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Jerboa is a native-android client for Lemmy, built using the native android framework, Jetpack Compose.

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Upvote/downvote ratio instead of total numbers? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Since the last update, I don't see the total number of upvotes and downvotes but a ratio. So when it is at 0, I see 50% which is less interesting than seeing how many people interacted. Was it me upvoting and a single downvote or is it highly controversial with 100-100? Also: in a highly downvoted comment, I want to see how many people actually upvoted it.

Can I change this back in the settings somewhere?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

The next lemmy release has this PR, which will make how you display votes fully configurable. I based this temporary default off of 3 other lemmy apps, which use the Score + Upvote Ratio method.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My recommendation: Revert your app version to alpha v60 for the partial change that looks closest to the latest. See below:

The options are implemented in Jerboa between showing/hiding scores, upvote percentage and upvote/downvote ratio. You can build your own where you set your default option to what you want. Strangely, it was decided by @[email protected] that it would only show when 90% or below, I disagree it should show as long as is it's less than 100%.

I think it has to do with coordinating some back-end lemmy change to make it a lemmy user account setting but Jerboa nor Lemmy.ca have this implemented yet so there's no in-app way of adjusting it currently. It's too bad.

Refer to Jerboa issues/PRs 1378, 1400, 1402. Lemmy PR 4449/4450 adds this to back end but this was 5 days ago, so it's definitely not functional for anyone on the latest minor release version. Imo it should have defaulted to the old behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] see my comment above re: Jerboa. I suggest downgrading to Jerboa alpha v60.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was really unhappy with that change in the last update as well...

I couldn't find a setting to change it back to the actual numbers, but I think that should absolutely be an option in settings.

As you said, the numbers provide a lot more information regarding engagement/views/how controversial a comment/post is.

Some people may feel it's frivolous, but I'm considering a new app if it remains a percentage.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Agreed. It's a deal breaker.

It takes out of the equation how many people actually interacted with it at first glance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

If you really need to know, you can toggle your own vote on and off, see how much the percentage changes, and do some algebra to figure out the vote totals.

That being said, my above instructions should make it clear why this was a completely brain-dead UI change and should be reverted/configurable.