it will improve :)

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.
You put it perfectly.

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
- Looks promising, I can't wait!
- Could this mean Apollo for Lemmy 😍
I wish!! I love Infinity.
That would be a warm, liquid dream. How amazing
We can dream
don't tease me like that
That would be fantastic.

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

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.
Thank you so much for your work on the app, leaving this comment with it as we speak.
- No probs!
❤️❤️🥹🥹

Only one of them has a quintillion dollars to spend on making their shit look good. I'm less forgiving of that one.

BoostForLemmy? 👉👈

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
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.
Big if true. Would make my dreams come true.

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.
- Good to know. I've been trying to figure out how to get either of them to work, but if they aren't as great as advertised, then I'll stick with plain. I'm here for content anyway.
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.
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 🤞
Some of the Mastodon-focused clients like Ivory/Ice Cubes look amazing. It won’t be long until we get something like that for Lemmy if it gains enough traction.

Meant in the best way possible - that was my thinking. If I'm going to take a step backward in functionality, I'm going to make the choice myself and go to the community where they're pouring support into it. Not the now huge corporation trying to milk me for profit

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.
- I forked it already and am starting to poke around in the code. Hope I can get a few things added.
- You're the Jerboa dev? I think the app is great.
- Honestly, it's really good for a one-person/small team project. My only complaint is that the default layout is a bit spacious.
  edit: and for some reason I can't double-tap to highlight words on Android?

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.

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 able to fix the scrolling by building it in release mode idk what's up with that since Google Play only accepts release mode APKs afaik

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.
Rif becomes Lif. Yes please

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.

There should be no excuse for a big corporation to have bad UX.
Plenty of corporations couldnt find their arse with both hands in so far as IT goes, let alone app development that doesnt blow.
Amazon enters the chat

I'd love for Jerboa to be more like Boost, which I've been using for years.

I built it based off of boost's UI actually!
- Boost is really good too
- Hi, I can't login into discuss.tchncs.de using your app, it just says "invalid login", my login is correct..
Huh, I'm also a Boost user, and I've found it pretty similar to Boost. What differences do you want to change?
- A few themes (AMOLED for dark mode) would be great. For some reason, default font size seems to be too big for me when viewing a post and its comments, but normal for scrolling the feed. Adjusting it to size 12 made the post view look normal, but the feed now looks too small.
It would be awesome if Boost's developer would adapt the app for lemmy or something

I just want to know if there's a way to collapse comments haha

This would be a great improvement. I find myself tapping and holding on comments out of pure muscle memory. Would make threads a lot easier to read.
- Found out in another thread that Jerboa does support this.
  Tap and hold the space at the top of the comment next to the username and it will collapse the comment thread. Tap and hold again to expand.
Yes. On Jerboa there is. You have to tap and hold the username for a bit
Edit: seams like someone else already mentioned that. Oh well

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.
Yeah, I’ve started just utilizing the web app most of the time now.

You can contribute. File bug reports. This is the most important thing just people can do.
- Where do bug reports go?

I am in between jobs at the moment, but I plan to contribute a bit to the app soon

No issues, in just few weeks/ months the UI would blossom to something awesome! People just be optimistic here!

LOL, this gave me a good laugh

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.

I was trying Mlem for ios and all of a sudden it logged me out 😩 we will get there at some point

me who just uses the website

Uhuh, deflection doesn't make things look promising either.

No offense but the site has bad UX too. I mean it's gotten better but still

I can't even get the app to see how bad it is. Ha