I need your opinion and suggestions on the best Lemmy client to use.

P.S., I currently use Voyager as my client.

  • sbv@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    I really enjoy Sync.

    I was using Voyager until Sync got ported over to Lemmy. Voyager is great, but I find Sync more responsive. I also really appreciate Sync’s appearance customization. I’m old, so I like cranking the size of some text.

    I think there’s an ad supported version of Sync if you want to try it. I paid the CDN$10 or whatever it cost on release. It’s worth it to me.

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      6 days ago

      I also really like sync. I also paid for the ad free version.

      But there are still some issues and the dev is, again, inactive.

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        6 days ago

        Yeah. As much as I like Sync, I’m envious of aeharding’s constant improvements to Voyager.

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          6 days ago

          yep. i lived Avelon until development stopped, and Voyager passed it up. the continued development is the long term play. my only problem with voyager is it doesnt let you come back to where you left off. i leave the app to google up something before i post it and when i go to return the post has vanished.

          i want non-volatile Voyager.

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            4 days ago

            Sync has had serious issues in the past such as an easily triggered, reproducible, guaranteed crash on open, with the dev not putting out a fix for months. This neglect goes back several years, to back when Sync was a Reddit client. Most infamously he disappeared for over a year when his UI refresh wasn’t well received.

            The app is great (I’m only on Boost due to user tags requiring a paid subscription in Sync), but his response time to issues is glacial. And it doesn’t help that it’s by far the most expensive client if you want it ad-free, and features that used to be free now require an even more expensive subscription to use on top of that.

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              5 days ago

              First I’ve heard of any show stopping bugs. Been running fine for me (lemmy and reddit) and countless others. Maybe some niche incompatibility with your device.

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                5 days ago

                The crash I referenced was caused by having the scrollbar enabled IIRC, and it was fixed earlier this year. It made it impossible to launch the main activity without crashing if you’d enabled that setting, so users were sharing workarounds to launch directly to the settings screen without loading any communities so they could disable it.

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      6 days ago

      Big +1 for Sync.

      I was paying for Sync back when it was a Reddit client, and I moved to Lemmy mostly because that is where Sync moved.

      It’s an awesome app. Best app purchase I’ve ever made. (There is a free version too.)

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      6 days ago

      I think I want to give a try to Sync soon. Thanks for the suggestion.

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      6 days ago

      I find Sync more responsive.

      I like cranking the size of some text

      I’m on iOS and Voyager has many customizations and the ability to change text sizes. I’ve never noticed any issues with responsiveness.

      Is this another one of those “well I was on Android and used sync vs well I was iOS and used AlienBlue / Apollo ” comments? Perhaps androids Voyager not as good as the iOS version? I guess it depends on what OP is using for mobile.