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FYI, Lemmy and Kbin are Progressive Web Apps, meaning you can install them as regular apps to your phone's home screen (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by spiritedpause@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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On iOS: tap the share button in browser => add to home screen

On Android: tap the 3 dot menu button in browser => tap "install" or "add to home screen"

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[-] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Until the websocket issue is fixed, I'm gonna stick with Jebora

[-] maniel@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

Progressive? Conservatives disliked that

[-] hemko@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hey I wanted to tell that joke

[-] sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

I use jerboa for lemmy. Not sure how different it is though. Never used that webapp

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I find that jerboa has some missing features that are there in the web app. Things like being able to go from a comment in your inbox to that same comment in context in it's thread.

[-] MartianFox@feddit.de 21 points 1 year ago

Mybe I will try to add that feature to the app tomorrow if no other contributer hasn't already. Development of the app seems to move quite fast and a bunch of people are adding stuff. But I agree, there are still a lot of smaller and bigger things missing or wonky.

[-] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Nice to hear that it's active

[-] MartianFox@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Actually I ran a current development build of the app which seems to have the feature already. There is a small chain icon next to the vote arrows which jumps to the comment and it's parent and allows to load even more context. So maybe it will ship in the next app update when release :)

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[-] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

So it's not just me? Thank God, it's so annoying.

[-] nottheengineer@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

It does have that feature already, you need to press the link button in the inbox below the comment.

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[-] sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Just encountered that for the first time with this comment lmao

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I'm primarily using the pwa for now. Jerboa has a nicer UI in most cases, but pwa is a lot smoother, less buggy, and external links open up a lot faster. Also, jerboa has a bunch of minor annyonaces, like trying to select text and it keeps minimizing the comment instead, or how it opens Lemmy links in an external browser.

A bit more devtime and I'll switch to it, especially if they add a feature to group multiple communities in a single entry.

[-] I_hate_you_welcome@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago

Makes it very difficult to open posts in a new tab though, I scroll and open like 6 posts to go through afterwards.

[-] theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

This should be pinned to the top of every instance lol

[-] Veedems@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

First thing I did. Makes it a little more app like. Still can’t wait to see what clients get released in the next few months.

[-] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is awesome and better than any ios app!!

[-] rarkgrames@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Just FYI you can do this in the new version of MacOS (Sonoma) and add sites to your dock which is quite nice.

[-] Rick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You can do the same on windows! I forgot it was a feature tbh its weird not having the top of my browser lol

[-] rarkgrames@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve just been using Lemmy in PWA mode on my iPad and have switched back to viewing it in a normal browser. The lack of a back button was too annoying. 😄

[-] TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

didnt know it was a thing on windows, how do you do it?

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[-] joneskind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The WPA's layout is not crazy good on mobile, but at least I got some real estate.

Now, how can I contribute? I'm a frontend web developer.

[-] foxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Join the Lemmy development room on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#lemmydev:matrix.org

[-] llama@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you just did this with Chrome on Android! Easier than having to open a new chrome tab every time for sure

[-] Taxxor@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did that with lemmy, but at least in my case it just happens too often that I get an infinite loading circle when switching threads and then I have to reload the entire page, which isn't possible when not in the real browser. Even closing the web app and reopening them doesn't help but once I open the page in Safari it works just fine.

Mlem for iOS just got an update which gives us the compact thread style I much prefer over the current web app look but it seems like I can't edit comments there and I also don't see any notifications so there's still a lot of work to be done before it becomes an option.

And kbin I just don't use on the phone at all as long as we can't collapse comment chains.

[-] Myriadblue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Been trying the place and just have jerboa a shot in comparison. The actual app is better by miles. So much faster than the browser.

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Clean animations, simple tap to collapse threads

App > browser for now

[-] OneDimensionPrinter@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I'm liking Jerboa quite a bit so far. Feels similar to Boost a long while back.

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[-] NumberedDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh wauw thank you!

[-] Jamie@jamie.moe 2 points 1 year ago

Still a better user experience than the official Reddit app.

[-] chrizbie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love that this is possible and I gave it a go but for some reason scrolling in the browser is really hard to do, it keeps adding new posts while I'm scrolling and moves everything around making it near impossible to actually read, I thought it might be just loading still but it doesn't ever come to a stop, not sure if this is just me ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