
  • Multi-~~reddit ~~communities

Thank you for taking a look. I hope others who are migrating from Reddit like me will find the app useful and I'd love to know your thoughts!

Edit: Community for the app is here: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My keyboard constantly tries to switch to caps as I type in Connect. I am using Grammarly. It will flicker the upper case layout between each key press. It's unusable as it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, you are really fast! I've been using Jerboa and the PWA, but not super happy with either. Yours look great! Will use it more and feed back to you if that's okay.

One thing I found is that it doesn't show the number of new comments. I usually sort by NewComments, and I would expect to e.g. see "49 comments (14 new)" like Jerboa/PWA.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Posting from the app. Awesome progress for only 10 days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will this app be compatible with kbin.social accounts? I've tried to sign in and it's throwing a whole page of an error message.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy and Kbin are entirely different Software. Fediverse just allows posts to be visible between other fediverse applications.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tried it quickly and was not well surprised. I appreciate thr approach a lot! The app is nice looking but feels too chewy. Prefer the mobile browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for making this!

My first impressions upon downloading are that I'm glad it exists but I think I'll stick to Jerboa for the time being. It looks really well made for those who are into the cards display format, however I'm personally not a fan of cards views on apps and I feel the list view isn't quite there yet.

One interesting quirk I noticed worth noting for the developer, not sure if it's a bug. I signed in with [email protected] and when I click profile it seems to display my comment history of my Kbin account by the same name. I'm not certain if the profile would display the comments and whatnot of all instances that have that name?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm checking it out and it looks beautiful!

Question: does it have collapsible comments and if not is that a planned feature?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

runs very smooth on my 5 year old phone. Some suggestions for improvement

  • With All selected not all feeds were showing up on the sidebar
  • Adding a compact layout for sidebar and comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks good. Now we just need a good iOS app

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like Infinity! looks promising

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

so far I'm really liking it. I would like alternating backgrounds on comments just to help separate them out a little.

I don't see the ability to edit my comments. I had to pull up the pwa to edit this one.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks great but it says it's not available in my country (Brazil)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just checked and was able to get it to install on my end, OP might have updated it in the meantime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

yeah it's fixed now, thanks anyway

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks amazing! I'll try it out!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Any chance of adding Kbin logins?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you considered creating a community for your app? Would make it a lot easier to follow development

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe bug: in list view, the width of post title and content seems to be limited to around 80% of my screen width.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's a bug! Thank you. I'd guess it's leaving the 20% space for an image thumbnail which doesn't exist. I'll fix this in the next release.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The screen shots look good. I'll download it and try it out. Let me know if you make a community for it so we can give back feedback on there. The more apps the merrier now that Reddit is getting rid of all them!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you, let me know what you think! I made a community here: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, i like your app a lot! Jerboa doesnt work on my Motorola, so i installed your app. Looks very nice and works well as a first impression!

I just want to tell you good luck, we are all counting on you! :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you @[email protected]! I'm glad you like it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I signed into my dataterm.digital account but when I go on profile I see my feddit.de profile even though I didn't login with it.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm very thankful to you! I wanted a nice app to browse lemmy and I found your app a couple of days ago! I've had a very nice experience so far

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks @[email protected]! I'm glad you're enjoying it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't even be accepted to join Lemmy. I'm on Kbin right now.

Tbh, these platforms confuse me. The Kbin app is great though, so I guess I don't need to change.

Would like to know how to follow a group though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is not one thing, it's a way for different sites (called instances) to share content with each other.

What instances (i.e. domains) are you trying to create an account on? There have been some big bot waves in the last few days, but even without that every instance handles signup differently. Some are totally open, while others require manual review of some kind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

On Kbin, Lemmy groups are called "magazines," so all you have to do is go to the magazines list, search for what you want, and subscribe. You can even subscribe to magazines hosted on other servers from there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks great. Hopefully gets availabe is Irish play store soon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Should be available now in the Irish store!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks great! I'll also chime in that the Play Store website tells me it's not available for any of my devices, and the Play Store app says it's not available in my country (Chile).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Added Chile to the list! Will be available in an hour or so I think.

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