 One of the challenging aspects of building a federated mobile app is parsing post captions and being able to render them properly See, when you make a post with mentions or hashtags, mastodon converts it to HTML and mobile apps have to deconstruct that HTML to be able to render mentions, hashtags and links properly We could just render the HTML, but when you would tap on a hashtag or mention, it would open the browser instead of in-app Indices and entity maps ftw, thanks backend! The Pixelfed backend should separate Comments/Replies to it's own table/model This won't be an easy undertaking, but it will improve performance and enable a better comments API with proper pagination I will start this process now, as I'm in the middle of shipping the Groups feature which will also require new tables/models accordingly. I promise it will be done properly, with no breakage It may seem boring to most ppl, but I love technical challenges like this Not sure why safari suddenly renders Mastodon advanced mode UI so poorly, I just accidentally boosted a post when tapping on the favourite button I know this isn't a Mastodon bug because it's fine on Chrome and Firefox *shakes fist at Safari*  @dansup It's working fine for me. Is it possible you have an extension that's interfering? Try turning off extensions if you're using them. The new Pixelfed mobile app will preserve media aspect ratios, no need to tap to view the full image as photos will be rendered to preserve native aspect ratios😎
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  @dansup Looking really forward to that update! I found most bothering that even if I tap open a pic the viewport stays limited to the area it takes when fit to the screen by its width. Maybe that's fixable too? 😬 Just finished adding like, reply, and report features to comments in the new Pixelfed app! I’m proud of the progress I’m making, just a few lil things to wrap up before it’s ready for the beta release 😁 (Then I can get back to Groups, Loops, PubKit and Sup)   Fixed Pixelfed federation with Friendica*, and will be working on PeerTube next! * - fix is now pushed! https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/5092  @dansup don’t forget those of us using brid.gy to federate/push content from our websites to our Pixelfed accounts too please 🙏🏾 @dansup Yooo this sparked some ideas about UI in fediverse apps: What if, when seeing posts from different services, each service had a UI according to the kind of service it is? A pixelfed video is normally not the same as a peertube video, so it would make sense to see each post via a UI adapted to it. Maybe even add some indication about which kind of service the post is coming from (something that indicates “this is a mastodon post” in a clean way), or add filters/tabs per serv. (…) We have created a new Matrix channel that we can properly moderate! Our Discord will remain active, and we will check both Matrix / Discord daily  @pixelfed@mastodon.social dansup don't make me ever catch you lacking again  Yes our new open source Pixelfed app will support Android, and all the features from iOS like Share Intents. It already does ✨ Shipping very soon
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   Saw someone request the ability to block hashtags so I'll be building that out tonight! Notice the Not Interested button 👀 @dansup is the "Not interested" button this ability to block hashtags? How does it work? Does it block all the hashtags present in the post? These were a lot of questions, sorry about that 😬  Pixelfed app + Share Intents Easily share photos and videos directly to the new Pixelfed app 😎  @dansup It would only be "easy" if you could configure the apps and their order, which Apple displays in the share dialogue. Pixelfed admins: Curated Onboarding now has mass actions so you can more easily manage applicants! Now available ✨ So I mentioned last night that my open-source work on the fediverse (mastodon, pixelfed, etc) was funded for 10-13 hours per month, in my head I had a figure of €1000/month that I was using as the donation income I receive. I just checked and it's actually closer to €700/month. Your support for my work is greatly appreciated & helps enable work that quietly affects about a million people. Pixelfed admins: Curated Onboarding now has mass actions so you can more easily manage applicants! Now available ✨ I'm so happy to see Gargron living his best life, he's done so freakin' much for the fediverse It's so heartwarming to see him travel around the world with his wifey, that iconic Mastodon plushie (omg I want one), and his photography from all those places He totes deserves all this success and more, and I look forward to the day that we can meet in person, he is my hero ❤️ An amazing in-person #Fediverse meetup with @miaq @Gargron @J12t @andypiper and more. Meeting moderators, users, and some of the folks building apps.  @brunomiguel @dansup @fdroidorg Yes! We have our own F-Droid repo, but we plan to submit our app to the official one now that it's fully open source and AGPL licensed! PS: F-Droid, we love you 😘 I have a ton of small things to finish before I can ship the new Pixelfed app, that being said I do want to get it in your hands ASAP I’m planning to release an alpha build APK this weekend (some things may not fully work yet, but you will have a chance to see the huge improvements and help provide feedback) And by small things I mean non-essential features like viewing who you blocked, or accepting follow requests. While they are important to finish before the public release, being able to have an early preview and provide feedback will help me a lot! |
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@dansup Does Mastodon not use id or class attributes or something like that to tag the different kinds of content?
@dansup Weirdly most mastodon clients I’ve tried handle Pixelfed posts like this… all hashtags are just hyperlinks to original instance search. Very annoying.
I am stoked that you are working on such quality of life feature for the app!