It’s that time again Lemmings, and no apologies for that image. The My Chemical Romance cover is better.

Don’t forget to clear your Liftoff cache. Liftoff currently does not have an auto clear cache feature.

For those who don’t know how, Android instructions are below

  1. Long hold the Liftoff icon and select App Info
  2. Select Storage and Cache
  3. Press Clear Cache

Feel free to share your cache size and not compare our addictions.

  • Tibert@jlai.luEnglish
    251·
    11 months ago

    Don’t hope too much. The project looks dead or stalled due to maintainer not giving news.

    If not updated, once your Lemmy server gets on version 0.19 the app won’t work anymore.

    A pretty good app which also has post search is Thunder. Tho it doesn’t have the same account switching capabilities.

    Tho post editing in thunder is still not released.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      29·
      11 months ago

      Main dev had twins so no doubt he is sleep deprived at the moment. But you are right, with 0.19 on the horizon liftoff may be dead in the water.

    • Tolstoy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Just went looking for it and found this on thunders GitHub: “Login to multiple accounts/instances, and switch between them”

      • Tibert@jlai.luEnglish
        51·
        11 months ago

        It can do that yes, but Liftoff is so much better on that point. It can show and switch the account used to view a post effortlessly.

        On Liftoff, I can search a post with a lemmy.world, then switch to my account to up vote it or whatever.

    • Red@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Honestly, I still cannot figure out how to post with thunder… Maybe I’m missing something but when an app doesn’t have a submit a post feature I cannot recommend it.

      The only other app comparable is Eternity imho. Also there still is voyager for your respective instances. I frequently use voyager.reddthat.com. which is amazing

      • Tibert@jlai.luEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Currently thunder got so much better for posting. On the main feed or community feed, you have the blue or whatever color button at the bottom left. Clicking on it will hide the already viewed posts. But sliding it up will show more options, and the new post option.

        • Red@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Thanks! Honestly I spent about 5 mins trying to find it and gave up. It was “hidden in the shadows.” but in fact the secret entrance is to the left, hidden in the shadows.

          • Tibert@jlai.luEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            If you go into the settings floating button, you can customise what it does when you press it or long press it for feed and comments.

            By long pressing on the available options you can set press or long press to them (just clicking on the options will disable or enable them with the switch).

      • slazer2au@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Press the i surround by a circle on the right side when in the community view. The new post button is there.

        Otherwise enable the floating action button.

        • Red@reddthat.comEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Thanks so much! For me it was such an anti-pattern that the create post button wasn’t available on the main screen!

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      I have been giving Thunder a go for the past few days and it is going well.

      Still miss the RIF interface.

  • Kallioapina@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    I’be been searching for alternatives too in anticipation of Liftoff possibly not working with the new server versions.

    After trying 4 different apps I think I’m gonna stick with Jerboa for the time being. Its come a long way since summer, it seems to be quite usable and stable now. At least works for my user preferences.

  • Tolstoy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    Didn’t check for a longer time… Around 30GB and I was wondering why the hell my phone got full.

  • skydivekingair@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    How do you get Liftoff to not reset to the top of the main page every time you leave the app and return? Even when I’m in a comment section or embedded article and go back I get an error and have to refresh which brings me to the top again.

    And thanks for the tip, just checked 6.89 GB 😬

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      That annoys me too. When posting and I want to check something in another app and I come back not to my partly written comment, but back to the top of the feed.

    • MrShankles@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Hey, mine was 2.96 GB too! I’ve also uninstalled/reinstalled a few times now though, trying to get my subscribed communities to show