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  • ЛRMAN0989@beehaw.org
    76·
    2 years ago

    Replaced RIF with Jerboa on my home screen; I can’t say I won’t miss it though, wish there was a “Lemmy is fun” already

    • deephurting@beehaw.org
      24·
      2 years ago

      Didn’t know we had an app. The RiF developer is working on an app for Tildes, which bums me out, RiF was my weapon of choice.

      I’ve only convinced one real life friend to become interested in reddit, I asked her if she’d heard about all the drama there, and found out she’d been using the official app all this time…she was super shocked when I told her the stories about peoples’ phones heating up using that thing.

      • ЛRMAN0989@beehaw.org
        7·
        2 years ago

        I’m still trying out Tildes now and then, but the lack of an app pretty much kills the experience for me at the moment. I feel like the Lemmy system is overall the superior option, but Tildes is still an interesting alternative from what I’ve seen so I’m excited to see what it looks like with an app.

        • deephurting@beehaw.org
          6·
          2 years ago

          I read that people were really impressed with how dedicated the RiF developer is working on their app - bugs or features were reported and bam! Fixed asap. I mean to join up at Tildes when they have another bidding round, it is interesting in its own way - same with Squabbles.

      • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        I was going to join tildes until I saw a slew of posts talking about how they got permabanned for saying stuff like “I like tildes more than lemmy”. Lol… what?

      • CarolinaPhoenix@sh.itjust.works
        15·
        2 years ago

        Agreed. Jerboa has a ways to go to catch up with the mobile web interface.

        And they both have a long way to go to catch up to the likes of RIF.

        • BlueKittyMeow@beehaw.org
          5·
          2 years ago

          I guess I have the minority opinion here - I reallykme Jerboa. It’s not Apollo or Sync but it’s lightweight, all about the text, has bookmark, comment, up and down votes front and center, and gets out of the way.

          I’ve also been over on kbin.social and the mobile interface there is really lacking so maybe Jerboa just looks especially good to me jn contrast!

    • TechyDad@beehaw.org
      17·
      2 years ago

      In one of the subreddits, someone mentioned an effort to make a “Reddit API->Lemmy API bridge.” Basically, you’d load this code and point your Reddit API calls to Lemmy instead. Then this bridge would translate your Reddit code to Lemmy. This could allow for apps like RIF, Boost, Apollo, etc to quickly turn their Reddit apps into Lemmy apps.

      I hope this pans out. Jerboa isn’t bad, but having many third party apps to choose from would be great. (As a Boost user, I’d love to load Boost and browse Lemmy instead of Reddit.)

      • LuckyJones@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 years ago

        The RedReader developer (QuantumBadger) said they’d like to make it a more general reader app and include support for RSS and Lemmy. It would take a while to to it though. They would have to abstract a lot of the Reddit specific code.

        I hope they do it, it’s a really nice app.

        • possiblylinux127@beehaw.org
          81·
          2 years ago

          I don’t like the layout personally. I agree that we should improve existing apps but we also should create more options.

          • Notnotmike@beehaw.org
            3·
            2 years ago

            Reddit (and Boost, the app I used before) offered several different layout styles that you could pick from (e.g. cards, list). Are those the types of layouts you’re referring to? Those could be added, I expect, and the more the merrier

            Or do you mean more specific layout details like where the voting buttons are?

              • BlackCoffee@beehaw.org
                1·
                2 years ago

                Jerboa on List mode is closer to RIF than I thought.

                It is very pleasant on the eyes and the no BS ui is very appealing.

          • Spzi@lemmy.click
            2·
            2 years ago

            Should be possible to use another UI or just another theme without needing to redo all the backend work.

            If it currently has no UI/theme switcher, then some backend work might be required, but still much less than making a new app from scratch.

    • ZappySnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Jerboa is a pretty nice app overall already. I use an iPhone as my main device, and Mlem is very incomplete at this stage (but it’s quite new). I loaded up Jerboa on a Pixel, though l, and was very impressed. Jerboa is far more polished…shame it’s Android only