Jerboa has bad UX because it needs work. Official Reddit app has bad UX because the developer wants it that way.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2023
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The fact that it's open source means that people will fix it when they become annoyed enough with this. This doesn't apply for the Reddit app.
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Hear me out: Infinity for Lemmy
/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
Follow or help here: https://www.reddit.com/r/apihackathon/comments/13yvzg2/rapihackathon_lounge/jmxcq0u/
Whoa that's pretty cool. Thanks for the link
Could this mean Apollo for Lemmy 😍
Looks promising, I can't wait!
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I wish!! I love Infinity.
That would be a warm, liquid dream. How amazing
We can dream
don't tease me like that
That would be fantastic.
Haha seriously tho now it seems we're getting a few more developer contributions, so hopefully its UX can improve.
Honestly, I feel so bad criticizing without contributing, but at the same time, I don't have any relevant skills with which to contribute.
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.
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Thank you so much for your work on the app, leaving this comment with it as we speak.
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Only one of them has a quintillion dollars to spend on making their shit look good. I'm less forgiving of that one.
BoostForLemmy? 👉👈
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
Boost is great! A lot of the 3rd party apps are lovingly made. Stinks that Reddit decided money was more important than a user-base. But now we have Lemmy, which hopefully won't even be able to be like that.
I just got into lemmy, can't imagine using reddit without boost, jeroba feels very similar to boost except for having very little customisations(the font size in the comments is bugging me a bit), but I think with time it'll improve.
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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. :)
Web UI is actually really clean, fast, and very straight forward. I really enjoy it.
The apps, though, suck. They are buggy as all hell, and they are completely featureless.
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I would love to see the person who made Apollo for reddit develop a Lemmy app. MLEM is not bad but obviously barebones as it’s still in beta
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Lemmur looks really friggin good, but it apparently hasn't been updated in over a year so it is completely broken atm
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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!
I def need as much help as I can get with it.
I forked it already and am starting to poke around in the code. Hope I can get a few things added.
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Yeah hopefully it becomes better. The biggest problem for me so far is the choppy scrolling.
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One is controlled by a large corporation seeking only profits. The other is an open source design that the community can do with as it likes.
Tbh really hoping that 3rd party apps shift from Reddit to Lemmy cuz man that'd be the life
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I'd love for Jerboa to be more like Boost, which I've been using for years.
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One is a big corporation, and the other is a bunch of indie devs. There should be no excuse for a big corporation to have bad UX.
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I just want to know if there's a way to collapse comments haha
This would be a great improvement. I find myself tapping and holding on comments out of pure muscle memory. Would make threads a lot easier to read.
Found out in another thread that Jerboa does support this.
Tap and hold the space at the top of the comment next to the username and it will collapse the comment thread. Tap and hold again to expand.
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Yes. On Jerboa there is. You have to tap and hold the username for a bit
Edit: seams like someone else already mentioned that. Oh well
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.
I don't think that's Jerboa; those are errors from the instance's backend.
Though it would be nice if Jerboa had an easier way to retry.
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.
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I am in between jobs at the moment, but I plan to contribute a bit to the app soon
No issues, in just few weeks/ months the UI would blossom to something awesome! People just be optimistic here!
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