I hope this isn’t a question that’s already been asked to death, in app search for “mbin” isn’t all that helpful.
I’m still in the stages of looking for a permanent home here in the fediverse. So far mbin has really caught my eye because it’s basically Lemmy+ for all intents and purposes (at least for mine). I’m not all that happy with what looks like the only Android app though.
So I was wondering if there were any plans to add mbin functionality to any existing Lemmy apps? Even if I used a Lemmy app solely for the ‘Threads’ or Lemmy section of mbin, then used the web page or only mbin app for everything else, I would be fine with that.
I tried to see if I could sign in with the app that I’m currently using (Eternity), with the kbin.earth instance and no luck. So obviously the API is just that much different.
Are any devs here thinking of expanding their apps in future? Or is there one I’ve missed? I’ve seen more than one app with the description “For Lemmy and the Fediverse”, but what exactly is meant by “and the Fediverse” is unclear.
Yeah for now PieFed is web only. IMO the website works well enough on mobile.
It’s quite easy to develop new themes so making a compact version for mobile would be easy for someone who knows CSS.
I’m going to just try again here. I’ve woken up ill today, in a bit of a brainfog and right now just doing this from the Lemmy app that I use is the easiest. I’m going to get all of the text out of the way at the top of this post and put the screenshots at the bottom. First screenshot is the issue I’m facing when I first load the page. Second screenshot is what it looks like after multitasking for a bit and returning to Firefox (at which point the page reloads, reloading manually without the multitasking didn’t fix it however, so I’m assuming this a memory management thing?).
I feel like I should also note that my phone isn’t great at all. And I’m running a custom firmware. So if this is an odd issue that no one else has ever encountered, I’m prepared to re-flash the vanilla firmware to my phone and try again.
I also feel like I should just alert you that in your welcome email, you mention to reply to the email with any issues. However, the email is a ‘noreply’ that returns “address not found”. I’m guessing that the wording in the welcome email is from an earlier time and hasn’t been changed yet.
No idea what’s going on with all those borders around everything, it looks like it might be an accessibility setting to make clickable areas more obvious?
The black background makes me wonder if you’ve got the high contrast theme chosen in your PieFed settings. Go to https://piefed.social/user/settings to choose a theme. Try “Card Shadow”.
Haha well this is odd. Definitely wasn’t on the high contrast theme.
And after switching to the Card Shadow theme, the entire thing just stayed the same with the very dark background and white boxes.
Using cropped images to reduce the size of my post but basically it looks the same as the first screenshot in my previous post, regardless of the theme chosen and saved. Including the home page outside of settings.
I definitely don’t have any accessibility settings enabled and haven’t encountered this on other websites (yet), although my usage of Firefox is pretty low these days because it’s fairly heavy duty for my phone. I’ll play around with my settings and try a few things though.
Update: not entirely sure what else to try but one thing I’ve tried now is disabling the global dark theme in my settings as well as Firefox (aargh my eyes). This seems to make no difference either. I even switched to the “Trans Pride” theme and it remains the same. The only settings that I’ve modified in accessibility is to make text size smaller.
If you have any suggestions of what to try, I’d be happy to. Otherwise I’ve been needing an excuse to start over on this device. So a reflash might be in order.
I’m out of ideas, sorry.
It’s all good. Thank you for taking the time out to try and help out here. And for being involved in building cool platforms for people to get together. You guys behind the scenes here in this indie web (or whatever you may call it) are heroes for giving us alternatives to turn to for our Sonic the Hedgehog shitposts and whatnot. Now more than ever.
I’ll report back if there’s any difference when I get things sorted on my phone. Which is going to be a little bit of a job, so I’m not going to get it done now at 23:04. But it needs to be done.
Thanks for your encouragement :)
I’m definitely going to give PieFed a proper go, I’ve even made an account there already. There’s just a couple of things I’m still doing and seeing here.
The web UI on mobile really isn’t that bad, even with the full card view, unlike I thought it would be. I do have an odd issue though where on first load, the page is darker than it should be and text and pictures are surrounded by a white box. And seemingly if I switch to another app and back to Firefox again causing it to reload, it loads correctly.
I’ll send a screenshot from PieFed maybe in a couple of hours or my tomorrow. Been trying to upload an image here in this reply for the last who knows how long but there seem to be server issues.
You can use https://postimages.org/ as an alternative
I think I may have come down with a mild (that hopefully stays mild) case of covid. And it pisses me off because I’ve got this far without getting it. Apparently it’s doing the rounds in my country and while I can vaguely understand not wanting to shut everything down again and making everyone bankrupt again, they haven’t even bothered with precautions this time or making supermarkets follow certain protocols. So it seems like the fucking anti-vaxx, anti-lockdown, head in the sand idiots have won here.
Sorry for offloading this, just saying that I’m probably going to be even more delayed at checking out PieFed now in the next couple of days. Feeling pretty woozy and lacking in the energy to much else other than scroll.