With a lot of talk around new apps in development & coming on stream, something I’ve been happy to see, & commented on, as choice is always a good thing… I thought I’d just voice my appreciation for the Jerboa team, love this App, such nice Ui & UX, I find it very easy to use, all the view options, post layouts, especially the compact view are really easy on the eyes, & great to scroll through quickly. I know there are some errors from time to time, & the odd glitch here & there, but thats something to be expected, given that Jerboa is still in its Alpha form… Thanks for all you do, each iteration makes the experience, better & better…🙌🏼
Hear hear! The Jerboa app has been great, and @dessalines@lemmy.ml (hope I did that right) has worked hard on it for sure! Some of the posts about bugs and/or feature suggestions have been downright rude imho, so it’s nice see them get their flowers, they deserve it! It’s nice to see so many new app projects popping up too of course, but so far Jerboa has done great by me, and like others have mentioned, has really eased my transition from RIF. My thumb already instinctively taps on Jerboa now instead of RIF, LOL.
Thanks! One of the best compliments on it I’ve gotten!
Hahah, I put Jerboa right where rif used to be, so now I end up here instinctually plenty of times a day. No complaints on my end, the apps doing everything I need so far!
Did the same with boost, muscle memory goes right to Jeroba. I really like the app, going to stick with it. It’s already really freaking good.
yeah it’s always the people who contribute the least to free software who expects the most.
It can be very grating when people demand that you do free labor for them, while refusing to do it themselves. Open source can feel like a group project, where one person just makes demands on everyone else without helping out.
Be careful to not burn out. I think this is the start of a new way of using social media, and American big tech will launch products designed to be very user friendly (as in looking good but be full of tracking and sponsored content). I really don’t want them to pull people into their walled garden because their products look better.
I think it would make sense to get help from professional front-end developers to really make the Lemmy software look good and be easy to use. The backend part is already quite good.
As a happy user of Jerboa, I say work on it only as much as you want. Take care of your personal well-being as that’s the #1 priority.
Thank you! I do have to remind people that jerboa is still very much alpha-level software… something I worked on in my off-time when not working on lemmy.
I’m super excited tho for it now, because it has a lot more skilled contributors, who actually know how to do android development.
Just wanted to say that I love the animation while collapsing comments. Very slick.
Appreciate the work on the app so far, was great to have an open source app and one on F-Droid to replace infinity. Looking forward to seeing it’s continued development.
It’s great for an alpha! I use it every day.
Excellent work.
Yea! Jerboa certainly helped me leave Reddit. Well done and thanks devs!
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Love to you too. You deserve it. Thank you.
Damn right.
I’m currently using jerboa, it’s pretty close to Reddit feel, so I like it, cuz that’s what I’ve been used to x.x
Just here to say that I love the animation when collapsing comments. So slick.
It is indeed very satisfying.
It took me way too long to figure out what the + numbers meant, but yes super slick and love the color difference in comments. Easier for me to follow and see where I’m at.
It’s brand new too, I literally asked the dev for one tap comment collapsing and he added it the next day or so.
As a fellow Software Engineer/architect myself, really nothing but praise for these guys.
I tried to use but when I went to login I got an error that says the server version (0.17.4) is too low. but when I check all the popular instances they are all on the same version. so how is it working for other instances?
My understanding is Jerboa 0.35 requires server version 0.18, which isn’t widely adopted yet. I’m using 0.34 from F-Droid and I’ve been having no issues.
Always be wary of downloading random people’s files, but you can try my fork which implements some of the 0.35 features (until June 15) but is before the v18 update:
Same here. We’ll have to wait until our instances update their servers to v0.18.
We’ll have to use a browser or a different client until then.
Or a previous release (<0.35) of jerboa
Yep, that’s what I meant by “older version”.
I have issues logging in now too. It just errors and closes the app entirely, haha.
Any idea what that might be about? I’ve had to resort to using browser for now.
Jerboa alone has made the transition from Boost on Reddit to Lemmy and the fediverse incredibly easy.
Same here. The only thing that i miss is the ability to make custom feeds.
Jerboa has been great for me. Helped fill the rif size hole in my media consumption.
Had a pretty much seamless transition from Infinity to Jerboa. Well done indeed.
Word up. When the Reddit collapse happened, Jerboa was ready to fucking rumble.
The fella (fellas?) behind it did a great job of building the right app to be ready for when the world needed it.
Love to see Jerboa on my Homescreen.
Big thank you to all the hard work and the neck break development pace lately!!
Agreed, thanks for a great app! 💐
Memmy is also extremely good (on iOS).
I straight up would not be on Lemmy today if not for the jerboa app. literally my only gripe with it is I think the icon for it is ugly af, but that’s just opinion and everything else about the app is great!
but its cute!!!
Second this
fr tho that app icon is gross lol. I really don’t want a lil rat scurrying around on my home screen
I respect that. But i you see love rodents from cabiras to the dwarf jerboas , i am all about it so it all works out great. Good luck.
