I’m thinking mobile but keeping the options open

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I go back and forth between Jerboa and PWA (from Chromium). I find both missing features I really like, but that just might be from the features to which I got accustomed from Slide and Infinity and not features that are must-haves. On Jerboa, the most annoying thing to me is during commenting, where the cursor jumps to somewhere else in the paragraph and deletes a word. It’s very annoying. I thought it was my keyboard, so I switched, but nope. Maybe an incompatibility with autocorrect features. Whatever. Lemmy is still growing up, while Reddit is 18.

  • drdalek13@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Been using Jerboa for Lemmy on Android. No complaints so far. But its early.

    Edit: misspelled the app name

    • SpooneyOdin@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Same here. Only complaint so far is I haven’t seen a way to adjust the font yet. I don’t like the default one. Seems a bit too big for me.

    • CheshireSnake@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Same here. It can definitely be better, but it works for now. No errors so far.

      Edit: and just like that it suddenly threw an error. Lol.

      • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        It’s no reddit is fun (I miss my AMOLED background and simple interface that made navigating quoting linking and collapsing comment threads all such a breeze), but a) it’s better than any app I’ve ever made (I’ve never made an app), b) it will get better, c) I’ll get better at using it (I’m maybe 10 minutes in so far)

        • CheshireSnake@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I completely agree. I use Joey myself (no particular reason - I just got pretty confortable with it). My only problem now is I keep getting timeouts. It could be my connection, though.

    • falx@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      If you ever decide to do that, sign me up for some dev time. I currently mainly work with Qt and C++, but want to learn eg. flutter. Know Rust, Go and Java and a few frameworks around there. Frontend I did some angular and react in the past. For now I’d be able to invest something like 10 hrs per week.

      • Grafcube@fosstodon.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        Sure thing! Although, I won’t start working on it anytime soon. I’m too busy with irl stuff as well as my other ambitious project (I should probably advertise it more but I want to have it in a more usable state before I do that).

        I’ll most likely build the app with Kotlin since that’s the only way I know to make Android apps (afaict Rust isn’t really an option for Android anyway).

        • falx@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          Oh flutter is with dart, not Rust. I was just giving a bit of my profile to talk a bit about my interests / background.

          Kotlin is cool, but let me know if you change your mind about flutter. Though it is backed by Google, it does seem like it is gaining some momentum also among the FOSS communities, and it has the added bonus that the app can then be deployed on Android and iOS (or even desktop / web).

          • Grafcube@fosstodon.org
            2·
            1 year ago

            Hmm. I might consider flutter then, since the only reason I picked kotlin is because I’m learning it in uni and i cant use rust to make android apps. Well, I’ll think about it whenever I actually decide to start. If rust were an option to make native android apps I would have picked it immediately 😄

  • Garrathian@beehaw.orgEnglish
    81·
    1 year ago

    This is a cop out answer. I tried Jerboa but wasn’t a big fan. That may change in the future. But I feel currently the best way to experience Lemmy on your phone is to do the following:

    1. Install the firefox app from the app store
    2. Go to your Lemmy instance on firefox
    3. press the 3 dots (where you can view bookmarks, history, etc) and click on “Add to Home screen”

    When you click on the Lemmy icon that’s added to your home screen on your phone, it will open up the Lemmy web app (seperate from the firefox browser). It works super nice on mobile from my experience so far, and has a sleek design.

    • MyNameIsIgglePiggle@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      After trying jerboa I ended up going this route. I keep getting server errors using the pwa though not sure if lemmy.ml just can’t handle the traffic or I’m doing something wrong

      • constantokra@lemmy.oneEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I was having some issues with that server earlier. Opened an account on Lemmy.one and i’ve not had any more issues. They’re just overloaded it seems. Exciting times eh?

    • teruma@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m using Jeroba but i can’t seem to post replies to comments outside of the instance I registered on. My understanding is this isn’t how it’s supposed to work?

      edit: huh, ok, this worked, so I must have done something different…

      • Baron Von J@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I think there’s just been a lot of growing pains with beehaw and lemmy.ml seeing way more traffic from new users. Their servers are going down under the load and that results in weird errors in the clients and web, and I’m assuming federation issues too.

  • Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Kinda an odd answer since it doesn’t exist yet, but the RedReader dev is considering a Lemmy version once Reddit kills third-party apps at the end of the month. That would be neat to see.

  • SenseiRat@pathfinder.socialEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I’m using Jerboa for Android and liking it so far. It doesn’t have all of the features I’m used too (used Relay, Baconreader, and Sync in the past) but it seems to be going in the right direction.

    • fluffman86@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Been struggling with jerboa for a couple days now. Finally realized that while I can log into the website (sometimes), my password is too long for the jerboa. It was 70+ chars, reduced to under 32 and it’s working now.

  • techgearwhips@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Lemmur doesn’t login because it’s no longer maintained.

    Jerboa keeps crashing every time I tried to enter this sub.

    So I’m just using it from the mobile web (installed from Fennec as a PWA) for the time being.

    • ƊƲƘЄƬӇƠƦƖƠƝ@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Just trying Jerboa out now. UI buttons are too small and sometimes difficult to see.

      Can’t hide post replies.

      Other than that, seems okay so far.

      Edit: Basically I want it to be Infinity for Lemmy.

      • awdsns@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        You can collapse threads with a long press on the comment header (the line with the username, score and timestamp).

        The app could definitely use some documentation.

    • Nina@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      currently mlem just straight up doesn’t work for me. infinite loading, does login though.

      • anda@feddit.deEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        Have you subscribed to something? Default filter is subscriptions, you can change in on top. Confused me at first.

        • Nina@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          oh!!! thank you, I see now. oh what an interesting interface, having full text lol. time to look around.

          • m3enzo@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Haha I had the same brain fart for a minute too. Then i realized it was trying to infinitely load my non existent subscriptions.

      • TWeaK@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        For me, I find writing comments on Jebora is buggy. If you mistype, then hit backspace to delete, it removes the space between the last two words.

        Maybe that’s a feature for Germans to combine words, I dunno, but it means you have to do a lot of additional manual editing.