The only reason why we all used third party apps for Reddit, is because their app and website is abhorrent trash. It’s great to have a choice, but Lemmy’s website is smooth to use. I know it’s mind blowing not to use a app for everything in 2023 but Lemmy just works.
Dude, most us left reddit because we loved our app. Apps are generally more refined than websites and offer better notification interaction.
It’s better than reddits mobile site but native apps always win if the dev puts in an effort to make it good.
Please do not assume to know every user’s needs.
personally it’s more convenient if there’s a mobile app, so I’m using Liftoff right now, until Sync, Artemis or Boost release 😀
But why though? What does an app get you that you can’t get by pinning the site to your home screen?
Apps are more customizable. The UI also tends to be better. The web app is fine but i find trying to upvote anything closes a post i just opened. Personally, i like seeing full images of things as I scroll by. So something like a webclient isnt very convenient and rather tedious. I’m using a whole bunch pf userscripts on my desktop to improve the pc experience, apps generally do that for me on android.
In the end, it’s user preference. I prefer Jerboa, Liftoff, and Thunder atm.
Whoever is downvoting the above comment: stop downvoting legitimate questions! Even if you don’t agree with their sentiment , the commenter isn’t a troll or rage baiting.
Seems like some habits are going to follow us from reddit. Downvoting at the drop of a hat is such a miserable shitty thing to do, but many seem wedded to it.
I remember (Pepperidge farm remembers!) when the majority of folks on Reddit were benign, even though we had edge lords occasionally.
Funny thing, Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon was benign until right about now (with some nazis, edge lords or tankies however) before the surge.
I prefer apps either now just because Android is pretty bad about reloading pages when you switch back and forth between your browser.
Also once Boost for Lemmy comes out, it’ll be all I need.
Because on my phone, using Firefox, the mobile experience isn’t too great. It’s slow, sometimes the screen just blanks out and I need to reload, and sometimes it rapid-fires new posts on the top of the page which makes it impossible to click anything
That isn’t the only reason tbh. Sometimes different apps can completely alter how we use the service. There already exist some apps that do Lemmy better than Lemmy itself and this will continue to grow. Hence everyone asking for apps
The mobile browser website is an absolute hot mess on my phone right now. (Firefox on Android)
I’m using Connnect at the moment and it’s like I haven’t even left Reddit
Agreed, I’m very happy with the mobile version of the website. I keep trying the apps which are admittedly in early development and then switching back to my regular browser.
What’s up with the passive agressiveness of this post? People on mobile usually prefer browsing stuff on their phone is the point lol
In Firefox, visit https://wefwef.app , then hit settings and choose install. Poof, it’s amazing.
I personally like using Memmy rather than the website. Although for kbin it’s ok, but only because there’s no app currently available.
It is more awesome with this UI
100% agree on this. Wefwef has really helped me grasp how Lemmy works. So impressive for a web app. Incidentally this is my 1st Lemmy post!
Commenting from Kbin on Firefox, where I have to rotate my phone to landscape orientation to read full comments. If I keep it in portrait, some comments will randomly run off the side of my view, and zooming out doesn’t help.
It’s not perfect. I’m very much hanging in there until some sort of upgrade comes along. Lemmy.world has been unable to get me signed in, so there’s that.
Did you purposely make your comment long to serve as an example? Because it runs right off the side of my screen lol
Ha! I wasn’t trying for that outcome, but it sure worked! Even for me reading my own comment, it runs off the screen
Hmm that’s weird, I use the kbin site in Firefox on my pixel 5 and haven’t had this happen anywhere
Same here on a lower end Samsung, it’s fine. IMHO I also think if people flock to apps for just a UI, it can take away some of the motivation to improve a site.
Sorry but that’s not true at all. Lemmy’s UI feels very unfinished/amateur project like. Even the jerboa app, which is from one of the dev, improves the mobile UI experience greatly compared to just the web version.
For Mobile users buttons should usually be bigger. But e.g. the comment collapse button is very tiny and I need to concentrate to press it correctly on mobile.
Try wefwef.app. It’s a web app for mobile, the UI is based on the infamous Apollo app.
Tangentially, does anyone know why we stopped having cool words for different kinds of software? We used to have daemons and wizards. Now everything’s an app, and it’s lame.
Poorer vocabulary results in a cruder world model. Both a cause and effect of general decline of mental facilities.
