So Jerboa broke on my phone just now and I didn’t want to stop browsing Lemmy. Unfortunately no suitable alternative was found so I just decided to check if I could open it in my browser and install it.

To my surprise, it worked. And it works really well quite frankly. Sure, the UI is different, but I’m not at all missing any features.

Did any of you guys try it as well? What’s your opinion?

If not, did you even know that was a possibility? It quite frankly never crossed my mind, because Reddit and other platforms always force you to use an app when you open them in a browser.

  • distractedcactus@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m trying out Jerboa but also definitely prefer the current web interface as a PWA on Android. I’d rather have just a great responsive mobile and desktop web interface as my main way to use Lemmy.

    I think that we get too used to relying on mobile apps because the corpo sites don’t care about doing anything beyond the bare minimum cookie-cutter UI to get users, and so we rely on this party apps to actually provide useful features.

    I’m hoping that the fediverse can bring out a lot of interesting and useful web design options, for Lemmy and Mastodon and the other federated tools. Having something that is open and beautiful (and functional) should be a part of the plans for increasing adoption and drawing in more people to the community.

    • theUnlikely@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      How do you deal with losing your scrolling position every time you go back from viewing a comments page?

      • distractedcactus@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I have noticed that when I go back to the main feed that the specific position on the page might be a post or two above or below the one that I was viewing, but I haven’t experienced anything like the page not showing the post I was reading at all, or the entire feed resetting.

        What behavior are you seeing?

        I’m running Android 13, so it might be an issue with other Android versions or iOS.

        • theUnlikely@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          The entire feed is indeed resetting as if I refreshed it. I’m also on Android 13.

          EDIT: Just browsing using chrome or firefox has the same result…

          • misteraygent@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’m on Android 12 using Gerboa most of the time, but I just tried fmhy.ml through Firefox as a PWA. It seems that when I am on the web application it updates as soon as my instance pulls in new comments. So the feed will start flying by until finished updating.