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2y ago

The best Lemmy app so far is "Wefwef" hands down. If you loved Apollo you'd love this.

The app has an amazing experience so far, because it feels like I'm just using Apollo, heaps of baked in features that no other app has so far. It's a web app so installation is pretty forward. Much love to the Devs!

(Side note: please change the name to something better. I recommend the name Voyager to keep up with the theme)

Installation:

https://wefwef.app/settings/install

WefWef's community page: c/wefwef

https://lemmy.world/c/wefwef

Courtesy of [email protected] for telling us about it.

Update:

Having issues? It's to do with rate limitations, this should be resolved soon but right now you can Use:

https://w.opnxng.com/settings/install

Here's the Dev's notes on that:

w.opnxng.com - wefwef hosted by Opnxng in Singapore.

Contact/privacy

Note: Community deployments are NOT maintained by the wefwef team. They may not be synced with wefwef's source code. Please do your own research about the host servers before using them.

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EDIT: This is now resolved, because @[email protected] is awesome.
hi! wefwef dev here.
https://wefwef.app is getting rate limited by lemmy.world. The growth in traffic over the last 24 hours has been incredible.
That's why you're probably getting error messages. Hang in there, we're working it out. :-)
In the meantime, self host (it's just a simple docker container!) or use a community deployment (if you trust the administrator).
- hi! lemmyworld admin here.
  If I did it right, wefwef.app should no longer be rate-limited. Please let me know if it worked.
  
  You rock! 🤘
  
  Like a charm!
  
  I've noticed a lot fewer errors now. Thank you
  
  Contrast this interaction with the spaz/Christian public dust-ups, and let’s all feel fortunate to be here. Thanks to both of you devs for making cool stuff.
  
  Ur both amazing!
  
  Ruud to the rescue!
- Your app is really good. Well done!
  Its not only miles better than the default mobile experience on Lemmy, it is also has features like swiping that I have never seen used on a web app before.
  Do you have some kind of roadmap of features that will be added?
  Some things I think would add to the experience are:
  Previews of comments/posts
  Sorting by Top day, week, month, ect
  
  Just the GitHub issues atm. Thing have kinda exploded over the last 48 hours so still playing catch-up. That being said, feel free to search through and create issues!
- App looks great so far!
  Will it have auto marking posts as read just by scrolling past them? No other apps do this yet…it was Apollos best feature!
  Also no dark mode?!
  Installing it via saving to the iPhones Home Screen…..how do we update an app like this? Never done that before 😄
  
  I’m using it in dark mode right now.
  Updates are in the settings menu.
  
  Installing it via saving to the iPhones Home Screen……how do we update an app like this? Never done that before 😄
  It's a web app, it updates automatically behind the scenes
- What an honour, fantastic app btw, it takes after the best after all. But I'm getting flashbacks with the rate limit thing, it's this going to be a problem like Reddit or what's going on?
- This is an excellent web app! Thank you!!
- What’s the long term plan? Everyone hosts their own instance in Docker? I was thinking about using AWS container instances. I wonder how I would protect my publicly available interface though. I want to be able to access it from anywhere without vpn or firewall limitations. Do you have any good suggestion?
  
  The long term plan is Lemmy to allow CORS * for web clients like Mastodon does, which should completely resolve this problem. :)
  It should be in the next version! See: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3109
- This is awesome. Thank you for the amazing project. Feels way more responsive than even the various apps floating around. Exciting stuff!
- Is it possible to add haptics to a web app like Wefwef?
  
  Yes, if it eventually get bundled into in actual app store app with Capacitor. Which might be in the future.
  Or if Apple provides a haptic API for web apps. That would be wonderful.

I like Memmy, but Wefwef is great too!
- Memmy is great, and I will probably switch to it once they get some bugs worked out.
  
  Which bugs are you seeing? We’re getting updates sometimes multiple times a day, so they may be fixed already.

Apollo just died, deleted app and now I’m here. Goodbye Reddit

6+ year Apollo user here and I tried a bunch of apps prior to this one that just didn’t quite have the UI and features I was looking for. If you used Apollo, you’ll feel 100% at home on WefWef; it’s almost identical.
Weird name but it’s really an amazing app, it was the final thing to click and made lemmy a full Reddit replacement for me.

