I’m really not happy with Lemmy so far. Its a great community and a cool concept, but the amount of bugs I am experiencing is really starting to put me off.
The site constantly updates / glitches, when I try click on something it moves just before I click so I end up clicking on something else. If I open a post, as soon as I go back the entire home feed is different and my sorting preferences have been reset.
As someone coming from the refinement from Apollo this really is offputting and makes me want to use Lemmy even less.
The people here are great, the federation is cool and I like how decentralized it is, but I think I’m going to log off now and I don’t expect to be back anytime soon.
Ps. A functioning app I can download directly from the app store would be great. I’m not interested in progressive web apps or testflight betas, I want something that just works and is well refined.
Edit: I understand its early days, I’m not faulting devs for not being able to keep up, all I am doing here is expressing my opinion. I’m also sad about losing Apollo so that definitely adds to my disappointment quite a bit if I’m being honest.
It just happened that quite a few redditors found that the experience using Lemmy was already good enough and started suggesting it.
And here we are :shrug:
Btw considering that Lemmy is open source, yes, they do need free beta testing. They even need more contributors to handle the development and bug fixing.
While it is okay to not be a fan of being someone’s unpaid tester, you have to recognize that the developers of Lemmy are giving it away for free under the GPL, and letting people run in on their own hardware. This is extremely generous, and there is no incentive to actually use the software beyond the demand and goodwill that people have for a place to talk on the internet that isn’t actively hostile towards them.
I’m actually having the opposite peoblem. Jerboa sometimes refuses to load communities citing java exceptions, and loading up a thread takes a long time. Browsing on PC has been fantastic, on the other hand.
I’m sour about losing Sync, but have you tried Jerboa? It’s absolutely not as feature-complete yet as any of the big 3rd party reddit clients were, but it feels totally familiar and I’ve been happy using it so far.
I think I’m going to Iog off now and don’t expect to be back anytime soon.
This isnt yelp. Nobody needs or wants a 4 day old account expressing all their gripes with a service that is in its infancy, or that they won’t be coming back anytime soon. Cool you don’t like the coffee here. Go to someone else’s coffee shop, don’t stand there yelling about it to all the people enjoying their coffee.
I really don’t think you get the point of that post. It’s a feedback and he is certainly not the only one thinking that. As a Dev myself I can tell you that having this kind of people is more than helpful. They say what they think you are more aware of what the community is asking. When you are alone on a project, you most of the time miss what real issues it have
I want something that just works and is well refined.
Not trying to be rude or anything but, if you are trying to replace reddit with another reddit this won’t work out for you. Lemmy is not and will never be Reddit. It will never have the same functions and bugs will show up sometimes, why?, because this project is funded by normal people, they aren’t making any money at all.
I’m not saying that you should be ashamed of expressing your opinion, but please keep in mind that this project is fueled by passion and love. You could focus your time in trying to make it better rather than just pointing out problems that people are actively trying to solve.
It’s been three days since I’ve been unable to log in to a Lemmy.world account I also opened along with this Kbin one. I get the prompt, fill the username / password, click the button… and it spins and spins and keeps on spinning, nothing happens.
Did I get banned? Is it a bug? Some snafu on my end?
I’m extremely happy with Lemmy and I actually think the bugs give it charm. It make it feel more like home. No big corporations. I’m fine with limited content and problems for the time being. I’ll take it over Reddit any day.
From appolo to jarboa, idk if it’s a fair comparison. Even the browser has its perks compared to jarboa but I still use it, i will do the same thing I did with the Reddit app all those years ago, give it a chance, use it, report buggs, give feedback, enjoy the updates.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !main@sh.itjust.works
Lemmy is very new software currently only at v0.17.4
If you’re here then you’re getting the real Early Adopter experience. That isn’t for everybody.
So they drove a bunch of people into a public beta software. Do developers need free beta testing?
They? Spez did xD
It just happened that quite a few redditors found that the experience using Lemmy was already good enough and started suggesting it.
And here we are :shrug:
Btw considering that Lemmy is open source, yes, they do need free beta testing. They even need more contributors to handle the development and bug fixing.
