With a lot of talk around new apps in development & coming on stream, something I’ve been happy to see, & commented on, as choice is always a good thing… I thought I’d just voice my appreciation for the Jerboa team, love this App, such nice Ui & UX, I find it very easy to use, all the view options, post layouts, especially the compact view are really easy on the eyes, & great to scroll through quickly. I know there are some errors from time to time, & the odd glitch here & there, but thats something to be expected, given that Jerboa is still in its Alpha form… Thanks for all you do, each iteration makes the experience, better & better…🙌🏼
Thank you! I do have to remind people that jerboa is still very much alpha-level software… something I worked on in my off-time when not working on lemmy.
I’m super excited tho for it now, because it has a lot more skilled contributors, who actually know how to do android development.
Appreciate the work on the app so far, was great to have an open source app and one on F-Droid to replace infinity. Looking forward to seeing it’s continued development.
Just wanted to say that I love the animation while collapsing comments. Very slick.
Excellent work.
It’s great for an alpha! I use it every day.
Yea! Jerboa certainly helped me leave Reddit. Well done and thanks devs!
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Love to you too. You deserve it. Thank you.
Damn right.
There’s got to be thousands of peopel that are using this platform because of Jeroba. I know I probably wouldn’t be here and commenting without that app. Thanks for all the hard work!
I’m one of 'em, it’s been great so far!
Same here
Hear hear! The Jerboa app has been great, and @dessalines@lemmy.ml (hope I did that right) has worked hard on it for sure! Some of the posts about bugs and/or feature suggestions have been downright rude imho, so it’s nice see them get their flowers, they deserve it! It’s nice to see so many new app projects popping up too of course, but so far Jerboa has dine great by me, and like others have mentioned, has really eased my transition from RIF. My thumb already instinctively taps on Jerboa now instead of RIF, LOL.
Thanks! One of the best compliments on it I’ve gotten!
Hahah, I put Jerboa right where rif used to be, so now I end up here instinctually plenty of times a day. No complaints on my end, the apps doing everything I need so far!
Did the same with boost, muscle memory goes right to Jeroba. I really like the app, going to stick with it. It’s already really freaking good.
yeah it’s always the people who contribute the least to free software who expects the most.
It can be very grating when people demand that you do free labor for them, while refusing to do it themselves. Open source can feel like a group project, where one person just makes demands on everyone else without helping out.
As a happy user of Jerboa, I say work on it only as much as you want. Take care of your personal well-being as that’s the #1 priority.
Be careful to not burn out. I think this is the start of a new way of using social media, and American big tech will launch products designed to be very user friendly (as in looking good but be full of tracking and sponsored content). I really don’t want them to pull people into their walled garden because their products look better.
I think it would make sense to get help from professional front-end developers to really make the Lemmy software look good and be easy to use. The backend part is already quite good once you get rid of websockets and maybe change the db code a bit to make it faster).
Jerboa alone has made the transition from Boost on Reddit to Lemmy and the fediverse incredibly easy.
Same here. The only thing that i miss is the ability to make custom feeds.
I wouldn’t be using Lemmy/the Fediverse if it weren’t for the devs of this app. I hope we can keep it alive as long as possible, like the fediverse itself. Decentralization is why the internet has prospered this far. It would make sense to have a social internet that’s decentralized too
It’s already in the place of RIF.
Same I replaced my RIF with this app and use it daily just as I used to do with RIF. When I get the funds plan on donating.
It’s a pretty good alternative. A bit “janky” but it’s a alpha app.
Just here to say that I love the animation when collapsing comments. So slick.
It took me way too long to figure out what the + numbers meant, but yes super slick and love the color difference in comments. Easier for me to follow and see where I’m at.
It is indeed very satisfying.
It’s brand new too, I literally asked the dev for one tap comment collapsing and he added it the next day or so.
As a fellow Software Engineer/architect myself, really nothing but praise for these guys.
I’m currently using jerboa, it’s pretty close to Reddit feel, so I like it, cuz that’s what I’ve been used to x.x
Yup, Jerboa has been great for using Lemmy on mobile. There are some features I miss coming from Relay, but it’s all minor things that don’t really impact the overall useability.
Jerboa’s been great for me. Sure it’s kinda glitchy, but they’ve already made huge improvements in just a couple weeks. Awesome work devs, now… get back to it! 😅
Big thank you to all the hard work and the neck break development pace lately!!
It basically replaced the Relay for reddit app for me. Works pretty good.
Word up. When the Reddit collapse happened, Jerboa was ready to fucking rumble.
The fella (fellas?) behind it did a great job of building the right app to be ready for when the world needed it.
What’s even better is that the pace of development on Jerboa is extremely high at the moment, there are a lot of features and fixes that are ready to go but have to wait for the next release of the Lemmy server software.
You can follow (and help) development here: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa
