The best Lemmy app so far is "Wefwef" hands down. If you loved Apollo you'd love this.
The app has an amazing experience so far, because it feels like I'm just using Apollo, heaps of baked in features that no other app has so far. It's a web app so installation is pretty forward. Much love to the Devs!
(Side note: please change the name to something better. I recommend the name Voyager to keep up with the theme)
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Contrast this interaction with the spaz/Christian public dust-ups, and letās all feel fortunate to be here. Thanks to both of you devs for making cool stuff.
Its not only miles better than the default mobile experience on Lemmy, it is also has features like swiping that I have never seen used on a web app before.
Do you have some kind of roadmap of features that will be added?
Some things I think would add to the experience are:
Just the GitHub issues atm. Thing have kinda exploded over the last 48 hours so still playing catch-up. That being said, feel free to search through and create issues!
What an honour, fantastic app btw, it takes after the best after all. But I'm getting flashbacks with the rate limit thing, it's this going to be a problem like Reddit or what's going on?
Whatās the long term plan? Everyone hosts their own instance in Docker? I was thinking about using AWS container instances. I wonder how I would protect my publicly available interface though. I want to be able to access it from anywhere without vpn or firewall limitations. Do you have any good suggestion?
6+ year Apollo user here and I tried a bunch of apps prior to this one that just didnāt quite have the UI and features I was looking for. If you used Apollo, youāll feel 100% at home on WefWef; itās almost identical.
Weird name but itās really an amazing app, it was the final thing to click and made lemmy a full Reddit replacement for me.
if you installed wefwef from chrome yeah, but if you installed this app from Firefox, you're going to have a bad time, it was so slow and unresponsive on Firefox for me lol
It's a progressive web app, which means when installed it has some extra powers that other web apps don't (like more access to device APIs, offline support, etc.) It was actually what all iPhone apps were meant to be before Apple gave up and made the app store.
Sadly iOS's PWA support has fallen a bit by the wayside compared to PWAs in Android but it's picking up.
Itās absolutely amazing. The thing Iām missing the most though is to be able to customize gestures/swiping like on Apollo. Iām so used to upvoting/downvoting by swiping left, and going back one page by swiping right, from wherever I swipe (on Apollo I only reply by long pressing a comment).
How did they nail the Apollo look and feel in a web app? Incredible. Been on the Mlem testflight but this is just soooo familiar. I hope this gets an official app on the app store!
Yeah, I've been using Mlem and Memmy. Mlem reminds me more of Apollo design-wise, but Memmy now is a bit more usable. Still, all of the suggestions are great.
This is so fantastic, it really does have that Apollo feel. I had my doubts with it being a webapp, but it's so comfortable and familiar, I've switched to it....despite the name, heh
I agree, I just wish it ran smoother and was more reliable. I'm experiencing a lot of "failed to load", "failed to upvote", and "failed to comment". A community you can't engage with is no community at all.
These comments really make my day. Hope you'd love it as much as I do. The whole thing is open source, so if you're not code illiterate like me see if you can give the devs a helping hand.
Lots of improvements to web app support in the past few years have largely gone unnoticed since, overall, not much effort really goes into deploying proper web apps. Installing an app from the App Store is also simpler then āinstallingā a web app. I personally prefer native.
I share the same shock over Wefwef though, blows me away is an incredibly strong example of what web apps can now do. Itās still missing a number of things from Apollo, but that it seemingly came together as polished as it is now in just a week or three is stunning.
I actually have the exact same question, I wasn't expecting much especially since it is a webapp. Heck I was expecting to install and uninstall in a sec. But this thing is solid.
I take back what I said about the Sweet Solution being a failure.
Wefwef feels just as good as a native app. I may have to fire it up on a HP TouchPad or Palm PrÄ.
Very Apollo like. Lightweight. As mentioned in above comment, I am also wondering about the username and password but I am not a code reader so I will trust the community to confirm.
I'm having trouble even logging in - it's saying my credentials are no good, but I used the same credentials to login to lemmy.world. Had a brief look at what it could be, so I'm waiting on it to get more stable.
In my experience, logging in using autofill from my password manager always failed for some reason, but it worked manually right away. You may have a different bug, though.
There are a couple of very recent updates that address the issues with logging in to lemmy.world. Hit the Settings tab in the lower right to update the app (which is so much faster than an App Store update)
It is very smooth! Is this what Apollo looked like?
