submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by darkstar@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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I'm really not happy with Lemmy so far. Its a great community and a cool concept, but the amount of bugs I am experiencing is really starting to put me off.

The site constantly updates / glitches, when I try click on something it moves just before I click so I end up clicking on something else. If I open a post, as soon as I go back the entire home feed is different and my sorting preferences have been reset.

As someone coming from the refinement from Apollo this really is offputting and makes me want to use Lemmy even less.

The people here are great, the federation is cool and I like how decentralized it is, but I think I'm going to log off now and I don't expect to be back anytime soon.

Ps. A functioning app I can download directly from the app store would be great. I'm not interested in progressive web apps or testflight betas, I want something that just works and is well refined.

Edit: I understand its early days, I'm not faulting devs for not being able to keep up, all I am doing here is expressing my opinion. I'm also sad about losing Apollo so that definitely adds to my disappointment quite a bit if I'm being honest.

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[-] Difficult_Bit_1339@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago

Lemmy is very new software currently only at v0.17.4

If you're here then you're getting the real Early Adopter experience. That isn't for everybody.

[-] cfx_4188@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 years ago

So they drove a bunch of people into a public beta software. Do developers need free beta testing?

[-] spark947@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

While it is okay to not be a fan of being someone's unpaid tester, you have to recognize that the developers of Lemmy are giving it away for free under the GPL, and letting people run in on their own hardware. This is extremely generous, and there is no incentive to actually use the software beyond the demand and goodwill that people have for a place to talk on the internet that isn't actively hostile towards them.

[-] novettam@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

They? Spez did xD

It just happened that quite a few redditors found that the experience using Lemmy was already good enough and started suggesting it.

And here we are :shrug:

Btw considering that Lemmy is open source, yes, they do need free beta testing. They even need more contributors to handle the development and bug fixing.

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