Idk it just seems to work/look better and doesn’t sign me out whenever I go on some certain instances
I definitely prefer the app because it has a critical feature for me: tap to collapse
I read a lot of the comments and being able to quickly collapse them is absolutely essential. There’s no way I’m able to hit that tiny little box in the webgui on mobile.
I’ve signed up to support the dev because honestly, for an alpha this is pretty good. It seems to get timeout errors all the time even when the vote goes through, and you’re right it’s annoying that it can’t load Lemmy links internally, but it’s a great start and I hope it continues.
Although it’s still missing the button to go to the next top level comment
Absolutely not! Clicking on links to a LOT of other communities/posts ends up opening a web browser within Jerboa to view the content. I got so tired of it that I moved to the mobile web site and now the user interface is consistent.
checkout the Android App settings in Open by default > Add link
in latest app update they added new community links
Yeah, so there are 8 links, but thousands of Lemmy servers. This will never scale and there’s no way I’m going to go do that every time I update, which will never have an up to date list of all relevant domains. This isn’t even a valid workaround, much less a real solution unfortunately.
Also, those are all second level domains, but I’m seeing most Lemmy servers are at subdomain level. This means the system would be trying to send say mail.lemmy.ml to Jerboa, which it isn’t equipped to handle nor would I want it to.
That’s fixed in an upcoming release. I forget if it’s 0.0.34 or whatever comes next, but that was implemented in the last week.
It’s a fast moving project, so check back in every week or two. It may be a bumpy ride in the next couple weeks as lemmy (the server bit) gets a new release and instances slowly upgrade, so have some patience with it in the meantime.
There are functionalities that are missing but overall I’m pretty satisfied, for an alpha release
It’s not Sync for Reddit, but it gets the job done. Hopefully more development can be made seeing the user base is growing so fast
Jerboa was the reason for me to take the plunge and actually create an account. It feels very similar to Sync out of the box which I have been using to browse Reddit before. But there are definitely some rough edges still that need to be ironed out.
