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I was just curious as its easier to access a mobile app then opening a browser and going to beehaw

(I know it sounds like I'm being lazy as I could make a shortcut however, the more lazy you can be to access the site the more people will be willing to be active as each step that has to be taken to access something a percantage of people will not do that step (I wish I knew what effect/ rule this was i can't seem to find it))

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jerboa for Android and Mlem for iOS, but it's still in test flight.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Mlem has been a good option for me on my phone so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, I am using mlem. The only problem I had was an issue with setting up testflight — I had to copy and paste the code from the URL that mlem gives you

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the moment, short term, this is a good initiative. But I don’t think it’s a sustainable approach for app developers. Any man in the middle is a potential source of failure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don't think this is intended for long term, but getting some of the good apps on lemmy would be a huge step forward from jerboa.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That's a pretty cool approach, I hope the old reddit apps stay up for that.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Downloaded this, Kinda neat. kinda feels like im being flashbanged everytime i change pages though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It could definitely be smoothed out a fair bit.

I'm not yet familiar enough with Lemmy interactions to understand the ways that it's lacking, but I see a lot of simple UI improvements that would make a world of difference.

It's a start!

[–] this 13 points 1 year ago

Its seems like a good app in concept but I still find it a bit lacking in features and polish. Thankfully the amount of people working on it has skyrocketed, so I imagine it should be pretty functional in the near future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It keeps saying "wrong credentials" when I try to log in. Has anyone had the same issue and found a solution ?

[–] pumpkin 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are two mobile apps, one for Android and one for iOS. Check here: https://join-lemmy.org/apps/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mlem is still in test flight, not on the app store yet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might be able to save the website as a progressive web app to your home screen?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what I've done and at this point, I prefer to Jerboa, feels exactly like an app.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Same, the only thing that seem to be a bit hit and miss in Jerboa, is the search for communities. Yesterday evening when I tried it, it didn't work. Now it is working again. Not sure if it's caused by a server being overload provided by Jerboa or it's my instance that was / is a bit fiddly.

edit: grammar is hard yo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's the first time that has been searched by a user of your instance, it takes time. Subsequent people using it and searches will be quicker.

@[email protected] is right, basically.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh thats clever

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see that with both the web interface and Jerboa, in any case reloading or searching again will make it show up for me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Same for me. My uneducated guess is, that it probably has something to do with the propagation of data between instances. But that's a "problem" that will sort itself out once more users (and thus more initiated search queries) will hit the instances.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

In iOS, I opened it in Safari, then made a shortcut. It works okay, with the exception of the navigation buttons. I'm kinda working around it for now.