https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jerboa/
It’s open source and works very well.
It crashes when you open more comments. It crashes if you open some link types. It simply downloads the image if you click certain links. It gives weird errors regularly. It just doesn’t look very polished.
It’s a fine app, and it’s free, and it existed when Sync didn’t, but…
For myself and my SO, almost everything. My feeds don’t load until I refresh them 3/4x, comments disappear and reappear randomly, voting is a shot in the dark. It’s made Lemmy pretty much useless for me. It seems like every other day or so it randomly signs me out, and it’s a crap shoot as to whether I can sign back in without reinstalling.
SO can’t comment, period. He’s uninstalled/reinstalled, cleared cache, logged in and out a thousand times… Jerboa just will not let him comment. He also cannot load any feeds unless Jerboa feels like it. Overall a miserable experience.
I’ve had zero issues with Sync so far 🤷♀️
I’m not who you were talking to but instead the guy who suggested Jerboa in the first place. Jerboa has improved a lot just in the last month or so since reddit closed 3rd party apps. Currently my only real problems with Jerboa is that it doesn’t play well with AOSP keyboards and if your instance is down and you try to log in, it will change your username to anonymous. And, basically you have to log back in (once your instance is working again). The log back in thing can be annoying since I apparently didn’t choose the most stable instance. (I’ve got alternate accounts now for that.)
People also don’t have a lot of time outside of work, and have other hobbies /people that they want to spend time on/with. And it’s going to take under a year at most before they are able to make any meaningful contributions if they are learning to code for the first time.
And people who do know how to code most likely do it as a day job and don’t want to do any programming outside of it to avoid burnout.
There are a lot of legitimate reasons as to why people can’t always contribute.
FOSS is eventually the better option, but that is a long wait.
I’ve downloaded all the available Lemmy apps I could find
They all work better than the official Reddit app. I know it’s a low bar to clear, but some of them have barely been out for two months and are in alpha/beta stages.
The only big issues I’ve run into are instance related because of those asshole ddos’ers
Other open source apps to shout out:
Infinity (Currently using to type this)
There’s also Slide, but it’s pre alpha I think. Not totally ready for normal wear and tear
Here I am on jerboa wondering why it barely gets mentioned lol. It was all that was available in the first wave of migration and im used to it now. Sorta how I ended up on baconreader. Someone told me to try it, I had not used a 3rd party app before then (reddit didnt even have one at the time, the one they have now is steaming trash) and I got used to it and never looked for another. Until Jerboa isn’t doing what I need/want or begins to have functionality problems, I dont feel a need to change
Tbh, I don’t particularly enjoy the way it looks and when I used it there were a few quality of life things, like hiding read items. But could’ve changed now
Do you mean read posts or read mail? If you mean posts, I actually wouldn’t like that feature (for me). I like being able to find a post I found funny or pull up info for someone else, and seeing that it WAS read is helpful there
