Jerboa currently unusable for other people?

ShlorpianMafia@lemmy.world to Android@lemmy.world – 120 points –

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

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

Try Thunder: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder

You can install and autoupdate using: https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

I already have Thunder, Connect, Summit, Liftoff and Jerboa. I just thought I would play with all of them for a few weeks until I find the one I like best.

You should also check out wefwef. It's very full-featured already and is getting updated constantly.

I did it. It just looks very specifically designed in the style of iOS. It's not bad though.

How you like them so far? Anything you are partial about?

They're all pretty early in development so they have their bugs but so far I like Liftoff and Thunder the best. They both have a great UI. Jerboa was the one I started with first but now I am not able to login because of the whole lemmy.world version number thing.

I see. Imma go and try liftoff and thunder then , thanks you very much.

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!

I changed some settings to make it look better to me. I'm happiest with liftoff right now.

Connect is working the wellest for me

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

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

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

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

I'm currently using wefwef to reply to you, I use them both interchangeably, but Connect has more formatting options in the markdown editor, whereas Wefwef expects you to just remember how to format anything in markdown. Both experience errors constantly.

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

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?

I think you meant wefwef.app?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I actually have issues with wefwef now, gives me a lot of errors.

But I think the next days will be a little rough because of many new signups.

Maybe there are still older files in your installation that cause the errors? Have you tried to completely remove it?

Since its a webapp it uses your mobile browser. So maybe another browser would work better.

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.

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.

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

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

Summit should be on the playstore. Try searching "app for lemmy" or "lemmy reader".

I found Summit later on, and it didn't work well for me.

Oh no :(. If you're up for it, I am open to feedback. You can send feedback either here or over at https://lemmy.world/c/summit. But if you don't want to I understand.

Well it was as laggy as the other apps, because of the update and the increase of signups. Also I found it difficult to navigate, to find the right buttons to push to access a certain thing. I know it's early days and I'm sure your app will improve in time, and I'll try it again later.

You can download Thunder from IzzyOnDroid (you can add this as a repository to F-Droid).

What's Summit? Never heard of it.

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.

I cleared the app data and that fixed it, but signed me out of beehaw and I can't get back into my normal account on my phone until it's updated.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Even if the difference in version is complicated, it's really bad design to crash an app. Why not catch the error and display something reasonable?

I can only read and comment on the web right now, which is fine. I just assume the apps will clear up in a day or two.

Same happened to me. Just update it and it should work again. Jerboa requires the latest update to work from my experience.

I used it, had problems, dropped it. Using Connect now. Wefwef is good if you like PWAs.

It's working just fine here. Latest Jerboa from F-Droid, just updated, on latest Android.

I had problems with Jerboa too. First it won't login, so i used to just browse without logging in. Then from today it just closes on starting. Got fed up and uninstalled it. Thunder works but keeps showing some blank page with error every minute. Tried wef or something which is a browser app but didn't like it. So ended up using Chrome but it uses too much battery so ditched that for Firefox now. I wonder if there is some rss feed for lemmy.

Crashing for me. Switched to Connect. Works well... except you can't pinch zoom images, which is a huge problem...

Connect dev here. It's coming!

  1. Force stop the app
  2. Clear cache
  3. Clear local data
  4. Relaunch and log in
  5. ...
  6. Profit

Cool now it just crashes immediately after launch.

This didn't work for me. I had to find a forked version that supported lemmy.world's "outdated server".