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Cake day: October 11th, 2023

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  • I’m really happy with Arctic so far. It does not make my iPhone burn my hands as other clients had (Avelon, I look at you), and it can read a lot of media, which is really nice. The in-app browser doesn’t appear in a card, which is also nice, and does not make the iPhone hot (again, Avelon, can you stop doing that?).

    Though it seems that I shit on Avelon quite a bit, that’s not the case, it’s a decent client, and I really like the URL conversion/error handling it’s doing when you open unknown communities and Lemmy links. That’s something more for selfhosters when their instance doesn’t know specific content, I’m pretty sure big instances are not that much concerned with these kind of errors, and Avelon handles them beautifully.

    I’ve also tested a bunch of other clients too, but generally, either they don’t respect the iOS standards that well (hello shitty Electron apps), or they can’t read media formats that well.


  • I don’t think there’s any difference between the beta and the final release in this regard (generally, the official release has the same build number than the latest release candidate).

    From what I understand, the process can take a lot of time, as it happens in the background, when the phone is not actively used. And for power users that install .0 versions day one (which is really not a thing to do, but that’s not the point here), I imagine they will dig everything they can from these new versions, leaving less time for background processes to be run.