I was surprised to see all the auto-expanded images, but I guess I was expecting more of the old.reddit / reddit is fun aesthetic. So far, I've just been using the lemmy mobile site on firefox ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
I'm using it now and I must say I'm damned impressed. It's so seamless. Drastically improved user experience. Not quite what I was used to (sync) but I can get used it. Feels intuitive!
I'll be honest, I settled on using Jerboa after trying all other Android apps, I sincerely thought wefwef was iOS only. Oh boy was I wrong, it's hands down the best app of the bunch, and by really really far. I opened an issue today for compact mode and here it is, already!
If only there was a way to navigate top comments easily, that would be amazing!
This is nice! my only suggestion would be the ability to minimize cards for a text feed, if that's something that's eventually possible.
I like how smooth wefwef is, but if I could keep everything from auto-expanding (i.e. just scrolling through titles instead) it'd be closer to the old.reddit / RiF experience š
iPhone 14 user here. Anyone else have trouble with the keyboard not coming up for login credentials? I also tried cut and paste function but my details arenāt recognised despite being 100% correct.
I know this is an Apple sub, but is there an Android version? Checked the store and didn't see it, but not sure if it has to be sideloaded (which always seems sketchy if it is a legit app).
I did exactly that. It installed wefwef fine. I can LOOK at threads that people post, but I can't log in which means I can't look at messages sent to me or obviously post. And it isn't like my phone is old (so maybe it doesn't have all the latest and greatest security stuff). It's a Samsung 21FE which is 2(?) years old. And to be clear, it isn't just wefwef that I am having issues with. Similar error with Jerboa.
I use Memmy. I'm really liking it so far. Its not on the app store yet so you have to install it through TestFlight, go to the github on your phone, and then click the invite link. Isn't perfect but great so far
Doesn't really work that well for me, doesn't show the icon on the app button, can't change appearance in settings
Using it through Firefox, not sure if that's the problem
If you're loving wefwef because of it's Apollo likeness, then you need to checkout Memmy
It actually introduces all the features Apollo had with native haptics, slide interactions and navigations, push notifications, and more. The developers have been working hard and pushing releases daily (sometimes multiple per day).
As an Apollo users for the last 6 years, Memmy has been by far the best iOS app for Lemmy that I have tried (which have been Mlem, Thunder, Liftoff (prev. known as Limbo)
Yeah but it doesnāt look as close to Apollo as wefwef. It also doesnāt work as well on iPad, whereas wefwef has just nailed the aesthetic of Apollo right away.
Are you using Safari? Itās not an option on Chrome, which is what I normally use so I had to switch over to Safari.
From there, in the toolbar youāll see the āshareā icon (box with arrow pointing up), then you should see āadd to home screenā as one of the options when you scroll down a little.
Weird, the link was opening in Safari, which did not have the option. I copied it and opened it in Chrome and then I did have the "add to home screen" option.
Absolutely. If it just simplified the sign up by randomly choosing a non controversial instance to register on (vlemmy.net, reddthat.com, lemm.ee etc), it'd already be recommendable to non-lemmy users.
beehaw.org is too controlling, lemmy.world is overloaded and blocked by beehaw, and lemmy.ml is having trouble federating with kbin. I'm sure these will be addressed later and they're all still usable... but yeah
Also, +1 to Voyager, wefwef does not go down well with non-lemmings
Been trying out Lemmy and have been looking for a good Apolo Alternative.
I joined on lemmy.world, but pretty much any 3rd party app will just return "Record not found" or "User Not Found" or "Something went wrong"
Would this be due to lemmy.world's update to 1.18? or have I done something wrong?
I've not tried it (and I'm on android), but just gotta mention: pretty cool that we're all in a spot to discuss/rate/complain about/debate so many different apps for Lemmy now.
To my understanding features are being built-in by the hour, just yesterday you couldn't edit comments, now a host of options are there editing included. Give this app some time and it should have feature parity with Apollo. Meanwhile if you're capable of lending a helping hand to the Devs you can head to WefWef's GitHub page and see if you can make it better!
Wefwef is gorgeous for sure and eerily familiar to ex Apollo users. It does show the red error message a lot though. It even said my user doesnāt exist when I logged in, but somehow I am still logged in. And it only lets me upvote every second click. Weāll see if it lets me post this.
So Iām weird and donāt actually have any apps on my Home Screen. I just use Spot Light and the the App Library screen. Is there anyway to get a web app to show up on the App Library? Because I donāt like how this one app is different from everything else on my phone and has to live on the Home Screen.
