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Early Access: Become a tester for Boost for Lemmy and share your feedback 🚀 (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by rmayayo@lemmy.world to c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world

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Hi Boost gang,

The first version of Boost for Lemmy is almost ready. If you want to test the app for bugs and give feedback before the app is published, follow this link https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.rubenmayayo.lemmy to enable an early access option on the Boost for Lemmy Play Store listing.

Thanks for your patience!

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[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 59 points 11 months ago

🎉🚀

Now that's a seamless switch between platforms!

Ad-free already purchased!

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

How do I hide, or limit the height of images people embed into their comments such as this one, in Boost?

This image is huge for example, and ideally I just want a small version I can tap to expand, and not have to scroll past this whole thing (plus it seems like it's cropped on the sides, only showing half a phone screen on either side - or maybe that's the full image I don't know?).

Thanks!!

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 6 points 10 months ago

That's probably something Rubén needs to handle. I didn't realize it would come out this huge lol. That's why we're bug testing this!

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Wow, you're right.

For comparison.

Sync:

Boost:

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 7 points 11 months ago

One feature that'd be nice to have is the ability to add other instances as guest accounts.

[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Needed to change the icon colour to help differentiate the apps 👌

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah I switched the Reddit one to greyscale right after.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago

Too bad they can't update the Reddit one to add an icon for the rocket on a Reddit tombstone 🤭

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 6 points 11 months ago

I'd say make it a crashed rocket

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Why keep the old one installed at all? Surely it doesn't work since they disabled the API, as absolutely fantastic as it was, now it's just a dead app taking up disk space.

[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

It does if you create a community or you're a mod of another community.

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 7 points 10 months ago

You can replace the API keys with your own with ReVanced.

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 5 points 11 months ago

Reddit mods can still use 3rd party apps

[-] Noedel@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Revanced my man

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Quick question. I thought Reddit's API price debacle (the entire reason I'm here instead) forced Boost for Reddit to shut down, or at the very least charge a high price. I'm surprised to see it still working. What exactly is going on?

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 1 points 10 months ago

Custom API keys

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

So what's the effect of this?

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 1 points 10 months ago

API keys is what identifies the client/application. So basically, Reddit sees it as me using a personal custom app or script, and it's therefore not blocked.

They didn't shut down the API, they just made it prohibitively expensive to use. For most people, that falls into the free tier.

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