One thing that keeps me on Sync for Lemmy is the handling of videos/gifs and how it is mostly the same as images.
Things I am looking for is:
- Handle must videos in-app with the building player
- Ability to zoom in on videos
- Videos control that are on the bottom of the player and not overlayed on the video itself taking up most of the screen
- Video control and pause also that does not darken the video.l
- Show the video playing or a still of the video in the post card instead of just a link.l
- Wide support for different sites
- Support for redgifs
Also it is a plus if they support piefed account authentication, but it is not a deal breaker. I guess I can create another account if needed.
I think I tried all the Lemmy clients and I think none have the zoom stuff. That is the most important. I may have missed some config options, and I hope I did because it is really sad that with Sync but rotting and no app works quite as well as Sync for me.
7 Comments
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev · 4 pts · 11d
I am not sure what you mean by the first option.
Summit has some points you mentioned here. Piefed is also supported.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 11d
I landed on Summit after getting fed up with Sync being abandoned and broken. For me it's the best app by far.
phcastro@fedinsfw.app · 3 pts · 11d
About the first option, some clients use webview to show the videos instead of a native player and you see the history in the browser.
I am using summit also but it does not zoom videos and overlay the videos control on top of the video. It may seems like nothing but a common situation is seem a landscape video and I don't like to keep rotating the screen so I usually just zoom in. And the controls take up the hole vídeo.
alianne@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 11d
If you mention this feedback in the Summit community, it's entirely possible it may get addressed in a future update. The dev is super responsive and seems open to feature requests.
SiegeRhino@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 11d
I used Sync for about a year or two, switched to Summit after Sync was abandoned by its dev, and Summit has been pretty much the same experience as Sync for me
BevsDad@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 11d
Boost for Lemmy does all of those except for the zoom function on videos.
mst@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 11d
Voyager has most of them. Not sure about redgifs.