Only one of them has a quintillion dollars to spend on making their shit look good. I’m less forgiving of that one.
Hear me out: Infinity for Lemmy
/u/whupazz is working on a reddit compatible api for lemmy, meaning most 3rd party apps should work with little or no modification. See it working with RedReader already: https://imgur.com/a/IF5HYGz
Follow or help here: https://www.reddit.com/r/apihackathon/comments/13yvzg2/rapihackathon_lounge/jmxcq0u/
Whoa that’s pretty cool. Thanks for the link
Could this mean Apollo for Lemmy 😍
!!!This is huge!!!
Looks promising, I can’t wait!
I wish!! I love Infinity.
That would be a warm, liquid dream. How amazing
That would be fantastic.
don’t tease me like that
We can dream
BoostForLemmy? 👉👈
That would be absolutely splendid. Although i have to say i’m extremely impressed by the website UI. It’s super fast and way better than most websites i’ve used recently.
Probably because it doesn’t load a bunch of trash along with the content.
The dev of Jerboa based it off of Boost for Reddit. The only way you would get an exact copy is if the dev of boost decided to move over to Lemmy. Doubtful, but possible.
I was about to say to the post as a whole “eh, its not that bad, idk what you’re talking about”, and then saw this, I actually used boost for like 4 years lol
Boost is great! A lot of the 3rd party apps are lovingly made. Stinks that Reddit decided money was more important than a user-base. But now we have Lemmy, which hopefully won’t even be able to be like that.
I just got into lemmy, can’t imagine using reddit without boost, jeroba feels very similar to boost except for having very little customisations(the font size in the comments is bugging me a bit), but I think with time it’ll improve.
There’s an open PR that’ll fix the font size issue. I’m using it now and it’s great. I’m also personally working on trying to add my personal must-have UI options from Boost.
Ahh alright then, thank you for your work. Ps: sry if it sounded like I was complaining on the previous comment lol. I wish I could contribute, but I have no knowledge in this field.
Big if true. Would make my dreams come true.
Yeah hopefully it becomes better. The biggest problem for me so far is the choppy scrolling.
I’ve not had that issue on my Pixel 6a running Android 13 build TQ2A.230505.002
Honestly, and I say this with no disrespect, but I feel like the UX is pretty lackluster across this entire ecosystem. It’s understandable, since I would imagine the bulk of developer priority is going towards just making things work as reliably as possible on the backend side of things. Fortunately, given the open source nature of things, I feel like the community will fill these gaps in over time. :)
Web UI is actually really clean, fast, and very straight forward. I really enjoy it.
The apps, though, suck. They are buggy as all hell, and they are completely featureless.
Some of the Mastodon-focused clients like Ivory/Ice Cubes look amazing. It won’t be long until we get something like that for Lemmy if it gains enough traction.
I would love to see the person who made Apollo for reddit develop a Lemmy app. MLEM is not bad but obviously barebones as it’s still in beta
You and I are in full agreement there. I’m guessing that he’s eventually going to work something out with Reddit, and keep his focus and priorities over there, but I would love to see something heavily inspired by Apollo make it’s way over to this side of the aisle. I’m hoping to start learning Swift (or Tauri+Rust) sometime in the next few months, so if we don’t have something by then, I might take a crack at it personally.
With how openly reddit is trashing on apollo specifically, I’m not so sure. I know he does probably want to, as he’s in the red either way (if existing yearly apollo subscribers can no longer get content, they can refund through apple and he has to eat that), but reddit seems like it’s taking a blowtorch to all bridges.
But yeah, mlem right now isn’t much. Any more working on ios apps would be great.
Lemmur looks really friggin good, but it apparently hasn’t been updated in over a year so it is completely broken atm
Hopefully someone forks it at some point 🤞
Haha seriously tho now it seems we’re getting a few more developer contributions, so hopefully its UX can improve.
❤️❤️🥹🥹
Honestly, I feel so bad criticizing without contributing, but at the same time, I don’t have any relevant skills with which to contribute.
It’s no problem to do that, I welcome criticism of all our UIs! I just prefer that it’s actionable, specific, and on our issue tracker so that devs can work on them.
Thank you so much for your work on the app, leaving this comment with it as we speak.
No probs!
me who just uses the website
No offense but the site has bad UX too. I mean it’s gotten better but still
One is controlled by a large corporation seeking only profits. The other is an open source design that the community can do with as it likes.
Well, the good thing about Jerboa is that anyone can just make changes to it and send them to the devs, so now that more people are using Lemmy, it will improve really quickly!
I def need as much help as I can get with it.
You’re the Jerboa dev? I think the app is great.
Thx!
I was struggling loggin in, and realized the app doesn’t support Bitwardenn autofill.
Turn on the accessibility features and it works OK.
My biggest issue is I use RiF and swap the votes to the right and the link or picture button to the left and get very confused on jerboa now.
Jerboa has bad UX because it needs work. Official Reddit app has bad UX because the developer wants it that way.
The fact that it’s open source means that people will fix it when they become annoyed enough with this. This doesn’t apply for the Reddit app.
I just want to know if there’s a way to collapse comments haha
Yes. On Jerboa there is. You have to tap and hold the username for a bit
Edit: seams like someone else already mentioned that. Oh well
This would be a great improvement. I find myself tapping and holding on comments out of pure muscle memory. Would make threads a lot easier to read.
Found out in another thread that Jerboa does support this.
Tap and hold the space at the top of the comment next to the username and it will collapse the comment thread. Tap and hold again to expand.
One is a big corporation, and the other is a bunch of indie devs. There should be no excuse for a big corporation to have bad UX.
Amazon enters the chat
I’d love for Jerboa to be more like Boost, which I’ve been using for years.
Huh, I’m also a Boost user, and I’ve found it pretty similar to Boost. What differences do you want to change?
