Release Jerboa 0.0.33-alpha · dessalines/jerboa
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This is a big one, thank you to all our new contributors! 🥳 Jerboa is still very much an alpha-level app, but its wonderful to see its pace accelerating rapidly thanks to others working hard to mak...
  • Ice Witch@lemmy.fmhy.mlB
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    2 years ago

    I’m so glad that white flash you used to get when switcing tabs is gone. Thank you for all your hardwork!

    • Piatro@programming.dev
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      2 years ago

      That’s weird, still happens for when switching to basically anything. Like starting this comment for example!

      • dj3hac@sh.itjust.works
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        2 years ago

        Could it have something to do with your phone being set to light/dark mode? I’m not seeing the white flash.

      • Aloso@lemmyrs.org
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        2 years ago

        Are you sure you’re on the latest version (0.0.33)? Maybe it wasn’t updated yet. You can go to the play store and check.

        • Piatro@programming.dev
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          2 years ago

          I get it from f-droid rather than the play store and I did see the 0.0.33-alpha changelog on update earlier today so I would have expected to be on that version. Having said that the “What’s new” link still says 0.0.32 which could be just a bad processing of the version number but maybe the f-droid version isn’t right. Not sure. Still getting th flashes basically all the time.

      • NoTime@lemmy.one
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        2 years ago

        I just downloaded the APK from GitHub and it let me update it from the .32 version I installed via Izzyondroid - from the limited knowledge I have it’s because the fingerprint of the apps are the same.

        Does this mean it won’t be an issue when Izzyondroid has .33, i.e. it will detect I’ve already installed it?

        Thanks for all your hard work by the way. A good quality app is such an important thing to have in place to get people to use Lemmy. Reddit works perfectly fine on desktop via RES but the reality is most people browse it on their phone, hence all the drama at the moment.

    • a1studmuffin@aussie.zone
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      2 years ago

      I’m actually curious to see how well GPT-4 could handle translations. Particularly because each translatable string has an identifier key in camel case English which gives clues about the context of the line to the translator, so I suspect it would do quite well compared to a naive “Google Translate all the strings” approach.

  • Krusty@feddit.it
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    2 years ago

    I’m not sure but is there a bug of buttons not showing under comments in the inbox? I can’t manage to open comments in their context

  • Ninmi@sopuli.xyz
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    2 years ago

    That decision to lay a solid foundation for an Android app really bearing fruit right now. Thanks for all the hard work and thanks to all the new contributors.

    • Grenfur@lemmy.one
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      2 years ago

      I’ve been incredibly impressed at how fast the Jerboa team is working to catch up with the influx of new users and issues. Massive thanks for all the work getting done!

  • patchymoose@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    I’m not even joking when I say that this app, despite being in alpha, is a more pleasant experience than the official Reddit app.

    • Jerboa has not begged me to turn on notifications
    • Jerboa has not yelled at me for taking a screenshot or begged me to send it as a link to the site instead
    • Jerboa has not warned me that I am “low on coins”
    • Jerboa has not tried to make me create an NFT avatar
    • Jerboa contains more formatting options in comments than the Reddit app (!)
    • Jerboa is smart enough to autopopulate the link title when I highlight text to be converted to a link. Reddit app still lacks this feature (!)
    • Jaximus@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      It is extremely impressive how much money these large tech companies throw at an app and it turns out to be shitty as fuck. I wonder what bullshit features they pack in to make it like that.

    • animist@lemmy.one
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      2 years ago

      It’s amazing what devs can accomplish when they don’t have a bunch of greedy MBAs breathing down their necks

  • Bretzel@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    So far it is amazing, thank you for the hard work making such cool app. One thing, it tooks me quite some time to find the add account button and change instance, maybe i’m dumb 🤡

    • jcg@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Same, honestly. From a UX perspective that should really be the most prominent function for a new user but it’s tucked behind a swipe menu and a button press.

  • andi242@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    Thanks for this! I just got into Lemmy/jerboa recently and was about to file some issues on github. But you fixed my them already :D

  • ClammyMantis488@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    I’m looking forward to using the app! It’s a bit too alpha for me to consistently use atm but I’ll keep checking in. Thanks for making such an awesome project!

  • Woedenaz@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    2 years ago

    The one feature I desperately want that Relay For Reddit has was a “Clear Seen Posts” button. You tapped it and it removed every post that I’d already viewed. There was another option to auto mark posts as “seen” if you just scrolled past them. I’d love for Jerboa to add that.

  • tmpod@lemmy.pt
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    2 years ago

    Congrats to everyone involved on this awesome massive new release! 🤍