• IMALlama@lemmy.world
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    I’m on Jerboa and downloaded/installed sync yesterday. As a former RIF user, I don’t have a horse in this race. I am more familiar with Jerboa, but find the overall feel of both (admittedly, without a lot of use, to be pretty comparable).

    That said, I kind of like some of the ideas in Jerboa more? For example, tap to minimize comments and their children on Jerboa is quite a bit faster. I’m kind of sad that both make selecting some of the text in a comment hard and miss the RIF collapse/expand button. Jerboa also matches the font size of everything else in my UI better than Sync. For example, the font size of this reply and my keyboard are the same in Jerboa. In Sync the in-app font size is quite a bit smaller.

    At the end of the day, I think that both apps are going to be largely comparable for a fairly casual user like me. I bet both offer more functionality than I’m using, but so far I don’t feel like I’m missing anything.

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      Just an FYI, you can change the “tap to minimize comments and their children” faster in the settings for sync. Same with font size

      That’s what I like about sync the most, you can customize it to a T.

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      I no longer have an Android so idk how the new Sync is, but the version for Reddit was extremely customizable and did have option to disable tap to minimize and give you a button instead. I used Sync daily for nearly 10 years and it’s by far the best experience I’ve had

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      Jerboa also matches the font size of everything else in my UI better

      This has been my biggest annoyance in all the apps I’ve tried so far, I’m using thunder at the moment and it’s extra large font is juuust big enough, but still way too small to be called extra large.

      Quite a few of the others don’t even have that though, liftoff was terrible for it with no option to change it and Jerboa is easily the best in this regard but with it scaled up to match my UI it’s a too much scrolling and weird formatting.

      Can’t wait for Boost, it was my reddit go to for years simply because of all it’s toggles, I could customize pretty much every part of the UI. Which is probably why it’s taking a while to come out, there was quite a bit more to it than pretty much any other of the alternatives.

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        During my reddit days I used boost and sync interchangeably. Because they’re so similar. But the last app I used before leaving reddit was boost.

        Now I’m using Voyager and infinity. I have arctius but it gets less usage.

        I also install and cycle through all the available android apps. And so far amongst the non reddit apps. Connect and lift off were the best, summit is nearly there, thunder can surpass summit of the slow loading and browsing problem is resolved.

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      I used jerboa for last few months, but I got sync the other day, and it is very smooth but I’m really missing certain things from jerboa I found super intuitive. Also in sync I can’t seem to highlight, copy, paste from a posted comment…perhaps that’s a paid feature only? Also no post creation is kinda lame, and I hope that is not behind a pay wall too. …I don’t mind paying guy for his work, but I can’t afford it.

      I was also a RiF user (:

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          In RIF you could tap-hold on the text to select it since they had a dedicated button for collapse.

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            There is a setting to select text on long press on Sync. Sync is extremely customizable.

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            Yeah that option is only available for posts on sync unfortunately.

            But a neato system wide thing with Android is now you can use recents to select text on any app. It’s so convenient.

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      I honestly couldn’t stand Jerboa personally back when I used it so for me it’s nothing like sync (which is my favourite app so far even on the free version), but maybe Jerboa has improved since I left.

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        It was definitely buggy as hell if thats what you mean. But yeah it’s improved and I don’t have issues with anything anymore.

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      Former RIF user + current Jerboa user, too. I’m happy so far. I’m also very casual/waaaay less tech knowledgeable than most other people on the platform, and I’m sure that has influenced my opionion