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Introducing Connect for Lemmy (i.imgur.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] Jcb2016@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like Infinity! looks promising

[–] Elegast@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

looks good, been using jerboa for the past week. will check this one out too. cheers!

[–] DrPhred@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Looks good. Now we just need a good iOS app

[–] Bradamir@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] tom42@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Tried it quickly and was not well surprised. I appreciate thr approach a lot! The app is nice looking but feels too chewy. Prefer the mobile browser.

[–] Urnchos@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for making this!

My first impressions upon downloading are that I'm glad it exists but I think I'll stick to Jerboa for the time being. It looks really well made for those who are into the cards display format, however I'm personally not a fan of cards views on apps and I feel the list view isn't quite there yet.

One interesting quirk I noticed worth noting for the developer, not sure if it's a bug. I signed in with Urnchos@sh.itjust.works and when I click profile it seems to display my comment history of my Kbin account by the same name. I'm not certain if the profile would display the comments and whatnot of all instances that have that name?

[–] ledditor@leddit.minnal.icu 1 points 1 year 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
[–] harry315@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn that looks awesome! Did you find any good docs on the API? I only found the lemmy-js-client, which is a library, though. Wanted to do some shenanigans with Python and Lemmy, but there doesn't seem to be too much documentation...

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I had a hard time with the API docs too to be honest. I read through https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/04-api.html first but it was pretty high level. My main reference was the typing on the lemmy-js-client as well. I used the Dart Lemmy API client here https://github.com/LemmurOrg/lemmy_api_client but unfortunately it's not being maintained (and didn't work without modification since the API has changed since then).

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

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

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[–] Flax_vert 1 points 1 year ago

Looks amazing! I'll try it out!

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] green_dot@le.fduck.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks great. Hopefully gets availabe is Irish play store soon

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Should be available now in the Irish store!

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

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

[–] CreepyRainbow@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 0 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

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