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Jerboa

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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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Jerboa is made by Lemmy's developers, and is free, open-source software, meaning no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever. Your donations directly support full-time development of the project.

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Jerboa appreciation (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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With a lot of talk around new apps in development & coming on stream, something I've been happy to see, & commented on, as choice is always a good thing... I thought I'd just voice my appreciation for the Jerboa team, love this App, such nice Ui & UX, I find it very easy to use, all the view options, post layouts, especially the compact view are really easy on the eyes, & great to scroll through quickly. I know there are some errors from time to time, & the odd glitch here & there, but thats something to be expected, given that Jerboa is still in its Alpha form.. Thanks for all you do, each iteration makes the experience, better & better..๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿผ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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 dine 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Thanks! One of the best compliments on it I've gotten!

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah it's always the people who contribute the least to free software who expects the most.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Be careful to not burn out. I think this is the start of a new way of using social media, and American big tech will launch products designed to be very user friendly (as in looking good but be full of tracking and sponsored content). I really don't want them to pull people into their walled garden because their products look better.

I think it would make sense to get help from professional front-end developers to really make the Lemmy software look good and be easy to use. The backend part is already quite good once you get rid of websockets and maybe change the db code a bit to make it faster).