just updated to the v0.0.35 f-droid build and jerboa started to consistently crash at seemingly random times. likewise, I would get web UI error notifications while using the web frontend.
did a little testing and noticed that it may be related to the “show avatars” setting being enabled.
turning “show avatars” off and saving the settings seems to have eliminated the issues on both web and app.
will continue to test and update the post if needed. any others able to confirm or refute this particular issue might be helpful.
edit: there are still crashes related to editing a post, but crashes while scrolling through posts and comments seem to be much reduced. any feedback is welcome.
edit2: further poking suggests the underlying cause may be jerboa not handling server response timeouts well. turning off avatars may reduce the number of API calls and therefore the number of potentially mishandled timeouts. crash frequency is likely variable as a result of variable server load. if others also experience reduced crash frequency with avatars turned off then I can either create a github issue or add info to an existing one.
Make sure you report the issues on github as well, so the devs can actively work on them.
https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/ (just check if a duplicate already exists). Is the instance where your account is registered already migrated to 0.18.0? Apparently using Jerboa 0.0.35 with 0.17.4 (and older) causes problems due to a change in API handling. At least that was the reply I got to some of my reported issues, since my home instance is not yet upgraded.
Well, if it crashes your phone repeatedly, it’s already worth reporting even if it’s not affecting anyone else for now. Better to fix it early than to leave a critical bug in the code that might affect other functions further down the line, you never know how and where they eventually interlink.
yes, it’s been crashing consistently and randomly since the last update. I will try your solution of the avatars and report back.
thanks in advance!
There’s a patch to fix most of it in for the next release. So it should be a lot better in 0.0.36.
When does that come out? At the moment, Jerboa is borderline unusable: Every time I try to upvote or downvote a post, the app shuts down completely. When I reopen the app, I get a message saying that I’m on version 17, but Lemmy’s on version 18, so I need to contact an administrator. I can dismiss the notification and mostly use the app as long as I don’t try to upvote anything, but it’s confusing as hell.
July 1 is a critical day for Lemmy’s success when Reddit’s API access gets shut off. Plenty of people will be checking for Reddit alternatives on that day. First impressions are super important. If the app continues to crash and give these cryptic messages by July 1, a huge chunk of potential users will be so off-put by the site that they’ll never return.
Desalines has said the goal is a release each week, but there’s no set timetable
Yeah the app is nearly totally unusable for me as well. Incessant crashing every 30 seconds makes it really hard to browse and comment. Hope there will be a fix soon.
Interesting
quick update on this. have been playing with the jerboa v0.0.36 f-droid build and it seems to handle network errors and junk data in a much more sane way - still not ideal, but it now throws visual error notifications instead of an outright crash.
looks like the jerboa robustness issue is slowly being addressed. lets see what we get with v0.0.37.
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There’s a patch to fix most of it in for the next release. So it should be a lot better in 0.0.36.
Weird. No crashes at all, for me. Just recommended it to a friend and it crashed immediately for him.
Can confirm this. Upgraded to .35 today via F Droid and have been getting consistent crashes.
Yup in my case is because lemmy.world is 0.17.4 so it doesn’t let me logging now , i tried using the old version of the app , it won’t even let me open the app before crashing.
I can’t use the app , which i mean for the mean time either i get use to the web version ( so far is very wacky) or i justr don’t used lemmy until the app and the intance work again.
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