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)

Installation:

https://wefwef.app/settings/install

WefWef’s community page: c/wefwef

https://lemmy.world/c/wefwef

Courtesy of KillaBeez@lemmy.world for telling us about it.

Update:

Having issues? It’s to do with rate limitations, this should be resolved soon but right now you can Use:

https://w.opnxng.com/settings/install

Here’s the Dev’s notes on that:

w.opnxng.com - wefwef hosted by Opnxng in Singapore.

Contact/privacy

Note: Community deployments are NOT maintained by the wefwef team. They may not be synced with wefwef’s source code. Please do your own research about the host servers before using them.

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    hi! wefwef dev here.

    https://wefwef.app is getting rate limited by lemmy.world. The growth in traffic over the last 24 hours has been incredible.

    That’s why you’re probably getting error messages. Hang in there, we’re working it out. :-)

    In the meantime, self host (it’s just a simple docker container!) or use a community deployment (if you trust the administrator).

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      hi! lemmyworld admin here.

      If I did it right, wefwef.app should no longer be rate-limited. Please let me know if it worked.

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      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?

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      What’s 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?

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      This is awesome. Thank you for the amazing project. Feels way more responsive than even the various apps floating around. Exciting stuff!

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      Your app is really good. Well done!

      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:

      • Previews of comments/posts
      • Sorting by Top day, week, month, ect
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      Memmy is great, and I will probably switch to it once they get some bugs worked out.

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        Which bugs are you seeing? We’re getting updates sometimes multiple times a day, so they may be fixed already.

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          I’ve noticed a little jank sometimes when collapsing comments, also the save photo feature seems to fail periodically. But it’s getting better literally every day, I’m excited to see how it grows

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    Whoa. I’ve been using Memmy lately but this one is like a carbon copy of Apollo. Will there be the feature to see saved posts soon?

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      On Android as well, this feels better than a lot of native apps. I really missed Apollo after switching to Android and this project makes me happy.

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        feels better than a lot of native apps

        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

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          Yes I have the same experience. And on Kiwi, it can’t detect the OS theme.

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            i found out that it depends on your browsers settings, google chrome apparently has a thing where it would enable a website’s dark mode if your system has it on, Samsung Internet requires you to enable “Use website dark theme” in labs to have wefwef (or technically samsung internet) automatically detect system dark mode

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    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!

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      based on their github page they seem to really be a proponent of progressive web apps, so there might not be an official app anytime soon.

      its really great though and I can barely tell it’s not a native app

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    6+ year Apollo user here and I tried a bunch of apps prior to this one that just didn’t quite have the UI and features I was looking for. If you used Apollo, you’ll feel 100% at home on WefWef; it’s almost identical.

    Weird name but it’s really an amazing app, it was the final thing to click and made lemmy a full Reddit replacement for me.

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          Not entirely sure, and I’ve since committed to Wefwef over Jerboa because it’s more user friendly. What I did to overcome the login issue on Jerboa was to go to lemmy.world and register my username and login on that instance. After I was registered there, Jerboa picked up my login and I could comment and interact.

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    It’s absolutely amazing. The thing I’m missing the most though is to be able to customize gestures/swiping like on Apollo. I’m 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).

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    Just stumbled upon this app a couple of hours ago and…… holy shit it’s just like Apollo! Excellent stuff.

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    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

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    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.

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    Just saved this to my home screen, am I right in saying that it’s just a webapp and not a full blown app? Seems to work fine so far!

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      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.

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      It’s what’s known as a “progressive web app.” A weird in-between of a native app and a web app

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        Seems to work well so far, not sure I like clicking on a comment collapses it, would like the upvote/downvote/reply options underneath the comment but it’s early days and nothing that won’t be ironed out over time

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          It’s a copy of the Apollo iOS app interface. If you swipe the comment right depending on how far you swipe it it’ll up or down vote.