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Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

We are closer to shipping Ivory v1.9! The big feature for this release is the ability to quote posts. If you'd like to test it out, jump back on the TestFlight version of Ivory. We've opened up some more TestFlight beta slots here as well:

testflight.apple.com/join/AOOy

Important Note!
The TestFlight version of Ivory doesn't use your active App Store subscription. You have to subscribe again in TestFlight. You do not get charged real money in TestFlight. It's for testing purposes only.

Photo of Ivory for Mac on a MacBook Pro. Ivory is showing an example of a quoted post in the timeline.
13 February at 15:15 | Open on tapbots.social
149 comments
re_chief

@ivory What does it look like to a non-Ivory user if you quote a post?

13 February at 15:17 | Open on mastodon.social
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@re_chief Just a normal link to a post. We aren't doing anything that couldn't be done since the beginning of Mastodon's existence. It's just a quality of life improvement seeing the post inline vs just a link to it. 🙂

13 February at 15:18 | Open on tapbots.social
re_chief

@ivory Oh whew! That’s a relief, thank you 👍

13 February at 15:19 | Open on mastodon.social
Matthew Muñoz

@ivory I’m not sure I wouldn’t make the same decision, but wasn’t “quality of life” a problem on Twitter? The UX for publicly shitting on random people for clout was hassle-free.

13 February at 15:54 | Open on vis.social
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@pseudepigram Many things in life are quality of life improvements that can be used for evil. A hammer, knife, etc. Doesn't mean they shouldn't exist. Showing a post that a user has linked to is a huge improvement and not having it doesn't prevent the same problems from potentially happening. 🙂

13 February at 16:00 | Open on tapbots.social
Kai Kubasta

@ivory The last time I switched from the TestFlight app to the App Store one, all my drafts were gone. Does this still happen?

13 February at 15:18 | Open on mastodon.social
⟦ˈmartiːn ˈʃtaɪ̯n⟧ :tblogo:

@ivory I’m using it right now and it's great. But at the moment nearly no one in my timeline quotes posts. Everyone changing from twitter was instructed not to do that here! It seems as if most people just complied. 😁

13 February at 15:19 | Open on lipsia.casa
Andreas M. Heitmann :batman:

@ivory Hi. Is there any chance that #Ivory supports Misskey and Sharkey in the future? … #fediverse

13 February at 15:22 | Open on mastodon.social
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@AndyGER Hopefully someday. But it will require a lot of work on our low level code as our app was originally designed for Twitter which relies on numeric post ID's. So any services that use alphanumeric post ID’s just crash in our app because they can't be read.

13 February at 15:26 | Open on tapbots.social
Andreas M. Heitmann :batman:

@ivory Glad to hear that. I'm hopeful that you'll also support these server formats since they can be enjoyable to use.

13 February at 15:28 | Open on mastodon.social
Kelly Guimont

@ivory I cannot test for I have been removed.

I will now diminish and go into the west.

13 February at 15:22 | Open on mastodon.social
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@Verso We opened new slots. You can probably get in again. TestFlight is weird.

13 February at 15:24 | Open on tapbots.social
Kelly Guimont

@ivory I clicked the link you shared and TestFlight said no.

13 February at 15:26 | Open on mastodon.social
Kelly Guimont

@ivory @BenRiceM nailed it, I just had to try all over again. Maybe I was too excited the first time and TestFlight decided I needed to chill out a little. All fixed!

13 February at 15:30 | Open on mastodon.social
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

Seems like many are already asking, but this feature isn't anything special where you need to use Ivory. All we are doing is showing the post you are linking to visually vs just having a link to a Mastodon post which anyone has been able to do since the beginning of the service.

That and making the process of copying a link to a post and pasting it in the compose view more automated.

13 February at 15:22 | Open on tapbots.social
Wolfgang :verified:

@ivory Just joined the new Beta:

When marking a post as favorite, fhe star is initially cut off. [screen1]

After looking at it in detail the correct position is shown. [screen2]
13 February at 15:25 | Open on frawas.de
samf

@ivory Will users be notified when a post of theirs is “quote posted”? Not specifically by Ivory, just similar to other Mastodon activity. I'm not 100% clear on how this all works under the hood, curious whether a link inside a post triggers any kind of pingback-sort-of-thing.

13 February at 15:25 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@samf Nope. It's just linking to another posts just as you've always been able to do on Mastodon. We are just rendering the post inline vs just being a link.

13 February at 15:30 | Open on tapbots.social
samf

@ivory Makes sense. As a core Mastodon feature, it’s looooong overdue in my opinion. Even if this isn’t a "perfect" solution, thrilled to see Ivory making the best of it in the meantime!

13 February at 15:32 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Dave Porter

@ivory @samf On Twitter, quoting was good for conversation/support but was also literally called the "dunk mechanism", and drove a lot of that platform's outrage engagement. Passively rendering links as posts (conceptually no different from any other rich link preview) feels to me like exactly the right middle spot to land.

