Jerboa development is going faster than ever. The number of commits increased a lot and the project counts 10 times as much contributors as before (5 from start till a couple of weeks ago, now 53).
Thanks to the devs for putting in the hard work!
The power of free and open source software at work. 👏
If at least Reddit had made their official app opensource.
Oh they did, but then they ditch it before launch and brought a 3rd party app
For those that don’t have it, the most recent version (hasn’t officially been pushed yet) can be downloaded directly from their GitHub page, and fixes a TON of bugs, and just adds a lot of QoL features. Well worth the hassle imo!
Or use fdroid with izzy’s repo. Link is in the github page as well.
The main Fdroid repo is updating quickly as well (0.0.34 has been up for a few days).
The main Fdroid repo still just shows me 0.0.33.Ditto the Play Store.NVM. I had to enable “show beta updates” in Fdroid before it would show me 0.0.34.
Interesting, I don’t think I even have that option and don’t remember needing to take any action there. Are you using a third-part F-Droid client?
Nope. I’m using the standard F-Droid client from f-droid.org. But, hopefully my comment may help someone else with the same odd issue.
Do you have a link please? I can only see 0.34 from the below:
That is the latest version. I don’t think 0.34 is in the play store yet which is what he’s probably referencing
I have 0.34 installed from the Play Store, been up for a while now
I’m rocking a Pixel 6 and I’m stuck on 0.33. It’s possible the metadata is messed up for the latest update or something.
I had to enable “show beta updates” in Fdroid before it would show me 0.0.34.
.34 is the latest release, so maybe they pushed the update already and I didn’t notice!
It’s been on GitHub since 13th - I’m very impatient, I am checking multiple times a day for .35!
I had to enable “show beta updates” in Fdroid before it would show me 0.0.34.
You mean a version later than 0.0.34alpha? Sorry, maybe I’m blind, I can’t find it. Could you post the direct link?
Thread parent was confused, and through 0.34 hadn’t hit app stores yet, it has and you’re good.
It may not be a fully fledged app yet, but I think it works really well and I enjoy using it quite a bit.
Same, I love it. It’s lightweight, the UI is super basic but it does what it needs to do. I actually prefer it to browsing online, which is unusual for me.
Yup, there was a pretty big change to support an upcoming lemmy release, and that was blocking changes. That has been merged, so now a bunch of pending changes have been merged.
There are still a bunch of pending changes, but I expect a new release to come soon ahead of the lemmy upgrade.
Just a heads up, Jerboa doesn’t support old lemmy versions, so get your admins to upgrade ASAP when the new version releases otherwise things will stop working.
Is there an official source that states which versions are supported? I’ve searched but so far couldn’t find anything.
No, since it’s still in alpha, it’s whatever the latest stable lemmy version is. Some of the devs want to maintain at least the older API, but the maintainer isn’t interested (they’re also working on lemmy and lemmy UI).
So right now that’s lemmy 0.17.4, and the next alpha release (probably 0.0.35) that will change to 0.18. The next release will have an alert that warns you when the server is outdated, so I guess that’s about as official as it’s going to get.
Looking forward to every new version!
Yes, this is what happens when a large amount of users switch to a different platform that doesnt have a lot of applications that can interact with it very well.
This is great news, honestly. Things will improve much faster and that is always a good thing.
A huge amount
Tbf I think that’s been shown to be mostly bots since engagement didn’t jump as much as user count.
Props to them. Amazing to see.
Great work guys. Jerboa is what kept me in the lemmiverse long enough to like it here.
I hope there will be a new release soon.
That’s awesome!
This is great to see. I’m definitely enjoying it and Lemmy so far. Lots of things missing still that I’d like to see but this definitely gives me plenty of hope for the near future. And with lemur defunct a chance to really grow and consolidate the user base.
