The app has an amazing experience so far, because it feels like I’m just using Apollo, heaps of baked in features that no other app has so far. It’s a web app so installation is pretty forward. Much love to the Devs!
(Side note: please change the name to something better. I recommend the name Voyager to keep up with the theme)
Installation:
https://wefwef.app/settings/install
WefWef’s community page: c/wefwef
Courtesy of KillaBeez@lemmy.world for telling us about it.
Update:
Having issues? It’s to do with rate limitations, this should be resolved soon but right now you can Use:
https://w.opnxng.com/settings/install
Here’s the Dev’s notes on that:
w.opnxng.com - wefwef hosted by Opnxng in Singapore.
Contact/privacy
Note: Community deployments are NOT maintained by the wefwef team. They may not be synced with wefwef’s source code. Please do your own research about the host servers before using them.
EDIT: This is now resolved, because @ruud@lemmy.world is awesome.
hi! wefwef dev here.
https://wefwef.app is getting rate limited by lemmy.world. The growth in traffic over the last 24 hours has been incredible.
That’s why you’re probably getting error messages. Hang in there, we’re working it out. :-)
In the meantime, self host (it’s just a simple docker container!) or use a community deployment (if you trust the administrator).
hi! lemmyworld admin here.
If I did it right, wefwef.app should no longer be rate-limited. Please let me know if it worked.
You rock! 🤘
Like a charm!
Contrast this interaction with the spaz/Christian public dust-ups, and let’s all feel fortunate to be here. Thanks to both of you devs for making cool stuff.
I’ve noticed a lot fewer errors now. Thank you
This is an excellent web app! Thank you!!
What an honour, fantastic app btw, it takes after the best after all. But I’m getting flashbacks with the rate limit thing, it’s this going to be a problem like Reddit or what’s going on?
Your app is really good. Well done!
Its not only miles better than the default mobile experience on Lemmy, it is also has features like swiping that I have never seen used on a web app before.
Do you have some kind of roadmap of features that will be added?
Some things I think would add to the experience are:
- Previews of comments/posts
- Sorting by Top day, week, month, ect
Just the GitHub issues atm. Thing have kinda exploded over the last 48 hours so still playing catch-up. That being said, feel free to search through and create issues!
What’s the long term plan? Everyone hosts their own instance in Docker? I was thinking about using AWS container instances. I wonder how I would protect my publicly available interface though. I want to be able to access it from anywhere without vpn or firewall limitations. Do you have any good suggestion?
The long term plan is Lemmy to allow CORS * for web clients like Mastodon does, which should completely resolve this problem. :)
It should be in the next version! See: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3109
App looks great so far!
Will it have auto marking posts as read just by scrolling past them? No other apps do this yet…it was Apollos best feature!
Also no dark mode?!
Installing it via saving to the iPhones Home Screen……how do we update an app like this? Never done that before 😄
Installing it via saving to the iPhones Home Screen……how do we update an app like this? Never done that before 😄
It’s a web app, it updates automatically behind the scenes
This is awesome. Thank you for the amazing project. Feels way more responsive than even the various apps floating around. Exciting stuff!
feels weird having an iOS centric UI on android but I’m loving it so far
On Android as well, this feels better than a lot of native apps. I really missed Apollo after switching to Android and this project makes me happy.
feels better than a lot of native apps
if you installed wefwef from chrome yeah, but if you installed this app from Firefox, you’re going to have a bad time, it was so slow and unresponsive on Firefox for me lol
The only issue I have so far is if my phone kills FireFox the PWA crashes until you open Firefox separately. Otherwise it’s very stable.
Yes I have the same experience. And on Kiwi, it can’t detect the OS theme.
i found out that it depends on your browsers settings, google chrome apparently has a thing where it would enable a website’s dark mode if your system has it on, Samsung Internet requires you to enable “Use website dark theme” in labs to have wefwef (or technically samsung internet) automatically detect system dark mode
I’d have love to have something like this for Reddit back in the days.
One of Us! One of Us!
haha I do already have an iPhone though, I’m just more comfortable on Android
I agree with all the things you said. Including changing this weird name.