13 February at 16:03 | Open on better.boston
Bendodroid :wolfmeh: :blobhaj_flag_gay:

@ivory Hmmm, doesn‘t seem to work immediately, is there a delay of sorts? It was an embed in the compose flow, but after posting it‘s just a link again… :neocat_think:
13 February at 15:27 | Open on social.nekover.se
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@Bendodroid Could be a bug, or slow network/server. We've seen it happen a couple times, but pretty rare.

13 February at 15:31 | Open on tapbots.social
Bendodroid :wolfmeh: :blobhaj_flag_gay:

@ivory Okay, will see if it changes.

Something else: Would it be possible to include a setting to make custom emotes bigger? Just a client side setting, not all text, just the emotes. I am used to having much larger emotes when using Misskey or other fedi software, the Mastodon ones are always so small and in Ivory they're even smaller, makes the emotes just very hard to look at. :blobcatcomfeyes:

And related to that: Can we expect Ivory support for animated emotes? :ablobcatbongo:

13 February at 15:38 | Open on social.nekover.se
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@Bendodroid No, larger emoji's would break text line heights and cause all sorts of issues. They have to be the same size as the text. Solution is to make the font sizes larger.

Animated emoji's are on our list to look at. Some of us want to do them while others don't and we need to figure out some sort of compromise. 🙂

13 February at 15:44 | Open on tapbots.social
jacoBOOian 👻

@ivory people are still gonna lose their shit so let me try to balance that by saying THANK YOU THANK YOU this has been one of the major missing quality-of-life features for me

13 February at 15:29 | Open on social.jacobian.org
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@jacob Thanks! The thing is, we aren't really doing anything new here. Just rendering the post inline vs just showing a link to it. People have been able to quote a post since the beginning of Mastodon, just not with an inline preview.

13 February at 15:36 | Open on tapbots.social
Sean C.

@ivory and this is perfect all in its own right -- thank you

13 February at 15:35 | Open on mastodon.social
Matthias

@ivory … and with that, Ivory is feature complete (for me). Thanks!

13 February at 16:28 | Open on chaos.social
KZorroFuego

@ivory Would it be possible to implement a "quick jump to top" shortcut? I often read masto on my desktop only, then come back to mobile after many days or weeks without opening Ivory. It would make it easier to be able to refresh the timeline, then jump to the most recent with a tap vs. scrolling from the previous update point.

13 February at 16:31 | Open on pawb.fun
Forst

@ivory What's the best way to submit beta feedback? Apple's built-in thing, e-mail, toots?

13 February at 15:24 | Open on mastodon.social
Jfrites

@ivory where are we on getting the hashtags to copy over on a reply?

13 February at 15:24 | Open on shakedown.social
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@Jfrites Can you explain? It should already work.

13 February at 15:27 | Open on tapbots.social
Jfrites

@ivory when you reply to someone who has a post with hashtags they don’t carry over in your reply.

#tapbots

13 February at 15:30 | Open on shakedown.social
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@Jfrites Ah got it. Will have to think about that one. Might feel too intrusive in a lot of cases. Personally, I'd feel the need to remove those hashtags because it's just a reply and not an originating post. I'd hate for everyone's replies to show up if I'm following a hashtag.

13 February at 15:37 | Open on tapbots.social
kate 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
Jim

@ivory Any chance of changing/updating the Boost icon to show the new behaviour? I was looking everywhere for a Quote option and didn’t realise it was behind the boost icon!

13 February at 15:28 | Open on social.racf.guru
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@jaytay No we don't want to change the icon for that. Users will figure it out in general. 😅

13 February at 15:33 | Open on tapbots.social
Paul Stockton

@ivory Not a fan of the username on the 2nd line taking up more real estate - prefer same line truncated as it was. If I need to see the full username I just tap their avatar and view the profile.

13 February at 15:29 | Open on social.lol
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@pauls We will have an option to have the old layout. But we are forcing the new layout to get feedback. 🙂

13 February at 15:35 | Open on tapbots.social
Paul Stockton

@ivory seen a couple of layout issues, so on my mentions tab I just favourite your reply to me and the star is truncated off the right edge of my screen.
Tap the home tab and return to the Mentions tab and it draws it okay again.
13 February at 15:43 | Open on social.lol
Nefarious Aryq
Mike Beasley

@ivory is the quote button only on mac? i dont see it on ios even though ive had the beta installed for a few days. i have the button on the mac version.

13 February at 15:32 | Open on mas.to
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@MikeBeas It's on both. Maybe you're not updated on iOS yet?

13 February at 15:38 | Open on tapbots.social
Mike Beasley

@ivory this is the most recent testflight build i have
13 February at 15:39 | Open on mas.to
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@MikeBeas The boost action button should now show boost and quote. If you have "single tap to boost" enabled, you'll have to hold down on the boost icon to see it.

