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Jerboa

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Jerboa is a native-android client for Lemmy, built using the native android framework, Jetpack Compose.

Warning: You can submit issues, but between Lemmy and lemmy-ui, I probably won't have too much time to work on them. Learn jetpack compose like I did if you want to help make this app better.

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Jerboa is made by Lemmy's developers, and is free, open-source software, meaning no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever. Your donations directly support full-time development of the project.

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Jerboa is not trustable with these bugs, seems like any PR gets merged (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by catlover@sh.itjust.works to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/891

If you downvote any post in jerboa 0.0.35 you actually upvote it. Seems like anything gets merged? If this goes on like this, there could be a lot of trouble

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[–] catlover@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sorry if this seems like an attack, the whole point I'm trying to make is that jerboa might not be as ready as we think for being a lemmy client. Open source projects are extremely hard, an mostly never rewarding, and I totally understand that. I hope that those who have the skill and time will make it better, but right now it can contain flaws that make basic features unusable, and who knows what actually runs in the background

[–] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I'm trying to make is that jerboa might not be as ready as we think for being a lemmy client.

I'm one of those random guys who try to improve things submitting a PR now and then fucking up things in the progress and trying to fix them again.

What I want to say is: I think you might be right saying Jerboa might not be as ready as many think. It started as a side project of one of the two guys who develop Lemmy full time. Dessalines even writes in Jerboa's README that people can submit issues but he will most likely not be able to work on them.

Now Lemmy exploded: A lot of people started contributing to Jerboa (including me) with vastly varying skill levels (me definitely on the lower end), there's no clear route the app will go in the future, no or little standards we can use as orientation.

And actually I'm not surprised at all that Jerboa might not be ready because this app went from "Just a little side project with 150 stars on GitHub on June 3" to "Probably most popular Lemmy client with 787 stars on June 27". This has been less than four weeks. I don't think any project is able to adapt to this influx of requests, changes, attention in this short time.

[–] crius@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Who knows what runs in the background?

In an open source project? Really?