You might want to rename it considering that a company named Liftoff Software exists and has a trademark on the the term, “liftoff” pertaining to software.
Seems like their trademark is actually on SAAS offerings. I think we’ll be fine
The trademark category is for “software”. There’s no distinction between SaaS and an app. They’re the same thing from a trademark standing.
Could you be more specific a little more specific and helpful?
This was the closest I could find:
https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:18dkxg.3.7
It’s not a registered trademark… It’s a Florida Corporation which gets an automatic trademark of sorts based on case law. It’s complicated but if someone owns Foo Software and then makes a sale across state lines using that “mark” (in this case, “Foo” in the context of software) they get an automatic trademark on that name related to that good (software).
Planet Money did a whole podcast about it related to their Micro Face comic (someone sold beverages across state lines under the name, “Micro Face”). It’s an excellent podcast. I highly recommend it (super interesting and funny).
But you know what? Fuck it: You can use the name, “Liftoff”. Liftoff Software has been dead for several years now. Even though they sold stuff under that name across state lines many times (even internationally) that corporation is not coming back. So don’t worry about it 👍
Looks like this is a combination of lemmynade and limbo? Which were both forks of Lemmur.
I liked lemmur UI so this one is quite nice.
I believe this was Lemmynade originally!
Not in fdroid for some reason
Screenshots? What makes it special? Is it CPU/memory efficient?
When you land on their GitHub repo you have nothing describing the project, only build instructions.
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Screenshots are now in the repo:
It is one of the most compete so far. It’s also very smooth on iOS.
And it’s in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/liftoff-bin
looks awesome, could use a bit more of a frontend touch since a laptop /desktop has a wider screen than a mobile phone
is it an electron app? I haven’t tried it on the desktop yet
Flutter
Flutter
Feels smooth. I wish there was an option to hide the bottom bar and to reduce the font size a bit. For now I’ll keep using Jerboa, but waiting for it to be less “sluggish” while scrolling.
I’ve tried just about all of the current apps that are available for lemmy over the last two days and so far liftoff feels the most like a usable app to me. To ve fair, I know that a lot of rhe apps I tried are still in alpha or beta, so I’m not trying to talk bad about them, I get it. Liftoff is pretty good though.
I love liftoff, but it doesn’t have font size option. That’s the only downside so far. I have installed and I’m going to keep an eye on it. I have been using connect for Lemmy and it hasn’t been that bad.
Same here. I subscribed to release notifications over on github too.
Yep, agreed. Just tried it, and if it wasn’t for the Subscribed feed not loading bug, I’d use this instead of Jerboa.
Yeah I almost forgot about that. I’ve also noticed lately that whenever you post a comment it appears twice as if you double posted, but in reality there’s only one comment.
Yeah, that too. Noticed it after I wrote my previous reply, lol 😂.
Which bug is that? I haven’t seen that in the issue tracker, could you share details and I’ll prioritize that.
The Subscribed feed is showing up empty. Other settings regarding the feed work fine, but the Subscribed feed is broken. Also, replies showing up as double replies, one below the other, once you reply to a post.
And you could make the search menu a bit more… friendly. Currently you have to add instances in order to search for communities in them. Not practical at all, there are hundreds of instances, if I had to add each one in order to search in them, that will just take way too long. Why not have instance and communities auto-discoverable, like in Jerboa (type in search the community you’re lookimg for, results pop up).
About the search menu… unless I’m mis understanding that’s just how Lemmy works. You have to be subscribed or at least have search for a community outside of your instance before you can interact with it within your instance.
Actually, no. If at least one user from your instance has subscribed to a community of another instance, that other instance’s communities show up in your search results (they are federated)… at least that is how it should work 100% of the time, but it doesn’t. In most cases, it doesn’t actually show all of the communities that would show up during a search, meaning the web UI would return a lot more results.
The method you’re using is actually a safe bet: specify the instace’s URL and don’t have to rely on whether that specific instance is federated with my instance, just search for communities there as well. That approach is easier if you actually have a link to the community which you’d like to add and the instance on which it resides. But, if you have no idea on what instance that community might reside, it’s easier to actually seach for it via the web UI, which I hoped would be implemented in an app sooner or later (having relevant results I mean).
Yeah I’m wanting to implement that into liftoff. That’s the main feature I’ve been wanting in apps.
To clarify this app is a resurrection of an abandoned Lemmy app, when this app was active Lemmy was not as popular and we didn’t have massive instances like Lemmy world. Working through this is a fun challenge but it’s also a user experience challenge. What instance are you having issues with?
Well, many, to be honest. I have a few accounts, 2 on sh.itjust.works and 1 on lemmy.fmhy.ml. Some communities appear in results on one instance, others don’t, and vice versa. If you try to open up the community via your instance (my.instance/c/community@another.instance), it just returns a 404 🤷. This happens on both lemmy.fmhy.ml and sh.itjust.works. For example, I can see and join the OpenBSD community from my account on lemmy.fmhy.ml, but not from either of my accounts on sh.itjust.works. I can see other communities on that instance just fine, but that particular community, no.
And this happens with a lot if other communities as well, the OpenBSD one stuck in my mind cuz I really wanted to be in that one with all of my accounts, but I can only be with just 1 account.
Oh, and the pending thing 😒. The pending communities show up in my feeds, yet they’re still marked as pending. Cancel pending, subscribe again, wait a few days… yep, still pending.
It’s buggy, I know, but it’s new and all new things are, so I don’t really mind. I was meaning to make a bug report regarding some of these bugs on Lemmy, just haven’t gotten around to it.
PS: All of the searches regarding the communities were done in the web UI, so it’s not a Jerboa bug, it’s a Lemmy bug.
Oh I saw you mentioned it. Really the button in red here shouldn’t exist…
Looks promising! Is it on FDroid?
They’re working on it https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff/issues/47
Not yet but you can get it via Obtainium for example.
Obtanium?
Nah
:(
no
Cool! I’ll download it and add it to lemmy app folder :)
Lol I have so many that I’m trying out as well. Did the exact same.
Yay more options
Looks good!
You might want to add it to the lemmy readme (or maybe we need a “awesome lemmy” repo with a list of lemmy software and resources?)
I made a bunch of feature requests to lemmy (stuff like reddit enhancement suite features) and most notably the ability for a user to block an instance, would it be ok if i will copy paste them to your issue tracker?
alt and the left key should move to the previous page like in web browsers on linux.
I second an awesome-lemmy repo, do post the link if you make it!
I made a pull request that got merged using github GUI, it was pretty easy to figure out.
Just tried it (writing this comment from it). Generally, it feels a lot more polished and nicer looking than Jerboa, but, if you set the feed to Subsciber, nothing happens, it just loads a blank page.
Other than this, it feels a lot better than Jerboa. So I would use it, but the Subscribed feed is broken, so that’s a deal breaker for me currently.
Ok, found a fix for this, on the drop down for selecting feeds, choose the subscribed feeds from the instance, not the everything section. That seems to work as expected for me.
But most of the communities I’ve subscribed to are not on my instance.
So I am using it right now but my main issue is that it keeps repeating the same posts over and over on my all feed. I thought it was scrolling back to the top every time I backed out of a post but no it was just another dupe.
It is because it shows the posts from Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml and beehaw.org all at the same time. If you click the sorting button Up the top you can set it to only show one of them.
Loving the app so far. There are bugs but its definitely the most mature and has the best UI/UX out of the apps I’ve tried.
Looks ugly, but buttery smooth.
