Was wondering if anybody had any news about Boost’s arrival to the Lemmy scene, or if anybody knew of any way to get news about Boost.
Well… it’s not going to be especially fast, they do need to restructure the entire back end of their application and make changes to a lot of the front end too, I imagine. Going to be a good while, I predict.
Liftoff is very good, I would recommend trying it out.
The only resource for Boost for Lemmy I’ve seen is the relatively empty Play Store entry.
I’m tenporary using Liftoff as well, but can’t wait for Boost. Checking for any news constantly.
I’m using liftoff, and it’s ok. But, there is a weird situation:
if someone replies to your comment, you get a notification.
If you follow the notification to your inbox, it will show the reply.
But, it shows no context, and there’s no way I can find to get any except to manually find your comment, and then their reply.
That’s way clunky, and not the kind of thing Boost would do.
The Lemmy apps mostly are just ok (I haven’t tried all of them)
Clicking this icon will bring you to the context
I thought that was the crosspost icon, LOL. It still only adds a context button, which you have to press. Seems like it would be better to just open the context when you select the first icon.
I think it’s still early for that. In the meantime, I suggest two apps that kind of resemble to our beloved Boost: Jerboa, and Connect. Check them out.
I’ve found Thunder to be quite good, it’s on the Playstore
On that note, since I tried those two: Do you know any app that has an optimized tablet-mode?
Thunder has a two-column feed setting, not sure about any other tablet optimizations yet! There should be a new full release this week or next, but the latest build on GitHub is quite solid and has a lot of improvements from the build currently on Google Play
