With a lot of talk around new apps in development & coming on stream, something I’ve been happy to see, & commented on, as choice is always a good thing… I thought I’d 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 form… Thanks for all you do, each iteration makes the experience, better & better…🙌🏼
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.
As a happy user of Jerboa, I say work on it only as much as you want. Take care of your personal well-being as that’s the #1 priority.
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 don’t 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).