• argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
    75·
    2 years ago

    Jerboa has bad UX because it needs work. Official Reddit app has bad UX because the developer wants it that way.

  • DessalinesA
    59·
    2 years ago

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

    • scoobford
      20·
      2 years ago

      Honestly, I feel so bad criticizing without contributing, but at the same time, I don’t have any relevant skills with which to contribute.

      • DessalinesA
        25·
        2 years ago

        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.

      • croobat@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        Don’t feel, as long as it’s constructive and we all are at an understanding that devs may take some time to acknowledge them (tons of prior work), it’s fine.

        Of course you could always throw the a couple of cents if you got the chance, nobody minds being invited a coffee.

  • balerion@beehaw.org
    541·
    2 years ago

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

    • DM_Gold@beehaw.org
      17·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • Jediotty@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        9·
        2 years ago

        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

        • DM_Gold@beehaw.org
          9·
          2 years ago

          Boost is great! A lot of the 3rd party apps are lovingly made. Stinks that Reddit decided money was more important than a user-base. But now we have Lemmy, which hopefully won’t even be able to be like that.

          • Reaper_houstan
            11·
            2 years ago

            I just got into lemmy, can’t imagine using reddit without boost, jeroba feels very similar to boost except for having very little customisations(the font size in the comments is bugging me a bit), but I think with time it’ll improve.

            • kevin@beehaw.org
              5·
              2 years ago

              There’s an open PR that’ll fix the font size issue. I’m using it now and it’s great. I’m also personally working on trying to add my personal must-have UI options from Boost.

              • Reaper_houstan
                2·
                2 years ago

                Ahh alright then, thank you for your work. Ps: sry if it sounded like I was complaining on the previous comment lol. I wish I could contribute, but I have no knowledge in this field.

    • DarkwinDuck@feddit.de
      5·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • creek
    39·
    2 years ago

    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. :)

    • JshKlsn
      24·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • Rhaedas@lemmy.one
        4·
        2 years ago

        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.

      • croobat@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        Is the mobile experience really that bad to some? I’ve been running Jerboa since migrating and it’s working flawlessly, some it lacks some features but I find it extremely usable. Maybe I just got a blessed device.

    • AineLasagna@beehaw.org
      18·
      2 years ago

      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

      • creek
        8·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • Nina
          2·
          2 years ago

          With how openly reddit is trashing on apollo specifically, I’m not so sure. I know he does probably want to, as he’s in the red either way (if existing yearly apollo subscribers can no longer get content, they can refund through apple and he has to eat that), but reddit seems like it’s taking a blowtorch to all bridges.

          But yeah, mlem right now isn’t much. Any more working on ios apps would be great.

    • MonkeyLord
      9·
      2 years ago

      Lemmur looks really friggin good, but it apparently hasn’t been updated in over a year so it is completely broken atm

    • unnecessarily
      8·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
    28·
    2 years ago

    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

  • pancake
    27·
    2 years ago

    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!

      • Kuro@feddit.de
        15·
        2 years ago

        I forked it already and am starting to poke around in the code. Hope I can get a few things added.

        • creek
          4·
          2 years ago

          I’m planning on doing the same with Mlem. I know fuck all about Swift, but I’ll be using it as an opportunity to learn more about it, and hopefully contribute in areas that I am more familiar with.

      • Malthur
        4·
        2 years ago

        You’re the Jerboa dev? I think the app is great.

          • Vinny_93@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 years ago

            I come from Boost and the experience has been almost seamless. Things I enjoy more than boost: less settings to get lost in. Things I miss: content type filters and persistent community settings (e.g. if I sort by new somewhere I am used to the app remembering it).

            In any event: keep up the good work!

      • teruma@beehaw.org
        3·
        2 years ago

        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?

        • DessalinesA
          3·
          2 years ago

          Click the view source button, then you can select text.

          • teruma@beehaw.org
            1·
            2 years ago

            That doesn’t fix the issue for the text edit fields when writing posts or replies, but thanks for the work around for now.

  • open_world
    24·
    2 years ago

    Yeah hopefully it becomes better. The biggest problem for me so far is the choppy scrolling.

    • Jumuta
      4·
      2 years ago

      I’ve not had that issue on my Pixel 6a running Android 13 build TQ2A.230505.002

    • me is me
      1·
      2 years ago

      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

  • bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.com
    21·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • XPost3000
    21·
    2 years ago

    Tbh really hoping that 3rd party apps shift from Reddit to Lemmy cuz man that’d be the life

    • explodicle
      3·
      2 years ago

      I would love to see Reddit seamlessly replaced. It would send the message that the server isn’t what makes a community.

          • ch1cken@discuss.tchncs.de
            2·
            2 years ago

            ah you’re right, why does jerboa truncate passwords? i think there should at least be a warning displayed rather than “login invalid”

            • DessalinesA
              5·
              2 years ago

              It’s probably the opposite, jerboa doesn’t truncate passwords when it should, as the lemmy back end and lemmy ui use a 60 character limit. Open an issue on jerboas github if you would.

    • HenryWong327
      8·
      2 years ago

      Huh, I’m also a Boost user, and I’ve found it pretty similar to Boost. What differences do you want to change?

      • pliqtro@lemmy.one
        8·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • Wololo@beehaw.org
    18·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Tangentism
      5·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • BigPapaE
    16·
    2 years ago

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

    • PenguinGuy
      11·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • Ffkhrocks@beehaw.org
        32·
        2 years ago

        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.

    • zekiz
      10·
      2 years ago

      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

  • MonkeyLord
    12·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • rothaine@beehaw.org
      14·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • Barbarian
        15·
        2 years ago

        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.