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…🙌🏼
There’s got to be thousands of peopel that are using this platform because of Jeroba. I know I probably wouldn’t be here and commenting without that app. Thanks for all the hard work!
I’m one of 'em, it’s been great so far!
Same here
Just here to say that I love the animation when collapsing comments. So slick.
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 is indeed very satisfying.
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.
Jerboa’s been great for me. Sure it’s kinda glitchy, but they’ve already made huge improvements in just a couple weeks. Awesome work devs, now… get back to it! 😅
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
I wouldn’t be using Lemmy/the Fediverse if it weren’t for the devs of this app. I hope we can keep it alive as long as possible, like the fediverse itself. Decentralization is why the internet has prospered this far. It would make sense to have a social internet that’s decentralized too
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.
It’s great to see what happened in the last 3 weeks. Thanks a lot to the developers.
Yea! Jerboa certainly helped me leave Reddit. Well done and thanks devs!
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Damn right.
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.
Yup, Jerboa has been great for using Lemmy on mobile. There are some features I miss coming from Relay, but it’s all minor things that don’t really impact the overall useability.
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.
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.
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”.
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:
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!
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 once you get rid of websockets and maybe change the db code a bit to make it faster).
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.
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.
I love Jeroba too but it just crashes after loading so I have to use the web or Connect.
Same here, crashes instantly on Android 10 :'(
Likewise. I look forward to trying it out again later and hopefully update my rating to something more befitting.
Connect works, but the UI is definitely lacking.
That might be because of backend API changes in Lemmy 0.18.0.
You may have to use the most recent version to get around this problem.
Why is that update to 0.0.35 (from my locally installed 0.0.34) not shown to me in Droid-ify? When I click on Jerboa in the installed list, it shows up in the list of versions at the bottom. The global list of Updates in Droid-ify is empty, however. Clicking/Spamming the “sync” button there does not help.
aah, found it - it uses a different signing key.
I’d love to try Jerboa, but when trying to connect, it says “Server version (0.17.4) too low”.
I’m having the same issue since the latest Jerboa update 0.0.35 Looks like i’ll have to install a previous version from fDroid.
The latest version on the playstore is 0.0.35.
I was able to download the previous version 0.0.34 from github which doesn’t have the v 0.18 issue.
As soon as your lemmy instance updates to 0.18 you should be able to update the jerboa app without any issue.Either wait for the server upgrade on your instance, or downgrade Jerboa, as the latest update added a breaking chance for compatibility with the latest Lemmy update.
So I’m posting here from a browser. I want to use jerboa but I can’t get it to do much of anything. It asks me to log in but gives me no option to do so. I can’t find a manual for it or any help. I’m pretty sure I just don’t know how to use the thing, but I know I’m not alone
In the hamburger menu on the left you should find an “Add account” button. IIRC it says the word “Anonymous” and you have to tap it to show the add account button.
Some things in Jerboa are a bit confusing for now. Once you get to know where things are it’s pretty good though.
In the top left there is a button to open a sliding menu which comes from the left of the screen. The first entry in this menu will say “Anonymous”. Click it. Now you can log in to a server of your choosing.
Currently you will need to create an account on some instance beforehand. You cannot register from the app. You can only log in.
Lalelul… lelo? If you have no idea what I’m talking about never mind!
