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Eugen Rochko

Mastodon for Android has been installed over 32K times! Still only 400 ratings though. Please don't forget to rate the app!

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Eugen Rochko

And Mastodon for iOS has been downloaded over 87K times just in the month of April alone! Those are huge numbers!

  Heinz Skunk

@Gargron do you think mastodon has a much bigger iOS user base or are people using mastodon also very likely to use sources like f-droid on android?

  Lafontaine La Fontaine

@Gargron Deserved Eugen, definitely deserved! 😬

  Eugen Rochko

I submitted a request to Apple for the app to be featured on the App Store, would really love to see it in their "Social Networking Basics" list

  Alessio Maffeis
  LambLeeg :blobfoxcomfysip:

@Gargron I tried that app and am currently writing it from it, and there are a couple of questions: lacking functionality and bugs, for example when I'm typing a toot and cut all text all just crashes (OnePlus 9R, Android 12). Otherwise it's ok but feels raw

  Maria Liv

@Gargron Yes, but when I download it, I just get Finnish as language and I can not change it to English or anything else. So if people get that problem (or similar) they will probably not use the app. 😔

  Eugen Rochko

@marialiv Yeah, we have a number of 1-star ratings because of this. Somehow, a sv-FI translation has been added, and somebody translated it into Finnish, and the actual Finnish translation is empty. But I think 1.4.0 added Swedish?

  Maria Liv

@Gargron I did see some Swedish in the sign in, but then it's all Finnish. I downloaded it again now and got in by guessing the Finnish words. But it's better to skip the Nordic countries languages completely and just keep everything in English. We do all speak English from early childhood but we usually don't understand each others Nordic languages... 🙃

  Rafael Carício 🇺🇦

@gargron why I cannot use my instance in the app? Is there a way to use a custom instance url?

  Eugen Rochko

@rafael Of course there is. Enter the domain into the search field.

  Rafael Carício 🇺🇦

@gargron yes! It worked :blobcatsip: Thank you for all the hard work, I love this platform! :blobcatheart:

  Luis Hernández

@Gargron Awesome job. FYI we are featuring @Mastodon on our Android App Store (web and native) en.uptodown.com/android @uptodown

  weltsnake :mastodon:

@Gargron that would be awesome to see :blobcat:

  hae_aehm

@Gargron can you cooperate with metatext? because metatext is really a good alternative, the native mastodon app lacks some functions e.g. i can not use mastodon . social on it

  TheNextOne

@Gargron I agree that Mastodon should get featured on the App Store.

  d i r k
  stux⚡

@Gargron How many ratings total on iOS? :ed_grin:​

  谁能不爱小白狗🦩

@Gargron probably thanks to Elon and Jinping:ablobcatwave:

  Louis R. Couture

@Gargron what technical challenges would there be for someone who knows swift ui to just fork the iPad app and make a Mac one. Is it something that was considered and deemed not feasible or just something that you just did not bother looking at ?

  jon

@Gargron is there a proper place to ask for improved behavior for iPad in horizontal mode? With that configuration, there’s a main column timeline taking 3/4 of screen and a smaller 1/4 area on the right that often has things I want to see in the main view. In particular, when I was setting things up, the main 3/4 window was blank until I started following people so the initial experience was poor. I’m mostly using Metatext now so not a big deal overall.

  Shawn Morphic

@Gargron like pavement once wrote : it's a brand new era, and it feels great ....

  tekphloyd

@Gargron oh I forgot… sorted! 😉 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

  Kashouri

@Gargron Great numbers, I’m one of them. The app is really smooth and I look forward to reading about how you iterate on it going forward.

Keep up the great experience 😀

  Malcolm Bastien

@Gargron Honestly I hope for good retention numbers! Great that people are checking the service out and downloading the app, creating accounts. I hope they all stick around!

  Char

@Gargron would be nice if the iOS app allowed switching between local and federated

  d i r k
Andriana

@Gargron Δε θες αγαπημεμε admin. Μην προκαλεις την τυχη σου!

Nordnick :verified:

@Gargron
Any ETA regarding a release on F-Droid?

  Григорий Клюшников

Nordnick, apparently something as trivial as the requirement of JDK 17 is a showstopper for them and now we gotta wait approximately one eternity for them to update the Debian image for their CI container... Because, of course, downloading a .deb file with prebuilt OpenJDK and installing it as part of the build script is also a non-starter, for reasons.
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/10909

Qyv (;* Semi-Tootergeist *;) 🍍

@Gargron
I didn't download it from #Google, I downloaded it from #FDroid via @IzzyOnDroid 's repo.

