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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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.
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
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.
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)
Paper clip will bring you to the context 
Ahh! Thank you
It took me a while to figure out that too. Haha!
That's about all I've seen too. I'm currently using Liftoff as you say. I've tried just about everything else, but this comes closest to fulfilling the use-case I had for Boost.
I'm tenporary using Liftoff as well, but can't wait for Boost. Checking for any news constantly.
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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.
I've found Thunder to be quite good, it's on the Playstore
Tried it now, looks like very good so far!
On that note, since I tried those two: Do you know any app that has an optimized tablet-mode?
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
I'm still cycling between apps almost daily, and none so far ticks all the boxes for me. I have Liftoff, Connect, Jerboa and Voyager on my phone right now. I tried Thunder a while back but didn't like it.
Sync is on it's way and it will come down to either that or Boost in the end for me, I think.
Yeah, totally.
Boost and sync is kind of twins though, I've used both and exchange them often whenever an update breaks things.
Nope :(. Prolly be a month or two. I liked boost for reddit. Right now I'm using Jerboa. It's not bad :)
https://github.com/aeharding/voyager
Check out this app, it seems to me the best of all those currently available.
Voyager is okay and has a nice UI, but PWA's are always less than optimal because the browser abstraction layer is just slow.
Check Thunder for Lemmy. It's the best native app I've tried yet.
The experience is very smooth for me. Seems indistinguishable from a native app. Which browser are you using it with? I am using it with Chrome on Android
Kiwi browser on Android. Kiwi is a Chrome shell browser with upgrades.
I've found it runs smoother when you use it on Firefox.
I agree. Right now the idea of a web app is cool, but it doesn't really work all that well for me (scrolling up too quickly causes problems when the page thinks you want to refresh, and I like most of my apps to be in the drawer, not my home page, for instance).
The best android app currently is connect for lemmy
I find personally Jerboa to be the most stable with the richest feature base currently. Has a ways to go, but jerboa is consistently updated to keep up with Lemmy changes as well.
Not available in F droid is no go for me.
I do not know the reason why you don't want to use play store.
There is a play store alternative called Aurora store on f-droid. I installed connect with Aurora store.
It's not because of play store. It's because not being on f-droid generally means an app is not foss. That's why I avoid connect as well.
This may be a stupid question, but how does an app being on Play Store and not F-Droid make it no longer FOSS?
It doesn't make it no longer FOSS. It's just that usually if an app is FOSS it is on f-droid.
You know boost isn't FOSS right?
Gotcha
I'm not Stallman. I make some exceptions and Boost has been one if them.
Can't stand the apple style.
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.
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.
I mean, when reddit stopped working on boost it now shows a message saying that he's working on boost for lemmy. That's not no communication. It could be much better though
does it? where? it just says error for me
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Rubรฉn 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.
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
"Our destination is just over the next hill. Now let's listen to the radio or I'll turn this car around."
My dad, probably.
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