/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/

[–] zekiz@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Whoa that's pretty cool. Thanks for the link

[–] valkyrie@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Could this mean Apollo for Lemmy 😍

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

That would be a warm, liquid dream. How amazing

[–] Aragorn@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I wish!! I love Infinity.

[–] jjsearle@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

We can dream

[–] asjkk8@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

don't tease me like that

[–] averagedrunk@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

That would be fantastic.

[–] trollblox_@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

BoostForLemmy? 👉👈

[–] DarkwinDuck@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] nickajeglin@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago

Probably because it doesn't load a bunch of trash along with the content.

[–] DM_Gold@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Jediotty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] DM_Gold@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Reaper_houstan@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kevin@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Reaper_houstan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] tristanphips@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Big if true. Would make my dreams come true.

[–] open_world@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah hopefully it becomes better. The biggest problem for me so far is the choppy scrolling.

[–] Jumuta@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I've not had that issue on my Pixel 6a running Android 13 build TQ2A.230505.002

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Haha seriously tho now it seems we're getting a few more developer contributions, so hopefully its UX can improve.

[–] FarLine99@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

❤️❤️🥹🥹

[–] Theorize3806@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for your work on the app, leaving this comment with it as we speak.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

No probs!

[–] scoobford@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly, I feel so bad criticizing without contributing, but at the same time, I don't have any relevant skills with which to contribute.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] creek@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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. :)

[–] JshKlsn@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] AineLasagna@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] MonkeyLord@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmur looks really friggin good, but it apparently hasn't been updated in over a year so it is completely broken atm

[–] squoop@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Hopefully someone forks it at some point 🤞

[–] SuperHumanNot@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was struggling loggin in, and realized the app doesn't support Bitwardenn autofill.

[–] fluffman86@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] pancake@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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!

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[–] ThatGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Its better than the reddit app already, but thats not a high bar to reach lmao

Compared to the third party apps tho, its still nowhere close. With that said, the recent update already improved so much so I have faith.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jerboa has bad UX because it needs work. Official Reddit app has bad UX because the developer wants it that way.

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