Day 1: Trending hashtags
Mastodon servers can report information about the hashtags that are trending, and #Tusky now shows this information for you. It's accessible from the left-hand navigation menu, and you can also add it as a dedicated tab.
I've attached a screenshot so you can see what it's like.
The work was done by @knossos in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3149
Day 2: Editing image description and focus point
#Tusky v21 introduced support for editing the text of your posts.
Unfortunately, Mastodon introduced support for editing image descriptions and focus points too late in the release process for Tusky 21 for it to be included in Tusky (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/20878).
This adds a media_attributes parameter to PUT /api/v1/statuses/:id. media_attributes is an array, items of which have the following attributes: id: the identifier of the media attachment to be mod...
But here we are, a few months later, and #Tusky v22 supports this too. When you're editing one of your posts you can now tap any images you attached and edit the description and focus point.
@Tak did a lot of the initial work to support post editing in Tusky, and he's responsible for this new feature too, in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3215.
Completes #3211 We could also add support for viewing them in the edit history view, but I think that will maybe not be super useful since that view is mainly for seeing the history of other people...
Day 3: #Tusky v22 is smarter about the language defaults when you reply to a post.
The list of languages in the language menu is now sorted to prioritise:
- The language the post you're replying to was written in
- Your default posting language
- The languages you've configured in Tusky
- The languages you've configured in Android (Settings > System > Languages and Input)
@Tak did the work here, in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3293.
Day 4: Android Notifications
#Tusky v22.0 changes how Android notifications are displayed.
There's quite a lot to cover, and rather than spam the feed with 20+ posts I've put the write-up at https://write.as/nikclayton/tusky-v22-0-day-4-android-notifications
Day 5: The Notifications Tab
The #Tusky notifications tab has got some new behaviour in v22.0.
Like yesterday there's quite a lot to cover here, so I've written about it over at https://write.as/nikclayton/tusky-v22-0-day-5-the-notifications-tab
Shorter updates to resume tomorrow...
Day 6: Show media controls for audio files
This was a regression in #Tusky v21 -- if you were playing audio file attachments the controls (play, pause, etc) would disappear, and tapping on the screen would not bring them back.
That's obviously not great.
@vv noticed this and provided a very clear bug report. @EricFrohnhoefer did the work to fix this in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3286.
Partially related to 3170e1c Moved code to show UI to OnPreparedListener because internally VideoView calls MediaController#setEnabled() in onPrepared(). Calling MediaController#show() before Medi...
Day 7: Additional filtering controls
Mastodon 4.x introduced new filter options.
New filters have names, so you can give a filter a name that does not include the text you are filtering.
Filters can also be configured to hide content or show a warning.
And a single filter can be used to filter out multiple different words, instead of needing one filter per word.
The new filter support in #Tusky supports all these options, thanks to @Tak in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3188
Day 8: See what's changed in edited posts
In #Tusky v22.0 you can now see what's changed when a post has been edited. Deleted text is shown with a red background and struck through, while new text is shown in bold with a green background.
This is a great example of the collaborative nature of open source. I did the initial work in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3314, using DiffX, a third-party library that computes text differences (https://github.com/pageseeder/diffx).
Diff each status against the previous version, comparing the different HTML as XML to produce a structured diff. Mark new content with <tusky-ins>, deleted content with <tusky-del>. Convert these t...
Then @rauschen noticed that this didn't work well with text that contained accented characters, provided an example, and a fix (https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3314#issuecomment-1429669093).
We reported this to the DiffX maintainers in https://github.com/pageseeder/diffx/issues/10, they took the fix, released a new version, and now everyone else that uses their library benefits too.
Diff each status against the previous version, comparing the different HTML as XML to produce a structured diff. Mark new content with <tusky-ins>, deleted content with <tusky-del>. Convert these t...
There are two bugs we know about that will be fixed in the 22.1 release, and are already fixed in #Tusky nightly.
1. The mechanism that's used to highlight changes does not work well if the changes run over more than one line. The change highlighting runs off the right margin.
2. Your server might know that a post has been edited, but it does not have a copy of the actual edits, so it doesn't return them. If this happens Tusky will crash. Sorry about that, https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/25398.
Steps to reproduce the problem 1 - search for status On a Mastodon server running 4.1.2 (I used tooot.im), search for the post with the URL https://spore.social/@tamarasiuda/110522895217050705. Not...
Day 9: Account headers
In #Tusky 21 you could view an account and tap the avatar picture to view it full screen.
