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.

  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.devEnglish
    4·
    17 days ago

    I am not sure what you mean by the first option.

    Summit has some points you mentioned here. Piefed is also supported.

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
      4·
      17 days ago

      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.appOPEnglish
      3·
      17 days ago

      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.worldEnglish
        6·
        16 days ago

        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.worldEnglish
    3·
    16 days ago

    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