I’m thinking mobile but keeping the options open
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I want the Infinity reddit dev to make a client here. That app is amazing
Been using Jerboa for Lemmy on Android. No complaints so far. But its early.
Edit: misspelled the app name
Same here. Only complaint so far is I haven’t seen a way to adjust the font yet. I don’t like the default one. Seems a bit too big for me.
It does, it is also early. Hopefully it stays updated!
On the main screen open the menu top left, settings, look and feel. You can scale the font size down. Agreed the default was just a hair too big.
Same. I like that it’s on F-Droid too
Same here. It can definitely be better, but it works for now. No errors so far.
Edit: and just like that it suddenly threw an error. Lol.
It’s no reddit is fun (I miss my AMOLED background and simple interface that made navigating quoting linking and collapsing comment threads all such a breeze), but a) it’s better than any app I’ve ever made (I’ve never made an app), b) it will get better, c) I’ll get better at using it (I’m maybe 10 minutes in so far)
I completely agree. I use Joey myself (no particular reason - I just got pretty confortable with it). My only problem now is I keep getting timeouts. It could be my connection, though.
I go back and forth between Jerboa and PWA (from Chromium). I find both missing features I really like, but that just might be from the features to which I got accustomed from Slide and Infinity and not features that are must-haves. On Jerboa, the most annoying thing to me is during commenting, where the cursor jumps to somewhere else in the paragraph and deletes a word. It’s very annoying. I thought it was my keyboard, so I switched, but nope. Maybe an incompatibility with autocorrect features. Whatever. Lemmy is still growing up, while Reddit is 18.
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Hasn’t logged me out… Yet… I guess time will tell haha
Honestly, I prefer it, with its issues, over the stock Reddit app.
Jerboa is not well behaved when the api starts taking a long time. Are you guys on an overloaded instance?
Jerboa is what I use
I’m using Jeroba but i can’t seem to post replies to comments outside of the instance I registered on. My understanding is this isn’t how it’s supposed to work?
edit: huh, ok, this worked, so I must have done something different…
I think there’s just been a lot of growing pains with beehaw and lemmy.ml seeing way more traffic from new users. Their servers are going down under the load and that results in weird errors in the clients and web, and I’m assuming federation issues too.
This is a cop out answer. I tried Jerboa but wasn’t a big fan. That may change in the future. But I feel currently the best way to experience Lemmy on your phone is to do the following:
- Install the firefox app from the app store
- Go to your Lemmy instance on firefox
- press the 3 dots (where you can view bookmarks, history, etc) and click on “Add to Home screen”
When you click on the Lemmy icon that’s added to your home screen on your phone, it will open up the Lemmy web app (seperate from the firefox browser). It works super nice on mobile from my experience so far, and has a sleek design.
After trying jerboa I ended up going this route. I keep getting server errors using the pwa though not sure if lemmy.ml just can’t handle the traffic or I’m doing something wrong
I was having some issues with that server earlier. Opened an account on Lemmy.one and i’ve not had any more issues. They’re just overloaded it seems. Exciting times eh?
I suspect it’s traffic. One of the maintainers just made a post about lemmy.ml getting a shit ton of visitors.
@MyNameIsIgglePiggle I might actually try making a Lemmy client myself. It could help me learn Android development better than whatever my uni is doing.
If you ever decide to do that, sign me up for some dev time. I currently mainly work with Qt and C++, but want to learn eg. flutter. Know Rust, Go and Java and a few frameworks around there. Frontend I did some angular and react in the past. For now I’d be able to invest something like 10 hrs per week.
Sure thing! Although, I won’t start working on it anytime soon. I’m too busy with irl stuff as well as my other ambitious project (I should probably advertise it more but I want to have it in a more usable state before I do that).
I’ll most likely build the app with Kotlin since that’s the only way I know to make Android apps (afaict Rust isn’t really an option for Android anyway).
Oh flutter is with dart, not Rust. I was just giving a bit of my profile to talk a bit about my interests / background.
Kotlin is cool, but let me know if you change your mind about flutter. Though it is backed by Google, it does seem like it is gaining some momentum also among the FOSS communities, and it has the added bonus that the app can then be deployed on Android and iOS (or even desktop / web).
Hmm. I might consider flutter then, since the only reason I picked kotlin is because I’m learning it in uni and i cant use rust to make android apps. Well, I’ll think about it whenever I actually decide to start. If rust were an option to make native android apps I would have picked it immediately 😄
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Kinda an odd answer since it doesn’t exist yet, but the RedReader dev is considering a Lemmy version once Reddit kills third-party apps at the end of the month. That would be neat to see.
Jerboa at the moment, I’m hoping slide gets ported over to lemmy.
It would need to be forked, because I believe Slide was abandoned.
Yup. It’s too bad. I love that app. Oddly, more than Infinity (though I use it, too).
Is there an api for developers?
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/04-api.html
I have no experience with developing against these APIs, and so can’t attest to how up to date they are.
The devs though, if you didn’t know, are active here.
I’m using Jerboa for Android and liking it so far. It doesn’t have all of the features I’m used too (used Relay, Baconreader, and Sync in the past) but it seems to be going in the right direction.
Been struggling with jerboa for a couple days now. Finally realized that while I can log into the website (sometimes), my password is too long for the jerboa. It was 70+ chars, reduced to under 32 and it’s working now.
Interesting, mine is 60+ characters and was fine. Might be a 64 limit
I like the website as is.
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Jerboa was crashing on most actions for me, but the newest alpha on GitHub has significantly improved the experience.
Still buggy for me, unfortunately. :(
It doesn’t crash, it just logs me out constantly and throws errors when I try to read a post.
Yeah, I’ve been bouncing between this and the PWA. Might be time to brush up on my git skills and start making PRs for Jerboa.
In my brief time with it, I’ve been impressed pretty impressed by Mlem. Sure, it’s not feature complete and a bit buggy in places, but it already feels nice to use
