Haha seriously tho now it seems we're getting a few more developer contributions, so hopefully its UX can improve.
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Honestly, I feel so bad criticizing without contributing, but at the same time, I don't have any relevant skills with which to contribute.
It's no problem to do that, I welcome criticism of all our UIs! I just prefer that it's actionable, specific, and on our issue tracker so that devs can work on them.
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Jerboa has bad UX because it needs work. Official Reddit app has bad UX because the developer wants it that way.
The fact that it's open source means that people will fix it when they become annoyed enough with this. This doesn't apply for the Reddit app.
BoostForLemmy? 👉👈
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.
Probably because it doesn't load a bunch of trash along with the content.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Ahh alright then, thank you for your work. Ps: sry if it sounded like I was complaining on the previous comment lol. I wish I could contribute, but I have no knowledge in this field.
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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. :)
Web UI is actually really clean, fast, and very straight forward. I really enjoy it.
The apps, though, suck. They are buggy as all hell, and they are completely featureless.
I would love to see the person who made Apollo for reddit develop a Lemmy app. MLEM is not bad but obviously barebones as it’s still in beta
You and I are in full agreement there. I'm guessing that he's eventually going to work something out with Reddit, and keep his focus and priorities over there, but I would love to see something heavily inspired by Apollo make it's way over to this side of the aisle. I'm hoping to start learning Swift (or Tauri+Rust) sometime in the next few months, so if we don't have something by then, I might take a crack at it personally.
With how openly reddit is trashing on apollo specifically, I'm not so sure. I know he does probably want to, as he's in the red either way (if existing yearly apollo subscribers can no longer get content, they can refund through apple and he has to eat that), but reddit seems like it's taking a blowtorch to all bridges.
But yeah, mlem right now isn't much. Any more working on ios apps would be great.
Lemmur looks really friggin good, but it apparently hasn't been updated in over a year so it is completely broken atm
Hopefully someone forks it at some point 🤞
Yeah hopefully it becomes better. The biggest problem for me so far is the choppy scrolling.
I've not had that issue on my Pixel 6a running Android 13 build TQ2A.230505.002
I was struggling loggin in, and realized the app doesn't support Bitwardenn autofill.
Turn on the accessibility features and it works OK.
My biggest issue is I use RiF and swap the votes to the right and the link or picture button to the left and get very confused on jerboa now.
One is a big corporation, and the other is a bunch of indie devs. There should be no excuse for a big corporation to have bad UX.
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Only one of them has a quintillion dollars to spend on making their shit look good. I'm less forgiving of that one.
Hear me out: Infinity for Lemmy
/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/
Whoa that's pretty cool. Thanks for the link
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That would be a warm, liquid dream. How amazing
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I can't even get the app to see how bad it is. Ha
Uhuh, deflection doesn't make things look promising either.
I'd love for Jerboa to be more like Boost, which I've been using for years.
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One is controlled by a large corporation seeking only profits. The other is an open source design that the community can do with as it likes.
My only problem with Jerboa atm is the fact that it constantly times me out. It literally just happened when loading this post (am on the website now). It also constantly throws java exception errors at me.
I don't think that's Jerboa; those are errors from the instance's backend.
Though it would be nice if Jerboa had an easier way to retry.
Yup. The entire ecosystem is experiencing the Reddit hug of death. Server maintainers are trying to upgrade their hardware as fast as possible and the devs are trying to optimize the code as fast as humanly possible.
I joined the same day as the APIocalypse happened, and this is a wild ride to watch.
Tbh really hoping that 3rd party apps shift from Reddit to Lemmy cuz man that'd be the life
I would love to see Reddit seamlessly replaced. It would send the message that the server isn't what makes a community.
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No offense but the site has bad UX too. I mean it's gotten better but still
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!
I def need as much help as I can get with it.
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