• Otter@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The only downside for me is the ad trackers. If those get disabled when we pay for no ads, then it would be perfect

    Not saying that doesn’t happen, I just don’t know…

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      1 year ago

      Something I wish back on Boost for Reddit was a separate free app and a paid separate app without ads and trackers, but it’s something Google apparently doesn’t allow anymore. Reddit is fun was able to have reddit is fun gold because they had the separate app before the rules went into affect.

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        1 year ago

        Damn, that’s sad, I love when they make the separate since usually I can put the paid app on my family library.

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      1 year ago

      This is an interesting question. Maybe Ruben can answer? Or Google it and see what other apps have to say.

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      1 year ago

      Apparently the ad tracking is disabled when you launch the rocket. Also, I deleted the other apps pretty much right away 🤣

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    1 year ago

    Even the beta version is more usable and way faster than other released apps. Incredible!

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    1 year ago

    It doesnt appear to be released for Android yet. Why you gotta get my hopes up…

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    1 year ago

    I’ve been using the Photon front-end on both desktop, and mobile, pretty much since it became available on this instance, after trying a dozen different mobile apps, that weren’t an obvious 3-day hack, just to fill the niche. Boost is superior than all of them, combined, without any exaggeration

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    1 year ago

    Thanks to this, I realized Boost for Lemmy is finally out! I immediately signed up for the beta and downloaded it.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    It’s been so long that I’m fused to Liftoff. I don’t want to readapt to something new now 😩

    Maybe if I knew more about what features it has that Liftoff doesn’t I could be coaxed into it.

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      There are countless of QOL features. You can customise all the app’s colours, there’s a bunch of different view types for posts and you can set default views per community, you can favourite communities, select and copy on a comment, search through comments, highlight comments of the same user, … and much more! Most importantly there are a ton of settings you can toggle. If you can see it you can likely tweak it or hide it. It takes a while to change everything to your liking, but I think it’s worth it.

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      Not sure what features it has that Liftoff doesn’t (though it packs a bunch). But for me the selling point is the pretty and efficient user interface. All the gestures and buttons feel natural and intuitive, media rendering is smooth etc.

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    1 year ago

    I use Sync at the moment. Is there anything Boost offers over Sync that would be worth switching over for? Always looking for a better experience when possible

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        1 year ago

        How about the fact that Boost doesn’t rip you off with ridiculously outrageous pricing to remove ads?

        That’s pretty high on my priority list.

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          As a user of Blokada, the ads are thankfully not a problem. That’d be a real strike against Sync for normal users though.

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        I wouldn’t say it offers anything grand to make you switch. It’s just another flavor of ui that many people, like myself, personally enjoy.

        Though if I were asked to pick something specific, it would be the customizability. It does have fewer options compared to the reddit version, but they will likely be added in the future.

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          The customizability is also why I use sync. Do you have experience with both? Which is better?

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            1 year ago

            I bought and used both for Reddit… I used Sync for longer and liked it better but of all the Android clients I ever used Boost was definitely the closest 2nd for me.

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      I was mostly using sync while waiting for boost to get a Lemmy port, and could make sync to look and feel pretty close to boost for reddit. I had a rather pleasant experience with sync overall. Both are pretty similar out of the box, very configurable and very polished, but now that boost for Lemmy is out, I’m back on boost. Not that boost has a killer feature that sync’s missing, just that I find boost subjectively better.

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      1 year ago

      The Android app works well when installed on Windows (Windows Subsystem for Android).