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Introducing Connect for Lemmy (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by kuro_neko@lemmy.ca to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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

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[–] vintageballs@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe bug: in list view, the width of post title and content seems to be limited to around 80% of my screen width.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

That's a bug! Thank you. I'd guess it's leaving the 20% space for an image thumbnail which doesn't exist. I'll fix this in the next release.

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[–] DrPhred@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Looks good. Now we just need a good iOS app

[–] AnonLordo@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Wow, impressive work, in such a short time. I really like it.
Thank you!

[–] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow, you are really fast! I've been using Jerboa and the PWA, but not super happy with either. Yours look great! Will use it more and feed back to you if that's okay.

One thing I found is that it doesn't show the number of new comments. I usually sort by NewComments, and I would expect to e.g. see "49 comments (14 new)" like Jerboa/PWA.

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[–] Bradamir@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I can't even be accepted to join Lemmy. I'm on Kbin right now.

Tbh, these platforms confuse me. The Kbin app is great though, so I guess I don't need to change.

Would like to know how to follow a group though.

[–] PaintedSnail@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

On Kbin, Lemmy groups are called "magazines," so all you have to do is go to the magazines list, search for what you want, and subscribe. You can even subscribe to magazines hosted on other servers from there.

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[–] ledditor@leddit.minnal.icu 1 points 2 years ago

runs very smooth on my 5 year old phone. Some suggestions for improvement

With All selected not all feeds were showing up on the sidebar
Adding a compact layout for sidebar and comments

[–] pixel@beehaw.org 1 points 2 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!!

[–] Aninjanameddaryll@outpost.zeuslink.net 1 points 2 years ago

I'm trying it out on my phone. And it's functional for sure. But it doesn't go back very far on android versions. My tablet that's stuck on 10 can't access it via play store.

It's a bit garish on the dark theme, but that's not important for an early stage of things.

No bugs that I've found that aren't lemmy based rather than app based.

[–] DerGreiss@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

just downloaded the app. I really like it. please keep up the good work

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[–] crius@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 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.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it!

[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

I don't see the ability to edit my comments. I had to pull up the pwa to edit this one.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

Looks amazing! I'll try it out!

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 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.

[–] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The screen shots look good. I'll download it and try it out. Let me know if you make a community for it so we can give back feedback on there. The more apps the merrier now that Reddit is getting rid of all them!

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you, let me know what you think! I made a community here: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect

[–] Macallan@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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[–] rettetdemdativ@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Have you considered creating a community for your app? Would make it a lot easier to follow development

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[–] olpappy@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Alkaseltzer028@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks nice, but not available in my country.

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[–] CreepyRainbow@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm very thankful to you! I wanted a nice app to browse lemmy and I found your app a couple of days ago! I've had a very nice experience so far

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks @CreepyRainbow@beehaw.org! I'm glad you're enjoying it.

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