/u/whupazz is working on a reddit compatible api for lemmy, meaning most 3rd party apps should work with little or no modification. See it working with RedReader already: https://imgur.com/a/IF5HYGz
It's no problem to do that, I welcome criticism of all our UIs! I just prefer that it's actionable, specific, and on our issue tracker so that devs can work on them.
Don't feel, as long as it's constructive and we all are at an understanding that devs may take some time to acknowledge them (tons of prior work), it's fine.
Of course you could always throw the a couple of cents if you got the chance, nobody minds being invited a coffee.
The dev of Jerboa based it off of Boost for Reddit. The only way you would get an exact copy is if the dev of boost decided to move over to Lemmy. Doubtful, but possible.
I was about to say to the post as a whole "eh, its not that bad, idk what you're talking about", and then saw this, I actually used boost for like 4 years lol
That would be absolutely splendid. Although i have to say i'm extremely impressed by the website UI. It's super fast and way better than most websites i've used recently.
Honestly, and I say this with no disrespect, but I feel like the UX is pretty lackluster across this entire ecosystem. It's understandable, since I would imagine the bulk of developer priority is going towards just making things work as reliably as possible on the backend side of things. Fortunately, given the open source nature of things, I feel like the community will fill these gaps in over time. :)
Good to know. I've been trying to figure out how to get either of them to work, but if they aren't as great as advertised, then I'll stick with plain. I'm here for content anyway.
Is the mobile experience really that bad to some? I've been running Jerboa since migrating and it's working flawlessly, some it lacks some features but I find it extremely usable. Maybe I just got a blessed device.
You and I are in full agreement there. I'm guessing that he's eventually going to work something out with Reddit, and keep his focus and priorities over there, but I would love to see something heavily inspired by Apollo make it's way over to this side of the aisle. I'm hoping to start learning Swift (or Tauri+Rust) sometime in the next few months, so if we don't have something by then, I might take a crack at it personally.
Some of the Mastodon-focused clients like Ivory/Ice Cubes look amazing. It won’t be long until we get something like that for Lemmy if it gains enough traction.
Meant in the best way possible - that was my thinking. If I'm going to take a step backward in functionality, I'm going to make the choice myself and go to the community where they're pouring support into it. Not the now huge corporation trying to milk me for profit
Well, the good thing about Jerboa is that anyone can just make changes to it and send them to the devs, so now that more people are using Lemmy, it will improve really quickly!
A few themes (AMOLED for dark mode) would be great.
For some reason, default font size seems to be too big for me when viewing a post and its comments, but normal for scrolling the feed. Adjusting it to size 12 made the post view look normal, but the feed now looks too small.
My only problem with Jerboa atm is the fact that it constantly times me out. It literally just happened when loading this post (am on the website now). It also constantly throws java exception errors at me.
Yup. The entire ecosystem is experiencing the Reddit hug of death. Server maintainers are trying to upgrade their hardware as fast as possible and the devs are trying to optimize the code as fast as humanly possible.
I joined the same day as the APIocalypse happened, and this is a wild ride to watch.