about half my clicks on Jerboa or Connect end with errors?
As title says.
I'm on android and really want lemmy to work but it's just a hot mess on these two apps. Half the time i get errors: java errors, network errors, maintenance errors that all clear up if i back out a reclick or refresh a few times.
Your username shows that you're logged in on lemmy.world, which has issues with the overwhelming number of new users of the pasg days. You can either wait it out, or create a new account on the countless other instances. I would suggest one that is close to your geographic location.
That's most likely because you created an account on lemmy.world, which is currently overwhelmed by new users. You can try registering on another instance (they all have access to the same communities, I'm for example replying from a different instance than lemmy.world to your post on lemmy.world).
Notifications don't work on Connect for me, but they do on other apps, like jerboa. All the mobile apps seem to be on beta stage, they all have quirks to get ironed out, try a few and see what suits you. Better apps (namely boost and sync) are imminent.
You can manually check notifications on Connect by opening the menu and selecting inbox.
I think it worked out of the box on Jerboa for me? Haven't tried Connect. But it should work, if it doesn't, it's probably the app's problem, not Lemmy in general.
I was using liftoff with a lemmy.world account and it was terrible. lots of (badly handled) errors, but all the errors came from the app talking to lemmy.world. So I signed up at a smaller, more local instance (find yours at https://the-federation.info/platform/73), and now it's a mostly fast and error free experience.
Lemmy has totally exploded after reddit's suicide, growing from 140K to over 2M users in just a few days.
I'm gonna be very frank with you, all the current Lemmy apps are below average to say the least. I'd wait for Boost and Sync to show up, maybe then things will get somewhat better.
You're not wrong, but jerboa is already milea ahead to where it was a week ago. So many things are getting fixed it's already starting to feel useable.
As someone else pointed put, Connect just had an update. I was getting errors all morning and went to check, sure enough an update was available. Cured all my issues 😃