Some of y’all have no appreciation for independent app developers
I’ll take my downvote now
Really, it’s cool that some want to make their apps for free with no ads, but I’ll support devs who put in hard work to make a good app, it’s ridiculous to think that they don’t deserve some sort of compensation.
The same behavior happened when sync came out. Endless complaints about an app being from on app store with the option to pay the hard working developer for their work.
Do they go on public transit complaining that see ads there too? At least when you pay for the app the ads go away forever.
Sync launched with a subscription, and only after the kickback from that did it add a one time charge option. An option priced much higher than Boost, by the way.
People were right to push back on that.
Also, the public transit example doesn’t fit here. If I paid for the bus with my bus fare, or through my taxes, yes, being upset about the ads would be ok, because I already paid for the service. Same way I wouldn’t appreciate ads in the backseat of an Uber.
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I don’t really complain about seeing ads in apps i didn’t pay for, but I do complain about seeing ads on public transit and in the world in general. I don’t want the world plastered with ads.
Hell they’re on the motorways here which seems ludicrous.
Is boost not developed by an independent developer?
It is
I think you’re confusing “independent” with “works for free.”
I haven’t switched at this point because Connect works well for me, but people’s work has value.
Not having read anything else, I’m guessing ads
Instantly bought the ads removal, Boost was THE reddit app for me. I’m stoked to see it for Lemmy.
Dear lord, finally. Something compact, simple, without needless wasted space.
Honest to god right angles.
I’ve found my permanent Lemmy app.
This is identical to Jerboa
Pretty sure I saw somewhere the devs took inspiration from Boost for their UI
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What the hell, look at your messages or something 😅
I use reddit/lemmy like a forum. I’ll go back to the thread and see the responses later when I feel like it. Stopped looking at my inbox in 2016, no regrets.
Incidentally, redditors that don’t want to turn on mobile notifications are probably going to have to start doing that too, given what they just did to the reddit app.
How so? I haven’t gone back to that place since Joey lost its API access.
You know you can still use the old apps if you are a mod of a (private) sub or use revanced to patch them?
Or just stop using reddit
How do I make this image you linked bigger? Tapping on it doesn’t make it full screen and holding it closes the comment.
It’s like coming back home <3
yep, just finished setting it up. really excited
My first ad:
Fuck why would anyone use this over FOSS apps that dont spread google adware/spyware
Because it’s not a choice of FOSS or not, it’s a in choice of quality of the app. Apps like Jerboa or Thunder are very far behind Sync and Boost. But if you enjoy those, then more power to you, and definitely no reason to switch.
I don’t know about that. I’m a sync user and some of the foss options are very good by now. I use sync because of familiarity and I like the dev so don’t mind dropping some money to support him.
Also a Sync user, for me the only option that came close to Sync and Boost for me was Summit, which people also did not like due to it being closed source.
Thunder is kinda close, as is Connect, but AFAIK Sync is still the only one to have any admin tools built into it (haven’t been able to try out Boost for Lemmy yet).
I was speaking more in the sense for general browsing. I’m not familiar with the admin tools for any of the apps.
Thanks. Yea I love liftoff, I got no issues.
Thunder is pretty great, occasionally janky but it just works
Not in my experience. Jerboa is close.
Because after a $3.49 payment, I never see ads again and this app is noticeably better than the Lemmy apps I’ve been stuck with until now.
I mean boost looks good but in what ways is it better than let’s say connect for lemmy for example. what the first thing that comes to your mind?
I’ve tried Boost quickly and ads aside I haven’t noticed anything than is inherently superior to connect which is what I’m using right now.
It just feels more solid. I like connect but it has rough edges that I don’t see in boost
I was just more amused that it was an Adblock ad. It’s a pity it is relying on hassling you with ads to get you to pay as I’d happily chip if to help with the development of an app I was enjoying.
It is hilarious, and I imagined a scenario of ad blockers paying the most for ads to appear instead of ads, like a protection racket
Adception - how deep does it go? Do other ad-blockers advertise in AdBlock’s site? Do they pay for ads to be alongside other ads for ad-blockers saying “want to stop ads like those guys? Then use us”. What if, ultimately, the only ads are for ad-blockers?
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I’m shocked and impressed with how much this reminds me of 2022 Reddit. I went cold turkey after the API changes, but installing this and setting up my old theme has been astounding.
Will I give up my FOSS Jerboa for this? I very well might
I can barely tell them apart, if it wasn’t for the
@instance.tldthey’re visually identical!I’ve always used the column view for posts and Jerboa did not have that. This felt like coming back home
Instantly paid for the ad free version even though I’m rocking an ad blocker. This is a pristine app, every bit as good as the original Reddit app.
