Yea! Jerboa certainly helped me leave Reddit. Well done and thanks devs!
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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Jerboa is a native-android client for Lemmy, built using the native android framework, Jetpack Compose.
Warning: You can submit issues, but between Lemmy and lemmy-ui, I probably won't have too much time to work on them. Learn jetpack compose like I did if you want to help make this app better.
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Thank you! I do have to remind people that jerboa is still very much alpha-level software... something I worked on in my off-time when not working on lemmy.
I'm super excited tho for it now, because it has a lot more skilled contributors, who actually know how to do android development.
Appreciate the work on the app so far, was great to have an open source app and one on F-Droid to replace infinity. Looking forward to seeing it's continued development.
Just wanted to say that I love the animation while collapsing comments. Very slick.
It's great for an alpha! I use it every day.
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Hear hear! The Jerboa app has been great, and @[email protected] (hope I did that right) has worked hard on it for sure! Some of the posts about bugs and/or feature suggestions have been downright rude imho, so it's nice see them get their flowers, they deserve it! It's nice to see so many new app projects popping up too of course, but so far Jerboa has done great by me, and like others have mentioned, has really eased my transition from RIF. My thumb already instinctively taps on Jerboa now instead of RIF, LOL.
Thanks! One of the best compliments on it I've gotten!
Hahah, I put Jerboa right where rif used to be, so now I end up here instinctually plenty of times a day. No complaints on my end, the apps doing everything I need so far!
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yeah it's always the people who contribute the least to free software who expects the most.
It can be very grating when people demand that you do free labor for them, while refusing to do it themselves. Open source can feel like a group project, where one person just makes demands on everyone else without helping out.
As a happy user of Jerboa, I say work on it only as much as you want. Take care of your personal well-being as that's the #1 priority.
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Jerboa alone has made the transition from Boost on Reddit to Lemmy and the fediverse incredibly easy.
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There's got to be thousands of peopel that are using this platform because of Jeroba. I know I probably wouldn't be here and commenting without that app. Thanks for all the hard work!
It's already in the place of RIF.
Same I replaced my RIF with this app and use it daily just as I used to do with RIF. When I get the funds plan on donating.
It's a pretty good alternative. A bit "janky" but it's a alpha app.
I wouldn't be using Lemmy/the Fediverse if it weren't for the devs of this app. I hope we can keep it alive as long as possible, like the fediverse itself. Decentralization is why the internet has prospered this far. It would make sense to have a social internet that's decentralized too
Just here to say that I love the animation when collapsing comments. So slick.
It took me way too long to figure out what the + numbers meant, but yes super slick and love the color difference in comments. Easier for me to follow and see where I'm at.
It's brand new too, I literally asked the dev for one tap comment collapsing and he added it the next day or so.
As a fellow Software Engineer/architect myself, really nothing but praise for these guys.
It is indeed very satisfying.
Jerboa's been great for me. Sure it's kinda glitchy, but they've already made huge improvements in just a couple weeks. Awesome work devs, now... get back to it! ๐
Yup, Jerboa has been great for using Lemmy on mobile. There are some features I miss coming from Relay, but it's all minor things that don't really impact the overall useability.
I'm currently using jerboa, it's pretty close to Reddit feel, so I like it, cuz that's what I've been used to x.x
Agreed! Using it myself.
I straight up would not be on Lemmy today if not for the jerboa app. literally my only gripe with it is I think the icon for it is ugly af, but that's just opinion and everything else about the app is great!
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Big thank you to all the hard work and the neck break development pace lately!!
What's even better is that the pace of development on Jerboa is extremely high at the moment, there are a lot of features and fixes that are ready to go but have to wait for the next release of the Lemmy server software.
You can follow (and help) development here: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa
Word up. When the Reddit collapse happened, Jerboa was ready to fucking rumble.
The fella (fellas?) behind it did a great job of building the right app to be ready for when the world needed it.
Jerboas a solid app! Coming from RIF, it's offered a pretty familiar experience. Considering this app is pretty early in its development I'm excited to see what they do with it
Hopefully this is the floor and we only go up!
It basically replaced the Relay for reddit app for me. Works pretty good.
Yeah, Jerboa is nice, I can't wait to see what it will become in the future, thanks for all the devs who are working on Lemmy and Jerboa ๐
Had a pretty much seamless transition from Infinity to Jerboa. Well done indeed.
Jerboa has been great for me. Helped fill the rif size hole in my media consumption.
Good job devs, your work is appreciated!!
I agree, it looks and feels very nice and clean. Of course there's still some small bugs, but it'll only get better with time.
It's great to see what happened in the last 3 weeks. Thanks a lot to the developers.
Yup. Using it right now and looking forward to see how it grows along with the platform.
I wish there was backwards compatibility though, because I can't use most instances (that are Lemmy 0.17.4) with the new Jerboa v0.0.35-alpha ๐
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Agreed, thanks for a great app! ๐
Was my first choice, but the app would not stay open. Installed fresh on Note 10+ and it would not actually start open long enough to acknowledge the first screen of notes before crashing.
I'll keep an eye on it, but makes me sad ๐ข.
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Love to see Jerboa on my Homescreen.
I'd love to try Jerboa, but when trying to connect, it says "Server version (0.17.4) too low".
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