Hey, thanks so much for the response! It’s incredibly useful to hear real feedback like that, and I appreciate the time you took to write it all up.

I think it’s been a couple months since I had seen an update in fdroid, which is usually my signal to check out the latest.

Fair enough, this latest release cycle has been a little slower, but there is a new update coming soon. We’re also working on putting pre-releases on F-Droid in a different channel for those who want to be on the bleeding edge (the pre-releases come out much more often).

Multis would be amazing.

I assume you mean multi-communities, where you can view a feed of posts from multiple communities at a time? If that’s what you mean, does this GitHub issue cover your ask?

https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/issues/13

Images would get squished in full height mode

This one has been hard for the devs to reproduce, but you’re not the only seeing it. If you want to follow progress on fixes, check out this issue.

https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/issues/1448

Clear read posts is a super useful one in Voyager, a nice-to-have for thunder

This one we do have! It’s available via the Floating Action Button. By default you can long-press or swipe up on the FAB to see additional options, including “Dismiss Read”. But the FAB is also super customizable, so you can make that the default action or the long-press action if you want.

Had an issue with messages, unable to reply from inbox maybe? Can’t remember exactly what it was.

As part of the upcoming release, the inbox has been redesigned, so hopefully replying should work now!

Anyway, no need to respond, just wanted to follow up and say thank you again for the time and the thoughts.

Visually I like Thunder quite a bit, but it’s still fairly early in their development so it doesn’t have feature parity yet.

Just out of curiosity (no need to answer if you don’t want to) are there any major features missing from Thunder that you’d like to see? I’m not trying to sway you back or anything (it’s not like we have any incentive for getting more people to use Thunder); I’m just looking for ideas to make it as good as possible!

Thunder allows cross-posting! It should follow the web UI implementation (where the body of the new post has a link to the original, plus the original contents in a quote block).

As one of the Thunder devs, I can say there are markdown libraries. Thunder is written in Dart/Flutter and there is a great library that we use.

https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_markdown

That said, and as others have mentioned, markdown is not as well standardized and it seems like just about every site renders it differently, so there are a lot of edge cases to handle. Lemmy also has several unique implementations of things, such as spoilers, superscript/subscript, and the ability to tag users/communities without a hyperlink.

In fact, one of the things Thunder failed on (table alignment) is a known bug in the markdown library we use. :-)

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/109487

Since you mentioned RDP over SSH, I thought you might be interested in this GUI tool I made to do just that.

https://github.com/micahmo/RDPoverSSH

I will admit I am very biased as a contributor to Thunder. I’m not an expert on all clients but Thunder has some super cool features.

• Really good markdown rendering (I’ve seen it render things that the other “big” apps miss.
• The agility to post and (soon) comment as any of your logged-in accounts.
• Notifications for inbox messages, soon to be integrated with UnifiedPush.
• Really good Lemmy link parsing and in-app navigation.
• Ability to favorite communities.
• Customizable swipe gestures, username and community name formatting and coloring, action colors, etc.

And these are just some of the recent things on the top of my head! I’m sure others can chime in with things I missed!