Get off your ass and help (or learn) instead of complain. It’s open source, so many resources. Better than (edit: yeah) supporting ads (or paying to get them removed which is still supporting ads).
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’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.)
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 🤷♀️
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…
I’ve ran into these issues before, but not on the current version. It has been getting a lot of updates lately. It’s gone from version 0.36 up to 0.41 in just the last couple weeks. It’s better than Lemmur, the only other Lemmy app currently available on F-droid. I know apps outside of f-droid exist, but I’m a simple, FOSS man.
