- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 65•1 year ago
Jerboa has bad UX because it needs work. Official Reddit app has bad UX because the developer wants it that way.
- SubArcticTundra ( @SubArcticTundra@beehaw.org ) 15•1 year ago
The fact that it’s open source means that people will fix it when they become annoyed enough with this. This doesn’t apply for the Reddit app.
- cavemeat ( @cavemeat@beehaw.org ) 8•1 year ago
You put it perfectly.
- frippa ( @frippa@lemmy.ml ) 61•1 year ago
Hear me out: Infinity for Lemmy
- veroxii ( @veroxii@lemmy.ml ) 51•1 year ago
/u/whupazz is working on a reddit compatible api for lemmy, meaning most 3rd party apps should work with little or no modification. See it working with RedReader already: https://imgur.com/a/IF5HYGz
Follow or help here: https://www.reddit.com/r/apihackathon/comments/13yvzg2/rapihackathon_lounge/jmxcq0u/
- zekiz ( @zekiz@lemmy.ml ) 14•1 year ago
Whoa that’s pretty cool. Thanks for the link
- valkyrie ( @valkyrie@lemmy.ml ) 10•1 year ago
Could this mean Apollo for Lemmy 😍
- XLRV ( @XLRV@lemmy.ml ) 9•1 year ago
Looks promising, I can’t wait!
- Aragorn ( @Aragorn@lemmy.ml ) 16•1 year ago
I wish!! I love Infinity.
- makingStuffForFun ( @makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ) 12•1 year ago
That would be a warm, liquid dream. How amazing
- jjsearle ( @jjsearle@lemmy.ml ) 11•1 year ago
We can dream
- averagedrunk ( @averagedrunk@lemmy.one ) 10•1 year ago
That would be fantastic.
- Kurama ( @asjkk8@lemmy.ml ) 10•1 year ago
don’t tease me like that
- balerion ( @balerion@beehaw.org ) 53•1 year ago
Only one of them has a quintillion dollars to spend on making their shit look good. I’m less forgiving of that one.
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 52•1 year ago
Haha seriously tho now it seems we’re getting a few more developer contributions, so hopefully its UX can improve.
- scoobford ( @scoobford@lemmy.ml ) 18•1 year ago
Honestly, I feel so bad criticizing without contributing, but at the same time, I don’t have any relevant skills with which to contribute.
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 23•1 year ago
It’s no problem to do that, I welcome criticism of all our UIs! I just prefer that it’s actionable, specific, and on our issue tracker so that devs can work on them.
- Theorize3806 ( @Theorize3806@beehaw.org ) 12•1 year ago
Thank you so much for your work on the app, leaving this comment with it as we speak.
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 7•1 year ago
No probs!
- TrollBlox ( @trollblox_@lemmy.ml ) 44•1 year ago
BoostForLemmy? 👉👈
- DarkwinDuck ( @DarkwinDuck@feddit.de ) 5•1 year ago
That would be absolutely splendid. Although i have to say i’m extremely impressed by the website UI. It’s super fast and way better than most websites i’ve used recently.
- nickajeglin ( @nickajeglin@lemmy.one ) 6•1 year ago
Probably because it doesn’t load a bunch of trash along with the content.
- tristanphips ( @tristanphips@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
Big if true. Would make my dreams come true.
- creek ( @creek@lemmy.ml ) 35•1 year ago
Honestly, and I say this with no disrespect, but I feel like the UX is pretty lackluster across this entire ecosystem. It’s understandable, since I would imagine the bulk of developer priority is going towards just making things work as reliably as possible on the backend side of things. Fortunately, given the open source nature of things, I feel like the community will fill these gaps in over time. :)
- JshKlsn ( @JshKlsn@lemmy.ml ) 24•1 year ago
Web UI is actually really clean, fast, and very straight forward. I really enjoy it.
The apps, though, suck. They are buggy as all hell, and they are completely featureless.
- Rhaedas ( @Rhaedas@lemmy.one ) 4•1 year ago
Good to know. I’ve been trying to figure out how to get either of them to work, but if they aren’t as great as advertised, then I’ll stick with plain. I’m here for content anyway.
- AineLasagna ( @AineLasagna@beehaw.org ) 17•1 year ago
I would love to see the person who made Apollo for reddit develop a Lemmy app. MLEM is not bad but obviously barebones as it’s still in beta
- creek ( @creek@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 year ago
You and I are in full agreement there. I’m guessing that he’s eventually going to work something out with Reddit, and keep his focus and priorities over there, but I would love to see something heavily inspired by Apollo make it’s way over to this side of the aisle. I’m hoping to start learning Swift (or Tauri+Rust) sometime in the next few months, so if we don’t have something by then, I might take a crack at it personally.
- Nina ( @misnina@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
With how openly reddit is trashing on apollo specifically, I’m not so sure. I know he does probably want to, as he’s in the red either way (if existing yearly apollo subscribers can no longer get content, they can refund through apple and he has to eat that), but reddit seems like it’s taking a blowtorch to all bridges.
But yeah, mlem right now isn’t much. Any more working on ios apps would be great.
- MonkeyLord ( @MonkeyLord@lemmy.ml ) 9•1 year ago
Lemmur looks really friggin good, but it apparently hasn’t been updated in over a year so it is completely broken atm
- squoop ( @squoop@beehaw.org ) 7•1 year ago
Hopefully someone forks it at some point 🤞
- unnecessarily ( @unnecessarily@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 year ago
Some of the Mastodon-focused clients like Ivory/Ice Cubes look amazing. It won’t be long until we get something like that for Lemmy if it gains enough traction.
