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  • Riskable@programming.dev
    191·
    1 year ago

    You might want to rename it considering that a company named Liftoff Software exists and has a trademark on the the term, “liftoff” pertaining to software.

      • Riskable@programming.dev
        1·
        1 year ago

        The trademark category is for “software”. There’s no distinction between SaaS and an app. They’re the same thing from a trademark standing.

          • Riskable@programming.dev
            1·
            1 year ago

            It’s not a registered trademark… It’s a Florida Corporation which gets an automatic trademark of sorts based on case law. It’s complicated but if someone owns Foo Software and then makes a sale across state lines using that “mark” (in this case, “Foo” in the context of software) they get an automatic trademark on that name related to that good (software).

            Planet Money did a whole podcast about it related to their Micro Face comic (someone sold beverages across state lines under the name, “Micro Face”). It’s an excellent podcast. I highly recommend it (super interesting and funny).

            But you know what? Fuck it: You can use the name, “Liftoff”. Liftoff Software has been dead for several years now. Even though they sold stuff under that name across state lines many times (even internationally) that corporation is not coming back. So don’t worry about it 👍

  • AlmostDachshund@lemmy.ml
    111·
    1 year ago

    Feels smooth. I wish there was an option to hide the bottom bar and to reduce the font size a bit. For now I’ll keep using Jerboa, but waiting for it to be less “sluggish” while scrolling.

  • B20bob@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    I’ve tried just about all of the current apps that are available for lemmy over the last two days and so far liftoff feels the most like a usable app to me. To ve fair, I know that a lot of rhe apps I tried are still in alpha or beta, so I’m not trying to talk bad about them, I get it. Liftoff is pretty good though.

      • B20bob@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yeah I almost forgot about that. I’ve also noticed lately that whenever you post a comment it appears twice as if you double posted, but in reality there’s only one comment.

      • zachatrocity@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Which bug is that? I haven’t seen that in the issue tracker, could you share details and I’ll prioritize that.

        • PCChipsM922U@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          1 year ago

          The Subscribed feed is showing up empty. Other settings regarding the feed work fine, but the Subscribed feed is broken. Also, replies showing up as double replies, one below the other, once you reply to a post.

          And you could make the search menu a bit more… friendly. Currently you have to add instances in order to search for communities in them. Not practical at all, there are hundreds of instances, if I had to add each one in order to search in them, that will just take way too long. Why not have instance and communities auto-discoverable, like in Jerboa (type in search the community you’re lookimg for, results pop up).

          • zachatrocity@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            About the search menu… unless I’m mis understanding that’s just how Lemmy works. You have to be subscribed or at least have search for a community outside of your instance before you can interact with it within your instance.

            • PCChipsM922U@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              1 year ago

              Actually, no. If at least one user from your instance has subscribed to a community of another instance, that other instance’s communities show up in your search results (they are federated)… at least that is how it should work 100% of the time, but it doesn’t. In most cases, it doesn’t actually show all of the communities that would show up during a search, meaning the web UI would return a lot more results.

              The method you’re using is actually a safe bet: specify the instace’s URL and don’t have to rely on whether that specific instance is federated with my instance, just search for communities there as well. That approach is easier if you actually have a link to the community which you’d like to add and the instance on which it resides. But, if you have no idea on what instance that community might reside, it’s easier to actually seach for it via the web UI, which I hoped would be implemented in an app sooner or later (having relevant results I mean).

              • zachatrocity@lemmy.world
                2·
                1 year ago

                Yeah I’m wanting to implement that into liftoff. That’s the main feature I’ve been wanting in apps.

                To clarify this app is a resurrection of an abandoned Lemmy app, when this app was active Lemmy was not as popular and we didn’t have massive instances like Lemmy world. Working through this is a fun challenge but it’s also a user experience challenge. What instance are you having issues with?

                • PCChipsM922U@sh.itjust.works
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Well, many, to be honest. I have a few accounts, 2 on sh.itjust.works and 1 on lemmy.fmhy.ml. Some communities appear in results on one instance, others don’t, and vice versa. If you try to open up the community via your instance (my.instance/c/[email protected]), it just returns a 404 🤷. This happens on both lemmy.fmhy.ml and sh.itjust.works. For example, I can see and join the OpenBSD community from my account on lemmy.fmhy.ml, but not from either of my accounts on sh.itjust.works. I can see other communities on that instance just fine, but that particular community, no.

                  And this happens with a lot if other communities as well, the OpenBSD one stuck in my mind cuz I really wanted to be in that one with all of my accounts, but I can only be with just 1 account.

                  Oh, and the pending thing 😒. The pending communities show up in my feeds, yet they’re still marked as pending. Cancel pending, subscribe again, wait a few days… yep, still pending.

                  It’s buggy, I know, but it’s new and all new things are, so I don’t really mind. I was meaning to make a bug report regarding some of these bugs on Lemmy, just haven’t gotten around to it.

                  PS: All of the searches regarding the communities were done in the web UI, so it’s not a Jerboa bug, it’s a Lemmy bug.

  • kelvin@lemmy.ml
    8·
    1 year ago

    Loving the app so far. There are bugs but its definitely the most mature and has the best UI/UX out of the apps I’ve tried.

  • wiki_me@lemmy.ml
    7·
    1 year ago

    Looks good!

    You might want to add it to the lemmy readme (or maybe we need a “awesome lemmy” repo with a list of lemmy software and resources?)

    I made a bunch of feature requests to lemmy (stuff like reddit enhancement suite features) and most notably the ability for a user to block an instance, would it be ok if i will copy paste them to your issue tracker?

    alt and the left key should move to the previous page like in web browsers on linux.

  • PCChipsM922U@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    1 year ago

    Just tried it (writing this comment from it). Generally, it feels a lot more polished and nicer looking than Jerboa, but, if you set the feed to Subsciber, nothing happens, it just loads a blank page.

    Other than this, it feels a lot better than Jerboa. So I would use it, but the Subscribed feed is broken, so that’s a deal breaker for me currently.

    • Southern Wolf@pawb.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Ok, found a fix for this, on the drop down for selecting feeds, choose the subscribed feeds from the instance, not the everything section. That seems to work as expected for me.