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

  • arcrust@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    The app looks great! Feels very fluid.

    I have only three requests:

    • make it FOSS in spirit of the fediverse (obviously you don’t have to, that’s your choice)
    • give me a way to download pics from inside the app. I very often download memes and share them in other chats. You’ve got open external, which works, but it’s an extra step. Downloading in app would just be more convenient.
    • lastly, give me a way to buy you a beer 😁
    • Kuro@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hi, thanks for the feedback and I’m glad you’re enjoying it! I’ve added a download button to media views. Open source is on the roadmap as well if there’s enough interest.

  • thann@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I would strongly recommend open-sourcing it! There are several FOSS apps already and it would be hard to compete against them without opening up =]

  • pattern@beehaw.orgEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Thank God there’s a filter setting 😭😭😭 sorely missed coming from infinity. First thing filtered? “reddit.”

  • Omripresent@leddit.socialEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Looks good and I was able to get it on pretty quickly. I was about to post this from the app but saw it’s missing the web’s markdown shortcuts and image upload option.

    Also looking at this post the screenshots are cropped and I didn’t see a straight forward way of looking at the whole image.

    • Kuro@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Thanks! I’ll make a note to add markdown shortcuts and image upload to the next release. I should probably make those cropped images expand out on click.

      • Omripresent@leddit.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Also thinking long press option to download/share images as well for proper meme redistribution.

        And I forgot to say on my first message, thank you for taking the time in developing this, this type of work is often thankless and I appreciate it.>

  • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    It’s interesting. Needs some more formatting options imo. I liked how in boost for reddit the titles of posts were always at least as big as the preview of the body of the post. Just makes it look much cleaner imo. Could use a font size option. Could use some color options too eventually.

    Also, it needs a “Subscribed” page. Default lemmy has this page that only shows you content from communities youre subscribed to. You should see about getting that feed on your app.

    Overall though great work, it looks really promising thus far and I’m impressed with how quickly you’ve put this together.

    • Flicsmo@rammy.siteEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      ‘Subscribed’ is called ‘Frontpage’ in the app, you can find it in the sidebar. Edit - oops, looks like kuro_neko beat me!

    • Kuro@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ll take a look at how Boost for Reddit formats their titles, thanks! The ‘Frontpage’ once you’re signed in should be equivalent to the Subscribed page.

  • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.comEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Congrats for the release! I finally have alternative to Jerboa!

    Some feedback if you don’t mind:

    • Full Height view. It’s like the full width view, but display the image without any cropping.
    • Tap and hold to show image in full screen, release to close. Very useful for compact views. Also should works for articles thumbnails.
    • Native imgur support. Right now it’s treated as a web page. If it’ll require using paid API, just disregard this until you have some funding.
    • Preload images when on wifi (optional setting). Basically preload the next N images in the list so they’ll appear instantly.
    • Show full community names and user name. Right now it only show the community name and user name, but not the instance name. This is confusing if you subscribed to multiple communities with the same name from multiple instances. Same for usernames.
    • option to toggle denser comments views with minimal whitespace.
    • (possible bug?) The community list on the side menu doesn’t show all my subscribed communities.
    • CreepyRainbow@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      These are very good suggestions! would also like for it to show the instance name of a post as well as the hold-to-show-image

  • GreyWizard@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I love the look and layout, but I can’t get any threads to load. It just says “No posts”

    • Kuro@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ll take a look! Do you have any filters applied? Is that across all instances?

    • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Seconded. I logged in but the posts don’t show up. Also only my subscriptions on my main instance are listed, not subscriptions from other instances.

      This app looks really promising. Reminds me of Boost.

  • Tywele@dataterm.digitalEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Looks great from the screenshots!

    The Google Play link doesn’t let me install it though and I can’t find it via the Google Play app.

    Edit: it says that the app is not available for any of my devices. I’m using a Pixel 7

    • Kuro@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Strange - I’ll take a look! I’m testing on a Pixel 6 so I would think it would work.

      • booklovero@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m on pixel 6 and it doesn’t work with logged in aurora store.

        Edit: it works now!

    • Kuro@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I’ll look into uploading the APK and add a reply here when it’s ready.

        • Kuro@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          I think I will open source it in the future but right now it’s a very messy codebase coming from essentially a long coding binge.

          • golden_calf@beehaw.orgEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            A lot of people think that way but don’t be afraid to post code because it isn’t perfect. Lots of enterprise software looks awful. Also anyone who wants to be an ass about your code for such an early release isn’t worth listening too. Most are just happy to help and can do pull requests to make your project better.

            • halvdan@beehaw.orgEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Agreed. I’ve seen some horrors in corporate code bases in my time. Created some, even. 😁

  • WreckingBANG@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    That UI looks really clean. I love it. Is it open source? Not that i dont trust you but i try to not use any closed source apps anymore, i would appreciate it if you would share the link to the source code.

    • Kuro@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I switched over when the subreddits started going private. It’s been a lot of long nights haha.

      Not my first app :)

        • ELLIOTTCABLE@beehaw.orgEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          There’s no reason to be so critical of OP for this … if anything, it’s impressive, or at least cute. Why you gotta be bringing Reddit negativity over here? )=

  • crius@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    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.

  • Urnchos@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for making this!

    My first impressions upon downloading are that I’m glad it exists but I think I’ll stick to Jerboa for the time being. It looks really well made for those who are into the cards display format, however I’m personally not a fan of cards views on apps and I feel the list view isn’t quite there yet.

    One interesting quirk I noticed worth noting for the developer, not sure if it’s a bug. I signed in with Urnchos@sh.itjust.works and when I click profile it seems to display my comment history of my Kbin account by the same name. I’m not certain if the profile would display the comments and whatnot of all instances that have that name?