I am testing the following Lemmy Clients, and I don’t know yet what is the best for me.

  • Summit
  • Blorp
  • Jerboa
  • Thunder

I do need your help to decide. Summit I didn’t find it in f-droid, I installed it from the play store. Is Summit open source?

This l wrote with Summit

  • MattEnglish
    1·
    7 hours ago

    Thunder and Voyager are my favorites on Android, but Mlem on iOS is my overall favorite.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    8·
    13 hours ago

    Is Summit open source?

    searches

    Huh.

    It has a GitHub project, but that project has no source in it. It’s hosting the compiled releases, but no source.

    https://github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy

    I don’t see anything actually saying that it it is open source.

    EDIT: Each release does appear to be bundled with a source tarball. I guess that the author just isn’t…actually using the git functionality of GitHub to version-control it. shrugs

    EDIT2: Nope. That source tarball just contains an essentially-empty copy of the GitHub repo. It’s not a “real” source tarball.

        • VibeSurgeon@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          12 hours ago

          There’s some history behind it. First the author didn’t want to have it open source, iirc due to some bad experiences with having their source code open? Don’t remember exactly. The repo you linked existed for bug reporting basically. Then later on this changed and the source code got released. I still don’t know if the author is interested in getting public contributions to the codebase.

          Regardless, the author makes some very pleasant software, and is super responsive at fixing issues/implementing feature requests. Hats entirely off to them.

          • idunnololz@lemmy.world
            4·
            3 hours ago

            Thank you. A few corrections/clarifications here:

            1. https://github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy was created because some users wanted an alternative to Google Play Store and so I made that repo to publish APKs back when Summit was closed source. This also has synergy with Obtanium.
            2. Bug reports should be made to !summit@lemmy.world. I rarely check the Github for issues (sorry).
            3. One of the reasons why it was closed source was because I didn’t want to accept contributions. That has not changed, and likely will never change unless I retire the project. Especially now when vibe code is rampant.
    • SGH@lemmy.ml
      3·
      13 hours ago

      The source tarball is always autogenerated from the git repository state at the release point’s commit.

  • bstix@feddit.dk
    2·
    11 hours ago

    I’ve tried Jerboa, Connect and Voyager. By now these all have the options to customize the view exactly how I want it. (Dark mode, tiny list, thumbnails on the right.) I don’t care about clients that can’t do that.

    Jerboa was kind of buggy. Maybe it’s better now, but that’s what made me switch.

    Connect has a lot of options. The developer is active in the Lemmy community trying to catch up with the bugs that somehow creep into every update. It has the superior text editor of these and also its own tagging system.

    Voyager, previously known as Wefwef, is basic and stable. Maybe too basic.

    I’m currently using Voyager, but I sometimes still use Connect when I need to quote text from the post I’m replying to while writing. For instance if I need to quote two separate paragraphs or whatever. Can’t do that easily in Voyager. Also when I want to embed pictures in a reply, then Connect is ever so slightly easier. Small differences.

    If I were to recommend just one for a new user who doesn’t care about customization and weird options, I’d have to say Voyager, even if I myself prefer Connect. Voyager is easy to use and it’s stable.