I want the Infinity reddit dev to make a client here. That app is amazing
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.
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Hasn't logged me out... Yet.... I guess time will tell haha
Honestly, I prefer it, with its issues, over the stock Reddit app.
Jerboa is not well behaved when the api starts taking a long time. Are you guys on an overloaded instance?
Been using Jerboa for Lemmy on Android. No complaints so far. But its early.
Edit: misspelled the app name
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.
It does, it is also early. Hopefully it stays updated!
On the main screen open the menu top left, settings, look and feel. You can scale the font size down. Agreed the default was just a hair too big.
Same. I like that it's on F-Droid too
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.
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)
Jerboa is what I use
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...
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.
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:
- Install the firefox app from the app store
- Go to your Lemmy instance on firefox
- 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.
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
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?
I suspect it's traffic. One of the maintainers just made a post about lemmy.ml getting a shit ton of visitors.
@MyNameIsIgglePiggle I might actually try making a Lemmy client myself. It could help me learn Android development better than whatever my uni is doing.
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.
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).
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Is there an api for developers?
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/04-api.html
I have no experience with developing against these APIs, and so can't attest to how up to date they are.
The devs though, if you didn't know, are active here.
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.
Jerboa at the moment, I'm hoping slide gets ported over to lemmy.
It would need to be forked, because I believe Slide was abandoned.
Yup. It's too bad. I love that app. Oddly, more than Infinity (though I use it, too).
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.
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.
Interesting, mine is 60+ characters and was fine. Might be a 64 limit
I like the website as is.
In my brief time with it, I've been impressed pretty impressed by Mlem. Sure, it's not feature complete and a bit buggy in places, but it already feels nice to use
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Jerboa was crashing on most actions for me, but the newest alpha on GitHub has significantly improved the experience.
Jerboa on Android, Mlem on iOS (as they are both the only options for now)
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.
Hmmโฆ Mlem isnโt available on the CA App Store yet, it appears. Web app it is for now.
Yeah only on testflight currently
I tried Jerboa and it always crashes a few second after opening it. Web app for me, I guess.
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.
Ahhh I was wondering why Lemmur didn't recognize my instance
Same
jerboa pretty good so far but hopefully infinity for reddit dev also makes lemmy compatible
Alternatively, you can use Lemmy progressive webapp (PWA) installed from your favourite browser. But as already stated, as of now, there are currently only Jerboa, Mlem and this webapp.
I'm doing this with Firefox for Android. Since Lemmy doesn't have any advertising or other anti-features, I don't feel any pressing need for a third-party client.
The webapp is how I do it right now using hermit.
Couldn't get Jerboa to work. Just using the website now
After creating my account, I couldn't sign in with Jerboa. Waited a day, tried again, and now it is working for me.
I am an Android user so it's definitely going to be Jerboa for me.
I'm hoping to improve my Jetpack Compose skills so I can contribute more to its development as well :)
I'm doing the same thing. I haven't written kotlin or jetpack compose code before, but I was able to fix a minor bug that affected pre-login. Hopefully I'll be able to find ways to contribute more.
Yeah this is what I've been doing, have made a few simple PRs already to enhance the themes a bit! Never worked with Jetpack Compose before, but Google sure does the trick.
Make sure you grab the latest beta of Android Studio (not the default stable one it suggests), and connect your Github account once it's installed. The emulator works really well for testing, no phone needed. Makes it super quick to get up and running and start submitting fixes.
I ran into the same problem. Should definitely add some sort of โSubscribe to channels first!โ Message
Actually i use the progressive web app on mobile and that works like a charm! Unlike Reddit, Lemmys Webinterface is quiet nice. Nevertheless I would love to see some of Reddits 3rd party clients to switch to Lemmy! Like Invidious ๐คฉ
Here's something that I don't understand on Lemmy when using the web: whenever I visit a community hosted on a different Lemmy instance, I'm not logged in and can't subscribe. That appears to be only working in the app (Jerboa).
I think I'm missing something fundamental here, because it's probably not intended to have dozens of accounts โ one at each instance.
that is a downside of the web-version. However you can enter the link in the search bar of end search for the link on your instance.
Its eternity now! Damn they fixed the bugs, somehow made the UI fresher and its now seemingly the best!
Lets see, maybe some bugs will appear
I'm on Android and have been using Jeroba but it's super glitchy. I really hope BaconReader makes an app for Lemmy (someone on reddit suggested it should be called LemonReader and I am all about that suggestion lol).
Trick question, you don't need one for Lemmy since their website is actually functional :)
Jeroba works, lemmur won't log in for some reason
Jeeboa is great, I've been using it and I quite like it.
Jerboa kinda sucks imo, there is no search feature as of yet. Sometimes it also logs me out of my account, however, it is stable so far so it has that going for it.
It isn't quite there yet, but I think it does have the potential to become a solid app.
I'm new to Lemmy as of today but I posted a similar post and it seems that for Android there's really only Jerboa for Lemmy and perhaps nothing for iOS. I'd love for someone to tell me I'm woefully ignorant, though!
For iOS there ist Mlem in development and available on TestFlight