This is my assessment too, although I really like Jerboa so I’m waiting to purchase this. We’ll see how it holds up.
Seeing a lot of complaints about the lack of swiping to upvote/downvote. Which is just hysterical to me because it’s just a tap on boost for the vote controls, which is less movement.
One swipe to upvote a comment is much easier than two taps.
I like swipe gestures as well I guess it is about what you are used to and what not.
If it’s too hard for you to upvote, don’t upvote 🙃
How is two taps, the second needing to be precise less movement than one general swipe?
Same, I never liked swipe controls. Using Sync the last little bit, I would always accidentally save things when scrolling.
Swiping gestures are generally annoying imo. I also find them a lot more prone to accidents
It’s not about reducing movement, it’s about 1-handability when you’re holding your phone in the other hand and can’t reach across for an upvote. Sync sold me on it instantly when it finally came out.
Cool.
Regrettably, while I could have swiped to upvote, I had to swap hands to downvote you; at least I could still swipe to reply.
Based dev put all controversial and conflicting instances together in the default list.
what do you mean? what list is this? how can it be accessed in the Boost app?
Yes! I’ve been waiting for this and it doesn’t disappoint. SO good to have the Boost look and feel again 😀.
And the upgrade price is the best you’ll find on any Lemmy app, it’s great value. If you haven’t paid for the app do it now.
I used Boost for Reddit for years, paid of course, and so paying for Boost for Lemmy is a no brainer.
For a 1.0 release it’s great. Show Ruben the Dev that this is worth his time and pay to unlock today! 👍
I’m on sync, but gave boost a try. Seems pretty good and the price is definitely better than sync~~. Is there am AMOLED dark mode? Couldn’t find one.~~ Found AMOLED. Boost is looking pretty nice.
You have to turn off dynamic color then can pick the AMOLED black theme.
Been loving this app since the preview.
Reddit became a different site for me when I used baconit and w10m. Once i went to android there were a number of apps to try but i settled on boost.
After api changes I couldn’t bring myself to install their app and i did miss it. l used liftoff here for a bit but this has been so much more functional. Truly a great job by the dev and worth the wait. The paid version seems like a steal given you can’t get a good chicken sandwich anywhere near that.
I’ll probably gift a few copies to friends and family just so i don’t feel guilty.
Lord i sound like a paid amazon review. I’m as cycnal as they come though and not easily won over for what it’s worth.
I’m using Voyager, but giving Boost some attention. We will see which I like better… I didn’t like Sync or Jerboa much.
Try Connect or Liftoff
Connect is incredibly laggy for me, it’s code needs some optimization, it’s closed source because the dev himself admitted the codebase is a mess.
Liftoff’s ui is just not intuitive, like, at all.
Connect never gave me any issues. I dont even feel the lag. I am used to Liftoff UI so got no issues there as well.
Connect gives me issues because I’m subscribed to over 600 communities, something with how the sidebar renders that community list destroys the app, also the animations aren’t very refined, and there’s a lot of text and multi button clicks for things that could be single button presses.
This will most likely get better over time, but until then, I’m definitely using boost or sync.
I’m surprised there even exist 600 communities…
There are hundreds of servers, and hundreds of thousands of users, so yeah, there’s that many lol
Liftoff’s ui is just not intuitive, like, at all.
Okay good deal. Glad it wasn’t just me.
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still using Jerboa since I joined up, and I’m so used to it now that other apps just feel off. I was a rif user in the before-times, and jerboa has the same kind of stripped-down vibe I’m comfortable with
The pricing is way more reasonable than sync. I’m still sticking with connect but at least this dev is not asking for much.
Long term sustainability is going to be challenging. The Lemmy userbase is way smaller than reddit’s regardless, and for 3.50 EUR one-off it will be challenging to cover future development efforts.
Yeah, I’m still on Connect as well. At this point, I see no reason to change, despite being a Boost user for years with reddit.
If it ain’t broke…
For me it just have too many bugs that aren’t being fixed.
Nothing major, just little annoying things like if you edit a comment it closes out of the thread. Or if you make a comment it scrolls to the top of the thread. Why?
I’ve just tested it and boost doesn’t do either of those things.
Boost is definitely a little better than connect. It also just has a feeling of being a little more solid and I can’t even say specifically why. That’s worth considering for me
Idk about you, but I paid less than the max it shows for the price in my country on the Play Store. It may be down to localised pricing or maybe I paid during some promotion.
Yes it is, I’m commenting on it right now. You can import all your app settings from the Reddit version of the app too, if you still have it installed, or you still have your config file lying around. It’s what I have done so I have a pitch black theme lol.
Not a glowing review that this is accidentally not a reply to a comment. :p
Hello from boost!
First comment from Boost!
It’s just so good.
