I’m not sure if you’ve tried this PWA called Wefwef but it feels like a fully featured Apollo client for Lemmy already. You just go to the site and add it to your home screen. No beta to sign up for. No TestFlight link. Just add the PWA.

It’s good. It’s really really good.

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    30 mins in and I’ve set up a Lemmy account, logged into Wefwef, added a bunch of subscriptions and now it’s about 85% like I’m still using Reddit. Amazing, and considerably better than I could have hoped for

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    The only thing missing for me after testing for 2 days is the swipe to go back a screen. You need to reach ALLLLLL the way across to the left edge of the screen and drag it ALLLLLL the way to the right to go back to your feed from a post. In Apollo I had it configured to only need a swipe from about the middle of the screen to the right edge. It’s very hard for me to reach that far comfortably and my muscle memory is all messed up right now. I keep doing the short swipe and I upvote someone’s post instead. If they can add this I will be extremely happy.

    Edit: Also, I just realized after posting this comment that Apollo also had a feature where you go forward and backward a screen by swiping left or right on the bottom section. Extremely useful as well.

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    The one complaint I have is the lack of a native app; it doesn’t run as smoothly as the other Lemmy clients do on my phone.

    It’s already amazing on my tablet though!

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      When I scroll on Mlem it has a lot of microstuttering on my iPhone 13 pro max.

      If you’re on Android it’s likely different. I’ve always had a much harder time getting good framerate on browser on Android phones than in mobile Safari, although the former usually have less crazy layout issues.

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    Pretty impressive! Not Apollo but close. Dismissing images is not as fluid.

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    Wefwef is great! I love the Apollo-export upload feature lets you find similar communities on Lemmy.

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      Yeah, I wish there was a way to do this without Apollo export. I used boost before.

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    I just installed Mlem and Memmy. Both have a very nice UI and are smooth. I am leaning towards Mlem though. I like swiping right to view my communities.

    Edit: I was an Apollo user and reddit does not feel the same without Apollo.

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      I tried those 2 as well but Wefwef is really better despite being a web app.

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    wefwef is the best, I really stopped caring about all the other apps being under development. Just mind that using it with Firefox really is absolutely lagging (which is kind of a shame) and that (currently) Chrome gets you the best performance. Feels like a native Android app.

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      Only problem I have had with Fennec (Firefox but without telemetry and such) is the fact it crashes and won’t start the PWA if the browser isn’t open anymore. Reopening the browser fixes it. Haven’t felt any lag otherwise.

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      This. People want and need a real app on the official stores to migrate from Reddit. I’m using Connect right now for this reason, but I hope it gets better

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      It’s an actual webapp, so no, it probably won’t unless they convert the codebase to react native.

      I’ve only found a few things that I’m missing from a native experience and I’m sure it can be fixed.

      Most annoyingly is the “scroll-to-top” by double tapping the top of the screen doesn’t work.

      Otherwise I think in terms of smoothness it’s better than Mlem.

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    I just tied wefwef, and it’s brilliant! It really gives the Apollo feel and even allows for multiple accounts for different instances. Feels like coming home 🙂

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    New favorite way to use lemmy.

    Great design, feels responsive, works everywhere…

    PWAs are great, and for 99% of use cases are more than enough. We need a fake App Store that “installs” PWAs in people devices in a transparent way.

    Also let’s hope Apple is forced to open iOS to alternative rendering engines and complete full features browsers.

    And for a final irony boost, the PWA thing is the “”””original”””” vision for smartphones, at least according to Steve Jobs during the original iPhone keynote. Full circle and stuff.

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    Yes it is really nice but still browser based at the end of the day, therefore will not be a go-to for me.

    Memmy has been good to me so far

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        Oh no, is it react native? I haven’t looked as deeply into memmy as I have other betas.

        Truly waiting for a proper native app

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            Native apps can utilize the feature of the host OS whereas using a library like react native that compiles down into different code depending on the target platform for that build, will be limited to what react native provides integration with.

            There are sadly many things and as new feature come out those too can be underutilized.

            I’m really generalizing here but if you look into it with that context, you’ll see what I mean.

            I’ve experienced this personally and professionally as I am a senior software engineer and have done my share of app development

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    It’s good, but it needs a compact view (unless I simply haven’t found the option).

    Edit: It looks like compact view arrived in the appearance settings. Nice.

    Edit 2: It might need since better post error handling/feedback…

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      Check out their github to see how new this actually is. I’m blown away that it actually works most of the time and new major features arrive daily.

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      Check out their github to see how new this actually is. I’m blown away that it actually works most of the time and new major features arrive daily.

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    It seems to work well enough. I could use a little more information density, I wish I could turn off thumbnails, and a bunch of other nit-pick-y things, but it’s a good start.

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        I have the compact view on and the font set to as small as I can. I would love to see the thumbnails turned off and some other extraneous info removed or compacted more. I need that information density!

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          I just want a text only app for Lemmy/kbin. No thumbnails, profile pictures, in app preview of posts, or inline comment images.

          I just want post titles, self posts text, and comments.