Switched to liftoff and continue enjoying fediverse.
But I'm not on beehaw.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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I switched to Liftoff from Jerboa, and am enjoying the Liftoff experience thus far. Works with Beehaw just fine.
Liftoff is great! Thanks for commenting about it. I was really frustrated with Jerboa for not even allowing me to log in to Beehaw, and Connect's really bad interface that makes it hard to read anything.
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I'm on Beehaw and can confirm that Liftoff is already miles ahead of Jerboa.
Trying connect for lemmy at the moment... but I'll add that to my list until I settle on my preferred mobile experience... thanks!
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Thanks for the recommendation. Have just installed and connected back to Beehaw.
Liftoff feels great. If this keeps getting features, I dont see myself switching.
Dev is killing it
Oh, nice! Jerboa and Connect were both OK, but each were missing a few features that I wanted. I'm really liking Liftoff so far.
Switched to listoff which also didn't work for some reason, then to connect. I also tried thunder, which works as well.
Liftoff is working for me and even let's me seemlessly browse my beehaw and sh.itjust.works acct. If I'm on a beehaw post (like this) is automatically let's me comment under my account here.
Really nice for when you are part of multiple communities.
A major benefit of liftoff to me is that it takes me to linked communities in app, instead of in browser like Jerboa. Makes it easier to subscribe to new communities that people share in comments
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Yup Jerboa became very unstable so I switched to Connect for Lemmy. Smooth ride now. :)
Glad you're enjoying Connect!
I'm enjoying it, too. The only thing that annoys me is how hard/hidden it is to subscribe to communities.
When I'm seeing an interesting community under top of interesting content from a community I might be interested in, it's such a chore to find a subscribe button.
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Jerboa started crashing for me around the time they did an update that required a newer lemmy version. I've been using Liftoff and that's working pretty well so far. I'm trying to stay open to different apps because they're all pretty new and none that I've tried have been exactly what I'm looking for yet.
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Yep, I'm using wefwef.app now, which is also very nice. Still have Jerboa installed for when it'll be compatible with beehaw again.
Yes. I switched to Connect for Lemmy on Google Play for now. That app seems to work fine. Not sure it is FOSS though. Seemed the most popular too other than Jerboa.
The most recent jerboa version doesn't work with lemmy version 17 anymore (which beehaw is on). I had the error and crash happen too. You could download a previous version off their github and it should work with v17 instances (but probably not v18).
But I'd recommend liftoff, it was recently added to the play store and it's actively being worked on! It's the app I use and I've been enjoying it so far.
Did they HAVE to go with that post for the Liftoff screenshots? 😂
Edit: They even used it inside the app as a preview on the Post Style prefs! It's very much deliberate! 😂
OMG, just noticed 🤣🤣🤣.
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Hello from Liftoff! Seems to work well so far
Yep. Every update breaks something new, and they never fix the old issues. I've now switched over to Liftoff, until Sync becomes available. From that point onward I won't be needing anything else.
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it's been crashing ever since that version error message started appearing. I have since uninstalled it and am just accessing beehaw using my mobile browser. It's actually pretty good. Sure I know there are other apps in development but I would like them to mature a bit more before I try to get into them, especially considering my buggy experience with jerboa.
Yep crashes upon opening it today
Yeah, I switched to just using the web app. So far so good.
Worked fine until yesterday evening. This morning (i.e. now) it instantly crashes
As @dark_stang@beehaw.org mentioned, the progressive web app works really well. To use it, from any major browser on your phone, open up the options menu and click "install app" or "add to phone." It'll add an "app" to your phone which is actually a slimmed down version of your browser with the address bar and menus and whatnot removed.
This is what I just did since last night's Jerboa update means it can't even launch anymore. And while I like Jerboa, this slimmed down web app version of Lemmy is perfect and kind of all I need.
Haven't had any issues with crashing on Jerboa 0.0.34 on Android 13
The latest version of Jerboa is crashing on instances that haven't updated to v0.18
This will likely be fixed but there's many alternatives now anyway.
I have switched from Jerboa to Connect. Works well straight out of the box.
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Yes, Jerboa crashes instantly, feddit.de Front Page is constantly refreshing (web) , Connect won't show any comments, wefwef cannot block communities from showing in my timeline
Great timing, now that many of us are coming from Reddit...
It's crashed twice for me in the past few minutes, which it never has before.
Jerboa: what version? Server: what version?
Latest Jerboa is 0.37-alpha. Latest server: 0.18.1 (?)
Servers running 0.17 (and below) don't play nicely with Jerboa 0.36 and later.
Jerboa 0.36 had a lot of problems, that 0.37 fixed.
I'm running Jerboa 0.37 and finding it great.
But if you don't like it, try connect, liftoff to thunder or another. I haven't kept track of all the new apps.
The web interface works well to.
It stopped crashing for me but I can't login because of server version mismatch. I'm using web browser for now.
that's happened to me as well. I'm now posting from connect for the first time and adjusting to the interface.
Yep, the latest update (version 0.0.37) just crashes within seconds of launching.
Currently using Liftoff, and Jerboa as a backup for reading inbox, hopefully I can go back to Jerboa soon, as the native Android feel is great.
My stack looks like this, in the order I turn them on as the previous one stops working (Android):
(* Update: thanks to other comments here, I just installed wefwef.app, and it seems awesome. Wasn't keen on a web app, but clicking Install App on chrome removes the address bar and such, and it actually feels really cool. List updated!)
- WefWef.app
- Thunder
- Connect
- Liftoff
- Jerboa
Really hope Thunder gets more stable soon, it's by far my favorite interface*.
I believe Lemmy updated, I was having issues until I got an update for jerboa.
After updating to the latest version I can't sort my feed in any way, it just directs the feed back to the home instance's feed and sorts by active. Trying out liftoff in the meantime.
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