Jerboa UI improvements v2

The fact that Jerboa makes me click an Imgur link rather than embedding the Imgur content under this post when I click it feels like a possible area for improvement.

It would be nice to have the app highlight new comments when you come back to the post, like in Boost

Since you are asking, here's my primary 2 complaints about the UI so far that so far seem unaddressed:

• not having placeholders for community icons and user avatars is jarring. This pushes the text around which makes each card slightly missaligned with the last depending on if there are icons/avatars. This gets tiring to read. It doesn't need to be fancy. It could be a black box, or even just padding.
• in the same vein, it's hard to see what post/comment link is in what instance. This is especially important because different moderation rules apply to different instances. Also, celebrate the diversity of federation!

It looks great, thank you very much for your work!

If you're looking for inspiration on UI design, you might check out Sync for Reddit while it's still active. It's one of the best apps I've ever used.

Looks awesome, but please add a separate setting to set the font size of the front page and the posts/comments.

The way it works currently, front page font becomes too small when changed in settings.

Thanks for the update, can we get a feature to change default setting for home page like "Hot" instead of "Active" and "All" instead of "Local"?

Now that's sexy. Made me forget about the porn subreddits that I left behind

Someone's been looking at Sync for Reddit to get some good ideas 😁

This is how I will end up staying at Lemmy

It would be really nice if the app could keep its scroll position more reliably. It always refreshes if I switch to e.g. messages or open my foldable.

I just want to thank you for putting in the work.

Just a note to say thanks for your hard work on making Jerboa, really enjoying using it.

It's terrific! Tried it last week but decided to just use the Lemmy website on my phone instead. Now I'm back to Jeroba as my daily driver. Update is excellent. Thank you!

The fact you can use Android password manager is already a huge improvement.

I think it looks great. Can't wait to see it evolve.

One issue I'm having is images in comments aren't showing up.

https://i.imgur.com/Ucs74nU.png

I love it so far on my phone.

The only thing I'm missing from RIF and relay is two pane landscape mode with the post feed on one side and the content of a selected post on the other for the tablet, but really great job so far!

IDK if this is possible, but can the downvote button be removed or hidden if I'm part of a community that disables downvotes? I'm afraid that every time I misclick it the admins are gonna boot me for being a negative nancy.

@meisme@lemmy.ml will kbin support ever be considered? I'd love to use something like jerboa with it.

I think it looks pretty nice, I think adding the ability to jump to the context of a reply to a comment would be pretty cool as well.

Like seeing the little notification for it in your messages and being able to tap on it to bring you to the context would be nice. I got pretty used to it in BaconReader.

Awesome work! I do Ui/UX for work a ton, do you have open pull requests on gh?

Do it! This layout finally looks usable enough.

Already a big improvement! 🥳

I like it! Looks like a huge improvement. Are there any plans for a compact mode?

Great work devs

This app is ridiculously good, thank you so much for putting this together. Great third party apps like this can make all the difference for site usability.

It's amazing how something as simple as changing the color of a separator can make a world of difference in how an app feels. All of these changes look great!

Looks good, you're doing great? Where should we submit additional feature/UX suggestions?

Absolutely love it. Progress is happening so fast! Before long this is going to be a world class app!

Great work! One suggestion: I think the bookmark icon on Jerboa should probably be changed to match the star icon on the lemmy instance website.

Preferably I would like the opposite (the star to change to a bookmark), but either way I think it should probably match.

Any news on when this might be rolled out?

Just logged in on the new update and it's fantastic! Major improvement over the web interface on mobile.

Looks nice! I like the existing version so far. Will you add swipe gestures for navigation and upvoting/downvoting comments?

Your picture isn't showing up for me :( I also haven't been able to use the app yet, I downloaded it but no matter what button I press on the screen it just keeps telling me I need to "login first" and I can't log in anywhere...

This may be a stupid question but does Jerboa support other instances or just Lemmy.ml? I'm on Lemmy.world.

Edit: It does. I just needed to open the sidebar, click on "Anonymous" and it brought up the login dialog where I could select my instance.

nice, but looks too flat imo. I rather all black or have some more thickness.

I'd love an option to load top-level comments only by default.

Looks nice but I usually use the list view!

Will you make a PR? I see all this concepts here, but imaging something is not as easy as actually implementing it. Hope, Jerboa's dev team will grow with current reddit user influx.

This is amazing!

Yes, please! This looks amazing!

I have been enjoying this app and it's great to see even more improvements

Now that looks niiiice

looks amazing!

can i please filter out image posts i think memes are extremely annoying

Looks good!

wow! that looks really nice! thanks

Looks awesome. Can't wait to see it in the next update.

[Edit] ok I was blind, there is already an option for that in the settings called "show action bar by default for comments" not sure, if this came with .33 or not but I'm happy now :D

But I agree with Celsiuss - long and short press actions should be swapped!

Looks good!

One suggestion:

Can you make an option to hide the controls for comments (up/downvote, permalink and so on...) and make them only pop up when I press on the comment?

When reading the comments of a post, the controls take away a lot of screen space. I don't want to interact with very comment, so hiding the controls would declutter the comment section imho

Example of what I mean in Sync for reddit:

Controls Hidden

Controls shown

Yeah that looks great!

I feel stupid. I can't for the life of me figue out how to reply to replies. (Edit: reply to replies in the inbox, it's not changed in the wild)

Other than that, everything looks good 👍

Edit²: Here is my bug report for the missing inbox interactions, if you are having this issue bump this report instead of opening a new one.

Edit³: issue closed, I would ask for more clear indication of the feature than (i think this is it) "comment action bar interaction improvements". I know the changelog needs to be succinct and must avoid excessive verbosity, but it took a while to figure out that long pressing in the username/vote counter bar reveals the interactions. Also an option to have them revealed at all times would be appreciated.

Works really well. My only complaint is when trying to collapse a comment tree if I accidentally tap a user's name instead then swipe to go back all the comment trees I've collapsed are no longer collapsed.

[edit]

Replying to a comment also uncollapses all collapsed comments.

Loved it! Been using this client for a while and I like it currently but I like that better.

It looks so much better! I am looking forward to the future of the app!

It needs a familiar Search glass icon. Otherwise looks good.

I'm loving the new AMOLED black!

There's a bug I'd like to make you guys aware of:

I could not reply to this post because the "comment icon" was missing. I had to turn my phone in landscape mode just to see it. I can see it on other comments without doing this though. Just not on the OP.

I installed this yesterday for the first time, and i like it! Thanks!

Loving it! Small bug: if I search a community and try to subscribe to it, Jerboa says I need to be logged in (even tho I already am). EDIT it seems to be working now. Weird