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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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[–] Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...how much have you slept since starting this project?

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[–] cyps@typemi.me 1 points 1 year ago

Posting from the app. Awesome progress for only 10 days.

[–] pixel@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year 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!!

[–] 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
[–] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year 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.

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

Thanks for the feedback! I'll add the new comment counter in the next release.

[–] 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).

[–] 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!

[–] 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.

[–] Kaizo107@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Any chance of adding Kbin logins?

[–] Bradamir@kbin.social 1 points 1 year 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 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.

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

Lemmy is not one thing, it's a way for different sites (called instances) to share content with each other.

What instances (i.e. domains) are you trying to create an account on? There have been some big bot waves in the last few days, but even without that every instance handles signup differently. Some are totally open, while others require manual review of some kind.

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

Looks amazing! I'll try it out!

[–] vintageballs@feddit.de 0 points 1 year 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 1 year 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.

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

Hi, just wanted to make sure you saw this but that issue is now fixed. Thanks again!

[–] Pbody@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Will this app be compatible with kbin.social accounts? I've tried to sign in and it's throwing a whole page of an error message.

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

Lemmy and Kbin are entirely different Software. Fediverse just allows posts to be visible between other fediverse applications.

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

Bummer that it doesn't work. I'm quite happy here on kbin. And I didn't know that the software running them was completely different. So much to learn about the fediverse. Honestly, I'm perfectly happy with the progressive web app version of kbin.social except for the inability to collapse threads. Though I understand ernest is a saint and i'm perfectly PERFECTLY happy to be patient.

[–] Hovercat90@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, i like your app a lot! Jerboa doesnt work on my Motorola, so i installed your app. Looks very nice and works well as a first impression!

I just want to tell you good luck, we are all counting on you! :D

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

Thank you @Hovercat90@feddit.de! I'm glad you like it.

[–] green_dot@le.fduck.net 0 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!

[–] rettetdemdativ@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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[–] Coeus@coeus.sbs 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I cannot find out how to change to list view.

EDIT: For some reason the play store didn't download the most recent version. Fixed now.

The list view only showslike 2 posts on the screen. Is there anyway to get multiple posts on the screen at once?

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