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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* (last edited 1 year ago)

more feedback, when I reply to a topic, I would like for my reply to be on top so that I can easily see replies to it and edit it and stuff. (Uhh I just refreshed and both were at the top. I just be crazy or slow)

case in point, I made a mistake in my other comment thinking that the colored lines on the sides of comment chains weren't there (they very much are, I'm clearly blind).

Also for some reason the comment box doesn't auto capitalize the first letter of a sentence.

[–] [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

Wow, impressive work, in such a short time. I really like it.
Thank you!

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

Looks good. Now we just need a good iOS app

[–] [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* (last edited 1 year ago)

How hard would it be to add a view to make it look more like old.reddit.com?

Not sure what the hate is about you can look at stuff multiple ways

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

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

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

I may be wrong but, are you not showing all communities subscribed in the list, just the first page? I see 10 but im subbed to somewere closer to 50...

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

Sad noises...

Australia.

Thanks for putting effort into this. By far the best reddit experience I have had is with relay for reddit.

You could also check it the feature requests for jerboa for ideas.

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

That's a good idea. Added Australia to the list!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 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.

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

Hi, just wanted to make sure you saw this but that issue is now fixed. Thanks again!

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

Damn that looks awesome! Did you find any good docs on the API? I only found the lemmy-js-client, which is a library, though. Wanted to do some shenanigans with Python and Lemmy, but there doesn't seem to be too much documentation...

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

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

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

Yeah I made one, it's empty right now but I'll post new releases + changelogs there. https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect

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

Joined! Great progress already.

!lemmyconnect

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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)

Looks nice, but not available in my country.

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[–] [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.

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

Ah I must not be filtering the username with the instance so it's grabbing the first username match it sees. I'll fix this in the next release :)

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

Downloaded and used for an hour or so. I'd like to see an option to change the font size. I like my stuff to be small so I can get more content on the screen. 1.6 posts is pretty bad for me. I also couldn't find a way to change my default homepage to "subscribed - new" but maybe I just didn't search hard enough. Either way, it's good to have some competition for Jerboa!

Edit: Found Frontpage. Might be worth changing this to Subscribed since that seems to be the Lemmy equivalent.

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

I'd also love to see an option to change the font size, but for the opposite reason - my eyes suck and I need bigger text! Lol. I love it so far either way!

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

Options for text sizes coming up in the next release :)

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

Fantastic! Thank you so very much! Also, damn you're quick, lol! I hope you're looking after yourself and taking care of yourself above all. It's important - you're important! <3

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