Been trying the place and just have jerboa a shot in comparison. The actual app is better by miles. So much faster than the browser.
Clean animations, simple tap to collapse threads
App > browser for now
Agreed. I'm liking Jerboa quite a bit so far. Feels similar to Boost a long while back.
tap to collapse threads
I haven't been able to collapse threads on Jerboa, how do you do that? Am I missing something?
At first it wasn't doing it for me but since last night it has
Tapping anywhere in the text of a comment seems to do it, holding like i would back on Boost for Reddit simply removes the extra toolbar at the bottom, and the title area did nothing
Sometimes it just doesn't but i find restarting the app fixes that, though i usually just move on to the next topic when that happens
I just wish it used screen real-estate better. I'm using it right now. I wish it could replace RIF.
Jerboa is pretty much close enough to rif for me.
The WPA's layout is not crazy good on mobile, but at least I got some real estate.
Now, how can I contribute? I'm a frontend web developer.
Still a better user experience than the official Reddit app.
As an alternative, there's also Native Alpha and Hermit (my personal favorite) on Android. Play with the settings to make it full screen and frameless (no address bar at the top). It also has pull down to refresh.
On kbin, you can then go to your settings and sticky the navbar as well so that it's always at the top as you browse. Personal preference and all that.
Jerboa is a good alternative for Android, too. I've been using it for a bit now and it seems to work great.
Until the websocket issue is fixed, I'm gonna stick with Jebora
Thats cool, but now it doesn’t have a back button… how do you navigate?
Probably via a swipe from the phone site? Most modern phones do this
That’s what I assumed as well, but Kbin won’t swipe…. It works for Lemmy, though.
Swiping works for me on iPhone. My only issue is there's no way to refresh the page from the PWA on iPhone (to my knowledge).
Posted from kbin.social after "Add to home screen"
On iOS swiping from the sides works for back/forward.
On the macOS 14 preview, the app gets back/forward menu items with keyboard shortcuts.
I love that this is possible and I gave it a go but for some reason scrolling in the browser is really hard to do, it keeps adding new posts while I'm scrolling and moves everything around making it near impossible to actually read, I thought it might be just loading still but it doesn't ever come to a stop, not sure if this is just me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This happens to me on desktop Firefox also. Even if I've sorted by Top, new posts with 1 upvote will get inserted at the top of the feed repeatedly.
I use jerboa for lemmy. Not sure how different it is though. Never used that webapp
I find that jerboa has some missing features that are there in the web app. Things like being able to go from a comment in your inbox to that same comment in context in it's thread.
Mybe I will try to add that feature to the app tomorrow if no other contributer hasn't already. Development of the app seems to move quite fast and a bunch of people are adding stuff. But I agree, there are still a lot of smaller and bigger things missing or wonky.
Nice to hear that it's active
Actually I ran a current development build of the app which seems to have the feature already. There is a small chain icon next to the vote arrows which jumps to the comment and it's parent and allows to load even more context. So maybe it will ship in the next app update when release :)
Some days, I feel like I'm the only person that used Reddit and never touched any of the applications for it.
I used old.Reddit on my phone and desktop until I switched to iPhone. Then I switched to Apollo because was like using old Reddit but formatted for phones.
It's such a beauty of an app.
First thing I did. Makes it a little more app like. Still can’t wait to see what clients get released in the next few months.
Makes it very difficult to open posts in a new tab though, I scroll and open like 6 posts to go through afterwards.
This should be pinned to the top of every instance lol
I believe this next drop of iOS is going to support push notifications in safari. Are there plans for the pwa to support this? It’s the only reason I really use native apps anymore.
Don't forget to check out !kbinStyles@kbin.social for UX improvements (which will work on mobile Firefox)
Oh damn, I'm gonna need to make sure I do this later.
Thanks for that. It's actually a lot better than the app I'm currently using, lol. (Though, I'm sure it will improve).
Both have native apps on Android and iOS that are better imo.
Yes even KBin has an Android app now too.
What's the KBin app called? Last I checked, the iOS Lemmy app is in beta, and the only Android app for Lemmy is Jerboa.
this was the first thing i did upon discovering kbin.. and I use it for a lot of other sites too, namely forums and the like.
This is awesome and better than any ios app!!
Just FYI you can do this in the new version of MacOS (Sonoma) and add sites to your dock which is quite nice.
Using this on Firefox on my s23 works really well.
Thank you for posting, didn't know this.
I'd like to add that for Android users installing Kbin, if you can't find the app anywhere, it's listed as "/kbin" at the bottom of your app drawer because of the backslash. Lemmy users will find it sorted under "L".
Yeah! Kbin PWA is great. (Though there's a very small amount of sidescroll that makes my frontend web dev heart cry a bit... maybe I should open a pull request for it :))
Though it seems to override my screen orientation settings, making it hard to read while lying in bed XD
If only the launcher I use on android supported homescreen icons :( (AIO)
Thank you just did this with Chrome on Android! Easier than having to open a new chrome tab every time for sure
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