13 February at 15:47 | Open on tapbots.social
Richard W. Woodley NO THREADS 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️

@ivory
But is it 99 and 44/100s percent pure ?

13 February at 15:36 | Open on mstdn.ca
grosser_mensch :verified:
Chris Halstead
Bill Taroli :neurodiversity:

@ivory so exciting! I’m not sure I’ll use quotes much, since mastodon is all about social engagement…. But nice to have as an option.

Managed to snag a testing slot too. Exciting. Off to do testing.

13 February at 15:39 | Open on federate.social
Ian Brown :fedi:

@ivory Great! If/when available, will you transition this to the Mastodon-native quoting mechanism?

13 February at 15:39 | Open on eupolicy.social
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@1br0wn Yes. Though pasting a mastodon url into a post will always show the post inline as well.

13 February at 15:48 | Open on tapbots.social
Bill Taroli :neurodiversity:

@ivory I like the Teo-line approach for display vs actual user name in post detail.

13 February at 15:41 | Open on federate.social
zıəs uɐɟəʇs ✪

@ivory I like the very sensitive change with the username in its own line.

13 February at 15:42 | Open on mastodon.social
Kevin Wammer | cliophate :ok:

@ivory I know I am late now, but Testflight didn't let me in, saying, "The developer removed you from the test programme."

This was back before you launched publicly. 🙃

13 February at 16:01 | Open on overkill.social
𝕄𝕣. 𝕎𝕖𝕤𝕥ℂ𝕆𝕋 :dlhotel:

@ivory Great job, looks fantastic!

On a separate note, just a minor thing, custom emoji on the top line always seems to be distorted (compressed horizontally and cut off at the top)
13 February at 16:03 | Open on worldkey.io
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@MrEPCOT Interesting. On what server? I checked the server from your current account and don't even see those? emojos.in/worldkey.io

13 February at 16:13 | Open on tapbots.social
𝕄𝕣. 𝕎𝕖𝕤𝕥ℂ𝕆𝕋 :dlhotel:

@ivory It's worldkey.io

to clarify, the jack-o-lantern was just a normal emoji for comparison
13 February at 16:25 | Open on worldkey.io
Michael Mesdag

@ivory initial reaction is I really like the usernames on a second line change. Makes sense to me as the new default

13 February at 16:08 | Open on hachyderm.io
Brandon Downs

@ivory is it expected to show quote posts of *other* quote posts as a link?
13 February at 16:10 | Open on social.sdf.org
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@bdowns No it should work. But there's been lots of reports of some posts not working and we will look into why and try to fix it.

13 February at 16:19 | Open on tapbots.social
Kristofferabild
Roman
gwil
Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@gwil No, that's what we use for our website management. 🙂

13 February at 16:31 | Open on tapbots.social
Michael
Daron Brewood 🇬🇧
tbodt

@ivory my feedback
- please put the small image thumbnails back on the right instead of below the post, this just takes up more vertical space and forces the thumbnails to ge even smaller and i see no benefit
- i don't like the usernames on separate line for similar reasons, also i'm on ipad and the screen is wide enough that i don't remember truncatipn ever being a problem

13 February at 16:40 | Open on mastodon.social
Denis

@ivory In regards to username on second line:

I think it looks fine and I don’t mind it. It’s subtle enough that it’s not distracting and to be perfectly honest, I don’t even remember what is was like before!

My suggestion: Keep it and make it an optional setting and everyone’s happy. 😊

13 February at 16:47 | Open on mastodon.world
Fuchsiii~~~

@ivory yes! I’m looking forward to it!

13 February at 16:47 | Open on oxytodon.com
Dominic :emoji_wink:

@ivory can you open more spots please?

13 February at 17:07 | Open on moth.social
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Christmassium🎄☃️
Fabster
Steven Op de beeck
Ed Worrell

@ivory are there any voiceover accessibility fixes in this release? For example: the search bar being broken at the top of the screen, and the timeline not loading properly. About three post down it will give voiceover a loading dialogue and it will kick you to the status bar.

13 February at 18:30 | Open on mastodon.social
Billy Adams
MythicMuse

@ivory Any accessibility features to report? <3

13 February at 19:03 | Open on dragonscave.space
Spooky Guy
Rick

@ivory I’m already in the TestFlight program, but all I see is 1.8.4

13 February at 19:15 | Open on geekstodon.com
Dan Gillmor

@ivory Please please do a browser version...

13 February at 19:27 | Open on mastodon.social
Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋

@ivory Any plan for a thread composer?

13 February at 23:48 | Open on mastodon.social
Paul Kuyper

@ivory @mark there it is! The Apple straw! 😁

14 February at 0:22 | Open on universeodon.com
GBlishen
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macfixer

@ivory

cAn sOmEOnE PLeAsE lEaVe ThE TESTfLiGhT So i cAN GeT In, PlEaSe? ThAnK YOu.
16 February at 14:20 | Open on mastodon.social
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