Not sure if related, but my wife once told me it was hot watching me put my arm behind her passenger seat, look back and reverse out of a car space.

Now I need to know... are reverse cameras also for girls and gays?

Cool, I didn't know we could embed images in posts and they'd show up inline. I wonder how long that will last, haha.

My pleasure, I'm glad I could contribute in my own small way to this awesomeness!

They really seem like they made the decision internally to force everyone into their own app and kill off as many third party apps as possible, presumably for data collection/analytics. That would explain why they're quietly ignoring third party app devs and other alternative solutions (like the paid user API key solution discussed elsewhere).

If I know anyone who drives one, I always refer to it jokingly as their 'emotional support vehicle".

Now it's in and I'm using it, I'm wondering if it would be better if tapping a comment would only collapse the children of that comment instead. This might prevent user frustration if they try and click a link in a comment but miss, so the comment closes instead.

Yeah BaconReader does the same, I think it makes sense. I'll try and fix that for the next release.

Same experience here, I checked out Mastodon and was impressed with the fediverse and open nature of everything, but the style of social media just didn't gel with me. Not surprising as I was exactly the same with Twitter.

I was literally saying "someone needs to make Mastodon for Reddit" before I discovered Lemmy!

I feel like a lot of the discussion on here at the moment is obviously focused on Lemmy itself and Reddit, but that's not surprising given the huge influx of new users.

Looking forward to the various communities and platform itself maturing. The first time I've been optimistic about social media in years, haha.

Shopping cart theory also seems relevant to this.

I think this will be the server struggling to respond, sending back an error code instead of the requested data in json format. The app should probably display something more user-friendly like "Server error (504)" (or whatever the error code is).

It's odd you're not seeing similar issues on the web version though... maybe it just takes longer to load or there's a timeout somewhere in the app that needs to be adjusted.

This would be lovely. Then once that functionality was working, we could create a Reddit-style front-page for new accounts that subscribed to a bunch of popular hashtags. That would really help to ease onboarding and make instances feel a bit less isolated.

I think I'm on Lemmy for the long haul - I like the fediverse decentralisation. The hardest part of Reddit to abandon will be the search results on Google, but perhaps we'll see something similar with Lemmy in a few years if it picks up steam.

Fairly sure this is fixed, but might not be rolled out yet.

Just submitted a PR to fix this, thanks for the suggestion: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/pull/549

Yeah, though long tap is already used for toggling the action bar for comments, so you'd end up with a similar issue of using to interact with small links and getting the wrong result sometimes. So probably a user setting to turn the small links on/off entirely would be safest.

Yeah after some discussion on GitHub this is the direction the app is headed in, and the next update should have some settings in this regard with Boost-like behaviour as a user option. We can add more options if the community are split on their preferences. The joy of open source!

Try a long tap on the comment body. If that doesn't work, try a tap or long tap on the comment header. It's possible there's a few bugs with some of the new comment interactions.

Ah good point - I think we'll need to add that. I'll make a Github issue now so it doesn't get lost.

Edit: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/506

If you select View source on the post you should be able to?

Yeah this is what I've been doing, have made a few simple PRs already to enhance the themes a bit! Never worked with Jetpack Compose before, but Google sure does the trick.

Make sure you grab the latest beta of Android Studio (not the default stable one it suggests), and connect your Github account once it's installed. The emulator works really well for testing, no phone needed. Makes it super quick to get up and running and start submitting fixes.