But you couldn't do that with the account's header image. Now you can.
KWierso (https://github.com/KWierso) noticed this and suggested it should be fixed, and @Tak made the change in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3274.
It was also possible for an account's header image to obscure the buttons at the top of the page. I fixed that in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3272.
Day 10: Accessibility improvements
We made a number of changes in #Tusky 22.0 to improve accessibility
Some users reported that the design of the "Load more" break made it difficult to spot amongst other posts in a timeline.
@lakoja updated the design so that it is more visually distinctive in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3376.
The swipe-to-refresh gesture is not always accessible to assistive devices. I added an accessible "Refresh" menu entry as an alternative in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3121.
Clickable spans in textviews do not normally meet the Android accessibility guidelines of a minimum 48dp square touch target. This can't be fixed with a TouchDelegate, as the span is not a separate...
Day 11: Show post statistics in the timeline
#Tusky 22.0 can now show the number of replies, boosts, and favourites posts have on the main timeline.
Previously this information was only available if you tapped on the post.
This is off by default, and enabled with "Preferences > Show post statistics in timeline".
Grigorii Ioffe (https://github.com/zikasak) did this and made their first contribution to Tusky, in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3413
Day 12: Confirmations as menus
(back from a brief hiatus, it's been a busy week)
Boosting or favouriting a post in #Tusky could show a dialog to confirm the action.
This didn't work well for posts with images. Or polls. Or that were very long. And the dialog obscured the post.
Now it's a menu. You can see the post, and this paves the way for extra options in the future. Like "Favourite as..." so you can perform these actions with a different account.
I did this, in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3418.
The previous code used dialogs and displayed the text of the status when reblogging or favouriting. This didn't work when the post just contained images, and other material from the status (content...
Day 13: Follower bios in notifications
I'd get a follower notification in #Tusky, then tap through to their profile page to read their bio.
After a while this got tedious, so now notifications about new followers, and follow requests include the person's bio.
I did this for follow notifications https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3281, @mcc provided the very sensible feedback that it should appear for follow requests as well.
This makes the notification view for a follow request contain more info about the new follower, and makes the layout (of their name / username) consistent with other notifications that show names/u...
@nikclayton Any path to aggregating the favourites and boosts so that the notifications aren't overwhelmed by a popular post?
Of course we can filter, but seeing "xyz and 23 others favourited your post" would be a nice step forward.
@nikclayton @Tusky @lakoja Question:
Has more keyboard shortcuts been added as a suggestion yet?
E.:
G
R = reply
L = liking/favoriting
B (or T) = Boosting
CTRL+N & CTRL+Enter for ‘New Toot’ & ‘Sending a toot’ respectfully, are already there.
Unless I missed these?
Do correct if so.
@nikclayton Issue created!
https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issues/3765
Thanks for recommending me to create said topic!
@nikclayton Nice! I just noticed, you can't even do that on the default mastodon web client. (v4.0.2)
@Scribs It (seeing that a post has been edited, and see the different versions of the post) is a Mastodon feature. You can do this in the web UI too.
Although Tusky's presentation of the differences is more useful.
You can also delete a post entirely and post a new one if you prefer, although that'll be weird if people have replied to the original post.
@nikclayton @Tusky Y’all guys do amazing work. May more #Fediverse & #Threadiverse applications follow your lead, especially with adding ‘custom accessibility actions within menus for #Talkback & other screen reader apps such as #Jieshuo.
Keep it up!
@nikclayton Thank you, kind sir! Your app is excellent.
Might I request the future addition of a quick shortcut for toggling between "all notifications" and "mentions only" on the fly?
@nikclayton nice article!
I noticed that the link to the mastodon server issue link is not working. You have a "(" too much at the end.
@picard that'll depend on the specific web UI you use (Mastodon, Symphony, Elk, etc) and when they decide to update the marker.
If they don't use the marker, but just maintain their local idea of the reading position you'll see duplicate notifications between them all as well.
I'm not familiar enough with their code to say exactly what their behaviour is.
@nikclayton @knossos It's great seeing the app getting better day by day! Do you also consider adding support for quoted posts, like Fedilab did some time before?
BTW: I just saw your profile. A long time ago I was 2:2437/44.2
@heluecht @knossos Not explicitly yet, which just means no one's really thought about it. Filing an issue at https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issues would be the way to go.
And yes, @tomjennings has a lot to answer for :-)
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