@danvpeterson@bigzaphod@chrisdejabet I don't know why others apps that predate the official one don't use it (it's really been around for a long time), but the official client had very slow development for a while, we just found a new developer so it will pick up now.
@danvpeterson@chrisdejabet@Gargron yeah I've seen that API as I browsed through there and poked around for no particular reason. I'm curious as to why it's not used. I haven't tried too many other clients, so I don't know if they don't use it either or if it's broken or what.
@bigzaphod@chrisdejabet the really weird thing is, supposedly the API for this exists and has for a long time now, but as far as I can tell even the official app and mastodon.social don't use it. Tried asking @Gargron about it but didn't get a reply.
@chrisdejabet ugh no kidding. It’s really hard to keep up with people here because of that. It’s weird though because isn’t the normal Twitter client like that, too? And maybe even Facebook? I don’t understand how people stand it.
@Hiker@bigzaphod@chrisdejabet@danvpeterson For the same reason that joinmastodon.org is the official website of the Mastodon project, or github.com/mastodon/mastodon is the official repository.
@Gargron Sorry, but I'm really interested in this now: Do you have a blog post or could you please explain to me in short why you call your app "the official one"? Thank you. @danvpeterson@bigzaphod@chrisdejabet