Release Jerboa 0.0.33-alpha · dessalines/jerboa
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This is a big one, thank you to all our new contributors! 🥳 Jerboa is still very much an alpha-level app, but its wonderful to see its pace accelerating rapidly thanks to others working hard to mak...
  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    Thank you so much to all the contributors. This new user is very pleased with his new home on Jerboa/Lemmy !!

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, the number of skilled android devs contributing now is unreal. We’re gonna loop past A LOT of reddit apps in two weeks at this rate.

  • kevin@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    Thanks to everyone who has opened issues or submitted PRs! 14 new contributors this round!

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
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      3 years ago

      Its no probs. This one was all volunteer contributions by skilled android developers who just want to make the fediverse better. I’m extremely grateful to all of them.

      • sukotai@beehaw.orgB
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        3 years ago

        a few days i use jerboa daily : it’s not perfect but i can deal with all the restrictions

        But i really miss an option to make all post as ‘read’ with a single button Just a suggestion for the next release. Thank you for your great work

  • any1th3r3 [he/him]@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    The in-app image viewer is such a welcome feature!
    thank you all for your hard work and contributions to making our experience on Lemmy so nice

  • rawrspace@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    This is great. Just installed and the image viewer is great along with the fonts being consistent.

      • drk@slrpnk.net
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        3 years ago

        Same, I did have to remove the older version installed via f-droid before installation of the apk from GitHub would succeed though. That was when I updated from 0.0.31 to 0.0.32. Updating to 0.0.33 then worked without uninstalling anything. Liking it so far!

  • patchymoose@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    I’m not even joking when I say that this app, despite being in alpha, is a more pleasant experience than the official Reddit app.

    • Jerboa has not begged me to turn on notifications
    • Jerboa has not yelled at me for taking a screenshot or begged me to send it as a link to the site instead
    • Jerboa has not warned me that I am “low on coins”
    • Jerboa has not tried to make me create an NFT avatar
    • Jerboa contains more formatting options in comments than the Reddit app (!)
    • Jerboa is smart enough to autopopulate the link title when I highlight text to be converted to a link. Reddit app still lacks this feature (!)
    • animist@lemmy.one
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      3 years ago

      It’s amazing what devs can accomplish when they don’t have a bunch of greedy MBAs breathing down their necks

    • Jaximus@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      It is extremely impressive how much money these large tech companies throw at an app and it turns out to be shitty as fuck. I wonder what bullshit features they pack in to make it like that.

  • Bretzel@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    So far it is amazing, thank you for the hard work making such cool app. One thing, it tooks me quite some time to find the add account button and change instance, maybe i’m dumb 🤡

    • jcg@lemmy.world
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      3 years ago

      Same, honestly. From a UX perspective that should really be the most prominent function for a new user but it’s tucked behind a swipe menu and a button press.

    • pleasemakesense@lemmy.world
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      3 years ago

      If you have an account on the other instance it’s very easy, add the account and you can switch between them in like two button presses, if you want to migrate your account to a new instance, it’s currently not possible

    • YouNaughtyMonsters@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Hamburger in the upper left > click the username drop-down (might say anonymous if you’re not signed in) > click Add Account

      Just did that to add Beehaw.

  • Woedenaz@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    3 years ago

    The one feature I desperately want that Relay For Reddit has was a “Clear Seen Posts” button. You tapped it and it removed every post that I’d already viewed. There was another option to auto mark posts as “seen” if you just scrolled past them. I’d love for Jerboa to add that.