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Jerboa is a native-android client for Lemmy, built using the native android framework, Jetpack Compose.

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Feature to browse all communities (not just by search keyword) (self.jerboa)
submitted 1 year ago by potterman28wxcv to c/[email protected]
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Hello,

First of all thank you so much to the developers of jerboa, the app is simple and responsive (coming from reddit it's a huge plus), and it just works!

One thing I am personally missing is the ability to easily discover communities. You can search by keyword and that works great, but I would rather have an exhaustive list of them all, especially as I am new here and I might be missing on some of them because I did not enter the right keywords.

The alternative i found is to search for each vowel 'a', 'e' etc.. because all communities names have at least a vowel, but it would be more practical to have an actual listing

What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Is there an easy way to subscribe to a community outside of my instance once I found one on browse.feddit.de, preferably on my phone?

Edit: replaced sub with community

[–] florge 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think if someone else in your instance has subscribed to a community on that other instance, then you should be able to search up your desired community in the app itself. Otherwise the url needs to be something like myinstance/c/newcommunity@otherinstance, that will let you browse to the community from within your instance and then you can subscribe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this possible to do though the app? I saw a regional instance list in another thread and wanted to join it, however whenever I type in [email protected] nothing shows up. Do I need to add the myinstance/c/ ahead of it?

[–] florge 1 points 1 year ago

Don't think it's possible in the app yet unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Copy and pasting the name in my instances search bar works for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ideally, the browser.feddit.de should have clickable links. Then on Android, Jerboa should register intent of such links and ask if the user would like to subscribe.

https://developer.android.com/training/app-links

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes you can! You search via the communities tab on navigation bar.

See my poorly made instruction screenshot. Keep in mind, it might take a second based on your instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But when I search for Python on Jerboa, I only get [email protected] as only result, but when I search on browse.feddit.de I get [email protected] (among others).

Edit: Jerboa interprets these links as email addresses. Can I do anything to change that? What should a link to a community or an instance look like?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fun fact, you are on the same instance as me.

But it's probably because no other user on our instance has joined a community on sh.itjust.works. That means that federation is possible (meaning, data can be exchanged) but no data is actually exchanged. Since there is "no need". So the moment, the first one user takes the plunge and joins a community on sh.itjust.works, data will be exchanged and this "problem" is resolved.