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There seems to be many lemmy apps available. I already tried few apps though I don't even know where to find most of the others. Instead of trying every single one of them I'd like to know if there's anything similar to RIF. Here's some key features of RIF:

  • Simple. Mostly text and no complicated UI elements.
  • Information density. I can see a list of eight posts on my screen. Again, it's just text with no UI decorations.
  • One handed browsing. As I hold my phone with right hand I can easily access both linked url and comments of a post with my right thumb (buttons on right side of the screen).
  • Comment navigation. This is not as important but in larger threads it's useful to navigate between parent comments.

If there's nothing similar available, maybe these could be added to an existing implementation. I could even try to help as I am programmer, though I don't know much about mobile app development.

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[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 5 points 1 year ago

I'm also coming from RIF and have found Jerboa alright after adjusting the "look and feel" settings to the more compact options. Clicking into comments requiring being more careful with where you tap is my main complaint.

[-] BurritoEater@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

As a former RIF addict, I found "Summit for Lemmy" a decent alternative.

[-] Vaggumon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I used RIF for years, and kind of hope the developer makes a Lemmy port to be honest. I've not tried many android apps yet, but Jerboa For Lemmy is pretty good so far.

[-] Valmond4@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 points 1 year ago

Tried a few, Jerboa is sort of good but there are things you just have to figure out. Like I'm a user on my own Lemmy, and I can't find my own instances? Does the search only search ... well what actually? Also as I have my super user, another user, a user on beehaw etc (not very rational maybe) but you don't know whith witch obe you are browsing.

Guess it's just too, early so for now I'm sticking with Jerboa as it's the official app.

Everything is great though, I'm just pointing out small inconveniences.

[-] Bonzo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] mlc894@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Seconding wefwef on ios

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The developer of Sync for Reddit is working on a Lemmy port, and hopes to have early access ready in a few more days.

[-] danhasnolife@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm waiting for Sync for Lemmy. I was actually pretty well settled in Squabbles, but when I heard that the dev for Sync for Reddit was making a Lemmy app, I had to jump over here and give it a shot. His design was THAT good.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

I switched from RiF to Jerboa easily. The small card view and dark theme is pretty much the same as I used on RiF. I don't remember all the settings but you can customise some stuff. I did that in Rif too, so I'm not even sure what the default is in either app anymore.

There's been a lot of bugs and crashes lately but I hope it gets better with time, but appearance wise this is as good as RiF IMO.

[-] MothBookkeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a former RIF user. Honestly, I recommend just downloading as many as you can to see which one you like best. I did that, and I ended up liking Liftoff the most, but you may have liked RIF for different reasons than I did.

[-] kingcake@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Thunder and liftoff seem to be rapidly moving to the front of the pack.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Can Thunder post comments yet?

[-] boomer478@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

Jerboa in List View is almost the same as RiF as far as functionality for me.

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