I think it’s still early for that. In the meantime, I suggest two apps that kind of resemble to our beloved Boost: Jerboa, and Connect. Check them out.
Thunder has a two-column feed setting, not sure about any other tablet optimizations yet! There should be a new full release this week or next, but the latest build on GitHub is quite solid and has a lot of improvements from the build currently on Google Play
I’m still cycling between apps almost daily, and none so far ticks all the boxes for me. I have Liftoff, Connect, Jerboa and Voyager on my phone right now. I tried Thunder a while back but didn’t like it.
Sync is on it’s way and it will come down to either that or Boost in the end for me, I think.
Well… it’s not going to be especially fast, they do need to restructure the entire back end of their application and make changes to a lot of the front end too, I imagine. Going to be a good while, I predict.
I find personally Jerboa to be the most stable with the richest feature base currently. Has a ways to go, but jerboa is consistently updated to keep up with Lemmy changes as well.
The experience is very smooth for me. Seems indistinguishable from a native app. Which browser are you using it with? I am using it with Chrome on Android
I agree. Right now the idea of a web app is cool, but it doesn’t really work all that well for me (scrolling up too quickly causes problems when the page thinks you want to refresh, and I like most of my apps to be in the drawer, not my home page, for instance).
Using multiple accounts on various instances was frustrating with Liftoff. I may have needed to try for a bit longer to get it, but ended up just going back to Jerboa
Yeah, this was my complaint with Liftoff also. The inability to easily subscribe is frustrating. I usually jot down the instance and subscribe when I get on my desktop.
Liftoff is quite good but there’s one thing that I find frustrating. When I get comment replies, I can’t click on the comment to go the thread where the comment resides. I don’t know if I’m totally missing something or what! (probably am)
That’s about all I’ve seen too. I’m currently using Liftoff as you say. I’ve tried just about everything else, but this comes closest to fulfilling the use-case I had for Boost.
I thought that was the crosspost icon, LOL. It still only adds a context button, which you have to press. Seems like it would be better to just open the context when you select the first icon.
Nothing was said before the API was going dark, and nothing has been said since then. The lack of communication is driving me towards sync for lemmy instead.
I get that it’s a side project, but updates to your community take very little effort.
Rubén created and maintained Boost for Reddit as a single dev as far as I know, and I would assume he’s doing the same for Lemmy. I don’t think he was ever frequently communicating on Reddit either, only now and then. Plus, he wasn’t going to create a Lemmy version of Boost initially, so it really hasn’t been in development long.
As far as I know boost is made by a solo dev and depending on the person updates can be a lot of effort especially updating a crowd of impatient people.
I mean, when reddit stopped working on boost it now shows a message saying that he’s working on boost for lemmy. That’s not no communication. It could be much better though
There was literally no reason for me to have the app after the API changes went live to see a message, and there were a TON of posts asking if he had plans to either deal with the API changes, or a possible lemmy port before they took place. At one point he said a firm NO, that he was going to focus on other smaller projects.
Then a magazine appeared on lemmy created by the boost dev
And I’ve not seen a single update since then. Here or on the boost subreddit. His last post on reddit was 18 days ago.
Lack of communication for something so big is not seen as a positive by me. Sync on the other hand is giving daily updates, asking feedback on his discord, etc. I’ll go with the dev that’s talking to his loyal user base. He expects a build to be ready possibly this week.
Maybe some day I’ll try boost for lemmy, but I’m not actively following it or looking forward to it at this point.
No offense, but you’re way too needy. Updates would be nice, but it’ll be ready when it’s ready. It doesn’t matter when we get it, there are plenty of usable apps in the mean time. I’ll be switching because boost had all the functionality I wanted. More time means hopefully more functionality is baked in, maybe even better in-app video playing options.
It wasn’t a post, it was a pop-up on the app. Boost continued working for several days after the API changes supposedly went live. And I’m not calling it a positive that he’s not communicating, I’m just pointing out that there has been some communication when you and others seem to think there’s been none.
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