FDroid doesn't having the ability to rate apps.

Corroncio

@Gargron bueno, yo la he instalado dos veces. 😬

BongoBaggins

@Gargron It doesn't have a federated or local timeline on it, just home. I'll rate it when it does (Tusky and Tooot does)

karlggest

@Gargron seems to work fine, but I like a view for local tl.

Michael Downey 🇺🇳

@Gargron Hope to see it on @fdroidorg soon so more folks can try it out. Oddly, didn't see a Request For Packaging yet:

gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/-/issues

DELETED

@Gargron I don't know how to get to federated timeline though the app. I'm seeing only my followed content, which isnt much, and I can't find new things to follow without federated access. I dont wanna leave any ratings until I get this figured out.

  Eugen Rochko

@AvvieLanche Explore federated content through the explore tab. It's (in my opinion) much better than the raw federated timeline.

DNA schedule

@Gargron for me it won't load the "hashtags," "news," etc views. So I'm not ready to give it a good rating because it's clearly broken but I assumed it was because of growing pains. (These views do load for me on web.) I'll certainly review it in time!

  Eugen Rochko

@ryanprior Weird! Not even hashtags? I don't know how that could happen.

  DNA schedule

@Gargron nope it just shows the spinner animation forever (or at least a few minutes, to the end of my patience with such things 😅)

Ofmine

@Gargron I use Tusky. To be honest, I used MfA first and had problems with it.
I couldn't see the follows of a person.

  Eugen Rochko

@Ofmine That's coming soon, sorry for the inconvenience.

  Ofmine

@Gargron tell me if you have it, I will try then again.
Tusky also don't show every follower, sadly. But at least I can see some of them.

Chiemgauer Regionalwährung
Célistine 🏳️‍⚧️

@Gargron I can't seem to connect to Mastodon.social from within the app

pas un réseau social

@Gargron

(one more voice) requesting support for image descriptions

por favor

Hamster

@Gargron
Does not poll on my Android 8.1.0 😭​
Deinstalled.

  Eugen Rochko

@Hamster Please elaborate what the issue is

  Hamster

@Gargron
It's all fine with Opera Browser, but the app displayed the same content over three days. That's all what I can say.

  Eugen Rochko
  Hamster

@Gargron
Yes, but on other hand I'm a 67 Y old grandpa and maybe this is the problem?
Anyway, it works on my browser and it's ok 4 me.

  Eugen Rochko

@Hamster Well, we obviously want the app to work for you too. Trying to understand why it didn’t!

(((webhat)))
canbi
Axel

@Gargron
There are no ratings in the #FDroid-Store :mastoface_with_rolling_eyes:
By now can I also see content in the News and Community tabs in the #MastodonApp, so I can see an improvement there (which might also be due to the update of the instance's server).
For new arrivals it's definitely a bummer that the tabs that might help them discover new people around them remain empty in the beginning :mastoface_with_rolling_eyes:
But it's a solid four and a half stars...

Sten J. Pettersen
fyrfli :debian: :bash:

@Gargron I’m one of those people who don’t do ratings and am annoyed like nothing to have the constant pop-ups asking me to. To be honest, it never once occurred to me that my radical rebelliousness might actually have a negative effect on the app developers. 😞 Thanks for setting me straight.

ArtBrew

@Gargron the app doesn't allow basic things like clicking on followers to see who is following you or clicking on someone else and seeing who they follow

  Eugen Rochko

@ArtBrew Yes, that will be available soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.

  ArtBrew

@Gargron thank you for all you do and have done. It is appreciated.

Jonathan Carreño
Felipe 💀🎃 :amogus: 🕷️
DER | SCHWΛBE

@Gargron Using it since yesterday. Looks quite good so far. 👍 Would be great if I can add tabs for DM or hashtags. And a language filter for the "feed" would be be to filter Arabic etc which I can't read or add GIF to a toot. Does it only show the the local "feed"? At least it looks to me. Started with #mastodon yesterday evening.

mondstern

@Gargron
Maybe only in Gplay.

Fortunately, this does not work in fdroid.

[DATA EXPUNGED]
Gerard

@Gargron I didn't even know there was an app until recently. So far the webapp version works nicely. Any good reason to switch to the native app?

FabLab
d i r k
xavives

@Gargron is the app open source? Would appreciate to see it in F-droid :) I am using Tusky at the moment as it is there

Roh 👻

@Gargron i'm coming back to tusky, the federated timeline is not there. And the explore tab show nothing amd just 404 not found. I'm on small server

  Eugen Rochko

@rohmatsb That’s too bad, your server toot.io might be a few versions behind and missing the explore features.

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