Mastodawn

Today in the Kitchen at Cake HQ:
Its been a while! We've switched to our own in-house Mastodon library, bringing better reliability and control. Mastodon also gets quoting support, lists, a brand new streaming backend and API V2 uploads. Telegram picks up topics support, a shared media buffer, and library updates.

Find more changes in the full changelog: https://tweesecake.app/changes

TweeseCake | Change log

TweeseCake 3d ago

Due to internal changes, if you get buffers with empty items on Mastodon, you may need to remove your database files from %appdata%/tweesecake, or userdata for portable setups.

Chris Smart 3d ago

@app I'm running portable and can't find userdata anywhere. Is taht a folder? I need this put very simply. LOL

TweeseCake 3d ago

@VE3RWJ So even if the app is being ran portably, unless you do it manually, it still saves data to %appdata%\TweeseCake. So you should press windows+r, type %appdata%\TweeseCake and then remove the DB files and data folder from your mastodon-x folders where x is the number.

Chris Smart 3d ago

@app OK and the database files all end in extension .db?

TweeseCake 3d ago

@VE3RWJ Yep, that's correct.

Chris Smart 3d ago

@app ok thanks...

TweeseCake 3d ago

@VE3RWJ basically, you just want to be left with the session.json file, and the session.json.bak file.

Chris Smart 3d ago

@app Sorry, one more stupid question. I have now lost bookmarks, local, and federated buffers. Where do I go to bring those back?

TweeseCake 3d ago

@VE3RWJ so all of those buffers are in the shift f10/applications context menu.

Chris Smart 3d ago

@app and thanks for continuing to develop Tweesecake by the way.

Chris Smart 3d ago

@app never mind. Just found them. LOL I haven't done this in years.

TweeseCake 3d ago

@VE3RWJ Yeah, sorry for the little inconvenience there.

Chris Smart 3d ago

Chris Smart 3d ago

@app Hmm, bookmarks not populating. I just bookmarked something and it didn't show up either. I'll live haha.

Rick Harmon 3d ago

@app Thanks, I was wondering about that.

K. A. Andrews 3d ago

@app Only the .db files? There are .db-shm and .db-wal files in here too, and I don't know if I need to delete those.

TweeseCake 3d ago

@silveraura7 Yes, delete those as well just to be safe. But do it with the app closed of course or it won't let you

K. A. Andrews 3d ago

@app Found what I needed. Thanks for the app update!

Chris Smart 3d ago

@app Looks like I do have a C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Roaming\TweeseCake after all. OK. what files am I supposed to delete?

@app Thanks for the update. I appreciate all of your work.

David Dunphy 3d ago

@app Yeah, was a little horrified to see the cake not showing anything in the update. Thanks to Shane I figured out how to fix it

Big Pawed Bear 3d ago

@app I got this, thx for the work around.

@app glad you guys are back

Nikola Jović 3d ago

@app I was positively surprised when I got an update notice. I still use this client, mainly for its excellent Telegram support, and so glad you got the support for topics, that was one thing which really made me reconsider my client choice. On the Mastodon side, not sure what's up with that but when I updated, my list of posts simply showed empty items. I deleted and re-added the session, and now it's back to normal.

Tech Singer 3d ago

@app thanks very much for this. I'm hearing "stream connection lost" quite often. Is this normal?

TweeseCake 3d ago

@techsinger Could be an issue with either your connection or the instance. We're on the same instance as you are here and don't see that message.

Tech Singer 3d ago

@app Is there a method of knowing what it could be? Also, I have two remote instance timelines open. Could it be those?

TweeseCake 3d ago

@techsinger Remote instance timelines don't stream, so not likely.

Tech Singer 3d ago

@app Also, if I may ask, is there a way to stop that message from being spoken? If it goes down it goes down, but I assume it will come up again.

TweeseCake 3d ago

@techsinger as of this current moment, no.

Tech Singer 3d ago

@app thanks very much. Something weird, though. I put "stream connection lost" in my NVDA dictionary and it's still saying it. Also, it's not in my speech history for NVDA. Do you have any ideas on this?

TweeseCake 3d ago

@techsinger NVDA's gotten kind of weird about things that it actually passes through the dictionary now adays. It used to be that anything that was spoken was passed through, now that's not always the case.

