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.
@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.
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