Gregory's ServerA few new things to check out in TestFlight for our beta testers. The iOS/iPadOS TestFlight update is out now. Still waiting for Apple to approve the version for Mac (hopefully by the end of the day).
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@zmk That's a tradeoff we are willing to make. Feels weird at first, but you get used to it. We think it's much better than the tiny images we displayed before when the post detail view should be showing them larger. Also not seeing your current account is also probably just one of those changes that feel weird because it’s new and different. We tend to run these changes our devices for at least a week to get over that feeling before we decide if it's a good change or not. @ivory New share sheet is vastly improved. Kudos. Question: when sharing from something like Flickr, is it possible to automatically pull the text from Flickr’s title field into the main text area to become the toot? Or would Flickr have to do something to make this work? @leebennett We might be able to make it an option in the future, but honestly want to keep things as simple as possible. That title is already displayed in the URL card so not sure why it needs to be repeated again? @ivory Maybe coz I add more info? It doesn’t show the title for me. Just the raw link and attaching a copy of the photo to the toot. @leebennett Ah interesting. Flickr seems to share different content depending on if you use the website or their app. When using their app, they share an image and a URL and media always takes priority for displaying a preview over a URL card. We never show both. @ivory Good observation. I almost always use the app and actually prefer that behavior. Auto-pulling Title contents to become the toot would just make the workflow a bit easier by not having to copy the Title text and paste it into the share sheet. @leebennett Yea. Just have to think about that as there are many scenarios where it's just duplicating what's already in the OpenGraph card. There are some strange scenarios like the Flickr app where this design kind of fails. 😅  @ivory does the content warning editing page still say "this design is temporary"? :) @arilin Yes because it still is. 😅 But yea we should probably remove that text for now. Thanks for the reminder. @ivory Mostly just teasing. I've never been looking at Ivory and thinking "everything is great but that content warning page!" :) (Although I'm curious what you'll eventually come up with.)  @ivory this is amazing. Great updates. I’d love to hear more about strategies you’ve used or prefer when it comes to open graph data for previews. @AwkwardChips It's always been there. We just get to use Apple's translate feature now. 🙂 @gsora Nope. View is set for the tallest media so images can be viewed at a good size vs portrait images being extremely small in the past. @gsora Yea something about that felt weird too and would probably cause other issues. The way it is now does feel strange at first, but you do get used to it over time. We think it works great and is an improvement over what we had before. @AltCode We will most likely have an option, but wanted to get everyone using this in the beta and then providing feedback (like you have). 🙂 Appreciate your thoughts.  @ivory is audio attachment support in the works? it’s a little annoying to have to miss out on them…  @ivory Yes, that's what I was referring to ... thank you for adding it! I have encountered that situation a number of times where what I really needed a translation of was the alt-text, not the actual post.   @jglypt That's not going to be for a bit. We have a bunch of things already planned to work on for the next few months at least.   @mkb We just released a big update last week! https://tapbots.social/@ivory/112751305100782738 @vaempyr You’ll have to just keep an eye out for a post when we link to openings. @ivory Any chance we will get additional fonts? Especially a font where a lower case L looks like an L instead of an I. Some apps on iOS use the font "Seravek" which I really enjoy. It's also available in Reader Mode in Safari. Maybe this would be an option for better readability? @kaiserkiwi We can put that on our list to look at and see how it goes. The answer is usually no, but since that's a system font, it's definitely a possibility. 🙂 @ivory That's pretty much the response I've expected. Maybe a bit more positive as I thought. 😊 Thank you for considering it! 💚 |
@ivory I think I get why this is happening with images (size is the max of the tallest image, which isn't this one), but it looks awfully strange and felt like a bug to me (on latest TestFlight)
(Also: I personally find the lack of my current account in the switcher _more_ confusing, not less)