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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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[–] Myriadblue@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Clean animations, simple tap to collapse threads

App > browser for now

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

[–] owatnext@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tap to collapse threads

I haven't been able to collapse threads on Jerboa, how do you do that? Am I missing something?

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

At first it wasn't doing it for me but since last night it has

Tapping anywhere in the text of a comment seems to do it, holding like i would back on Boost for Reddit simply removes the extra toolbar at the bottom, and the title area did nothing

Sometimes it just doesn't but i find restarting the app fixes that, though i usually just move on to the next topic when that happens

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[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I just wish it used screen real-estate better. I'm using it right now. I wish it could replace RIF.

[–] Myriadblue@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Jerboa is pretty much close enough to rif for me.

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[–] joneskind@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 19 points 1 year ago

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

[–] OverfedRaccoon@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (24 children)

As an alternative, there's also Native Alpha and Hermit (my personal favorite) on Android. Play with the settings to make it full screen and frameless (no address bar at the top). It also has pull down to refresh.

On kbin, you can then go to your settings and sticky the navbar as well so that it's always at the top as you browse. Personal preference and all that.

[–] brnk@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Jerboa is a good alternative for Android, too. I've been using it for a bit now and it seems to work great.

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

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 25 points 1 year ago

Still a better user experience than the official Reddit app.

[–] maniel@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Progressive? Conservatives disliked that

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[–] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Thats cool, but now it doesn’t have a back button… how do you navigate?

[–] mirisbowring@lemmy.primboard.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably via a swipe from the phone site? Most modern phones do this

[–] KarinSpaink@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That’s what I assumed as well, but Kbin won’t swipe….

[–] Lilkev@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Swiping works for me on iPhone. My only issue is there's no way to refresh the page from the PWA on iPhone (to my knowledge).

Posted from kbin.social after "Add to home screen"

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[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

On iOS swiping from the sides works for back/forward.

On the macOS 14 preview, the app gets back/forward menu items with keyboard shortcuts.

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[–] chrizbie@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This happens to me on desktop Firefox also. Even if I've sorted by Top, new posts with 1 upvote will get inserted at the top of the feed repeatedly.

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[–] sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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 (1 children)

Nice to hear that it's active

[–] MartianFox@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] Ballistic90@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some days, I feel like I'm the only person that used Reddit and never touched any of the applications for it.

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used old.Reddit on my phone and desktop until I switched to iPhone. Then I switched to Apollo because was like using old Reddit but formatted for phones.

[–] UlfKirsten@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

It's such a beauty of an app.

[–] Veedems@kbin.social 10 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.

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

This should be pinned to the top of every instance lol

[–] ViralN9@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Oh damn, I'm gonna need to make sure I do this later.

[–] Hal23@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I believe this next drop of iOS is going to support push notifications in safari. Are there plans for the pwa to support this? It’s the only reason I really use native apps anymore.

[–] CodingAndCoffee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Don't forget to check out !kbinStyles@kbin.social for UX improvements (which will work on mobile Firefox)

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[–] gawdahm@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that. It's actually a lot better than the app I'm currently using, lol. (Though, I'm sure it will improve).

[–] xcxcb@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Both have native apps on Android and iOS that are better imo.

Yes even KBin has an Android app now too.

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[–] dbtonez@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this was the first thing i did upon discovering kbin.. and I use it for a lot of other sites too, namely forums and the like.

[–] RedEagle@lemmyns.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Using this on Firefox on my s23 works really well.

[–] MeowKittyWow@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah! Kbin PWA is great. (Though there's a very small amount of sidescroll that makes my frontend web dev heart cry a bit... maybe I should open a pull request for it :))

Though it seems to override my screen orientation settings, making it hard to read while lying in bed XD

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[–] 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

[–] Redhotkurt@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you for posting, didn't know this.

I'd like to add that for Android users installing Kbin, if you can't find the app anywhere, it's listed as "/kbin" at the bottom of your app drawer because of the backslash. Lemmy users will find it sorted under "L".

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[–] rarkgrames@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] sanjosanjo@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I had never heard of this and I was really confused how I got a kbin app on my phone. When I got home and tried to "install the app" on my tablet I couldn't figure out how to install it. I searched on the Play Store and couldn't find it. I double checked the app information on my phone's icon and it said "Installed from the Google Play Store", so I was really confused.

[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is awesome and better than any ios app!!

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