James ThomsonNow that Twitter has killed off 3rd-party apps, those developers could do with your help. If you have active subscriptions, don’t ask Apple for refunds, because all of them happening at once would be a huge financial burden on the devs. If you can, send them a tip, or buy one of their other products instead. Yes, I’m telling you to buy CalcBot.
rstevens 🐳💨✅@jamesthomson i wish i could buy pastebot like six more times
@rstevens Time to create some pseudonyms!
BoxOfRain@jamesthomson
My Tweetbot sub is just about to renew and I am most definitely leaving it to do so.
My Tweetbot sub is just about to renew and I am most definitely leaving it to do so.
Stefan Scholl@boxofrain @jamesthomson they removed TweetBot from the store. It probably doesn't renew it anymore.
@Stefan_S_from_H @jamesthomson
Yeah, I saw. (It still shows up in my subscriptions.)
I’m just going to leave it and see what happens.
Until subscriptions for Ivory turn on.
paul@jamesthomson Bought Calcbot the other day and literally only just noticed that turning to landscape mode switches to a fully spec’d scientific calculator 😀 brilliant! Thanks @tapbots
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Slade Watkins@jamesthomson Way ahead of you!
Beto@jamesthomson I’ve been using Calcbot for over 10 years now. I can’t live without it. I will always recommend it.
@Bto I mentioned that explicitly because I make PCalc :)
@jamesthomson super cool man. I’ve never tried that one. Will do.
Scott@jamesthomson the latest beta of Ivory has subscriptions. Subscribed! I suggest everyone else do that too
@scottearle The subscriptions in TestFlight apps are not charged for, that doesn’t provide any income, unfortunately.
@jamesthomson awww. Well I’ll subscribe when it’s released!
@jamesthomson and then switch back to the beta, of course
jc_cam@jamesthomson OK, done 😏
Tom Harvey@jamesthomson if you’ve previously brought TweetBot 5, you can re-download / tip within that too fwiw
@tombuildsstuff Good point!
Manuel Ballester@jamesthomson @tombuildsstuff Done! Tweetbot has been on my main screen for years.
Jeremy Latour@tombuildsstuff @jamesthomson Great tip for making great tips!
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Preshit Deorukhkar@tombuildsstuff @jamesthomson I have seen a bunch of people recommend tips & buying their apps. Pardon my ignorance, but isn’t Apple taking an unnecessary cut out of all of this? Wouldn’t it be better to give them directly, the way The Iconfactory has a patreon? Is there a benefit to letting the App Store handle payments in this case?
@preshit @tombuildsstuff Sure, if that’s available, that’s one way too. But the App Store is easiest for many.
@preshit @jamesthomson they don’t have a patreon at this time
Sebastian Niesen@tombuildsstuff @jamesthomson Since @mark and @paul ignored my question for a PayPal address, I used that option a couple of times today.
TK@tombuildsstuff @jamesthomson thanks for the tip! Lunch sent.
rick@tombuildsstuff @jamesthomson thanks for sharing this. I bought CalcBot a long time ago but this worked great. I really wish I they'd just release @ivory with a less ambitious initial feature set and let me subscribe to that though. :)
Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️⚧️♾️🇺🇦@tombuildsstuff @jamesthomson I have Tweetbot 5 still but I can’t find that option. I can’t find “Settings” at all inside the app.
@tombuildsstuff @jamesthomson Ah, I found it! Because I had not used or signed in with the app for years (old version), it didn’t have my avatar, and the “Account” button in the top left was white, the same color as the background. It was there but invisible.
Jason Meaden@tombuildsstuff @jamesthomson Thanks for the ‘tip’. I had left my subscription enabled, figuring I’d give them another few bucks on Feb 2 when it renews, then shut it down - but after digging around to unhide the previous version purchase, I’ve donated a couple of lunch tips.
@tombuildsstuff @jamesthomson As an aside, digging through my previously forgotten about hidden purchases was a weird trip around my digital garage (replace with basement or attic depending on your equivalent cultural term for ‘place where junk that should have been thrown out is stored’)
Numeric Citizen@[email protected] already bought CalcBot.
Agneev Mukherjee@jamesthomson Calcbot is absolutely great!
Bleak Future@bleakfuture Thank you, that’s very kind. I just hate seeing small indie devs getting screwed over by one of the richest people on the planet.
Donnie Harkcom@jamesthomson you’re a good man!
@donnieharkcom I try to be!
Claudiu Ciungan@jamesthomson it just feels like Twitter is slowly/not so slowly imploding bit by bit.
@mostlyvirtual Very much so.
Jeff@jamesthomson What would be an even better plan would be for all the folks that paid for Twitter Blue or whatever it’s called now to ask what’s his name for a refund. So many people wanting money back from Devs that had no say in it, and then complain that the Twitter app sucks. Meanwhile, they’re verified.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@JPZ Very true!
Warner Crocker@jamesthomson You are a gentleman and a scholar, sir. 🫡
@WarnerCrocker I try, at least!
@jamesthomson That’s all any of us can do and in the end that’s where the payoff is.
Joseph Lamoree@jamesthomson If someone had once installed Tweetbot 5 but is unsure how to reinstall and give a tip, I recorded the process.
@jamesthomson Done! I will still use your app because of the old widget support. It’s really useful!
@angelcolton Glad to hear!
@jamesthomson Thanks for this. I bought Calcbot yesterday.
@jamesthomson Nice! I’ve bought (I think) all of the @tapbots apps to complete my collection in the last few days, and bought a good few lunches with the Tweetbots 5 tips feature. I could be accused of getting carried away, sure, but mostly I’m just bloody furious for @mark and @paul to be honest.
@jamesthomson Had the same thoughts and bought CalcBot yesterday.
KenDisbrow@jamesthomson Done. You can never have enough calculator apps. (Or dice apps!)
Rett Crocker
Christian ♭- har flyttat till@jamesthomson Did not even know that it existed but now I'm a fan. The conversion functions will make my life so much easier.
Jason Townsend@jamesthomson I bought Calcbot today to support Tapbots… but it won’t displace PCalc for me because I love the RPN feature!
🍌 Tim MahoneyER: RPN support in Swift
Martin Juhasz@jamesthomson might there be an option without apple taking 30%?
@martinjuhasz I’m not aware of one, although I think they sell some Mac software direct.