misery mansion

1000% agree. Pixel 3a / 4a era was the greatest

I went back to action launcher which I really like.

I basically have one home screen with links to my most used stuff.

It has covers which I believe originated here but was later possible on Nova. Basically you make folders of apps that you can tap to open, but you can set that to swipe instead so that the tap just opens the first app in the folder

So for example I listen to podcasts way more often than music from my phone, so I have a folder for audio where I can tap to open podcasts or swipe to open the folder and get to music.

I then have a slide in drawer that has the weather and my calendar and that’s basically it. Very rarely need to go to the main app list once this is set up. I will likely never change this as I don’t really use that many apps regularly.

There are two YouTubes. One is the “creator” YouTube, algorithms, numbers blah blah

The other is the actual content creator YouTube. These are the channels that people actually follow. If captain disillusion set up his own RSS feed for videos, and I had the method to subscribe to it, I’d no longer need YouTube

The argument that YouTube has the algorithm and recommendations etc is moot, that’s the same job that every network does, you could absolutely replace this

The video content would have to be self hosted probably. How it used to be. So we need all these tools to eat YouTube’s lunch

Yes, why to do this?

Quite a big change for a small feature

I’m using action launcher and I really like the search. It searches apps but then has quick links too, so you can send the search query to a search engine, Google play or others

Switched back to action launcher when this happened

Main feature I love, which to my knowledge action did first anyway, is to have a folder of app icons where one is the most frequent. You tap on it to open the frequent option or swipe it to open the folder.

Basically means you almost never need the app deserter l drawer

Same + AFAIK Nova nicked all the good stuff from action anyway

It’s great! Specifically, the feature I’m thinking of was the swipe on an icon functionality (not sure if that’s what OP means). I have my most used apps set to the tap, and then the lesser used ones in the swipe action, and I love it

This is kinda working for me

It carried on working for years and years without updates but finally died recently. I miss gestural copy and paste for sure

I tried it with open board and had the same issue I’m never going back to non swiping but I miss swype everyday

My 6a is fully a downgrade from my 3a which broke and I lament its passing every time I use the in screen fingerprint reader

It’s bigger, heavier, the battery is worse :(

I just gave it a quick go but I’ve never used the app in landscape once in 10 or so years!

Edit: sorry forgot to add that it seemed generally ok to me!

It’s also relatively tiny so a bit unreasonable to expect things to be updated daily.

I’m not really seeing any major issues anyway - what is so broken that OP is so annoyed about? Only thing im aware of is the Instances button not working, which yeah that’s true. Not really a major issue though?

Device information

Sync version: v23.11.29-22:27    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: false    
View type: Cards    
Push enabled: false    

Device: bluejay    
Model: Google Pixel 6a    
Android: 14

Is Jusant really that short? I think the demo took me 2 hours

That was due to Google IIRC. I think the thing a lot of people don’t really get, is that this app is made by a small team (believe just one person with some general adhoc help).

It’s a fantastic content browsing experience with a ton of features. It might not be sustainable still given the small user numbers on Lemmy. I don’t know.

This user seems to have an edge case that is probably a lower priority. Doesn’t seem to require the PSA really. Obviously no bugs would be great but that’s not really how software works unfortunately.

No idea sorry, but I first learned of it using action launcher and dumped Nova for Action when Nova was sold off. No regrets

Action Launcher had lots of the good stuff Nova has had first, anyway. Heartily recommend. Tbf as long as the launcher has covers/smart folders/whatever they’re called then I’m happy

100% nonsense if you apply some logic. British police have 0 time or budget to be investigating this. If someone stole my wallet while I was standing in front of a police officer they wouldn’t be able to do a thing about it

By all means don’t use software that shares your personal information with anyone but also don’t waste time getting het up by this article

Classic sync post haha