On the subject of Reddit API shutdown — why is adversarial interoperability not a thing any more? Why does everyone play by the rules these days? Many years ago, ICQ was the most popular IM service around me, but almost no one used the crappy official clients. Most people have never even seen them. The protocol was reverse engineered and documented and the 3rd-party client scene flourished. What happened to this attitude? Is it because of the mobile app stores? @grishka, смотри, сейчас всё делается для юзеров Айфона. Вышла новая фича iOS = все приложения до релиза нового iPhone или iOS ещё в бета-версии ос делают эту фичу. А что с Android: тот же Mir Pay только через 2-3 месяца после релиза свежей версии Android'а оптимизируют работу под эту ОС. Или вот пример: Яндекс и ВКонтакте, в Android 13 Google кардинально поменяла плеер в статус-баре, а они до сих пор не адаптировали свои приложения под Android 13. @grishka cute! Is this a super-nice coincidence, or was the original name influenced by the show?
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@grishka @samhenrigold @dlx this is NOT what I meant when I said "I want Windows Phone back" Rewrote the database connection management in #Smithereen. Used to be one connection per thread, now it's a global connection pool that grows and shrinks in response to load. What's more, it feels like pages load faster now! Didn't expect that. If you're using an Android phone, which Android version does it run? I'm seeing a very unusual version distribution in Google Play for the Mastodon app — more then half (!!) of all users are already on Android 13. It's been out for less than a year! Meanwhile, 7 and 6 are 0.5% combined. This breaks every assumption about Android versions I've ever had during my entire career. My intuition tells me 10-11 should be most popular. Let's prove or disprove it with this poll. Anonymous poll
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12 or newer
30
53.6%
10 or 11
16
28.6%
8 or 9
8
14.3%
7 or older
56 people voted. 2
3.6%
Voting ended 30 Apr 2023 at 7:39. And it is kinda like this, 11 *is* the most popular according to *some* statistics: One more thing I forgot: there's now support for federation blocking. Blocked domains are always publicly displayed in /system/about. The next release will be even more important: I'll implement private messages and friends-/followers-only posts, at last! As far as federation is concerned, this will bring feature parity with Mastodon. What do I read to gain a better understanding of old-school properly-desktop UI design? By "properly-desktop" I mean multiple windows, primarily oriented at mice and keyboards. With power users in mind, pretty much the opposite of the modern "clean" stuff. I'm good at copying things and picking up patterns from other people's work, but I'd like to get better at designing my own desktop UIs from scratch.
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@grishka “About Face” by Alan Cooper maybe? Haven't read it personally (remember it being referenced in a UI/UX course I took back in the days though) but the older editions seem to fit the bill, the 3rd one is from 2007: @grishka kinda late to this but check out older versions of the Macintosh interface guidelines. Here's one from 1995 http://interface.free.fr/Archives/Apple_HIGuidelines.pdf but even some of the later ones are solid. https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/189487 It never works for me, when I have unlimited WIFI it always switch to 480p quality, but when I have limited mobile connection it switch to the highest quality Can't wait for that part of The Twitter Files™ where they reveal the internal communications about blocking everything related to Mastodon. @grishka here I had the same thought, after reading this tweet: https://nitter.kavin.rocks/kyliebytes/status/1603571571473281025#m I just completed "Calorie Counting" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2022 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/1 #Smithereen 0.4.4 is out! Walls are good, but you know what often appears on them IRL? Graffiti! Now you can draw things on people's walls. Meticulously ported to JS/HTML5 from VK's original Flash graffiti editor. Desktop only. This release also includes extensive internal changes that make the codebase more resilient to bugs. |