• virtualfiber@lemmy.ml
    5·
    1 year ago

    Infinity is the best FOSS app I’ve used for Reddit and supported Relay through purchasing Pro. As a UI/UX Designer, I admire everything these devs contributed for their 3rd party apps to user experience compared to Reddit themselves.

    • GNU/Dhruv@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Infinity’s one of the most attractive Reddit UIs around. I’ve been using it for a while, I didn’t realize it was a FOSS app. Great to learn though!

      • virtualfiber@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        I just stumbled it upon FDroid’s homepage by accident. I tried it, then I never used my Relay ever again lol. But I missed scrolling reddit by one hand using Relay, very convenient feature! I though I was going to miss r/fossdroid, but there’s and open source instance here on lemmy also, c/opensource if you’re interested.

  • Bumblefumble@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    I am in love with Boost and have used it religiously. Now I’m on Jerboa trying to get this Lemmy stuff to work, but I’m hopeful.

    • xradeon@lemmy.one
      1·
      1 year ago

      It would be awesome if Boost could be re-written to work with Lemmy, but I have doubts that would happen. This is probably a good time for new people to have their work shine though, I’m excited to see new apps made for Lemmy.

      • randromeda@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        The UIs are similar to some extent so it might not be a bad idea to have the boost dev work on Jerboa

  • fernandu00@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    I love infinity! Easy to use and it doesn’t push notifications all day to you check reddit all the time

  • Wahots@pawb.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m riding Slide into the ground. I’ll miss it. Jerboa is good but feels pretty crunchy still :(

  • Lost_Wanderer@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    RedReader > anything

    FOSS and lightweight and works perfectly. Hope he makes it work on Lemmy moving forward.

    • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s more likely, probably. On Reddit it really seems to be a forgotten child aside of the fossdroid people.

  • notExactlyI20@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    I really wish the Infinity dev considers working on the backend of the app to make it work with Lemmy. That’s no easy task, I’m aware of that, but dreaming is free am I right?

    • DarkwinDuck@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      There’s the Idea of making a lemmy API that’s Reddit compatible. Meaning all Reddit client apps could migrate to lemmy with minimal effort.

        • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de
          1·
          1 year ago

          Where normally, these two services differ drastically. Usually, Infinity (or any other Reddit client), would talk to the Reddit API. Converting them to talk to the Lemmy API is like converting them to speak a whole other language. There are ideas and proof-of-concept projects to translate between the two.

          The software would sit in between a Reddit client and a Lemmy instance. Receiving Reddit “language” from the client, translating to Lemmy “language” on the other side, and doing the reverse with the response it receives from the Lemmy instance.

          If such a piece of software existed, a Reddit client could be converted simply by saying: “Instead of talking to the Reddit API, talk to this server”. The client would still “speak” the Reddit “language” with the translator, but interact with Lemmy at the other end.

          It would take the time pressure off of Reddit third-party client developers, giving them time to properly convert their applications to their new preferred platform. It is a large task though, so I’m not sure if it’ll be usable by the time Reddit disables free API access.

          Would be very nice to have, as the bar set for UI and UX design by most third-party Reddit applications is very high (specifically shout out to Apollo and Infinity). Apps like Jerboa or Mlem couldn’t possibly reach that level of quality within a month.