Other than that, I agree! Itās a pretty sweet app this far.
I've never used Apollo and I'm mostly using kbin. However I heard of wefwef like half and hour ago, decided to check it out cus why not and damn, it's so so good!
I was using the official Reddit app (or the desktop site) and in all honesty I didn't think it was too bad, probably because I just got used to it and didn't use any other app as a comparison, but after using wefwef for not even an hour, I can absolutely say I was missing out.
One suggestion for wefwef is to be able to browse all communities of the particular instance youāre logged in to, or even better, have a page of all instances and the communities they encompass
On the front page of wefwef you can choose to look at communities you are subscribed to, all federated communities, or ālocalā communities aka communities from the instance you are logged in on!
For me (iPhone 12) The keyboard works in the web interface but not in the installed app. The cursor is there and the grey bar with the āDoneā button, but no keyboard below that.
It is completely web based. But if you bookmark it to the desktop it runs like an app even having an update to new release button in the settings to force the update of the javascript and stuff.
Its web based, but can be "installed" on both mobiles and desktop as a PWA which is Progressive Web App, essentially the same as using it in a browser but meant to function more like a "real" app
There are a few iOS apps in alpha testing right now, Iām testing Thunder and Mlem currently, but they arenāt very stable or feature-rich yet.
Within a couple weeks they should hopefully be released. Thereās also threads about the Lemmy apps currently in development for android and iOS, and I believe the list includes PWAs? Unfortunately Iām not really sure how to find/link that post, but if you search for āLemmy appā it should hopefully come up.
Have couple of questions if someone can answer. I went to search for "television" community and found one with more subscribers and nothing after the word "television" and also saw one with very few subscribers and it had "television@something". So is it like we can have 2 communities with same name? How does one know which to subscribe to?
And this question is specific to wefwef app, I went to the television community page and everything there is big posts each occupying half of my page with a pic or something. How to have this more consice?
Every lemmy instance can have its own communities, just subscribe to both of them or the more active one. the one without the @something is likely your local instances community. idk about the other question
The one with nothing after it means it's hosted on the same instance you're on. Which to choose? Just go for the bigger one. It's like if you saw /r/Technology and /r/Tech on Reddit. Just choose the big one
thanks for posting it, hand no idea this existed š„°
only downside is having to switch account for certain actions, it would be cool to have everything in one place
I installed the app. But have a question. Before logging in, it asks me to select a server. Now I created my account on ".ml" domain so here too I had to selected that only because when I selected ".world", it told me invalid credentials.
Is that expected behavior?
To clarify a bit for you, since it was confusing for me... you have to sign in to whichever instance you registered on (.ml in your case). However, you can view and comment on content from any site that federates with lemmy.ml. So, for example, I'm registered through lemmy.world, but if I go to search and search for "gaming", communities for all instances are returned, at which point I can subscribe, read, and comment on them via my lemmy.world account. (perhaps a bad example since .ml is no longer federated with .world I think)
Memmy is pretty good but my profile doesnāt load on it. I have no real problems with wefwef. The only real gripe I have with wefwef is the profile page is a little sparse and is missing avatar, banner, bio, etc.
I have been using Memmy and trying Mlem, so far Memmy seems amazing with each days updates... it is insane how much it has improved just over the past 4-5 days..
Guess I'll try Wefwef too so I can compare each of them. :)
Just deleted Apollo, to say nothing of my Reddit account, and this is great! Kudos to the dev team! This could legitimately make Lemmy my new Reddit replacement, not just my ātapering offā fix.
What did you need to do to login with kbin? I tried selecting "other" in the list of servers, and then entered "kbin.social" but got "Problem connecting to kbin.social. Please try again"
Should I have entered in something other than kbin.social?
I've been using Memmy as it is an actual app and not a web app, and it has a theme actually designed by Christian Selig, the developer of Apollo. Plus it allows logging in to any Lemmy instance and not just the most popular ones.
This is a great app I opened it up and I'm blown away. Can I make a suggestion. Add classic view. Some of us don't like the images/thumbnails right in our face.
I dont get it why there is a c/proprietarysoftware aka [email protected] on a open source software like lemmy? I thought apple enthusiasts doesnt like open source at it is not safe?
Is life that one-sided to you? If you like blue, must you hate everything that's red? You can enjoy Apple's eco system while supporting open source and cheering for it, heck that's what I do, but I don't mind using products from walled gardens either.