Notices by Conny Duck (connyduck@chaos.social)

This week we had the regular #Tusky Team meeting, and among a lot of good news (new team members, new release coming soon, huge refactorings being done) we also found some areas where we could need some help ->

We are thinking that it might be a good idea to have an external person or organization review our code from a security point of view. I have seen good security reviews of Android apps before, but I don't remember who did them so the first question here is if anyone has recommendations for us? Thanks to our sponsors we can pay for this.

(dislaimer: There is no reason to believe Tusky is insecure or something, we just want to be double safe)

We all are no webdevs, so the second request is about our homepage: Currently our frequently asked questions are collected in a markdown file on Github, but we would like to have them nicely themed on tusky.app/faq. Ideally we could still author them in Markdown and then have some kind of script push them to the homepage. If you know how to implement this and could do it for us, please contact me or the team!

Ouch there is #tusky drama going on, isn't there 🫣

I have stopped contributing to the project about a month ago but I was its maintainer for the longest time so I should probably say something about it I guess

I think this is pretty cool: Macro shots of my own paintings, I hope Masto image compression doesn't ruin them

Favourite photo of todays walk

First, it got delayed by Google Play suspending the test app.
Then we added more features, mostly because of Mastodon 4, which caused more bugs, which delayed it even further.
But today is finally release day for Tusky 20 🎉
There is still a shitload of bugs in it, but I'm confident they are less than in 19

@fisherroot no

https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/releases/tag/v20.0-beta.1

Please someone reply with a custom emoji in svg format, I want to see something. I think you need to be on misskey or pleroma for this.

Reminder that I'm not "the" #Tusky developer, there is a whole lot of people that regularly contribute to it. @maloki @Tak @charlag @mcc @ButterflyOfFire @melunaka @vegardskjefstad @brunomiguel @ars42525 and more

The run on #Mastodon is of course also visible in #Tusky download stats, but it is less prominent than in previous waves

Posts from other instances turning up 30mins late? Is it the Fediverse being slow again because the sudden influx of Twitter people or something else? Did we not learn from last time?

#Tusky nightly updates via Google Play are delayed because Google chooses to continue to be as annoying as possible. They think we as client developers have any control over content on Mastodon instances and violate their "user generated content policy". 🙄
We also have a repository you can add to F-Droid in oder to get nightly updates completely Google-free: https://releases.nailyk.fr/repo/

One would think developing an app would get boring after a while, but I am on #Tusky for over 5 years now and more motivated than ever?

Let's paint some abstract art inspired by this 👈 drawing onto this 👉 canvas (Conny for scale) :awesome:

#Tusky 18 beta tomorrow :3

How many tubes of oil paint are too many tubes of oil paint