Now that 0.19 is in testing on a couple of servers we’re faced with the reality that Liftoff is probably not going to be functional for much longer. So I’m curious what everyone’s got planned.

Personally I’ve got my eye on !raccoonforlemmy@lemmy.world which is currently under development but looks like it might be the closest to my ideal. Developer describes it thusly:

I liked the feature richness of Liftoff (e.g. the possibility to explore all the communities of an external instance), the multi-community feature of Summit and the polished UI of Thunder and I wished I could have them all in the same app.

It’s currently very promising, but also very buggy so I’m hopeful it might be in a more usable state by the time 0.19 starts majorly rolling out. We shall see. The dev put out a call for testers a couple days ago but I’m sure more wouldn’t hurt if anyone wants to give it a whirl.

I’ve tried most of the main Android options by this point, Summit gets the most use just because of multi-communities (great for sports and other happening-right-now events) but I’m really not a fan of its interface.

Boost looks nice and simple, but I find a lot of the features to be just straight-up broken.

Sync and Eternity both put me off with their looks even though they look totally different to each other!

Connect would probably be my second choice so far, but I’d still need to keep Summit around for the multi-communities which is a bit annoying.

That’s about the extent of my investigations at this point. Would love to hear which you’ve tried and what you like / dislike from the point of view of a Liftoff user. Let’s get some recommendations ironed out before everything breaks and this group is overrun with people asking why 😅

  • TheLameSauce@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I switched to Sync a while back cause Liftoff just wasn’t working the way I wanted it to and have been pretty happy with it. The layout is pretty customizable so it might be worth giving it another chance and seeing if you can play around with it enough to get it where you like.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah I fiddled with it a fair bit when it first came out, there’s nothing hugely wrong with it it just doesn’t “feel” right, you know? I think given that I was a RiF and then Liftoff user, maybe my brain craves a bit of jank lol