Notices by Pachli (pachli@mastodon.social)

Not quite ready for this month's release, but coming soon...

#Pachli 2.10.0 is rolling out now, with new conversation account filters to deal with #harassment.

Just like notification filters you can control what happens when accounts start a conversation with you.

No longer want to see DMs from accounts you don't follow? You can hide them, or put them behind a warning. Ditto for new accounts that might only have been created to harass you.

This, and other changes are described in https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/02/28/2.10.0-release.html

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#Pachli 2.9.2 is now available. This release includes an overhaul of the Tamil translation thanks to a new contributor, and small improvements and fixes while I work on some larger changes that are stabilising in Pachli Current. More details at https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/01/30/2.9.2-release.html.

Thanks to தமிழ்நேரம், @kallekn, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Sunniva Løvstad, Juan M Sevilla, jens person, and @vform for their contributions to this release, and apologies to anyone I've missed.

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@grunfink @nowster @justine The Mastodon docs are a bit ambiguous about this. Arguably, if the link header is missing a client could assume it could behave as though it did exist, with the IDs of the first and last items in the returned page.

That might be what snac is doing. For interoperability purposes it's probably better to always return the link header.

@grunfink @nowster @justine The link header is not being sent by snac.

I have a test account with 4 statuses in the home timeline.

/api/v1/timelines/home returns all 4 statuses and no link header in the response.

/api/v1/timelines/home?limit=1 returns an array of 1 status, as expected, but is also missing the link header, so can't be paginated.

@nowster @justine Thanks for the test account.

There are at least two #snac bugs.

I've filed one of them at https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/issues/241 (this also found a Pachli bug where errors during login weren't showing the underlying login error; I've fixed that now, thanks).

The other is the existing https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/issues/164 -- snac doesn't implement https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/guidelines/#pagination so Mastodon clients can't iterate through timelines to load them a page at a time.

@nowster @justine That's odd. Would you mind creating a test account on your server for me and sending the credentials to team@pachli.app. Then I can diagnose this further.

The new account notification filters are rolling out in #Pachli Current today.

This is the first step in providing more controls for people who face #harassment on Mastodon.

See https://pachli.app/pachli/2024/11/25/notification-filters.html for more details.

Feedback welcomed.

#Pachli account filter work for #antiharassment / #safety is coming along nicely.

This screenshot shows how it works for notifications.

I've got the "Show a warning for accounts created in last 30 days" option turned on (this could also be set to "Hide"), so some of the notifications are filtered.

@lauteshirn You mean the same options that are currently controlled by the Preferences > Tabs setting?

@lauteshirn there's a dark theme and a black theme.

@lauteshirn "Dark" is a dark grey, consistent with Android's normal difference between a light and a dark theme.

"Black" uses pure black (RGB #000) for the background. Some people think that may be more power efficient for AMOLED screens. Some searching shows lots of arguing back and forth about that online, I have no idea whether it has a benefit or not.

@lauteshirn ah, I understand.

It's darker than Tusky because if it wasn't there wouldn't be enough contrast between the lighter colours (eg text, links) and the dark background.

This lack of contrast can be an accessibility issue. This isn't a theoretical concern, see https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issues/3477 for example.

@Piky_Nieves thinking about it, as a user choice.

There's some concern about what this would do to the F-Droid listing, so I've filed https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroid-website/-/issues/749 to get clarity from the F-Droid volunteers.

Hello, world! #Pachli is your new favourite Mastodon client for Android, with features including:

- "Load more" no more, posts load as you scroll
- As many tabs as you want for your content
- See trending posts, links, and hashtags
- Set the UI from a range of accessible fonts

Pachli is open source, with a cooperative governance model. Learn more at https://pachli.app.

Available on Google Play now, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.pachli and F-Droid very soon.

Should have mentioned -- this works in #Mastodon and #glitchsoc servers from 4.2.0 onwards. The "from" filter works from 3.5.0 onwards.

The "from" filter works in #gotosocial 0.16.0 and up.

And the "from" and "language" filters work in #friendica 2024.3 and later releases.

If other server types support these search queries let me know.

If you want to know more about these options Luca's (@luca) blog post at https://lucahammer.com/2024/04/25/mastodon-advanced-search-guide-and-operators is very informative.

#Pachli Current includes the new faceted search feature (https://mastodon.social/@pachli/112790851628572815), ready for feedback.

A couple of changes I'm planning on making before final release:

1. Allow searches without entering any text

2. (possibly) Arrange the UI in 3 rows with scrolling (similar to GMail search, see screenshot). This saves some screen space, but might require a horizontal scroll for some searches

Other feedback welcomed.

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