Tech Singer 3d ago

@app Again, thanks for the answers. One more question. I have disabled streaming. I've never done that before. What should I expect?

TweeseCake 3d ago

@techsinger Posts might just come in on a small delay.

Tech Singer 3d ago

@app lovely. Thanks very much.

Tech Singer 3d ago

@app wtf? I think I'm losing it. I just heard it say "stream connection lost" again. Is it possible that it's doing that despite streaming having been disabled and my having restarted?

TweeseCake 3d ago

@techsinger Wait a sec. Could another app on your system possibly be doing that?

TweeseCake 3d ago

@techsinger Hahaha. You're running FastSM, and that's what's doing it. I just looked and TC's code doesn't say stream connection lost anywhere, FastSM's does.

Tech Singer 3d ago

@app genius. There's no other word. Pure genius. Sorry to have disturbed. Just to show you the stupidity of the user, I was running SM on my 10 machine and TC on my Windows 7 machine. I didn't know which was saying it, obviously. Talk about bad timing. Again,
sorry to have disturbed

TweeseCake 3d ago

@techsinger Hahahahahaha! I'm very amused.

Tech Singer 3d ago

@app Oh, and another thing, just FYI. I can now launch TC on Windows 7 seemingly without VXKex. The checkboxEnable VxKex for this program is off, but it's working without issue so far as I can see.

TweeseCake 3d ago

@techsinger What in the world, how odd. I have no explanation for that currently.

Tech Singer 3d ago

@app no clue. Maybe it's because VX is installed? Again, though, tc .9 has that box completely unchecked, no other stuff is checked in that dialog. the box in properties for .8 is checked and has been for months.

Tech Singer 3d ago

@app Whenever you have a minute, could you be good enough to launch the timeline for mastodon.stickbear.me many of the posts in that timeline are not announced as you go alt+win+up/down through the timeline. I have no clue why. Are you seeing this?

TweeseCake 3d ago

@techsinger These are boosts from users. I believe this is a bug.

Tech Singer 3d ago

@app are you sure, if I may ask? I do see a few boosts being available. For example, and this is just the first one I encountered, I got Josh: Boosting Bri (Bri): FastPlay 0.6.2. Add the ability to reorder stations and podcasts in the favorites tabs, using control up and down arrows. There is a reset to alphabetical option in the advanced tab.Add error dialogs for why spacial audio is unable to work.https://masonasons.me/pages/FastSuite.php, 5 minutes ago, Mastodon

Fast Suite, a set of programs designed to be accessible, light weight and fast

TweeseCake 3d ago

@techsinger not 100% sure of course, but in the past that's what silent posts in remote timelines signified.

Tech Singer 3d ago

@app It's very possible. As I said, it may well be that, when the post is a boost of someone the reader follows, it's spoken. Note that the last version did announce all of them, I should say.

Tech Singer 2d ago

@app thank you, this is fixed, at least I can't get it to break.

Tech Singer 3d ago

@app However, this is a boost of an account I follow.

Terry Bray 3d ago

@app excellent thanks

Sean Randall 2d ago

@app annoyingly I updated after you posted this so had the empty buffer issue. went to the tweesecake homepage but no link to the changelog from the homepage or the docs.
I wish I knew what the way you operates hurts my brain sometimes.

TweeseCake 2d ago

@cachondo The link to the changelog is on the download page and there is also a changelog.txt file in the directory.

Sean Randall 2d ago

@app the download happens automatically from within the ap, so I didn't even go there

Andre Louis 2d ago

@app @cachondo You can also press Win Alt C from the buffers section to open a changelog buffer.

Sean Randall 2d ago

@FreakyFwoof @app I update so infrequently I'll probably forget about it next time. :(

Andre Louis 2d ago

@cachondo @app Yeah, I had to look it up haha

Tom Grant 2d ago

@cachondo @FreakyFwoof @app also it's key to configure mastodon with alt win P and clear posts at startup enable, then disable it once completed. I've had it just now where posts were not reading properly and I have no followers, no friends and no notifications.

Andre Louis 2d ago

@TomGrant91 @cachondo @app Aah I always keep that on, keeps the thing from filling up with tat I'll never read.

TweeseCake 2d ago

@cachondo There is also a view changelog hotkey in the TweeseCake session.