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 😅

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    11 months ago

    I switched to Connect months ago solely for the ability to manually hide posts.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah I definitely like it visually a lot more than most others too. Do you know if they’re looking at adding multi-community type features?

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        11 months ago

        I don’t know anything about the development, I just use it 🤷‍♀️ I imagine they probably have their own community you could ask. I’m still just scrolling though all with a good 1200+ communities blocked and every US politician’s name I could think of added to the title filters.

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          11 months ago

          Hah, I feel that! No worries just thought I’d ask in case you’d heard anything :D