Notices by Megalodon (megalodon@floss.social)

it feels like 3.6 million years ago since megalodon has died out

btw: megalodon disappeared from the play store because i missed a deadline to update my google play developer account details.

if i ever find the motivation to update megalodon, i'll try to get megalodon back online - but it's probably advisable you install a different client (like @moshidon!) instead anyway (don't forget to set your color scheme to pink)

just call your app mastodon.social if you want it to be a mastodon.social client, jesus christ. it's almost as if mastodon isn't even meant to be a federated server software

because mastodon.social obviously is the mastodon server with the worst funding and it's definitely not small instances that could need some more money to pay for infrastructure, moderators, etc /s

so.. upstream mastodon for android got rid of the alt text viewers that expand when you click the ALT badge and replaced them with bottom sheets (that open when the ALT badge is pressed)... like the one that i implemented before the ALT badges were even a thing

i mean, fair, not blaming anyone, it's just funny how i implement something, upstream does it differently (i actually liked the expanding ALT badge thingies!), time passes and upstream re-implements it similar to how i initially did

fedi clients should play this when selecting a poll answer

@apps in my experience, most markdown parsers aren't affected by german de-gendering markers such as entwickler*innen: *this*, for example, would render as markdown, but x*this*x wouldn't (because there's no space/parentheis/period/etc around)

@apps (apart from that, i believe servers should handle markdown parsing and just return the appropriate html. but yeah, i know, mastodon't, but virtually every fork or other server does)

with open source development, it helps so much to remember that you're not a business but a human being and that users of your app aren't customers; to take breaks as you need them, especially if you also have a "real" job, other responsibilities, are taking a vacation or just need time for your mental health; letting other things (nothing/taking breaks counts as "other things") take priority

Hi! I'm Megalodon – the pink fork of Mastodon for Android. I exist because the official app is lacking many important features, which I intend to bring back!

Some features include:

• Unlisted posting
• Federated timeline
• Scheduled posts
• Drafts
• Lists
• Pinning posts
• Follow requests
• Language picker
• Translate button

… and many more!

#Introductions #Mastodon #Megalodon #MastoDev #Android #MastodonAndroid

the longer i wait for a new production release, the higher the expectations, huh? anyway, just released one, but don't expect it to be perfect! it never was, never will be. but it has some really, really cool features, compared to the previous version! i don't know when the play store or izzy's repo will publish the new version, but it's only a matter of time. who knows, maybe there will be a few hot fix releases the coming days?

new release, now out: https://github.com/sk22/megalodon/releases

wait why does megalodon say "resource not found" when navigating to https://floss.social/Moshidon!? (i might have found a bug?)

pov you're on the fediverse and you press the boost button

@kepic @apps I'm pretty sure @apps means the system-wide language rather than the actual, literal locale?

@apps If I do that, I could still have cases like this:

* My Mastodon account is set to English
* My phone could be set to German
* Megalodon would display a translate button for English posts, but not for German posts
* Mastodon would try to translate English posts to English

…all because I display the translate button for the wrong language. I think I might actually go for the HTML scraping approach to get the right language ?

@apps Would do that as a last resort, but I can never be sure that it's the correct one and that translation will work… Kind of a shame the translation endpoint doesn't take a target language parameter

@apps Thanks! But uhm, where? The `accounts/verify_credentials` method doesn't have locale information anywhere from what I can tell :/

Does anyone know a way to query the logged-in account's locale using the Mastodon API? From what I can tell, I need this to determine whether to show the Translate button or not.

#MastoDev #Mastodon

Fun fact: You can make Megalodon feel even more like Twitter by creating a list named "Following", adding no-one and then pinning it