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).
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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.
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