Hacki for Hacker News vs Raccoon for Lemmy
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Hacki for Hacker News
Features: - Log in using your Hacker News account. - Browse stories from various categories. - Search for stories. - Submit stories. - Pin stories. - Mark stories as favorite. - Leave comments. - Collapse comments. - View parent comments without scrolling up. - View and participate in polls. - Browse comments and stories you have posted. - Vote on comments or stories. - Get in-app notification when there is new reply to your stories or comments. - Download stories and comments for offline reading. - Pick up where you left off. - Launch from system share sheet. - And more...
Raccoon for Lemmy
Raccoon for Lemmy is fully open source, and intends to offer an ad-free and as functional as possible experience on Lemmy. In this app everyone should feel at home, so great importance is given to localization and customization of the UI. Main Features: view post feed and comments with different listing and sort types; possibility to upvote and downvote (with configurable swipe actions); community and user detail (with info about moderators/moderated communities); user profile with one's own posts, comments and saved items; inbox with replies, mentions and direct messages; global search with different result types (all, posts, comments, user, communities); create and edit new posts (with optional images); cross-post contents to other communities; reply to post and comments (and edit replies); mark posts as read (even while scrolling) and hide read contents; custom appearance (color scheme, fonts, text sizes, post layout, etc.); custom localization (independent of system settings); block users, communities and instances; report post and comments to moderators; support for multiple accounts with account-specific settings; lazy scrolling (referred to as "zombie mode"); explore all the communities on a given instance in guest mode; multi-community (community aggregation); view the moderation log; community moderation tool (examine and resolve reports, ban users, feature posts in community, block further comments from posts, mark comments as distinguished, remove posts/comments, review all created posts/comments, edit/create community) save drafts for posts and comments anonymous mode with quick instance switch admin tools (purge users/posts/comments/communities, feature posts locally, hide/unhide communities)
| Feature | Hacki for Hacker News | Raccoon for Lemmy |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-only | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | NotesNewsBrowserSocial | NotesBrowserSocial |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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