While it is okay to not be a fan of being someone’s unpaid tester, you have to recognize that the developers of Lemmy are giving it away for free under the GPL, and letting people run in on their own hardware. This is extremely generous, and there is no incentive to actually use the software beyond the demand and goodwill that people have for a place to talk on the internet that isn’t actively hostile towards them.
I guess I don’t notice any of this because I’m on jerboa. Haven’t had complaints with the app.
Jerboa has been very good for me.
I’m actually having the opposite peoblem. Jerboa sometimes refuses to load communities citing java exceptions, and loading up a thread takes a long time. Browsing on PC has been fantastic, on the other hand.
It’s so close to the reddit apps It’s throwing me a loop. But yeah. Other than the hot feed bug It’s been ‘good’ for me
I’m sour about losing Sync, but have you tried Jerboa? It’s absolutely not as feature-complete yet as any of the big 3rd party reddit clients were, but it feels totally familiar and I’ve been happy using it so far.
I mean, you know where the door is.
Jeez, i like the site but fair criticism is allowed
This isnt yelp. Nobody needs or wants a 4 day old account expressing all their gripes with a service that is in its infancy, or that they won’t be coming back anytime soon. Cool you don’t like the coffee here. Go to someone else’s coffee shop, don’t stand there yelling about it to all the people enjoying their coffee.
The man is providing feedback, that’s valuable data for devs. If nobody says anything, nothing will change for the better.
The same kind of valuable feedback a two year provides when he wants ice cream for dinner and doesn’t want to go to bed yet.
Why so hostile? Can you explain exactly what makes you so angry?
There’s nothing hostile about saying he’s welcome to stop using the product if he’s unhappy with said product. You’re the one taking it defensively.
I really don’t think you get the point of that post. It’s a feedback and he is certainly not the only one thinking that. As a Dev myself I can tell you that having this kind of people is more than helpful. They say what they think you are more aware of what the community is asking. When you are alone on a project, you most of the time miss what real issues it have
A coffee shop doesn’t have a voting system
You literally vote with your wallet.
I’m mostly just getting a few bugs on sh.itjust.works and I’ve got no idea where to get support from here. I’m sure it’ll all get sorted in time.
Jerboa for Lemmy (the app) is pretty good though mostly. It’s no RedditIsFun but it’s functional enough.
Understandable, maybe you can come back in the future when hopefully some of these bugs are ironed out and apps like Mlem are out of alpha.
FWIW most of the glitches are in the official web UI, so using another UI (e.g. Jerboa on Android) fixes most of the issues.
Yeah. I’m using the app it doesn’t have that updating issue. App is missing some features that the web has so I jump back and forth.
The real solution is for the developer of apollo to make it work as a lemmy client. You should probably let him know.
lol you should have seen what reddit was like 15 years ago.
Everyone here needs to take a shower. It Smells like poop
Ma’am, this is a Wendy’s.
How much are you willing to pay for this?
Not trying to be rude or anything but, if you are trying to replace reddit with another reddit this won’t work out for you. Lemmy is not and will never be Reddit. It will never have the same functions and bugs will show up sometimes, why?, because this project is funded by normal people, they aren’t making any money at all.
I’m not saying that you should be ashamed of expressing your opinion, but please keep in mind that this project is fueled by passion and love. You could focus your time in trying to make it better rather than just pointing out problems that people are actively trying to solve.
It’s been three days since I’ve been unable to log in to a Lemmy.world account I also opened along with this Kbin one. I get the prompt, fill the username / password, click the button… and it spins and spins and keeps on spinning, nothing happens.
Did I get banned? Is it a bug? Some snafu on my end?
Kbin has been much more stable and usable so far.
I’m having the same issue. :/
Out of curiosity:
In both cases with me, it’s Brave browser on iPad.
EDIT: Just noticed I can log in to Lemmy.world with the Mlem app, so it’s not a ban, it’s definitely a glitch.
I’m extremely happy with Lemmy and I actually think the bugs give it charm. It make it feel more like home. No big corporations. I’m fine with limited content and problems for the time being. I’ll take it over Reddit any day.
From appolo to jarboa, idk if it’s a fair comparison. Even the browser has its perks compared to jarboa but I still use it, i will do the same thing I did with the Reddit app all those years ago, give it a chance, use it, report buggs, give feedback, enjoy the updates.