Release Jerboa 0.0.33-alpha · dessalines/jerboa
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This is a big one, thank you to all our new contributors! 🥳 Jerboa is still very much an alpha-level app, but its wonderful to see its pace accelerating rapidly thanks to others working hard to mak...
    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
      25·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, the number of skilled android devs contributing now is unreal. We’re gonna loop past A LOT of reddit apps in two weeks at this rate.

  • any1th3r3 [he/him]@beehaw.org
    31·
    2 years ago

    The in-app image viewer is such a welcome feature!
    thank you all for your hard work and contributions to making our experience on Lemmy so nice

  • patchymoose@beehaw.org
    221·
    2 years ago

    I’m not even joking when I say that this app, despite being in alpha, is a more pleasant experience than the official Reddit app.

    • Jerboa has not begged me to turn on notifications
    • Jerboa has not yelled at me for taking a screenshot or begged me to send it as a link to the site instead
    • Jerboa has not warned me that I am “low on coins”
    • Jerboa has not tried to make me create an NFT avatar
    • Jerboa contains more formatting options in comments than the Reddit app (!)
    • Jerboa is smart enough to autopopulate the link title when I highlight text to be converted to a link. Reddit app still lacks this feature (!)
    • Jaximus@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      It is extremely impressive how much money these large tech companies throw at an app and it turns out to be shitty as fuck. I wonder what bullshit features they pack in to make it like that.

    • animist@lemmy.one
      1·
      2 years ago

      It’s amazing what devs can accomplish when they don’t have a bunch of greedy MBAs breathing down their necks

  • Ninmi@sopuli.xyz
    19·
    2 years ago

    That decision to lay a solid foundation for an Android app really bearing fruit right now. Thanks for all the hard work and thanks to all the new contributors.

    • Grenfur@lemmy.one
      14·
      2 years ago

      I’ve been incredibly impressed at how fast the Jerboa team is working to catch up with the influx of new users and issues. Massive thanks for all the work getting done!

  • kevin@beehaw.org
    12·
    2 years ago

    Thanks to everyone who has opened issues or submitted PRs! 14 new contributors this round!

      • drk@slrpnk.net
        2·
        2 years ago

        Same, I did have to remove the older version installed via f-droid before installation of the apk from GitHub would succeed though. That was when I updated from 0.0.31 to 0.0.32. Updating to 0.0.33 then worked without uninstalling anything. Liking it so far!

  • BigFig@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 years ago

    Thanks for all your and contributors hard work. I’ve signed up for your Patreon and hope to see this platform flourish.

  • AfterlifeBarista@lemmy.ml
    10·
    2 years ago

    Great update! Thanks!

    Only thing missing for now is the ability to sort comments in posts (as in new/popular/best,etc) like in the browser version, which has been sorely missing for the main community of one of my instances. Any info on when is that going to be implemented?

  • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 years ago

    Thank you devs, great release.

    Might I add some remarks?

    • The login feature is not really intuitive. When not logged in and pressing on any of the icons below, instead of displaying a “login first” notification, bring the user to the login screen?
    • Possibility to collapse and expand comment threads (as @meliache@feddit.de pointed out this already works by touching the comment)
    • When I click on a link and it for example opens an image, allow me to press the Android back button to go back to the discussion. Right now the only option is to press the back arrow hovering over the image.

    If there’s a better place to post these requests let me know and I’ll post it there

    • ganbaro@feddit.de
      3·
      2 years ago

      This!

      I started using Jerboa today and the login confused me. Jerboa demands login but I couldn:'t find out how to login first

      I remember Slide for Reddit having similar issues with their UX but their error message is more informative IIRC

    • meliache@feddit.de
      0·
      2 years ago

      Comment threads are collapsible afaik, just touch and hold onea comment and release again. Admittedly there are no visual hints that this is possible, there a tutorial or something like that might help.

  • rawrspace@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 years ago

    This is great. Just installed and the image viewer is great along with the fonts being consistent.