Strangers offering unsolicited advice or derailing conversations should be familiar to all who use social media. In our new #Mastodon for Android update, we’re testing a new feature aimed to curb these behaviours:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/11/improving-the-quality-of-conversations-on-mastodon/
@Mastodon happy to derail here to maybe prioritize fixing bugs, instead of feature creeping.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/396#issuecomment-1313949488
@Gargron @AliveDevil @Mastodon
Yes please DO some bugfixes.
After the new update, the "standard" Mastodon Android App is almost unusable.
Something seems to be wrong with the power management on smartphones or so.
I'm no expert but it almost killed my battery.
Which is much more of a "unpleasant experience" to me than strangers trying to explain something (who I can block in the worst case).
👉👈 🥺
To defend both @Gargron and the android team over at @Mastodon
There is like a gazillion different android devices out there, and not all can be tested - if there is battery drain issues or app crashes without a recent opened or closed ticket looking roughly the same then the chance is high that the issue is either undetected or no one reported it yet.
Creating a ticket on the Mastodon-Android repository then (with log-details as described in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android/issues/741#issuecomment-1820060642 ) should be the first step to get this fixed.
I don't know whether there are any (or good) metrics reported by the play-store - but I can tell from a Microsoft Store-developer perspective some metrics are just unusable.
Unknown - great.
@AliveDevil @Gargron @Mastodon
Samsung Galaxy XCover 5 is a VERY common smartphone though.
There is a notice on github already, don't know if to all issues, but at least the developers schould know by now something isn't working as it should.
I know mistakes happen and you can't prevent that for 100% but it's just that the situation right now is .. not good.
@berlinfokus @Gargron @AliveDevil @Mastodon
App developer here. What do you mean "killed my battery"? Can you please elaborate on the problem you're having? Can you also please make sure you're on the latest version (2.2.3)?
@grishka @Gargron @AliveDevil @Mastodon
Guess if I see the "please be polite" notice I have the newest version. (yep it's 2.2.3)
It started by crashing when I tapped on my notifications (in the app), then the OS said the mastodon App is using an awful lot of energy and now I'm being shown this 👇 sign on my phone constantly.
Can't tell you really more, exept the model that I use (thread), because I'm not an App Developer or so.
@berlinfokus @Gargron @AliveDevil @Mastodon
Your phone is most probably a Samsung and you turned on a power saving mode. You can turn it off in Settings -> Device care -> Battery -> Power mode. And yes, Samsung's "device care" is stupid because it thinks that if an app is crashing repeatedly, it must be "using a lot of energy".
@grishka @Gargron @AliveDevil @Mastodon
Ah okay.
Yes, as I wrote before it's a Samsung Galaxy XCover 5.
So it just assumed that the App is using a lot of energy which it didn't.
I turned that switch you showed on (power saving mode) because OS told me to do so, now I guess I can turn it back off.
Then again my view is that the App shouldn't be crashing repeatedly anyway, don't you think?
@berlinfokus @Gargron @AliveDevil @Mastodon
Of course it shouldn't. But as with any sufficiently complex software project, sometimes bugs do slip through the cracks and it does happen. Yesterday's update fixed that particular crash. That's why I was asking if you installed it.
@grishka @Gargron @AliveDevil @Mastodon
Yes I did.
All I have to do now is apparently to get rid of that stupid sign in my top notifications.
Just won't go away.
But at least I know now it's harmless.
@berlinfokus @Gargron @AliveDevil @Mastodon
That icon is for "medium power saving" mode, just switch to "optimized" and it will go away
@grishka @Gargron @AliveDevil @Mastodon
Thanks for the info.
I did what you said, but it's still there.
But don't bother I'll find out how to get rid of it.
I got something to do now, and you know now that you don't.
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