I’m not even joking when I say that this app, despite being in alpha, is a more pleasant experience than the official Reddit app.
- Jerboa has not begged me to turn on notifications
- Jerboa has not yelled at me for taking a screenshot or begged me to send it as a link to the site instead
- Jerboa has not warned me that I am “low on coins”
- Jerboa has not tried to make me create an NFT avatar
- Jerboa contains more formatting options in comments than the Reddit app (!)
- Jerboa is smart enough to autopopulate the link title when I highlight text to be converted to a link. Reddit app still lacks this feature (!)
It’s amazing what devs can accomplish when they don’t have a bunch of greedy MBAs breathing down their necks
This app is like… a soft fluffy blanket. Love it.
It is extremely impressive how much money these large tech companies throw at an app and it turns out to be shitty as fuck. I wonder what bullshit features they pack in to make it like that.
a considerable amount of code is used for “telemetry” and tracking.
Thank you devs, great release.
Might I add some remarks?
- The login feature is not really intuitive. When not logged in and pressing on any of the icons below, instead of displaying a “login first” notification, bring the user to the login screen?
Possibility to collapse and expand comment threads(as @meliache@feddit.de pointed out this already works by touching the comment)- When I click on a link and it for example opens an image, allow me to press the Android back button to go back to the discussion. Right now the only option is to press the back arrow hovering over the image.
If there’s a better place to post these requests let me know and I’ll post it there
This!
I started using Jerboa today and the login confused me. Jerboa demands login but I couldn:'t find out how to login first
I remember Slide for Reddit having similar issues with their UX but their error message is more informative IIRC
Comment threads are collapsible afaik, just touch and hold onea comment and release again. Admittedly there are no visual hints that this is possible, there a tutorial or something like that might help.
Holy shit you’re right how did I miss this? haha ohwell ONE DOWN!
Oh wow it’s looking so much more polished and that annoying white flash is gone.
Yay. Good job guys.
Great update! Thanks!
Only thing missing for now is the ability to sort comments in posts (as in new/popular/best,etc) like in the browser version, which has been sorely missing for the main community of one of my instances. Any info on when is that going to be implemented?
The one feature I desperately want that Relay For Reddit has was a “Clear Seen Posts” button. You tapped it and it removed every post that I’d already viewed. There was another option to auto mark posts as “seen” if you just scrolled past them. I’d love for Jerboa to add that.
So far it is amazing, thank you for the hard work making such cool app. One thing, it tooks me quite some time to find the add account button and change instance, maybe i’m dumb 🤡
Same, honestly. From a UX perspective that should really be the most prominent function for a new user but it’s tucked behind a swipe menu and a button press.
This update is incredible!!! Thank you devs!!!
I still haven’t figured out how to log in…
I have also been looking for a while. You have to open the sandwich menu in the upper left corner. Then there is a dropdown at the top and when you open that, you can click on “Add account”.
Much easier to collapse comments now. Thanks!
I wish it only hid the children comments, like Relay does, but this is better than it was.
There’s a toggle for that in the settings.
You have to check “Show content for collapsed comments”. The default is actually Apollo/ Alien Blue style. Also I would recommend unchecking “show action bar for comments” so the vote buttons are hidden until the comment is long pressed.
Hmm, I don’t see that setting…
I actually hate it, I keep doing it by accident.
Yeah, in Boost, I used a long press to hide comment, it was harder to do accidentally.
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Impressive update, I love the upvote/downvote on the side!
Great update, thank you guys
That decision to lay a solid foundation for an Android app really bearing fruit right now. Thanks for all the hard work and thanks to all the new contributors.
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Thank you so much to all the contributors. This new user is very pleased with his new home on Jerboa/Lemmy !!
I’m looking forward to using the app! It’s a bit too alpha for me to consistently use atm but I’ll keep checking in. Thanks for making such an awesome project!