Whoa. I’ve been using Memmy lately but this one is like a carbon copy of Apollo. Will there be the feature to see saved posts soon?
- Yes
- You already can

feels weird having an iOS centric UI on android but I'm loving it so far
it even respects my phone's dark mode!
- On Android as well, this feels better than a lot of native apps. I really missed Apollo after switching to Android and this project makes me happy.
  
  feels better than a lot of native apps
  if you installed wefwef from chrome yeah, but if you installed this app from Firefox, you're going to have a bad time, it was so slow and unresponsive on Firefox for me lol
  
  I'd have love to have something like this for Reddit back in the days.
- One of Us! One of Us!
  
  haha I do already have an iPhone though, I'm just more comfortable on Android

Edit title: Best Lemmy app*
- You can edit titles on Lemmy 👍
  
  Done. Still Reddit mentality.
  
  That's ripe for abuse though.

Swipe a little to the right to vote up.
Swipe a lot to the right to vote down.
Swipe to the left to delete.
- So cool!
- On comments, swipe a lot to the left to reply!

Just saved this to my home screen, am I right in saying that it's just a webapp and not a full blown app? Seems to work fine so far!
- It’s what’s known as a “progressive web app.” A weird in-between of a native app and a web app
- It's a progressive web app, which means when installed it has some extra powers that other web apps don't (like more access to device APIs, offline support, etc.) It was actually what all iPhone apps were meant to be before Apple gave up and made the app store.
  Sadly iOS's PWA support has fallen a bit by the wayside compared to PWAs in Android but it's picking up.
- Yep looks like a web app, a well built one. Performs great, even on my android phone lol

I agree with all the things you said. Including changing this weird name.
- It is weird. I don't even order McNuggets to avoid sounding silly.
  
  F

It’s absolutely amazing. The thing I’m missing the most though is to be able to customize gestures/swiping like on Apollo. I’m so used to upvoting/downvoting by swiping left, and going back one page by swiping right, from wherever I swipe (on Apollo I only reply by long pressing a comment).
- The developer is aiming for Apollo feature parity, so it should be coming :)
- The Thunder app has those features FYI!
- Agree. Really missing the gestures.

It’s so weird how eerily similar it is to Apollo haha, but I’m more than happy to use it. I’m using Memmy at the moment, first day using Lemmy!

How did they nail the Apollo look and feel in a web app? Incredible. Been on the Mlem testflight but this is just soooo familiar. I hope this gets an official app on the app store!
- based on their github page they seem to really be a proponent of progressive web apps, so there might not be an official app anytime soon.
  its really great though and I can barely tell it's not a native app

This is astoundingly good. Like, I didn't know webapps could be this nice. It's kind of amazing.

You weren’t kidding. This is amazing!

Thunder and Memmy both have swipe interactions as well and they’re not web apps.
- Yeah, I've been using Mlem and Memmy. Mlem reminds me more of Apollo design-wise, but Memmy now is a bit more usable. Still, all of the suggestions are great.
  
  I’ve been mostly flopping between Memmy and Thunder. Both are quite functional. Memmy seems a bit snappier and Thunder has a nice, clean UI.

This is so fantastic, it really does have that Apollo feel. I had my doubts with it being a webapp, but it's so comfortable and familiar, I've switched to it....despite the name, heh
- Ya the names are a bit weird in this part of town. But luckily we can rename it 😂
  
  It sits in the same spot as Apollo used to, so why shouldn't I rename it?! (Bilbo meme)

Just installed it to my Home Screen. Acts just like an app. I’m new to these web app type things and spaced instances, but baby steps.
This already seems a lot better than Reddit.

Best web app I’ve ever seen. Thank you!

Man, this is instantly better. Just wish the text editor had better support for markdown

I agree, I just wish it ran smoother and was more reliable. I'm experiencing a lot of "failed to load", "failed to upvote", and "failed to comment". A community you can't engage with is no community at all.
- Yes. I can't use it since I got on the first time. I'm figuring it is volume and come back later.
  
  Yeah, hug of death!

omg it's Apollo! (without keyboard shortcuts)
- TIL Apollo had keyboard shortcuts

(Side note: please change the name to something better. I recommend the name Voyager to keep up with the theme)
+1 for Voyager!

I love it! The Lemmy web interface was acting a bit wonky at times, this is a great improvement.
- These comments really make my day. Hope you'd love it as much as I do. The whole thing is open source, so if you're not code illiterate like me see if you can give the devs a helping hand.

Just downloaded it because of this post and I gotta say, it's fucking brilliant.
- Honestly impressive

Wow nice! I just replaced the Apollo icon on my Home Screen with this.
Looks great and feels like Apollo!

Just stumbled upon this app a couple of hours ago and….. holy shit it’s just like Apollo! Excellent stuff.