It is weird. I don’t even order McNuggets to avoid sounding silly.
It’s absolutely amazing. The thing I’m missing the most though is to be able to customize gestures/swiping like on Apollo. I’m so used to upvoting/downvoting by swiping left, and going back one page by swiping right, from wherever I swipe (on Apollo I only reply by long pressing a comment).
The developer is aiming for Apollo feature parity, so it should be coming :)
The Thunder app has those features FYI!
Agree. Really missing the gestures.
Whoa. I’ve been using Memmy lately but this one is like a carbon copy of Apollo. Will there be the feature to see saved posts soon?
Yes
How did they nail the Apollo look and feel in a web app? Incredible. Been on the Mlem testflight but this is just soooo familiar. I hope this gets an official app on the app store!
based on their github page they seem to really be a proponent of progressive web apps, so there might not be an official app anytime soon.
its really great though and I can barely tell it’s not a native app
I like Memmy, but Wefwef is great too!
Memmy is great, and I will probably switch to it once they get some bugs worked out.
Which bugs are you seeing? We’re getting updates sometimes multiple times a day, so they may be fixed already.
I’ve noticed a little jank sometimes when collapsing comments, also the save photo feature seems to fail periodically. But it’s getting better literally every day, I’m excited to see how it grows
(Side note: please change the name to something better. I recommend the name Voyager to keep up with the theme)
+1 for Voyager!
Just downloaded it because of this post and I gotta say, it’s fucking brilliant.
Honestly impressive
Incredible app! Never realized a web app could be so sexy.
I take back what I said about the Sweet Solution being a failure. Wefwef feels just as good as a native app. I may have to fire it up on a HP TouchPad or Palm Prē.
6+ year Apollo user here and I tried a bunch of apps prior to this one that just didn’t quite have the UI and features I was looking for. If you used Apollo, you’ll feel 100% at home on WefWef; it’s almost identical.
Weird name but it’s really an amazing app, it was the final thing to click and made lemmy a full Reddit replacement for me.
Hard agree. Just got it downloaded and it’s fantastic!
Thank you! I’m on Jerboa right now but will try Wefwef to compare. Now to just get used to this whole “instance” thing
Yeah… What’s that about? I can’t get logged in on the Jerboa app because of it
Not entirely sure, and I’ve since committed to Wefwef over Jerboa because it’s more user friendly. What I did to overcome the login issue on Jerboa was to go to lemmy.world and register my username and login on that instance. After I was registered there, Jerboa picked up my login and I could comment and interact.
Doesn’t really work that well for me, doesn’t show the icon on the app button, can’t change appearance in settings Using it through Firefox, not sure if that’s the problem
Might be worth giving it a try in Safari. Be sure to add it to your home screen because that adds additional functionality.
edit: Androids smh
On Android you need to access the page from Chrome I believe.
Oh really? That’s annoying. I’ll stay with Connect for Lemmy then
My bad, I am not an Android user so I just echoed what Android users have been saying, but here’s a 25 seconds guide on how to install Webapps like this with Firefox.
Thankfully, that isn’t true, and Android is still more open than Apple, even with everything Google’s been doing.
Just saved this to my home screen, am I right in saying that it’s just a webapp and not a full blown app? Seems to work fine so far!
It’s a progressive web app, which means when installed it has some extra powers that other web apps don’t (like more access to device APIs, offline support, etc.) It was actually what all iPhone apps were meant to be before Apple gave up and made the app store.
Sadly iOS’s PWA support has fallen a bit by the wayside compared to PWAs in Android but it’s picking up.
It’s what’s known as a “progressive web app.” A weird in-between of a native app and a web app
Seems to work well so far, not sure I like clicking on a comment collapses it, would like the upvote/downvote/reply options underneath the comment but it’s early days and nothing that won’t be ironed out over time
It’s a copy of the Apollo iOS app interface. If you swipe the comment right depending on how far you swipe it it’ll up or down vote.
Absolutely the closest thing to Apollo. Hoping all the customizations Apollo had come next!
Swipe a little to the right to vote up.
Swipe a lot to the right to vote down.
Swipe to the left to delete.
On comments, swipe a lot to the left to reply!
