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Is Jerboa for Lemmy crashing for anyone else?

I've been using Jerboa for Lemmy for my Beehaw account since the Migration. At first it worked fine. Then I started getting an error message about the version of Lemmy being used on the instance. But for the last couple of days it has been crashing immediately on opening:

Jerboa Error Message

Is anyone else having this problem? Can anyone recommend an alternative app?

Thanks!

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[-] pztrn@bin.pztrn.online 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Switched to liftoff and continue enjoying fediverse.

But I'm not on beehaw.

[-] PurpleReign@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I'm on Beehaw and can confirm that Liftoff is already miles ahead of Jerboa.

[-] Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Trying connect for lemmy at the moment... but I'll add that to my list until I settle on my preferred mobile experience... thanks!

[-] nickb333@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the recommendation. Have just installed and connected back to Beehaw.

[-] TheLastOfHisName@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I switched to Liftoff from Jerboa, and am enjoying the Liftoff experience thus far. Works with Beehaw just fine.

[-] Autumnal@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Liftoff is great! Thanks for commenting about it. I was really frustrated with Jerboa for not even allowing me to log in to Beehaw, and Connect's really bad interface that makes it hard to read anything.

Switched to listoff which also didn't work for some reason, then to connect. I also tried thunder, which works as well.

[-] Abmr2361@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@pztrn
Wow... It's awesome 😎, thank you..
@BobQuasit @technology

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago

Yup Jerboa became very unstable so I switched to Connect for Lemmy. Smooth ride now. :)

[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Glad you're enjoying Connect!

[-] PurpleTentacle@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I'm enjoying it, too. The only thing that annoys me is how hard/hidden it is to subscribe to communities.

When I'm seeing an interesting community under top of interesting content from a community I might be interested in, it's such a chore to find a subscribe button.

[-] nanometre@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, I'm using wefwef.app now, which is also very nice. Still have Jerboa installed for when it'll be compatible with beehaw again.

[-] 0xCAFE@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Deleting storage and cache (both) worked for me.

[-] leds@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

Yes thanks that worked!

[-] grumbul@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Jerboa started crashing for me around the time they did an update that required a newer lemmy version. I've been using Liftoff and that's working pretty well so far. I'm trying to stay open to different apps because they're all pretty new and none that I've tried have been exactly what I'm looking for yet.

[-] red@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Worked fine until yesterday evening. This morning (i.e. now) it instantly crashes

[-] balls_expert@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Yep crashes upon opening it today

[-] ono@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

F-Droid has previous versions, in case anyone needs to downgrade.

[-] kuchaibee@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

it's been crashing ever since that version error message started appearing. I have since uninstalled it and am just accessing beehaw using my mobile browser. It's actually pretty good. Sure I know there are other apps in development but I would like them to mature a bit more before I try to get into them, especially considering my buggy experience with jerboa.

[-] Gevian@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, Jerboa crashes instantly, feddit.de Front Page is constantly refreshing (web) , Connect won't show any comments, wefwef cannot block communities from showing in my timeline

Great timing, now that many of us are coming from Reddit...

[-] HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Haven't had any issues with crashing on Jerboa 0.0.34 on Android 13

[-] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

As @dark_stang@beehaw.org mentioned, the progressive web app works really well. To use it, from any major browser on your phone, open up the options menu and click "install app" or "add to phone." It'll add an "app" to your phone which is actually a slimmed down version of your browser with the address bar and menus and whatnot removed.

[-] ryanlovescooljeans@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

This is what I just did since last night's Jerboa update means it can't even launch anymore. And while I like Jerboa, this slimmed down web app version of Lemmy is perfect and kind of all I need.

[-] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. I switched to Connect for Lemmy on Google Play for now. That app seems to work fine. Not sure it is FOSS though. Seemed the most popular too other than Jerboa.

[-] _s10e@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, same here.

[-] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 1 points 1 year ago

Yep. Every update breaks something new, and they never fix the old issues. I've now switched over to Liftoff, until Sync becomes available. From that point onward I won't be needing anything else.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

0.36 was shit but 0.37 is actually fine now

[-] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 1 points 1 year ago

0.36 worked fine for me, 0.37 doesn't even start. Immediate crash on open.

[-] StringPotatoTheory@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

The most recent jerboa version doesn't work with lemmy version 17 anymore (which beehaw is on). I had the error and crash happen too. You could download a previous version off their github and it should work with v17 instances (but probably not v18).

But I'd recommend liftoff, it was recently added to the play store and it's actively being worked on! It's the app I use and I've been enjoying it so far.

[-] jherazob@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did they HAVE to go with that post for the Liftoff screenshots? 😂

Edit: They even used it inside the app as a preview on the Post Style prefs! It's very much deliberate! 😂

[-] 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

OMG, just noticed 🤣🤣🤣.

[-] marx2k@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago
[-] HERRAX@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

After updating to the latest version I can't sort my feed in any way, it just directs the feed back to the home instance's feed and sorts by active. Trying out liftoff in the meantime.

[-] MaliciousKebab@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

It stopped crashing for me but I can't login because of server version mismatch. I'm using web browser for now.

[-] guero@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

that's happened to me as well. I'm now posting from connect for the first time and adjusting to the interface.

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