I just wanted to say I appreciate the work you’ve down on this app and look forward to future improvements. While there’s a flood of suggestions and complaints let’s all remember to keep it civil and understand that it’s going to take time and work to improve this app. While some of the suggestions may seem nit picky or like whining remember we all just want to improve the experience here!

  • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
    111·
    2 years ago

    I find the website to be very usable on mobile, so I’m just using Firefox for now. I liked the feel of Jerboa but ran into too many inconvenient behaviors to continue using it for the time being. But I expect many of those issues will be resolved in a relatively short period of time.

    This platform is being built before our eyes, and we as users need to see ourselves less as consumers of a product and more as supporters of a project.

    • lol@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      2 years ago

      but ran into too many inconvenient behaviors to continue using it

      Please mention those problems. Only through feedback this app will improve.

      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
        111·
        2 years ago

        I thought we were at the point where people had already come in with a flood of suggestions and complaints and it’s going to take some time to fix them so we should all just chill.

        But if you must know, I was most frustrated by the app opening links to other comments/communities in my web browser. That was entirely useless, because it just put me on another server where I wasn’t signed up and couldn’t comment or vote, and it also took me out of the app.

        • fessord
          6·
          2 years ago

          Yea, I’m in the same place. People link communities but it just shoots me off to my browser. Hopefully it gets fixed up soon.

  • plactagonic@beehaw.org
    5·
    2 years ago

    For me it is usable with few hurdles. But I like it so far.

    1. For me (coming from RedReader) little bit unintuitive UI, but now it makes more sense to me after few days.

    2. Linking communitys - why it opens browser of the instance with the community instead of opening in app.

    3. I miss nice to have features like opening thread of my comment not whole thread and then find where is my comment, browsing whole instances …

    But I maybe didn’t find these settings yet, people linking communities badly …

    All in all experience is good I can comment/post on different instances seamlessly, browsing is good. It only needs few missing features and some fixes.

    • towerful@beehaw.org
      11·
      2 years ago

      On android, any number gets turned into a phone number and links to my phone app.
      IDK if there is an autosuggest on text to tell android that there shouldn’t be phone numbers. Or if it’s an android setting u can turn off …

  • kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    51·
    2 years ago

    not to be that guy or anything, but native android might literally be the absolute worst mainstream ecosystem to program for. the fact that jerboa works at all considering all the other responsibilities the singular (AFAIK) dev has is honestly impressive

    and if it isn’t to you, you need to download android studio right now and try your hand at it. after your tenth viewmodel repository usecase factory you won’t be wondering why everyone ends up saying “screw it, we’ll use react native” and ends up releasing something halfbaked

    (can you tell i’ve been stuck in android studio for the last several hours)

    • GissaMittJobb
      4·
      2 years ago

      Oh trust me, I’d much rather have the problems of an Android-dev rather than the problems of an iOS-dev.