Gregory's ServerMastodon 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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@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? 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  @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 @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? @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... 🙃 @gargron why I cannot use my instance in the app? Is there a way to use a custom instance url? @gargron yes! It worked :blobcatsip: Thank you for all the hard work, I love this platform! :blobcatheart: @Gargron Awesome job. FYI we are featuring @Mastodon on our Android App Store (web and native) https://en.uptodown.com/android @uptodown @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 ? @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.  @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!   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. @Gargron FDroid doesn't having the ability to rate apps. @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)  @Gargron Hope to see it on @fdroidorg soon so more folks can try it out. Oddly, didn't see a Request For Packaging yet: @AvvieLanche Explore federated content through the explore tab. It's (in my opinion) much better than the raw federated timeline. @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! @Gargron nope it just shows the spinner animation forever (or at least a few minutes, to the end of my patience with such things 😅) @Hamster Well, we obviously want the app to work for you too. Trying to understand why it didn’t! @Gargron @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.  @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.
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 @rohmatsb That’s too bad, your server toot.io might be a few versions behind and missing the explore features. |
And Mastodon for iOS has been downloaded over 87K times just in the month of April alone! Those are huge numbers!