Opened Jerboa this morning and now it just immediately crashes
I'm pretty sure I've been running the latest version for a few days, so I don't think it was an update to the app that broke it, though it does give me some kind of update screen that I can't read because it immediately crashes.
Just thought I'd post to see what was up, since I don't see any other posts mentioning it.
Ya Jerboa totally disintegrated for me over the past few days, the mobile site sucks too but I switched to wefwef and it basically takes the best parts from both but actually works lol
Recent versions of Jerboa aren't compatible with Lemmy v0.17.x, which lemmy.world still runs until some performance issues get ironed out.
You can install Jerboa v0.34 from F-droid, Obtainium, or by downloading the APK from Jerboa's github. Uninstall first if you installed from the play store.
The incoming masses aren't going to understand any of that. They're going to install it off the Play Store, have it crash and say "fuck this lemmy bullshit" before going right back to reddit.
I heard about the versions thing. Before this morning it was crashing a lot, but not completely unusable.
If I install from somewhere other than the play store, can I still update from the play store later, or will I have to uninstall and reinstall again? Installing from outside the play store isn't a dealbreaker for me, but since I also have other Lemmy apps installed to use in the meantime, I've been figuring I'd just wait it out, if it'll be a hassle.
If I install from somewhere other than the play store, can I still update from the play store later, or will I have to uninstall and reinstall again?
I haven't personally testing switching app stores as I have F-droid installed for other reasons and just intuitively used it from the start for jerboa. My belief though is that anytime you switch sources for an app, you're best off uninstalling/reinstalling... and with Jerboa the worst side effect of that is having to re-login.
... but since I also have other Lemmy apps installed to use in the meantime, I've been figuring I'd just wait it out...
This is a perfectly reasonable choice, just wanted you to know what it took to get Jerboa doing it's thing again. If you have other ways of using Lemmy you're satisfied with, have at it.
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