I’ll second this. As a transplant of Reddit who used Apollo, Memmy seems to be heavily influenced by Apollo, which imo was an outstanding app.
I also saw all the posts about Sync and had to get caught up. Definitely makes me appreciate this app too.
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You should check out Voyager too. It’s the closest thing to Apollo appearance-wise that I’ve used. I typically switch between that and Memmy.
I can’t get on with voyager. What the dev has done with a React PWA app is amazing but not having haptics makes it feel too weird. And the new app version is just a web view and performance is awful for me, not sure if it’s better on newer phones. But i could learn a lot from what he’s done with React I’m sure.
There's a TestFlight available, which adds haptics.
Yea that’s what i was talking about with the app version. It just puts it in a web view on mobile, which makes it have terrible performance for me.
There is a TestFlight that is a native iOS app now, complete with haptic feedback.
The animations in Voyager iOS web app have lower refresh rate than in Memmy. Even on the latest iPhone.
In my ANdroid phone on Android 13, haptics are present in Voyager.
Not so on iOS, unfortunately.
Oof
I’m Voyager only. Was trying out a few other clients, but Voyager almost nails the Apollo feel
Thanks, I’ll check that. I’ve been beta testing Thunder and Liftoff! liftoff works nicely for browsing, but seems to have trouble posting using federation (tells my I’m not signed in anywhere). Thunder let’s me post, the the UI needs lots of work (now swipe forward, tough vote buttons and more).
@nilloc Are you running the latest version of the Liftoff app? Had a similar issue until the latest upgrade and now it prompts me to select the profile before I post when I'm logged in with multiple profiles across separate instances.
Same. I bounced between all the apps for a few weeks but I’ve settled into only using voyager. It’s just perfect
I'm also an ex-Apollo user. Memmy was my go to until I learned about Voyager. Don't even need Sync much, at this point, as this web app works for everything. If Voyager improves posting experience with rich text preview, it's simply perfect.
Voyager has an app now too. It’s pretty snappy and has a similar interface as memmy and mlem.
On iOS, yes. It's in TestFlight, I'm waiting for a full release, other than the occasional scroll freeze, PWA is more than enough for me.
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Such a sweet thing to say, giantfloppycock
I’ve been extremely impressed with Memmy. Clean, stable and easy to use.
The main feature that’s missing is fast account switching, which IMO is even more important on a federated service.
edit: nm, long press on your account on the bottom to switch. The app is great!
Just long-press your account to switch; I’m not sure how much faster you could need it to be?
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Agreed, I’m assuming this poster didn’t know about the long-press. Good information, giantfloppycock!
That is brilliant!
Thanks. Then I really have no major complaints at all!
All that’s missing for me is a swipe to hide function like Apollo had and Voyager has. Once I have that I’ll be pretty locked in on Memmy, as I prefer it aesthetically !
We will be adding that soon i believe, since we’ve started making gestures customizable
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I think that Memmy has the right priorities and a strong lead in regards to what’s important right now. When I read the changelog it feels like this project is on a really solid foundation.
I also like that’s it’s tuned very much for efficiency. No unnecessary glitter and stuff.
Meanwhile I’m just using Kbin on my browser and it works okay.
We plan on eventually adding kbin support!
I used to do that as well for a bit but once I tried Memmy I never went back
Any one tried the app called Avelon yet.,??
In my opinion, it’s one of the minimalist and snappy Lemmy app in comparison to Memmy (which is little bit cluttered with all the features and little more battery drainer with the similar usage pattern ).
As one of the main Memmy devs, i really like Avelon. I appreciate he’s trying something pretty different and like the direction he’s taking.
Avelon dev here - thanks! Really enjoy Memmy as well, pretty impressive what you guys are able to do with React Native.
It's very cool to see so much enthusiasm in the dev community. Lemmy can definitely be a place where lots of different apps & frontends can thrive to suit just about everyone.
Hey sorry totally forgot to respond! Been checking out Avelon again for the past couple days and it’s really getting nice! Keep up the awesome work man
Yes.
- Sent from Memmy for lemmy on my Apple iPhone 12 mini
Well, it’s including the „Microsoft App Center“ tracker. I have to block ||appcenter.ms^
Several other Lemmy Apps do not have any tracker.
I’d guess that’s because we use CodePush to do over the air updates, so you don’t have to wait for apple to approve a build.
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Are you sure it’s the app and not websites you visit through Lemmy or your instance tracking you? I’m not seeing any tracking on my end when just browsing.
Yes, I am sure. The App Store even say that some device ID are get shared with the App.
This was explained by the dev at some point when the app went to the store. I believe this is related to push notifications. There is a post about it/comment by the developer but Lemmy.world is giving me server errors when I try to find it.
Not sure where the appcenter tracker is coming from though.
Device ID is just for push notifications.
Appcenter does OTA push updates, dev is probably making a fast update system so they don't have to push updates to the various stores, the app was made in react native so appcenter is pretty standard for codepush OTA updates
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