- pancake ( @pancake@lemmy.ml ) 27•1 year ago
Well, the good thing about Jerboa is that anyone can just make changes to it and send them to the devs, so now that more people are using Lemmy, it will improve really quickly!
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 18•1 year ago
I def need as much help as I can get with it.
- Kuro ( @Kuro@feddit.de ) 14•1 year ago
I forked it already and am starting to poke around in the code. Hope I can get a few things added.
- creek ( @creek@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
I’m planning on doing the same with Mlem. I know fuck all about Swift, but I’ll be using it as an opportunity to learn more about it, and hopefully contribute in areas that I am more familiar with.
- Malthur ( @Malthur@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
You’re the Jerboa dev? I think the app is great.
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Thx!
- teruma ( @teruma@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Honestly, it’s really good for a one-person/small team project. My only complaint is that the default layout is a bit spacious.
edit: and for some reason I can’t double-tap to highlight words on Android?
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Click the view source button, then you can select text.
- teruma ( @teruma@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
That doesn’t fix the issue for the text edit fields when writing posts or replies, but thanks for the work around for now.
- Scrubbles ( @scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) 24•1 year ago
Meant in the best way possible - that was my thinking. If I’m going to take a step backward in functionality, I’m going to make the choice myself and go to the community where they’re pouring support into it. Not the now huge corporation trying to milk me for profit
- open_world ( @open_world@lemmy.ml ) 22•1 year ago
Yeah hopefully it becomes better. The biggest problem for me so far is the choppy scrolling.
- Jumuta ( @Jumuta@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
I’ve not had that issue on my Pixel 6a running Android 13 build TQ2A.230505.002
- me is me ( @meisme@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
I was able to fix the scrolling by building it in release mode idk what’s up with that since Google Play only accepts release mode APKs afaik
- XPost3000 ( @XPost3000@lemmy.ml ) 21•1 year ago
Tbh really hoping that 3rd party apps shift from Reddit to Lemmy cuz man that’d be the life
- explodicle ( @explodicle@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
I would love to see Reddit seamlessly replaced. It would send the message that the server isn’t what makes a community.
- netburnr ( @netburnr@lemmy.world ) 2•1 year ago
Rif becomes Lif. Yes please
- bdonvr ( @bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.com ) 21•1 year ago
One is controlled by a large corporation seeking only profits. The other is an open source design that the community can do with as it likes.
- Wololo ( @Wololo@beehaw.org ) 20•1 year ago
One is a big corporation, and the other is a bunch of indie devs. There should be no excuse for a big corporation to have bad UX.
- Tangentism ( @Tangentism@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 year ago
There should be no excuse for a big corporation to have bad UX.
Plenty of corporations couldnt find their arse with both hands in so far as IT goes, let alone app development that doesnt blow.
- zekiz ( @zekiz@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
Amazon enters the chat
- pliqtro ( @pliqtro@lemmy.one ) 15•1 year ago
I’d love for Jerboa to be more like Boost, which I’ve been using for years.
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 30•1 year ago
I built it based off of boost’s UI actually!
- Aragorn ( @Aragorn@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 year ago
Boost is really good too
- ch1cken ( @ch1cken@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•1 year ago
Hi, I can’t login into discuss.tchncs.de using your app, it just says “invalid login”, my login is correct…
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
Probably a password length issue.
- ch1cken ( @ch1cken@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•1 year ago
ah you’re right, why does jerboa truncate passwords? i think there should at least be a warning displayed rather than “login invalid”
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 year ago
It’s probably the opposite, jerboa doesn’t truncate passwords when it should, as the lemmy back end and lemmy ui use a 60 character limit. Open an issue on jerboas github if you would.
- HenryWong327 ( @HenryWong327@lemmy.ml ) 7•1 year ago
Huh, I’m also a Boost user, and I’ve found it pretty similar to Boost. What differences do you want to change?
- pliqtro ( @pliqtro@lemmy.one ) 8•1 year ago
A few themes (AMOLED for dark mode) would be great. For some reason, default font size seems to be too big for me when viewing a post and its comments, but normal for scrolling the feed. Adjusting it to size 12 made the post view look normal, but the feed now looks too small.
- pipe01 ( @pipe01@lemmy.pipe01.net ) 5•1 year ago
It would be awesome if Boost’s developer would adapt the app for lemmy or something
- BigPapaE ( @BigPapaE@lemmy.ml ) 15•1 year ago
I just want to know if there’s a way to collapse comments haha
- PenguinGuy ( @PenguinGuy@lemmy.ml ) 10•1 year ago
This would be a great improvement. I find myself tapping and holding on comments out of pure muscle memory. Would make threads a lot easier to read.
- Ffkhrocks ( @Ffkhrocks@beehaw.org ) 30•1 year ago
Found out in another thread that Jerboa does support this.
Tap and hold the space at the top of the comment next to the username and it will collapse the comment thread. Tap and hold again to expand.
- bug ( @bug@lemmy.one ) 6•1 year ago
This should be a full post on its own, huge advice!
- makingStuffForFun ( @makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Legend!
- PenguinGuy ( @PenguinGuy@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
Ohh, awesome! Thank you for sharing this!
- zekiz ( @zekiz@lemmy.ml ) 9•1 year ago
Yes. On Jerboa there is. You have to tap and hold the username for a bit
Edit: seams like someone else already mentioned that. Oh well
- vrojak ( @vrojak@feddit.de ) 11•1 year ago
I am in between jobs at the moment, but I plan to contribute a bit to the app soon