Introducing Connect for Lemmy (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kuro_neko@lemmy.ca to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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

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[-] Tywele@dataterm.digital 1 points 1 year ago

I signed into my dataterm.digital account but when I go on profile I see my feddit.de profile even though I didn't login with it.

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[-] ilbradipo@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

Google Play say that is not available/compatible for my Xiaomy 12 Pro

[-] Pbody@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Will this app be compatible with kbin.social accounts? I've tried to sign in and it's throwing a whole page of an error message.

[-] JackBruh@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy and Kbin are entirely different Software. Fediverse just allows posts to be visible between other fediverse applications.

[-] kosure@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Bummer that it doesn't work. I'm quite happy here on kbin. And I didn't know that the software running them was completely different. So much to learn about the fediverse. Honestly, I'm perfectly happy with the progressive web app version of kbin.social except for the inability to collapse threads. Though I understand ernest is a saint and i'm perfectly PERFECTLY happy to be patient.

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[-] Jcb2016@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like Infinity! looks promising

[-] vpsxhtus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

i'm currently using this and it's great!

[-] ledditor@leddit.minnal.icu 1 points 1 year ago

runs very smooth on my 5 year old phone. Some suggestions for improvement

With All selected not all feeds were showing up on the sidebar
Adding a compact layout for sidebar and comments

[-] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, you are really fast! I've been using Jerboa and the PWA, but not super happy with either. Yours look great! Will use it more and feed back to you if that's okay.

One thing I found is that it doesn't show the number of new comments. I usually sort by NewComments, and I would expect to e.g. see "49 comments (14 new)" like Jerboa/PWA.

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[-] CreepyRainbow@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm very thankful to you! I wanted a nice app to browse lemmy and I found your app a couple of days ago! I've had a very nice experience so far

[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks @CreepyRainbow@beehaw.org! I'm glad you're enjoying it.

[-] harry315@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Damn that looks awesome! Did you find any good docs on the API? I only found the lemmy-js-client, which is a library, though. Wanted to do some shenanigans with Python and Lemmy, but there doesn't seem to be too much documentation...

[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

I had a hard time with the API docs too to be honest. I read through https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/04-api.html first but it was pretty high level. My main reference was the typing on the lemmy-js-client as well. I used the Dart Lemmy API client here https://github.com/LemmurOrg/lemmy_api_client but unfortunately it's not being maintained (and didn't work without modification since the API has changed since then).

[-] TehPers@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

For what it's worth, it should be possible to use the ActivityPub API, which is just a traditional JSON API with a JSON-LD @context field you can probably safely ignore (as long as the context uses vocabulary from activitystreams). For example, try running this request:

GET https://beehaw.org/c/technology/outbox
accept: application/ld+json

The nice thing about the ActivityPub API is that all the fields should be documented. If you run your response through a JSON-LD expander, you can often take the resulting field names and "dereference" them (aka open them in a browser) to find documentation on what those fields mean.

[-] Macallan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Nothing is showing up in my feed when signed in to lemmy.ml

Also, the Google password manager is trying to input the password into the instance text box when trying to sign in. Pixel 7 Pro.

[-] singularity@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Might be because lemmy.ml is already on the new lemmy version.

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[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Looks amazing! I'll try it out!

[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it!

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

My keyboard constantly tries to switch to caps as I type in Connect. I am using Grammarly. It will flicker the upper case layout between each key press. It's unusable as it is.

[-] crius@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[-] vintageballs@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe bug: in list view, the width of post title and content seems to be limited to around 80% of my screen width.

[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

That's a bug! Thank you. I'd guess it's leaving the 20% space for an image thumbnail which doesn't exist. I'll fix this in the next release.

[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Hi, just wanted to make sure you saw this but that issue is now fixed. Thanks again!

[-] Coeus@coeus.sbs 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I cannot find out how to change to list view.

EDIT: For some reason the play store didn't download the most recent version. Fixed now.

The list view only showslike 2 posts on the screen. Is there anyway to get multiple posts on the screen at once?

[-] serendipitytea@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Should be in Settings > Card type > switch to list > Press save at the bottom

[-] Hovercat90@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Hey, i like your app a lot! Jerboa doesnt work on my Motorola, so i installed your app. Looks very nice and works well as a first impression!

I just want to tell you good luck, we are all counting on you! :D

[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you @Hovercat90@feddit.de! I'm glad you like it.

[-] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

so far I'm really liking it. I would like alternating backgrounds on comments just to help separate them out a little.

I don't see the ability to edit my comments. I had to pull up the pwa to edit this one.

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[-] eursec@lemmy.anymore.nl 0 points 1 year ago

The screenshots look good, but I'm not able to test it because it's not available in the netherlands :(

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