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...
@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.
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