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.

Jerboa could definitely benefit from an in-app browser so images and links don't push to other apps.
- Seconded.
In the meantime, you could use ImgurViewer. Setting it as a default app makes it work pretty seamlessly.
edit: didn't realise I'd linked the Spanish page, oops lol
- Thanks for the tip, this works great for me!
- Thank you so much for this!
- Thanks I'ma suss
Ha! I was confused for a moment until I realized the same thing.
It even opened in my reddit app by default lol
Yea this would absolutely be awesome. Definitely one of the top requests for me.
They just added a native image viewer, I imagine this is not too far away.

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

Can you make an issue on github? This is something we should definitely implement.
- Done 👍

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!

How about each community having its own theming?
I was thinking about the placeholder icon thing for a while, it's a big pet peeve of mine too but I'm not sure what to put instead.
- We talking about for users or communities? I think a Lemmy mouse or a jerboa would do the trick for now

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.

Relay also has excellent UI. I tried pretty much every Reddit app available on Android and kept coming back to Relay.
- +1 for Relay. Great UX
- The ability to swipe away posts, or collapse out all the 'read' posts was awesome for browsing
- Yup only Reddit app I've consistently used for years. None of the others were quite the same
- Relay was the only app I could use consistently. I tried all the others. There is a Reddit API proxy that someone was creating for Lemmy that has been linked to /u/DBrady - hopefully he uses it to port his app here too.

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"?

You can already do that! Go into settings, your profile settings, and there are options there for default sorting :)
Edit: huh nvm, it seems like I'm able to see them from Jerboa but can only change em from the webpage.
- Yeah have to change them on the instance and then it becomes like that in the app I believe.

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

The creator of sync said that he's considering adapting the app to use Lemmy. Fingers crossed.
- That would be huge for lemmy if the 3rd party reddit apps tried to adapt to lemmy.
- i'm sure that will be a monumental task but here's to hoping!
I'm going to miss sync. I bought pro in January of 2014.

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.

I don't think I'd be able to figure out Lemmy without it

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

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!

I still haven't added my changes to Jerboa yet (I'm a third party), glad Jerboa is improving though.

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'm seeing the same, not sure if it's all images in comments or just that one

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

I'm focusing more on UI but I'll see if that's possible to implement

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!

Same here. I'm used to that layout with Bacon Reader.

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.

This was fixed in this PR: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/390, it should be available in the next app update
I think that setting works on a per instance basis. No need to worry.

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.

Yes! Sometimes I need to know the context of the thread or the post

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

Yes they do.
I have already contributed to the documentation of backend and it has been approved and merged.
Here are all the repos connected to Lemmy.
- Very nice, just got the updates, myself. I'll definitely pour some time into accessibility and continuity fixes soon :D

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?

What do you mean by compact mode? You can change the post layout in the settings, if that's what you mean.
- Holy shit, that's exactly what I was looking for. I'm big dumb

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?

https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues

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.

Great work devs

Thank you :) I'm a third party but I'll try to get my changes added to the official app

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.

It works for most, if not all Lemmy instances. When you set up your account you tell it what instance your account is on. For me that's beehaw
I use it on feddit and can see content from lemmy.ml as well
It does. I'm at beehaw, currently using the app, and I leave the setting at federated so I can see the content across all instances.

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

And it's progress we can hold on to forever. It's not going to arbitrarily stop working some day.

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

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

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?

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

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

I added a monochrome mode

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...

Click the three lines button at the top left to open the sidebar. Then at the too right of that bar there is a drop down arrow. Clicking this will get you the option to add account. Clicking add account will give you the login prompt where you will put in your site url and credentials and should be good to go Best of luck.

This is amazing!

Looks nice but I usually use the list view!

I'm sure it will be an option. It already is currently so you should be good 👍

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 fully implemented and I'm working on cleaning up the git history to make a PR
- That's great, thank you! Went to jerboa gh repo yesterday to check out stats and was pleased to see good spike on commit count just after reddit situation began.

Yes, please! This looks amazing!

Now that looks niiiice

looks amazing!

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

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

You could block the meme subs I guess.
- if this place is anything like le reddit then that will not work because they will be almost everywhere

Sorry, that gif is comically large lol
- I get Object Error. Can't see it. Room for improvements!

Looks good!

wow! that looks really nice! thanks

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.

We'll likely add an option soon to turn off small links (like inline user names and community names) so you won't be taken to the user's profile in the first place if you accidentally tap it.
- Could you use a long tap for opening names/links

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

Yeah that looks great!

[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

If you long tap the comment, it hides the buttons.
But I agree that it should be hidden by default. And swap the long tap and short tap behavior.
- Thanks! What version are you using? I'm on 0.0.32 and long tapping (or short tapping for that matter) just hides the whole comment

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 discovered two different bugs, the inbox replies interactions are missing(Edit: this is not a bug, it's a feature. Long press in the space beside the username and the interaction bar will expand. Thiswas not communicatedanywhere that i could find), and changing the font size cuts off the bottom option in settings.
I'm wondering if you could try changing your font size and see if that effects things for you?
Here is my bug report for the font size issue, please add to it if changing the font size fixes your issue!
- I have the same problem with inbox replies. Worked yesterday. No way for me to reply now unless I hunt down the reply in the thread itself
The Black is amazing. Comparable to Boost.

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

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

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

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

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