Notices by Pachli (pachli@mastodon.social)

@tiefling @leanderlindahl Tusky has a long-standing bug where some posts on your timeline just get dropped. It might be that.

I think (but might be wrong) Fedilab has an option to fetch the original thread from the remote server to try and get missing messages. Recent Mastodon servers can do this too, so it shouldn't make a difference now.

Both screenshots show the same change, one for a large device, one for a small device. In each one the image on the left is the current UI, the image on the right is the new UI, with changes highlighted). The changes are:

1. Move the "#", "@", and "Language" buttons in the toolbar from the right to the left.

2. Move and shrink the avatar of the account you're using to the start of the "Posting as..." text.

3. Move the "Toot" button to the top right.

2. It's close to lots of other things you might want to tap, so it's easy to accidentally send a post.

3. As much as Android can be said to have a "design language", it includes putting whatever action will close the current screen at the top right (e.g., the "Send" button when writing an e-mail in GMail).

The screenshots in the next post show a change I plan on rolling out in Pachli Current on Monday.

@frauxirah has noticed (thanks!) that the new options for quote post visibility don't play nicely with smaller screens. The "Toot" button doesn't always fit.

This is an opportunity to make a change I've been thinking about for a while, since there are a number of problems with its current location anyway.

1. There's just not a lot of space, even on larger devices. This is a particular problem with languages with a longer typical word length than English.

This gives more space for the "Toot" button, keeps it away from anything else you might want to tap on, keeps the avatar close to the account name, and is consistent with Android design.

Feedback welcomed.

#Pachli Current has a quality of life improvement -- writing a post (either a new thread, or a reply) now creates a new task. In Android "tasks" are the things you switch between on the "Recents" screen you use to swap between apps.

There's a few scenarios where this is helpful.

1. You want to reference multiple posts. You can start writing, open "Recents", then switch back to the timeline, copy text from another post (or its link), and paste it into the post you're writing.

A new #Pachli Current is rolling out with a handful of cosmetic changes and bug fixes for #quoteposts.

User visible changes are:

1. If your server allows quoting the "boost" button now also shows a pair of quotes.
2. Following feedback, the background colour for quotes/ preview cards in light mode is slightly darker and in dark mode is slightly lighter.

# Quote posts in Pachli Current

#Pachli Current now supports #quoteposts .

There are a number of design decisions here that are up for discussion and I do expect things will change over the next month or so in response to feedback.

#androiddev #mastodev

#Pachli Current is rolling out with initial support for displaying #QuotePosts.

Details, including screenshots, open questions, and the best way to provide feedback, are all at https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/11/13/quote-posts.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=quote-posts-1.

@dansup @jandi Yes. And if the URL prefix had been `/p/` instead of `/v/` you'd be compatible with the work clients already had to do to support Pixelfed.

However, this also effectively hijacks the "/v/" URL path prefix for Loops. No one's typing these URLs in by hand, so a more explicit prefix that used the canonical name for the software would be better.

E.g., `{domain}/org.joinloops/{hashid}`

@jandi Not sure what you mean here. Can you provide more detail?

@jandi There's no standard way to represent a link to a post.

So when you click a link in a post in #Pachli -- or other apps -- they generally have some heuristics to decide "Is this a link to a post, or a link to a web page?".

If the heuristic says "It's a link to a post" then the app performs a search for that post on your server and opens the first search result.

Otherwise it opens it as a web page.

The Pachli heuristics are in https://github.com/pachli/pachli-android/blob/4fc6f44f921e53238a5c1e4bbae3474498867882/core/activity/src/main/kotlin/app/pachli/core/activity/ViewUrlActivity.kt#L197-L227

@jandi

@dansup has decided that URLs for Loops posts shouldn't look like URLs used by other Fediverse software, so the existing heuristics don't recognise https://getloops.social/v/azWp4zwJ05?rid=bfGf2EgZ21 as a link to a post.

This is not the decision I would have made, but it's his decision to make.

As part of refactoring work to make implementing quote posts easier, #Pachli Current is rolling out with UX improvements when you interact with posts, especially favourite or boost.

Previously, the icon would change, but the associated count wouldn't. So you could have a post that was boosted but showed 0 boosts. Now the number changes as soon as you press the button. When the boost completes on your server the post is also updated to reflect it's latest data.

@badnetmask Work will start on them soon (probably next week, assuming I can work out some bugs in third party libraries that are making blur filters more time consuming than I'd imagined).

Can't promise all the work will be done by the end of the month.

@soaproot @badnetmask it's a lot of work. Right now the code Pachli inherited from Tusky to show posts contains a lot of duplication. Showing a quoted post inside a post would double that duplication.

So I've been doing a lot of the ground work by refactoring that duplicated code into reusable components. None of that work is visible in the current UI, but it's essential to being able to support quote posts in a sustainable manner.

https://github.com/pachli/pachli-android/pulls?q=is%3Apr+created%3A%3E2025-08-31+refactor+

@soaproot @badnetmask Yes. Quote post work this month was significantly hampered after I lost a couple of weeks of planned work due to illness.

For the end of October I hope to have the work done to display quote posts. Showing notifications about quote posts comes after that, and being able to create quote posts comes after that.

Work on #Pachli 3.0.0 is starting.

https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/09/01/3.x-starts-now.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog

Still working on UX improvements around emoji handling. Right now, writing a post and inserting an emoji shows the emoji shortcode (first image).

But it's probably more useful if it shows the actual emoji image, right (second image)?

Long-pressing an emoji in the emoji picker to see a larger version of it is probably useful too (third image).

The new #Pachli Current has support for on-device translation.

**None of your personal information, or the text you are translating, is sent to Google.**

**The Google Translate app does not need to be installed on your device for this feature.**

Here's the behaviour you'll see by default when you use the "Translate" menu on a post.

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