I’ll second this. As a transplant of Reddit who used Apollo, Memmy seems to be heavily influenced by Apollo, which imo was an outstanding app.
I also saw all the posts about Sync and had to get caught up. Definitely makes me appreciate this app too.
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You should check out Voyager too. It’s the closest thing to Apollo appearance-wise that I’ve used. I typically switch between that and Memmy.
I can’t get on with voyager. What the dev has done with a React PWA app is amazing but not having haptics makes it feel too weird. And the new app version is just a web view and performance is awful for me, not sure if it’s better on newer phones. But i could learn a lot from what he’s done with React I’m sure.
There's a TestFlight available, which adds haptics.
Yea that’s what i was talking about with the app version. It just puts it in a web view on mobile, which makes it have terrible performance for me.
The animations in Voyager iOS web app have lower refresh rate than in Memmy. Even on the latest iPhone.
In my ANdroid phone on Android 13, haptics are present in Voyager.
I'm also an ex-Apollo user. Memmy was my go to until I learned about Voyager. Don't even need Sync much, at this point, as this web app works for everything. If Voyager improves posting experience with rich text preview, it's simply perfect.
Voyager has an app now too. It’s pretty snappy and has a similar interface as memmy and mlem.
On iOS, yes. It's in TestFlight, I'm waiting for a full release, other than the occasional scroll freeze, PWA is more than enough for me.
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Such a sweet thing to say, giantfloppycock
I’ve been extremely impressed with Memmy. Clean, stable and easy to use.
The main feature that’s missing is fast account switching, which IMO is even more important on a federated service.
edit: nm, long press on your account on the bottom to switch. The app is great!
Just long-press your account to switch; I’m not sure how much faster you could need it to be?
Agreed, I’m assuming this poster didn’t know about the long-press. Good information, giantfloppycock!
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That is brilliant!
Thanks. Then I really have no major complaints at all!
All that’s missing for me is a swipe to hide function like Apollo had and Voyager has. Once I have that I’ll be pretty locked in on Memmy, as I prefer it aesthetically !
We will be adding that soon i believe, since we’ve started making gestures customizable
I cannot wait!! I check back regularly so I look forward to the ability to customize swipe. :)
Any one tried the app called Avelon yet.,??
In my opinion, it’s one of the minimalist and snappy Lemmy app in comparison to Memmy (which is little bit cluttered with all the features and little more battery drainer with the similar usage pattern ).
If anyone likes the Voyager then I’m sure you like Avelon too.. give it a try once..
As one of the main Memmy devs, i really like Avelon. I appreciate he’s trying something pretty different and like the direction he’s taking.
Avelon dev here - thanks! Really enjoy Memmy as well, pretty impressive what you guys are able to do with React Native.
It's very cool to see so much enthusiasm in the dev community. Lemmy can definitely be a place where lots of different apps & frontends can thrive to suit just about everyone.
Hey sorry totally forgot to respond! Been checking out Avelon again for the past couple days and it’s really getting nice! Keep up the awesome work man
Meanwhile I’m just using Kbin on my browser and it works okay.
We plan on eventually adding kbin support!
Sweet! Thanks!
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I think that Memmy has the right priorities and a strong lead in regards to what’s important right now. When I read the changelog it feels like this project is on a really solid foundation.
I also like that’s it’s tuned very much for efficiency. No unnecessary glitter and stuff.
Yes.
- Sent from Memmy for lemmy on my Apple iPhone 12 mini
I'm using Sync right now and honestly it's not much better than thunder or Connect which are free. The UI is slicker, but I feel my phone heating as it runs, and it's obnoxious seeing the gray boxes from the ads I'm blocking. Really hope boost doesn't pull this shit, or at least allows people to play for premium instead of fucking subscribing to it. $16 a YEAR for an app that just mobilizes a free online service is insanity.
I never used sync previously, but this has made a pretty bad first impression so far.
I used Sync pro for years and I don't ever want to change. Also I like supporting devs of apps which I use constantly. I don't know why everyone is talking shit about Sync as 16 dollars a year is literally nothing. Good on him for having that option to support the dev :)
$16 a year is not nothing, it's a subscription service for a basic mobile app with quality options in a competing space. A one time purchase that means I own the app outright or a lifetime "subscription" option is a much better option, and on par with literally every competing app in the space. Mentalities like this are why shit like NBA 2K, Call of Duty, and Diablo have become lootbox fests.
Sync was amazing at it's height, this is just the first iteration of it. It'll get much better over time.
Yeah I currently use Connect and it's been pretty great so far, though I'm waiting for boost to come out.
HAIL, MY BOOST BRETHREN!
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Well, it’s including the „Microsoft App Center“ tracker. I have to block ||appcenter.ms^
Several other Lemmy Apps do not have any tracker.
Edit: turns out the request can be useful. See comments. Still strange to get from Microsoft.
I’d guess that’s because we use CodePush to do over the air updates, so you don’t have to wait for apple to approve a build.
Thank you for letting me know. :)
Just for more reference, there are options to enable analytics, but they are not installed in the app. That is a separate package that is not added as I don't feel comfortable receiving whatever they would send. It's probably harmless but I don't even want the hassle.
Appcenter does OTA push updates, dev is probably making a fast update system so they don't have to push updates to the various stores, the app was made in react native so appcenter is pretty standard for codepush OTA updates
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Yup Memmy although not an Apollo Clone has been amazing. Both the devs are awesome and communicate so much with the community. I’ve completely fallen in love with it and it keeps getting better.
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