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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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Change how comments hide (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by lol@sh.itjust.works to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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When i press a parent comment it hides all child comment but then parent comment also becomes hidden. Please change this behavior. Comments shouldn't hide for a single press . When you long press the parent comment it should only hide all its child comments. Parent comment should still be visible.

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[–] joshLaserbeam 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I was about to post an enhancement about this and coming from Sync and Relay, I expect that tapping on a comment with child comments would hide just the child comments, while leaving the main comment fully expanded. And for comments without replies to have no change. But not all apps do it like this.

It seams Jerboa follows the official reddit app in hiding comments, where all comments are hidable, regardless of replies. And the tapped (parent) comment is the one being hidden.

I am not sure which behavior is better (I prefer the former, like you), maybe this should be a toggle? If the current system is the intended behavior, then a truncated bit of the comment should be in the hidden comment. i.e a comment saying "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur", when hidden would read: User "Lorem ipsum..." 5 • 1h

[–] lol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He shouldn't follow that garbage official app. He should try to copy/take inspiration from superior third party apps like sync, boost and Apollo.

[–] joshLaserbeam 2 points 1 year ago

Actually, Jerboa's behavior matches closer to the apps, Alien Blue and Apollo, the way it collapses to a minimalistic 1 line with username and vote count. I hadn't actually used Apollo, I don't have an iphone, so I don't know how it works. I'm only comparing it to things I had used (Sync, Relay). I would rather if Jerboa followed the behavior of Sync, Boost, and Relay. The important thing is we shouldn't push towards or away certain design decisions, just because the official does does it. He should pick and choose features which benefit the user, regardless of where it comes from.

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