Server issue?

They probably know. Many instances seem to be waiting for a few features to be corrected in the new Lemmy like captcha to keep the bots away. That's what someone said in a different thread.

Someone also said Thundar should work from github or to downgrade Jerboa for now. Both would require installing an apk package.

Or just use a web browser until your instance upgrades.

They know. There are discussions regarding it

Remember you are not dealing with a massive corporation.

Some random dude made this app. This same dude was just tasked with managing dozens of contributors to the code base. Well organized and establishped companies struggle with increasing a department two fold overnight.

I think the dev is doing great. I understand your concern and it is a valid one, but I think we should try to set the tone around people joining that this is not reddit and due to the way it is structured and developed there will be different kinds of hiccups. Also it wasn't like reddit didn't have issues with updates breaking things.

The server upgrade was available two days ago, and the Jerboa release was available three days ago.

So the release was pretty synchronized. It's just that admins of various instances didn't want to upgrade for whatever reason, so you're left with two major releases of lemmy in the wild.

This type of thing will be messy while lemmy and Jerboa are in alpha release status. It is getting better, and there is talk about supporting multiple major releases of lemmy in Jerboa, but that's a lot of work and nobody has yet taken ownership of that. The issues admins were complaining about are in testing, so we should hopefully see more adoption soon.

So yeah, it's frustrating, but at least there's a mechanism for downgrading if needed. I sincerely hope things are much more smooth for the next release.

Chill man, the dude that makes the app is volunteering his time to make it. The mobile website works fine, I'm sure you can use that until the app is updated!