(not because of Infinity obv, it’s an amazing reddit app)

  • EROLoLICON@kbin.social
    37·
    2 years ago

    I’ve always wondered why no one ever talks about Infinity. I tried every 3rd party reddit app and I always thought Infinity was superior. Mostly because of the sheer amount of customization it allows me to do.

      • gk99@kbin.social
        7·
        2 years ago

        I’m hoping for a transition from Boost! for Reddit, personally. That was the client I enjoyed using.

        My problem is that I’m also using kbin, and kbin’s API is disabled so it makes more sense for everyone to make a Lemmy app instead. Don’t know if they’ll bother to implement kbin support once it’s up and running.

    • tal@kbin.social
      6·
      2 years ago

      I used Infinity when I was on Android. The developer said that he’s gotta job-hunt (as someone pointed out, the fact that people prefer the app written by a single person who is now looking for a junior developer job over the official one that Reddit had a whole team to work on is a bit embarrassing) and doesn’t have plans to add Fediverse support, but also that it’s open source.

      https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit

      I imagine that if someone wants to do so badly enough, they could add Fediverse support.

    • roon
      11·
      2 years ago

      I tried both infinity and boost and I prefer boost

    • _comfortablyAverage_
      6·
      2 years ago

      you can still keep on using infinity with your own api key, I did it. but I don’t know if there’s any point since reddit is going down by the looks of it

      • roon
        51·
        2 years ago

        If you use your own API key, won’t the api still be restricted? For example, NSFW posts

  • badbrainstorm
    15·
    2 years ago

    I want the smart people to make Infinity work with Lemmy. That would be rad af

    • bonn2@beehaw.org
      14·
      2 years ago

      Fun fact infinity was made by one university student. And yet it is still infinity better than the official reddit app

    • Einar
      11·
      2 years ago

      Same. Dev hasn’t said anything in that direction, though.

      That said, Jerboa looks like its developing well. Other apps, like Sync, will follow and add to the existing options.

      The infrastructure is getting better and better week to week atm.

      • badbrainstorm
        1·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, I’m mostly happy with it aside from the lack of features and bugs, but I still prefer the browser interface ATM. I know it’ll come along. Way better now than when I first tried it out a year or so ago on another instance!

    • Flax@feddit.uk
      7·
      2 years ago

      Yep. As much as I love Lemmy, Jerboa has it’s growing pains rn. Apparently someone is working on an API to make old reddit apps compatible with the lemmy API

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 years ago

      If it was open source and the dev was interested, I’d lend a hand. Jerboa is, so I’m helping there.

      I just want a stable lemmy app, and once that exists, I’ll probably stop working on it. But for now, it’s a fun diversion and feels impactful.

  • Jojo-Mcfrost572@kbin.social
    13·
    2 years ago

    I’d use jerboa but it just crashes all the time. Hangs, deletes comments and just isn’t up to scratch yet. So far tildes and kbin have been best die me. I jump around on all the Lemmy’s but can’t get my head around how to follow some subs.

    Just trying to recreate my reddit feeds.

    • OsrsNeedsF2P
      251·
      2 years ago

      The issue isn’t Jerboa but rather the server you’re on is dying from too many users. Next Lemmy version (which hopefully will come out before the end of the month) is expected to fix a lot of problems

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        2 years ago

        But it is also a Jerboa problem. Jerboa should handle network/instance stability better and it doesn’t. It’s getting better, but it’s still very much focused on adding features instead of improving stability.

        So if you see crashes, even if it’s totally an issue with your instance, please still report it. I work on the app and try to fix that kind of thing, and it’s a lot easier with a bug report that says what specifically you were doing.

        • OsrsNeedsF2P
          2·
          2 years ago

          Yup, all the Lemmy servers use the same version (minus some semantics). If you played Minecraft before, you can imagine it like that - Mojang (people behind Minecraft) release a new version, and all the servers update to it

          • Jojo-Mcfrost572@kbin.social
            32·
            2 years ago

            Unfortunately never played it. I do.not understand the instances and different Lemmy’s. Makes sense they all use the server. Probably would be good idea to have them separated as we know centralized can be corrupted.

            I use kbin as well. Does that pull from Lemmy ? Kbin and Lemmy world seem to work far better than the jerboa app. I’m just pinging around them. Have tried tildes too but it’s invite only.

  • jballs@sh.itjust.works
    169·
    2 years ago

    I replaced my RIF icon on my phone home screen with Jerboa. It’s amazing how often I find myself instinctively hitting the app for a quick dopamine hit!

  • Th4tGuyII@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    Yeah. Same for the Kbin PWA, though I do hope the dev behind Infinity considers pursuing support for Lemmy (plus Kbin would be nice too)

    • ShellSurf@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’ve been really impressed with the kbin PWA. I thought the experience would suck, but I’ve been adapting just fine. I used Slide on Android.

      • gk99@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        It’s definitely not as good as some of the apps, but the usability is very good on mobile.

  • Cadenza@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Lucky you’re not on lemmy.world… ^^ I had to switch to liftoff after jerboa 0.35 and the strange choice they made of enforcing lemmy v0.18 while it wasn’t even out. Were now locked out of jerboa for weeks if not months while were the largest lemmy instance ^^