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For the past day or so every time I try to open Jerboa it just crashes immediately without an error message why. Is there any scheduled update/fix for Jerboa? I'd like to be able to browse on mobile again and really enjoyed the app while it was working.

-posted from my pc (only because I can't get the app to work)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's not working for me. So I switched to Liftoff.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Same. Won't let me log in. Liftoff is fantastic though!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Same here. Liftoff is great.

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

Just installed liftoff to try it out and unfortunately have to say that I like the layout even BETTER than Jerboa!

I feel a weird sense of loyalty to Jerboa because it was my first app for Lemmy but I might actually like Liftoff better.

Thanks for the suggestion!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Connect is working the wellest for me

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was using Jerboa and I switched to connect and I can confirm. It works much weller.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Connect dev here. Weller is what I strive for! Glad you're enjoying it.

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

Same here. Jeroba would randomly crash. Connect hasn't yet.

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

I downloaded thunder from izzydroid and can confirm i am welled by the performance.

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

I find wefwef works the wellest (so far, anyway)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had to clear all memory (not just the cache) then relogin. That sorted it. But I've since moved to Connect

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

I just stayed off the fediverse while new users signed up and jerboa is back and working for me on android.

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

I have the same issue. Deleting app data and cache stopped the crash at the start, but I cannot log into my account. It seems the reason for the crash was that the lemmy instance I'm on (and that I was still logged into) uses version 17.x, when Jerboa requires 18.x.

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

They fixed it this morning, but it's still being buggy for me. I think it's more on Lemmy's/.world's side, at this point. That being said, I'm starting to like wefwef a lot.

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

Its working fine for me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am using webweb.app which is a PWA Apollo clone. Its a bit weird cause the UI is iOS based, but it's by far the smoothest and full featured all I tried so far!

Scrolling is like butter, I can customize text size, and from comment reply notifications it actually directly opens the thread to the comment, and also highlights the comment which i love! Is liftoff and thunder similarly full featured?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you meant wefwef.app?

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

Oops, pesky autocorrect. This also has infinite scrolling which I didn't even realize at first and what made the Lemmy feel so clunky on mobile before - that is definitely the biggest thing that makes this my favorite now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Used Jerboa but switched to wefwef on mobile and it's the best mobile app imho at the moment.

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

I've been periodically installing and uninstalling it on my phone for the past 10 days. Never managed to launch it. Crashes after a second or two every time.

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

Im using Connect for Lemmy on android. It seems to working fine so far.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yesterday when I tried, it told me that the instance wasn't up to date and didn't work, so I tried a different app. Liftoff is proving to be my favorite so far.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

With latest updates with app and server-side it's a lot more stable now. It will be weeks to months until the infrastructure can absorb new users.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think Jerboa was always only going to be a best-effort app that the dev even recommended you fork if you want to see changes.

I strongly suggest you use the more up and coming popular apps, like Liftoff and Thunder.

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

Personally I'm using it to hold me over till Sync for Lemmy is released

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

This app crashes on boot for me. Could not even get it to open.

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

Same for me

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

It's very clunky for me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Latest Jerboa requires a specific server version and not every server has updated yet.

There are a lot of other app options! Like Thunder, Connect or Summit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The only one I could find on the Play store is Liftoff. I guess the others have to be downloaded from elsewhere.

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

What's Summit? Never heard of it.

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

Dev of Summit here. It is a lemmy reader like the other apps mentioned. You can find it on the play store by searching “app for lemmy” or “lemmy reader”. I'm actually releasing a big update today. Here's a preview of the feature: https://youtube.com/shorts/8mIVZflUHhU?feature=share.

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

Oh that's beautiful! I look forward to giving it a go!

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

It was working for me with some glitches (for example always opening with sorting all/hot instead of what I had set up, subscribed/new).

Then yesterday it auto updated, and the glitches are gone.

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

This is being discussed in https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] too. You might want to check out that Community.

There's a comprehensive list of Lemmy apps being curated here.

My personal recommendation is https://wefwef.app.

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

I'm using this fork and it works flawlessly with lemmy.world.

(a few eventual crashes, but it's rare)

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

Didn't work for me cos it only supports version 0.17.4 or smth whereas lemmy.world requires version 0.18 and above.

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

You got it reversed, lemmy.world is at 0.17.4 and Jerboa is already at 0.18.0. No logins are possible, and if already logged in it works with some crashes.

There's a bug on 0.18.0 that causes problems for some features of lemmy.world, they're trying to update the instance to 0.18.1.

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

Same here, but it will be fixed/changed eventually. Read a long post about it, and it seemed a tad complicated.

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

I had to reset the whole app

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

Same here. Wefwef and Liftoff work better for me now.

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

Yes, it kept crashing after a few minuted of use on my android. Not unsurprising when all this is very new. Gonna wait for the in-development boost and sync for Lemmy.

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

I'm having more problems w jerboa than WefWef ATM.

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

I still can't switch from local to all. Switched to Thunder which has been great!

Edit: Jerboa back to working great and my top app again.

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