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.

  • AllYourSmurf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s very early. There are a lot of great ideas here, but also a lot of details yet to be worked out. Also lots of bugs.

    I wasn’t on Reddit in the early days, but I expect it had problems too. I know twitter did.

    If you’re a developer or have any skill in that area, I’d encourage you to contribute. If not, I’d ask for 2 things:

    1. Have patience and a bit of grace with the devs, operators, and mods, especially in these early days.
    2. Get active and talk about what you want and what’s not working for you.

    This is your chance to help make “Thing n+1” better than “Thing n”. Chances like that don’t come around very often.