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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Only one of them has a quintillion dollars to spend on making their shit look good. I'm less forgiving of that one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Hear me out: Infinity for Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

/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/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Whoa that's pretty cool. Thanks for the link

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Could this mean Apollo for Lemmy 😍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wish!! I love Infinity.

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

don't tease me like that

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

That would be fantastic.

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

That would be a warm, liquid dream. How amazing

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

We can dream

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

There's an open PR that'll fix the font size issue. I'm using it now and it's great. I'm also personally working on trying to add my personal must-have UI options from Boost.

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

That would be absolutely splendid. Although i have to say i'm extremely impressed by the website UI. It's super fast and way better than most websites i've used recently.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Probably because it doesn't load a bunch of trash along with the content.

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

Yeah hopefully it becomes better. The biggest problem for me so far is the choppy scrolling.

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

I've not had that issue on my Pixel 6a running Android 13 build TQ2A.230505.002

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haha seriously tho now it seems we're getting a few more developer contributions, so hopefully its UX can improve.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

❤️❤️🥹🥹

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

Thank you so much for your work on the app, leaving this comment with it as we speak.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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. :)

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

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!

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

I def need as much help as I can get with it.

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

You're the Jerboa dev? I think the app is great.

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

No offense but the site has bad UX too. I mean it's gotten better but still

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

Its better than the reddit app already, but thats not a high bar to reach lmao

Compared to the third party apps tho, its still nowhere close. With that said, the recent update already improved so much so I have faith.

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

well jerboa has a better ux though

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tbh really hoping that 3rd party apps shift from Reddit to Lemmy cuz man that'd be the life

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Rif becomes Lif. Yes please

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

I would love to see Reddit seamlessly replaced. It would send the message that the server isn't what makes a community.