• DM_Gold@beehaw.org
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      The dev of Jerboa based it off of Boost for Reddit. The only way you would get an exact copy is if the dev of boost decided to move over to Lemmy. Doubtful, but possible.

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        I was about to say to the post as a whole “eh, its not that bad, idk what you’re talking about”, and then saw this, I actually used boost for like 4 years lol

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          Boost is great! A lot of the 3rd party apps are lovingly made. Stinks that Reddit decided money was more important than a user-base. But now we have Lemmy, which hopefully won’t even be able to be like that.

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            I just got into lemmy, can’t imagine using reddit without boost, jeroba feels very similar to boost except for having very little customisations(the font size in the comments is bugging me a bit), but I think with time it’ll improve.

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              There’s an open PR that’ll fix the font size issue. I’m using it now and it’s great. I’m also personally working on trying to add my personal must-have UI options from Boost.

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      That would be absolutely splendid. Although i have to say i’m extremely impressed by the website UI. It’s super fast and way better than most websites i’ve used recently.

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    Haha seriously tho now it seems we’re getting a few more developer contributions, so hopefully its UX can improve.

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      Honestly, I feel so bad criticizing without contributing, but at the same time, I don’t have any relevant skills with which to contribute.

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        It’s no problem to do that, I welcome criticism of all our UIs! I just prefer that it’s actionable, specific, and on our issue tracker so that devs can work on them.

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        Don’t feel, as long as it’s constructive and we all are at an understanding that devs may take some time to acknowledge them (tons of prior work), it’s fine.

        Of course you could always throw the a couple of cents if you got the chance, nobody minds being invited a coffee.

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    Yeah hopefully it becomes better. The biggest problem for me so far is the choppy scrolling.

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    Only one of them has a quintillion dollars to spend on making their shit look good. I’m less forgiving of that one.

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    Honestly, and I say this with no disrespect, but I feel like the UX is pretty lackluster across this entire ecosystem. It’s understandable, since I would imagine the bulk of developer priority is going towards just making things work as reliably as possible on the backend side of things. Fortunately, given the open source nature of things, I feel like the community will fill these gaps in over time. :)

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      Web UI is actually really clean, fast, and very straight forward. I really enjoy it.

      The apps, though, suck. They are buggy as all hell, and they are completely featureless.

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        Is the mobile experience really that bad to some? I’ve been running Jerboa since migrating and it’s working flawlessly, some it lacks some features but I find it extremely usable. Maybe I just got a blessed device.

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    Well, the good thing about Jerboa is that anyone can just make changes to it and send them to the devs, so now that more people are using Lemmy, it will improve really quickly!

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    It’s all about slopes. The “”“ugly”“” (I pretty much love it already) Lemmy app is getting better, the ugly Reddit app is getting worse.

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    Tbh really hoping that 3rd party apps shift from Reddit to Lemmy cuz man that’d be the life