Are you interested in a (cross platform) desktop app for lemmy?
I just managed to get a absolute baseline working app in avaloniaUI using this library that someone cooked up. No idea if the library is actively maintained, but uh, we'll figure that out when we get to it.
Compared to using the site, possible advantages of a desktop are:
Being able to save posts offline
Client side filtering
performance
less data usage
Not having to use your browser
Other things too, I'm sure. Just trying to gauge interest here. Also I barely know avalonia or C# so just don't expect a polished app out by next monday.
I wouldn't. I don't prefer additional apps on my PC because I switch between three computers, so the browser is much easier for me. But that's just me.
Avalonia works just fine on linux. Also if things work out, it will be AOT compiled. Plus with WSL, linux should be easy to test for me. Mac will be the only problematic one, as I don't have one.
The thing is that WSL isn't a good place to test it. I've had major issues with stuff like EDSM (for elite dangerous). It works fine on windows, linux with mono just straight up doesn't work and proton is still a pain because of all the windows dependencies.
There's also a reason why keepassXC exists, a rewrite was probably easier than making the .NET orginal run properly on linux.
Why's that? I actually find all the desktop apps shows the Post's imgs/gifs as a small thumbnail, which I don't like when scrolling the feed. For me everything there works well and pretty convenient.
Been on voyager for weeks. Honestly the amount the damn app crashes on the phone, I am considering looking for something better, but if it has an application for my mac I will give it another chance.
Yes! I tried a couple for Linux and they were shite 😂
To answer the 'just use the browser' comments - I don't like the tiny image box for posts. I'd like a much larger display for image/video-based posts so I can enjoy them at a glance. I'll only click into them if I especially want to read or post comments