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Dessalines ( dessalines@lemmy.ml ) M to Jerboa@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

Jerboa 0.0.33-alpha

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Jerboa 0.0.33-alpha

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Dessalines ( dessalines@lemmy.ml ) M to Jerboa@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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Release Jerboa 0.0.33-alpha · dessalines/jerboa
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This is a big one, thank you to all our new contributors! 🥳 Jerboa is still very much an alpha-level app, but its wonderful to see its pace accelerating rapidly thanks to others working hard to mak...
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  • Lodion 🇦🇺 ( lodion@aussie.zone ) 
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    Thanks for all the hard work! Jerboa is better in alpha than the official Reddit app ever was (or likely will be).

    • Dessalines ( dessalines@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      Its no probs. This one was all volunteer contributions by skilled android developers who just want to make the fediverse better. I’m extremely grateful to all of them.

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        • Dessalines ( dessalines@lemmy.ml ) OP
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          Open up an issue on the github if there isn’t one already if you would.

      • v_krishna ( v_krishna@lemmy.ml ) 
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  • patchymoose ( patchymoose@beehaw.org ) 
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    I’m not even joking when I say that this app, despite being in alpha, is a more pleasant experience than the official Reddit app.

    • Jerboa has not begged me to turn on notifications
    • Jerboa has not yelled at me for taking a screenshot or begged me to send it as a link to the site instead
    • Jerboa has not warned me that I am “low on coins”
    • Jerboa has not tried to make me create an NFT avatar
    • Jerboa contains more formatting options in comments than the Reddit app (!)
    • Jerboa is smart enough to autopopulate the link title when I highlight text to be converted to a link. Reddit app still lacks this feature (!)
    • Jaximus ( Jaximus@lemmy.ml ) 
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      It is extremely impressive how much money these large tech companies throw at an app and it turns out to be shitty as fuck. I wonder what bullshit features they pack in to make it like that.

      • qprimed ( qprimed@lemmy.ml ) 
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        a considerable amount of code is used for “telemetry” and tracking.

    • animist ( animist@lemmy.one ) 
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      It’s amazing what devs can accomplish when they don’t have a bunch of greedy MBAs breathing down their necks

    • Ataraxia ( Ataraxia@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 
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      This app is like… a soft fluffy blanket. Love it.

  • any1th3r3 [he/him] ( any1th3r3@beehaw.org ) 
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    The in-app image viewer is such a welcome feature!
    thank you all for your hard work and contributions to making our experience on Lemmy so nice

  • qprimed ( qprimed@lemmy.ml ) 
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    that first time committer list is fire!

    • Dessalines ( dessalines@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      Yeah, the number of skilled android devs contributing now is unreal. We’re gonna loop past A LOT of reddit apps in two weeks at this rate.

  • a_lemming ( a_lemming@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Much easier to collapse comments now. Thanks!

    • dj3hac ( dj3hac@sh.itjust.works ) 
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      I actually hate it, I keep doing it by accident.

      • XLRV ( XLRV@lemmy.ml ) 
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        Yeah, in Boost, I used a long press to hide comment, it was harder to do accidentally.

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    • Jay K ( jayknight@lemmy.ml ) 
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      I wish it only hid the children comments, like Relay does, but this is better than it was.

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        There’s a toggle for that in the settings.

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        You have to check “Show content for collapsed comments”. The default is actually Apollo/ Alien Blue style. Also I would recommend unchecking “show action bar for comments” so the vote buttons are hidden until the comment is long pressed.

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          Hmm, I don’t see that setting…

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            If you are on 0.0.33 you should see this under Look and feel

  • Ninmi ( Ninmi@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    That decision to lay a solid foundation for an Android app really bearing fruit right now. Thanks for all the hard work and thanks to all the new contributors.

    • Grenfur ( Grenfur@lemmy.one ) 
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      I’ve been incredibly impressed at how fast the Jerboa team is working to catch up with the influx of new users and issues. Massive thanks for all the work getting done!

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    Thank you devs, great release.

    Might I add some remarks?

    • The login feature is not really intuitive. When not logged in and pressing on any of the icons below, instead of displaying a “login first” notification, bring the user to the login screen?
    • Possibility to collapse and expand comment threads (as @meliache@feddit.de pointed out this already works by touching the comment)
    • When I click on a link and it for example opens an image, allow me to press the Android back button to go back to the discussion. Right now the only option is to press the back arrow hovering over the image.

    If there’s a better place to post these requests let me know and I’ll post it there

    • ganbaro ( ganbaro@feddit.de ) 
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      This!

      I started using Jerboa today and the login confused me. Jerboa demands login but I couldn:'t find out how to login first

      I remember Slide for Reddit having similar issues with their UX but their error message is more informative IIRC

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      Comment threads are collapsible afaik, just touch and hold onea comment and release again. Admittedly there are no visual hints that this is possible, there a tutorial or something like that might help.

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        Holy shit you’re right how did I miss this? haha ohwell ONE DOWN!

  • kevin ( kevin@beehaw.org ) 
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    Thanks to everyone who has opened issues or submitted PRs! 14 new contributors this round!

  • AfterlifeBarista ( AfterlifeBarista@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Great update! Thanks!

    Only thing missing for now is the ability to sort comments in posts (as in new/popular/best,etc) like in the browser version, which has been sorely missing for the main community of one of my instances. Any info on when is that going to be implemented?

  • s6original ( s6original@lemmy.world ) 
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    The user experience is great for me. Terrific app even in alpha.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P ( OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ) 
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    How long does FDroid usually take to show the update?

    • Dessalines ( dessalines@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      F-droid can be like a week, but izzyondroid should take less than a day.

    • DaEagle ( DaEagle@lemmy.ml ) 
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      I don’t have patience, I just grabbed the apk from the github page…

      • drk ( drk@slrpnk.net ) 
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        Same, I did have to remove the older version installed via f-droid before installation of the apk from GitHub would succeed though. That was when I updated from 0.0.31 to 0.0.32. Updating to 0.0.33 then worked without uninstalling anything. Liking it so far!

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  • Ice Witch ( _ice_witch_@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) B
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    I’m so glad that white flash you used to get when switcing tabs is gone.

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      That’s weird, still happens for when switching to basically anything. Like starting this comment for example!

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        Could it have something to do with your phone being set to light/dark mode? I’m not seeing the white flash.

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        Are you sure you’re on the latest version (0.0.33)? Maybe it wasn’t updated yet. You can go to the play store and check.

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          I get it from f-droid rather than the play store and I did see the 0.0.33-alpha changelog on update earlier today so I would have expected to be on that version. Having said that the “What’s new” link still says 0.0.32 which could be just a bad processing of the version number but maybe the f-droid version isn’t right. Not sure. Still getting th flashes basically all the time.

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              Should I raise an issue to resolve?

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  • BigFig ( Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world ) 
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    Thanks for all your and contributors hard work. I’ve signed up for your Patreon and hope to see this platform flourish.

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    This is great. Just installed and the image viewer is great along with the fonts being consistent.

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    Nice update. I’m glad I can now login to any community from any instance regardless of if it’s in the list or not.

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