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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      I’m tenporary using Liftoff as well, but can’t wait for Boost. Checking for any news constantly.

    • breno@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      Liftoff is quite good but there’s one thing that I find frustrating. When I get comment replies, I can’t click on the comment to go the thread where the comment resides. I don’t know if I’m totally missing something or what! (probably am)

    • Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Using multiple accounts on various instances was frustrating with Liftoff. I may have needed to try for a bit longer to get it, but ended up just going back to Jerboa

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        Yeah, this was my complaint with Liftoff also. The inability to easily subscribe is frustrating. I usually jot down the instance and subscribe when I get on my desktop.

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      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)

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          1 year ago

          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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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    1 year ago

    I picked up Jerboa. Its FOSS and Boost-like. The fact its FOSS will probably keep me on it if Boost comes back but is still closed source

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    1 year ago

    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.

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        1 year ago

        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

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    Nothing was said before the API was going dark, and nothing has been said since then. The lack of communication is driving me towards sync for lemmy instead.

    I get that it’s a side project, but updates to your community take very little effort.

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      1 year ago

      Guess you’re finally in luck.

      Rubén created and maintained Boost for Reddit as a single dev as far as I know, and I would assume he’s doing the same for Lemmy. I don’t think he was ever frequently communicating on Reddit either, only now and then. Plus, he wasn’t going to create a Lemmy version of Boost initially, so it really hasn’t been in development long.

      You just have to be a little patient.

    • crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      As far as I know boost is made by a solo dev and depending on the person updates can be a lot of effort especially updating a crowd of impatient people.