With a lot of talk around new apps in development & coming on stream, something Iโve been happy to see, & commented on, as choice is always a good thingโฆ I thought Iโd just voice my appreciation for the Jerboa team, love this App, such nice Ui & UX, I find it very easy to use, all the view options, post layouts, especially the compact view are really easy on the eyes, & great to scroll through quickly. I know there are some errors from time to time, & the odd glitch here & there, but thats something to be expected, given that Jerboa is still in its Alpha formโฆ Thanks for all you do, each iteration makes the experience, better & betterโฆ๐๐ผ
Thank you! I do have to remind people that jerboa is still very much alpha-level softwareโฆ something I worked on in my off-time when not working on lemmy.
Iโm super excited tho for it now, because it has a lot more skilled contributors, who actually know how to do android development.
Yea! Jerboa certainly helped me leave Reddit. Well done and thanks devs!
Thereโs got to be thousands of peopel that are using this platform because of Jeroba. I know I probably wouldnโt be here and commenting without that app. Thanks for all the hard work!
Hear hear! The Jerboa app has been great, and @dessalines@lemmy.ml (hope I did that right) has worked hard on it for sure! Some of the posts about bugs and/or feature suggestions have been downright rude imho, so itโs nice see them get their flowers, they deserve it! Itโs nice to see so many new app projects popping up too of course, but so far Jerboa has done great by me, and like others have mentioned, has really eased my transition from RIF. My thumb already instinctively taps on Jerboa now instead of RIF, LOL.
Hahah, I put Jerboa right where rif used to be, so now I end up here instinctually plenty of times a day. No complaints on my end, the apps doing everything I need so far!
yeah itโs always the people who contribute the least to free software who expects the most.
It can be very grating when people demand that you do free labor for them, while refusing to do it themselves. Open source can feel like a group project, where one person just makes demands on everyone else without helping out.
Be careful to not burn out. I think this is the start of a new way of using social media, and American big tech will launch products designed to be very user friendly (as in looking good but be full of tracking and sponsored content). I really donโt want them to pull people into their walled garden because their products look better.
I think it would make sense to get help from professional front-end developers to really make the Lemmy software look good and be easy to use. The backend part is already quite good once you get rid of websockets and maybe change the db code a bit to make it faster).
I wouldnโt be using Lemmy/the Fediverse if it werenโt for the devs of this app. I hope we can keep it alive as long as possible, like the fediverse itself. Decentralization is why the internet has prospered this far. It would make sense to have a social internet thatโs decentralized too