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

  • WreckingBANG@lemmy.mlBanned
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    3 years ago

    That UI looks really clean. I love it. Is it open source? Not that i dont trust you but i try to not use any closed source apps anymore, i would appreciate it if you would share the link to the source code.

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    3 years ago

    Thank God there’s a filter setting 😭😭😭 sorely missed coming from infinity. First thing filtered? “reddit.”

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    3 years ago

    I would strongly recommend open-sourcing it! There are several FOSS apps already and it would be hard to compete against them without opening up =]

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    3 years ago

    I love the look and layout, but I can’t get any threads to load. It just says “No posts”

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      3 years ago

      I’ll take a look! Do you have any filters applied? Is that across all instances?

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    3 years ago

    so far I’m really liking it. I would like alternating backgrounds on comments just to help separate them out a little.

    I also really like the colored line on the side of comments that the pwa has to help you be able to easily see comment chain depths at a glance.

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      3 years ago

      Hi, thanks for the feedback and I’m glad you’re liking it! I’ve added some more spacing between comments on the latest release which should help to separate them. Please let me know what you think! Also added the ability to edit comments.

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        3 years ago

        Yeah that’s a lot better. I do think that you should make the names, points, and time a different color to make the poster information more prominent. Also would help it stand out a little better

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    3 years ago

    It’s interesting. Needs some more formatting options imo. I liked how in boost for reddit the titles of posts were always at least as big as the preview of the body of the post. Just makes it look much cleaner imo. Could use a font size option. Could use some color options too eventually.

    Also, it needs a “Subscribed” page. Default lemmy has this page that only shows you content from communities youre subscribed to. You should see about getting that feed on your app.

    Overall though great work, it looks really promising thus far and I’m impressed with how quickly you’ve put this together.

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      I’ll take a look at how Boost for Reddit formats their titles, thanks! The ‘Frontpage’ once you’re signed in should be equivalent to the Subscribed page.

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    3 years ago

    Nothing is showing up in my feed when signed in to lemmy.ml

    Also, the Google password manager is trying to input the password into the instance text box when trying to sign in. Pixel 7 Pro.

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      3 years ago

      Hi, this should now be fixed on the latest release (1.0.25). Thank you for your feedback!

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        Thanks man! It’s working now. Super smooth for the most part. Upvotes/downvotes still take quite a while to register. An Amoled black would be awesome as would a Small Cards view.

        Edit: Another suggestion is to add a way to jump to the next parent comment in a post. Looks like Jeroba just added this and I’ve been missing this feature from some of the reddit apps I used to use.

        Like this

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          Hi, thanks for the feedback! I’ve added an AMOLED theme on the latest update (1.0.35). A small cards view is a good idea and I’ll take a look at Jeroba’s jump buttons. Cheers!

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    3 years ago

    A good start! but the card view’s background color is too bright, and honestly a lot of the space feels wasted. I know it’s a really fine line between wasting space and having everything be too dense, but I think you erred too far towards having everything spread out – contents are indented too far, cards are too big outside the borders of content, the space between UI elements is too large, stuff like that. Also, I can’t see subscribed communities outside of my instance, which almost immediately made the app unusable for me. But with all those criticisms in mind, this app is the closest one I’ve seen so far to being a lemmy app I actively want to use, it’s just not quite there yet imo. Good luck with your development!!

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    3 years ago

    just a quick feedback, when being in the dark mode, the user switching remain in light mode. Also the node selection suggesting the possible nodes would be appreciated.

    also, adding new accounts after the first one, doesn’t seems to work.

    I added my lemmy.world and it seemed to work.

    anything else besides it, didn’t work (tried, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc.)

    overall it’s a good mvp, well done, need a little more work and i would appreciate if it was a FOSS to absolutely avoid situations in which an app become the unofficial-official app but then a sudden surge of egocentrism from an individual take it away.

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    3 years ago

    I love the app! I just wanted to give you some debug info. I can’t log into a second account on my current andoid tablet or andoid 10 phone. The button to do so does nothing.

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    3 years 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.

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    3 years ago

    I’m able to sign in but no posts populate the feed. Also only a small amount of my subscriptions show up in the sidebar.

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      3 years ago

      Hi, both of those issues have been resolved in the build last night (1.0.25)!