I’m so confused. How can it be so rich without being a full blown app? I have been enjoying Memmy, but can’t really find what separates the two.
- Lots of improvements to web app support in the past few years have largely gone unnoticed since, overall, not much effort really goes into deploying proper web apps. Installing an app from the App Store is also simpler then “installing” a web app. I personally prefer native.
  I share the same shock over Wefwef though, blows me away is an incredibly strong example of what web apps can now do. It’s still missing a number of things from Apollo, but that it seemingly came together as polished as it is now in just a week or three is stunning.
- I actually have the exact same question, I wasn't expecting much especially since it is a webapp. Heck I was expecting to install and uninstall in a sec. But this thing is solid.

So when I login to an instance, am I sending my credentials through the wefwef.app server? Because that makes me nervous.
- No you’re not. You can view the source code, it’s open source.
  
  Which is the best part imo. I wonder if this can be ported into an IPA in the future, it's stellar but not on par with native app performance imo.
- According to their privacy policy:
  When you use wefwef.app, we proxy information to your Lemmy instance in order to overcome CORS restrictions with Lemmy.
  They say they don’t log but you do need to trust them because all traffic flows through them.

Incredible app! Never realized a web app could be so sexy.
- I take back what I said about the Sweet Solution being a failure. Wefwef feels just as good as a native app. I may have to fire it up on a HP TouchPad or Palm Prē.

It really does feel like I'm using Apollo!

Very Apollo like. Lightweight. As mentioned in above comment, I am also wondering about the username and password but I am not a code reader so I will trust the community to confirm.

I'm having trouble even logging in - it's saying my credentials are no good, but I used the same credentials to login to lemmy.world. Had a brief look at what it could be, so I'm waiting on it to get more stable.
- In my experience, logging in using autofill from my password manager always failed for some reason, but it worked manually right away. You may have a different bug, though.
- For me login only works as long as i use my username not the email adress. Not quite sure why.
  Edit: and it even has a comparable set of glitches where you end up posting the same comment twice. I feel right at home already!
- There are a couple of very recent updates that address the issues with logging in to lemmy.world. Hit the Settings tab in the lower right to update the app (which is so much faster than an App Store update)

Really liking it so far. It’s super impressive how much it’s eased my migration from Reddit. I feel right at home here already. Almost!

Wow, now this is a reddit replacement! I love it. Thanks for the recommendation!
- It is very smooth! Is this what Apollo looked like?
  I was surprised to see all the auto-expanded images, but I guess I was expecting more of the old.reddit / reddit is fun aesthetic. So far, I've just been using the lemmy mobile site on firefox ¯(ツ)_/¯
  
  Apollo had lots of compact view options that wefwef doesn’t have yet.
  
  Apollo gave the option to have condensed posts with smaller thumbnails or large images like wefwef has currently

i'm writing this from the app. it looks and feels like apollo, so this is amazing. i really look forward to further development!

Oh my god, this looks incredible. Thanks for this!

I'm using it now and I must say I'm damned impressed. It's so seamless. Drastically improved user experience. Not quite what I was used to (sync) but I can get used it. Feels intuitive!

Absolutely the closest thing to Apollo. Hoping all the customizations Apollo had come next!

Just installed it to my Home Screen. Acts just like an app. I’m new to these web app type things and spaced instances, but baby steps.
This already seems a lot better than Reddit.

I'm blown away what a great experience this is for a web app. Really.

I nearly cried when I saw the interface. I love the Squabbles community, but wefwef will make me a Lemmy user

Coming from RIF is there an Android app with a similar or next best UI?
So far seems like Jarboa, connect, and wefwef are the number one mobiles

One thing that bugs me, and I found the same with Thunder, is that I cannot sort posts by Top (Day, Week, etc.). Any reason why that is?
- Not added yet in wefwef. It's already opened as an issue in the github though so it should be added later.

Holy shit, THANK YOU!!

Oh wow. This is really nice! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks, installed. But still rooting for Memmy too! Love everyone who is stepping up to the plate for the mobile app scene!

I like it! I’m still trying to make sense of Lemmy and this app helps a lot. Thank you to everyone involved!

I'll be honest, I settled on using Jerboa after trying all other Android apps, I sincerely thought wefwef was iOS only. Oh boy was I wrong, it's hands down the best app of the bunch, and by really really far. I opened an issue today for compact mode and here it is, already!
If only there was a way to navigate top comments easily, that would be amazing!

This is nice! my only suggestion would be the ability to minimize cards for a text feed, if that's something that's eventually possible.
I like how smooth wefwef is, but if I could keep everything from auto-expanding (i.e. just scrolling through titles instead) it'd be closer to the old.reddit / RiF experience 🙂
- Just got updated with a compact view option. Screenshot:
- There's a setting for this under "appearance"
  
  Huh, I went straight to settings when I opened it but all I saw was text size. It has more options for you?

You are a beautiful being.

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