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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Great work! One suggestion: I think the bookmark icon on Jerboa should probably be changed to match the star icon on the lemmy instance website.

Preferably I would like the opposite (the star to change to a bookmark), but either way I think it should probably match.

Any news on when this might be rolled out?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

nice, but looks too flat imo. I rather all black or have some more thickness.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Will you make a PR? I see all this concepts here, but imaging something is not as easy as actually implementing it. Hope, Jerboa's dev team will grow with current reddit user influx.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

This may be a stupid question but does Jerboa support other instances or just Lemmy.ml? I'm on Lemmy.world.

Edit: It does. I just needed to open the sidebar, click on "Anonymous" and it brought up the login dialog where I could select my instance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It does. I'm at beehaw, currently using the app, and I leave the setting at federated so I can see the content across all instances.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It works for most, if not all Lemmy instances. When you set up your account you tell it what instance your account is on. For me that's beehaw

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

I use it on feddit and can see content from lemmy.ml as well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Now that looks niiiice

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, please! This looks amazing!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

looks amazing!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is amazing!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have been enjoying this app and it's great to see even more improvements

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, that gif is comically large lol

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

I get Object Error. Can't see it. Room for improvements!

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

Feature not a bug 😏

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel stupid. I can't for the life of me figue out how to reply to replies. (Edit: reply to replies in the inbox, it's not changed in the wild)

Other than that, everything looks good 👍

Edit²: Here is my bug report for the missing inbox interactions, if you are having this issue bump this report instead of opening a new one.

Edit³: issue closed, I would ask for more clear indication of the feature than (i think this is it) "comment action bar interaction improvements". I know the changelog needs to be succinct and must avoid excessive verbosity, but it took a while to figure out that long pressing in the username/vote counter bar reveals the interactions. Also an option to have them revealed at all times would be appreciated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Looks good!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It looks so much better! I am looking forward to the future of the app!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

can i please filter out image posts i think memes are extremely annoying

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

wow! that looks really nice! thanks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Looks awesome. Can't wait to see it in the next update.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Works really well. My only complaint is when trying to collapse a comment tree if I accidentally tap a user's name instead then swipe to go back all the comment trees I've collapsed are no longer collapsed.

[edit]

Replyinf to a comment also uncollapses all collapsed comments.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

[Edit] ok I was blind, there is already an option for that in the settings called "show action bar by default for comments" not sure, if this came with .33 or not but I'm happy now :D

Looks good!

One suggestion:

Can you make an option to hide the controls for comments (up/downvote, permalink and so on...) and make them only pop up when I press on the comment?

When reading the comments of a post, the controls take away a lot of screen space. I don't want to interact with very comment, so hiding the controls would declutter the comment section imho

Example of what I mean in Sync for reddit:

Controls Hidden

Controls shown

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you long tap the comment, it hides the buttons.

But I agree that it should be hidden by default. And swap the long tap and short tap behavior.

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