submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by darkstar@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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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.

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[-] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 3 points 2 years ago

It's really not any buggier than trying to use reddit

[-] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Incorrect. Have you tried any third party apps for reddit?

[-] tortoise@tortoisewrath.com 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, but there's no point in comparing ourselves to those now that they're going away...

[-] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 0 points 2 years ago

Why would I need to? I only use old.reddit at my desktop

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[-] SuperV1@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] niktemadur@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] lunar_parking@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I'm having the same issue. :/

[-] niktemadur@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Out of curiosity:

What did you use to create an account?
What did you use to try and log in?

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.

[-] Zlatzman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I've had issues with logging into both sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world using Firefox Mobile. Chrome mobile seems to work.

[-] Huschke@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I was also really unhappy with it. Then I tried kbin.social. It's not a lemmy instance, but also uses the fediverse so you can still see and interact with posts from other lemmy instances.

[-] whenitallgoeswrong@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

The fediverse thing makes me feel like I'm in the dust. I thought Kbin was its own federated thing, separate from Lemmy. Like there are decentralized federated Kbin nodes as its own thing, and decentralized Lemmy nodes as its own thing. But Lemmy and Kbin intermingle?

I feel like I need something like that old UK/GreatBritain/British Isles infographic, but for Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, and whatever else springs up.

[-] panopticchaos@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

It's less of a "UK/GreatBritain/British Isles" thing and more of a "You can have gmail/hotmail/outlook/etc and all have 'email'" kind of thing.

All of them are speaking the same language/protocol so they all talk to each other even if they do things differently

Mastodon is probably the most different since it's trying to be Twitter which is a very different "thing" than Reddit.

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