Notices by Tom (tjk@oldbytes.space)

@apps Here's another profile that crashed with the latest Fedilab. Crash reports are enabled. Doesn't happen every time. https://retr0.id/users/retr0id

@apps I crashed earlier today visiting this profile: https://macaw.social/@andypiper - on Android 13. Then again, it crashes for many reasons, not just visiting profiles. :'(

@apps is there any stability improvement work ongoing? I love fedilab, but it's hard to recommend with so many crashes.

@apps It didn't show in my timeline.

@apps I take that back - it showed up several posts after this one, even though it was posted half an hour earlier. Fedilab bug?

@apps I think so, when it came up a week or two ago. I sent screenshots showing how it still crops more than needed: https://oldbytes.space/@tjk/109807436941819232

@apps I'll disable previews for a while. I assume that will fix it because there's nothing to load in after the fact. (I'll miss them; I like the feature.) I do use fit previews because I don't like the cropping. :(

@apps I don't know how - it only seems to happen the first time I see a message. I cleared my cache, restarted, and went back to that message, but the images were already full width. I guess I have to start screen-recording every interaction with Fedilab.

@apps I just had another case, simpler this time. With this message: https://mastodon.social/@chockenberry/109870554429918718 - as soon as I favorited the message, its two smaller, centered images expanded to full width, and the timeline jumped to compensate.

@apps what do you mean by space reserved?

@apps I'm having odd behavior with the new media layout and sizing changes. On the same message, sometimes the image previews will be about half the width of the screen and centered, and sometimes they use the full width. It keeps switching back and forth, which causes the timeline to jump up and down.

@apps I understand. Maybe it could be a setting? I would much rather see everything in my timeline than have to scroll in an unexpected second dimension.

@apps Yes, but even if I disable that, and disable fit preview, it still crops more of the image than Tusky, and puts them in a less convenient arrangement. Here's another comparison like that:

@apps I do use it, because Fedilab crops the image more than other apps if it's turned off. Here's a comparison with Tusky, for example.

@apps Even if it didn't, would it be possible to anchor images at the bottom rather than the top, so that when they load, they shift the timeline upward and don't change the reading position? (More carefully: anchor them on the side of the reading position, so that reversed timelines, or people who read the timeline top-down, aren't affected either.)

@apps I've tried a lot of apps, and Fedilab is the only one with this jumping issue, so I assume the others do something like anchoring, or they fetch media information in a different way. (Fedilab is better in several other ways, so I don't want to switch back!)

@apps I still vote for fixing the jumping timeline. When an image (and maybe link preview?) loads off the top of the screen, the current position shouldn't change at all. Only a touch should move the timeline.

@apps The same issue happens if I wait overnight, though.

@apps one hour. ✔️

@apps It does display messages that were fetched in my last session but that I hadn't read yet. I assumed it would also be fetching messages that were posted after the last time I started Fedilab, in the background, but maybe I misunderstood.