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Blorp dev here. Anyone who’s just hearing of Blorp, I encourage you to try https://blorpblorp.xyz/ and decide for yourself if my app sucks.
Edit: if you wind up enjoying Blorp, follow !blorp@lemmy.zip for updates. If not, Voyager and Photon are some other great options you should check out
Blorp absolutely does not "suck" and this user either has a problem or is just generally rude.
throughout my nearly 3 years making Photon I've had my fair share of hate comments, including one thread on a post, by someone encouraging people to check photon out, filled with people absolutely dunking on it.
your software is great enough to be noticed and hosted by several Lemmy and piefed instances, and you've got nearly 1000 or more users on a client for a super niche platform. you've done something right.
speaking from experience, hate comments really do dig into you even amongst a sea of positivity, but I hope you know that the opinion of 1 immature person does not matter in the grand scheme of things.
one more thing: people are much more likely to speak out when they have a problem versus when they enjoy some software. I guarantee you for every person either leaving feedback or complaining, there are 10 more silently enjoying your app.
I like Blorp and am using it right now.
Probably not the right forum to say this, but I do get a bug where sometimes when I back out of a post, I get a black screen that I can only get rid of by switching to another "tab" at the bottom, then back to the home tab which puts me right back into the prior post instead of the home feed.
What version of Blorp are you on? See version at the bottom of the settings page.
Just to gauge the severity, how often when your using Blorp dies this happen? On a scale of very infrequently to it constantly interrupts what I’m doing.
Sounds like it might be difficult for this bug, but if you could find a list of steps to recreate this bug (starting with relaunch the app), I can fix this much more quickly.
V1.10.8
I'd say this happens about once or twice a day and vague my daily usage to be 1-2 hours.
Unfortunately its not an issue I can trigger consistently, but it does occur almost daily.
This makes giving you replication steps difficult.
It happens when I tap onto an image on a post and back out, then tap on the next post. I hit the blackout button subconsciously, so I don't know if its the back button on Android or the app itself, but I believe both.
After I do that, screen goes black except the UI controls at the bottom. I can get out of it by selecting something else (such as the notification bell), then tapping back at home.
When I do that, I'm back starring at that image from the first post, but back out will work that time.
Ok, I experimented a few times and here's my findings from a 1 minute spike.
If I tap into an image on a post at my subscription feed, then hit the Android backout button
Then tap into the image of another post, hit the Blorp back out button, it happens.
Its not consistent, so you may have to do it a few times. I also noticed other odd issues after replicating it a number of times, such as it reopening the explore tab after I already switched back to home and didn't touch anything. Or it taking forever to load a refresh at the home tab.
Hope this helps. Sorry I can't give consistent replication steps. If I find a more consistent way to replicate, I'll message.
Amazing work! I was able to recreate the bug on my phone using your steps. I’ll try and get a fix up ASAP.
Glad I could help. Thank you for listening to me, and thank you for your contributions to this app.
Have you tried requesting features or reporting issues?
I've seen the blorp dev around comments, so they're at least active in the community and will probably chat with you about issues.
I previously had this conversation with the Blorp dev about my troubles with their app and why I find the Voyager app better for a Piefed account. Maybe you could communicate your concerns to both the Blorp dev and the Piefed dev?
Just want to emphasize that your feedback was polite and well organized. That’s why I was able to address most of it, and I even enjoy improving my app for users like you.
I didn't know voyager was cross compatible, that solves just about everything. Fdroid just says Lemmy.
Voyager is also a solid choice. I also spend quite a bit of time in the PieFed dev channel, and I've seen the Photon dev hard a work on PieFed support. You really can't go wrong with a lot of the Lemmy/PieFed clients.
That being said, Blorp has support for PieFeds multi community feeds, mark comments as answer, react to post/comments with an emoji, and I'm working on wrapping up full support for PieFed polls.
I didn’t want you to blame Piefed for an experience that was due to the choice of app rather than due to the choice of Fediverse server type
Piefed works great for me on waterfox with ublock installed
Being slow and the cloudfare bug is .world instance problems not on .social in my experience which means not a global piefed issue.
While we should strive to improve things, just want to say thank you to .world admins and PieFed devs for doing a fantastic job getting PieFed off the ground this past year. PieFed is still pretty young compared to Lemmy, but everyone is doing amazing work.
I find fedinsfw slow, if either instance is hosted on a VPS I wouldn't be surprised.
they announced that they are currently getting resource limited this week by their VPS provider because the old lemmy instance and picrs instance were going ham. It should be better next week.
We should honestly boycott corpoproxy instances. I'll ditch this one soon enough.
The deal-breaker for my for blorp is that every action induces a pretty strong haptic feedback. I definitely will wake my wife up browsing fedi on the weekend.
I have since switched to interstellar.
Blorp dev here. I got this feedback a few times. Theres a newer option to disable haptic feedback. Sorry that took so long to add. Update your app if you don’t see it
Edit: I've been a little slow with releases, so I think this still needs to be rolled out to App Store and Google Play Store. F-Droid and web should already be working.
I've been on piefed for more than a year and haven't experienced any of this.
