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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] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, black cat! From the screenshots, your app looks very promising. Would you consider making it FOSS, though? Just asking.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The app looks great! Feels very fluid.

I have only three requests:

  • make it FOSS in spirit of the fediverse (obviously you don't have to, that's your choice)
  • give me a way to download pics from inside the app. I very often download memes and share them in other chats. You've got open external, which works, but it's an extra step. Downloading in app would just be more convenient.
  • lastly, give me a way to buy you a beer 😁
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi, thanks for the feedback and I'm glad you're enjoying it! I've added a download button to media views. Open source is on the roadmap as well if there's enough interest.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I would strongly recommend open-sourcing it! There are several FOSS apps already and it would be hard to compete against them without opening up =]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Thank God there's a filter setting 😭😭😭 sorely missed coming from infinity. First thing filtered? "reddit."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's interesting. Needs some more formatting options imo. I liked how in boost for reddit the titles of posts were always at least as big as the preview of the body of the post. Just makes it look much cleaner imo. Could use a font size option. Could use some color options too eventually.

Also, it needs a "Subscribed" page. Default lemmy has this page that only shows you content from communities youre subscribed to. You should see about getting that feed on your app.

Overall though great work, it looks really promising thus far and I'm impressed with how quickly you've put this together.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll take a look at how Boost for Reddit formats their titles, thanks! The 'Frontpage' once you're signed in should be equivalent to the Subscribed page.

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

'Subscribed' is called 'Frontpage' in the app, you can find it in the sidebar. Edit - oops, looks like kuro_neko beat me!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nice job. But not available in my country (Germany). Looks really nice and familiar to reddit apps.

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

Just added Germany to the list of countries! I think it will take Google an hour or so to update.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks!! Would be nice if you can setup the f-droid app.

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

Hab sie gerade installiert. Probier's noch einmal ;)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Will you be making this open source?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks good and I was able to get it on pretty quickly. I was about to post this from the app but saw it's missing the web's markdown shortcuts and image upload option.

Also looking at this post the screenshots are cropped and I didn't see a straight forward way of looking at the whole image.

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

Thanks! I'll make a note to add markdown shortcuts and image upload to the next release. I should probably make those cropped images expand out on click.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Congrats for the release! I finally have alternative to Jerboa!

Some feedback if you don't mind:

  • Full Height view. It's like the full width view, but display the image without any cropping.
  • Tap and hold to show image in full screen, release to close. Very useful for compact views. Also should works for articles thumbnails.
  • Native imgur support. Right now it's treated as a web page. If it'll require using paid API, just disregard this until you have some funding.
  • Preload images when on wifi (optional setting). Basically preload the next N images in the list so they'll appear instantly.
  • Show full community names and user name. Right now it only show the community name and user name, but not the instance name. This is confusing if you subscribed to multiple communities with the same name from multiple instances. Same for usernames.
  • option to toggle denser comments views with minimal whitespace.
  • (possible bug?) The community list on the side menu doesn't show all my subscribed communities.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

These are very good suggestions! would also like for it to show the instance name of a post as well as the hold-to-show-image

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That UI looks really clean. I love it. Is it open source? Not that i dont trust you but i try to not use any closed source apps anymore, i would appreciate it if you would share the link to the source code.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks great from the screenshot!

The Google Play doesn't let me install it though and I can't find it via the Google Play app

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Strange - I'll take a look! I'm testing on a Pixel 6 so I would think it would work.

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

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

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

I love the look and layout, but I can't get any threads to load. It just says "No posts"

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

I'll take a look! Do you have any filters applied? Is that across all instances?

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

Seconded. I logged in but the posts don't show up. Also only my subscriptions on my main instance are listed, not subscriptions from other instances.

This app looks really promising. Reminds me of Boost.

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

Can you also host the APK or upload it on F-Droid?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah I'll look into uploading the APK and add a reply here when it's ready.

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[–] [email protected] 2 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.

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

Thanks for the feedback! I'll add the new comment counter in the next release.

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

just a quick feedback, when being in the dark mode, the user switching remain in light mode. Also the node selection suggesting the possible nodes would be appreciated.

also, adding new accounts after the first one, doesn't seems to work.

I added my lemmy.world and it seemed to work.

anything else besides it, didn't work (tried, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc.)

overall it's a good mvp, well done, need a little more work and i would appreciate if it was a FOSS to absolutely avoid situations in which an app become the unofficial-official app but then a sudden surge of egocentrism from an individual take it away.

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

just downloaded the app. I really like it. please keep up the good work

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

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

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

I love the app! I just wanted to give you some debug info. I can't log into a second account on my current andoid tablet or andoid 10 phone. The button to do so does nothing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hi! could you confirm you're on the latest version? it should say 1.0.31 under settings

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

That fixed it! You and your team are working very fast! Keep up the good work! It is appreciated!

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

That fixed it! You and your team are doing great work! It is appreciated!

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[–] spread 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The app is cool and I'll probably continue using it. The card view also seems to crop the images. If that's the intended behaviour, please add a view showing the full images. Thanks (Android 12, Samsung s10e)

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

I'll make the Fullwidth view show the full uncropped image (scaled to fit) in the next release. Thank you for your feedback!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Nothing is showing up in my feed when signed in to lemmy.ml

Also, the Google password manager is trying to input the password into the instance text box when trying to sign in. Pixel 7 Pro.

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

Looks amazing! I'll try it out!

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