As me and many others, you might have encountered the problem, that tapping on a comment in your inbox doesn't get you to the comment and it's context. However, you can actually directly jump from the comments inbox to the correct comment + context in the post.
Check the image. First long press on the upvotes/time on the top right, to have the lower bar expanded. Then press on the chain link button below to directly open the post!
It was hard to find and know unless you already know it. This definitely needs UX improvement. Hence, this post here.
Great tip, thanks! Gotta say, as rough around the edges as Jerboa is sometimes, I'm really impressed with how well it handles most things already! A few months of refining UI/UX will result in a really solid app.
Can we get like, an entire magazine or large post of tips and tricks like this for using a federated platform? I'm very new to all this and I understand there are going to be growing pains and a learning curve, but the sooner I know how to use little shortcuts/things like this the easier and better it'll be to adapt :)
I think lemmy has a documentation website, and even though it's called documentation, it can be helpful when you want to add a community that's not already searchable.
I do have a tip for kbin too, which is to visit your Settings sooner than later and opt into notifications so you can actually be able to respond back to people. The default is very barebones which I guess is good
Oh thank you so much. I been going to full thread and manually looking, or using context clues in the comment to find out what is even being replied to to reply. I feel like an idiot ngl lmao
Oh, hell yeah. Now, how do I open a link to a post on a different instance than mine from within my instance (also without getting sent to my browser)?
Ah okay. Looks like it will only work for certain instances. I don't think I can add any others besides these ones.
If Jerboa can follow comment links from the inbox natively, why does it let Android handle the links everywhere else? Maybe Jerboa could insert a little link button next to every hyperlink so that you can choose whether to open a link with Android or natively with Jerboa.