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AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Oct-2020 17:57:27 UTC AndStatus You may be interested in another Open Source app for Android under andstatus.org umbrella:
Todo Agenda is home screen widgets for your Android device. Each widget has its own settings and displays configured list of calendar events and tasks so that you can easily have a glimpse at your due, current and upcoming appointments.
https://github.com/andstatus/todoagenda#readme https://loadaverage.org/attachment/6174757 -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Sep-2020 04:19:01 UTC AndStatus @tk More from that times about Laconica:
mcscx favorited something by lohang: @spaceman 1) I am not a programmer. When Laconica was launched I was already a free software user. I heard about Laconica during those epic Twitter downtimes in 2008. Lot of people were looking for alternatives. If I remember correctly, Laconica was first mentioned on Linux Outlaws podcast. They discussed the importance of having distributed and federated social network; and about avoiding single points of failures. Soon I became one of the early users of #Laconica ( #identica ) Laconica was later renamed as StatusNet. It then became GNUSocial as a result of the merging of StatusNet and Free Social projects. -
AndStatus@Mastodon (andstatus@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Sep-2020 16:34:27 UTC AndStatus@Mastodon @tk Me :-)
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AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jun-2020 08:52:09 UTC AndStatus #AndStatus v.57.00 Beta published. "Animated images and Video preview. User's preferred screen orientation".
Download from: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/456
1. For Android 9+ only: Animations of animated images are shown by default. Both in attachments and in avatars. GIF and WebP are supported. Settings -> Appearance -> "Show image animations" option allows to turn this behavior off. It appears that currently only ActivityPub and Pump.io networks (i.e. server parts of them) support WebP and keep GIFs as is. Other servers simply reject WebP and convert GIFs to video... https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/330
2. Animated images and video on Twitter are shown as preview image with a "Play" button on it. This is the same behavior as for other social networks.
3. "Play" button on a video preview image is moved to the bottom corner to allow better view of the image.
4. Screen orientation is not "unspecified", as before, but is set to "The user's current preferred orientation", set by a User for the whole Android device. In particular, this allows to use landscape mode on smartphones (and not on tablets only, as before). https://loadaverage.org/attachment/5948838 -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jun-2020 04:51:08 UTC AndStatus Testing animated #GIF support in #AndStatus
https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/330 https://loadaverage.org/attachment/5948838 -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Saturday, 23-May-2020 15:17:50 UTC AndStatus #AndStatus v.56.09 (326) released. "Show numbers of likes, replies and reblogs for a Note
1. Show numbers of likes, replies and reblogs for Mastodon; likes and retweets for Twitter. Added similar to #ActivityPub #C2S, hope the same counters will be supported there also.
2. Added Actors's name ("Real name") as a separate field to Actor's profile. Created landscape layout for Actor's profile. https://loadaverage.org/attachment/5933715 -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2020 06:58:30 UTC AndStatus #AndStatus v.56.06 released with:
1. Simplified nterface to add new account in #Mastodon.
You don't need to add "Social network" separately. Just type (host of) instance and proceed to Log in.
2. Fixed "App language" switch. Many translation updates.
3. Fixed Conversation view in #Twitter.
http://andstatus.org/ https://loadaverage.org/attachment/5932150 -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 11-May-2020 16:54:34 UTC AndStatus #AndStatus v.56.01 released. "Avatars and attachments syncing performance improved".
Download from: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/456
Since its creation years ago AndStatus used only one background process (thread) to post and to download information from the Internet. Images downloads were considered low priority tasks, so avatars and attachments appeared noticeably later than text of a timeline, especially when multiple timelines and accounts were synced one after one.
With this release a separate process is responsible for images downloading, so overall syncing performance improvement should be visible. -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2020 10:18:21 UTC AndStatus AndStatus v.55.01 Beta with "ActivityPub Client to Server improvements".
Download from: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/456
1. This release was focused on supporting new and improved #ActivityPub features that appeared both in #Pleroma and, surprisingly, in #Mastodon also. You can really start experimenting with ActivityPub social network type if you have an account at Pleroma site with latest v.2.x Pleroma builds... Posting with image attachments works.
2. Mastodon (not AndStatus!) doesn't give you enough features to switch client connection to ActivityPub simply because Home timeline and posting via ActivityPub connection is not supported yet (corresponding pages give 404 Not found error).
But you can see our own posts on Mastodon servers and navigate to other Actors and their post via them (you can see profiles of other Actors and see their posts...). You can even play with Mastodon as an "ActivityPub" type Social network in AndStatus today! But prepare to see empty Home timeline and to be read-only there for now. Switch to "Sent" timeline and see your Actor's posts, see other actors and their posts similarly...
These new Mastodon improvements make me very optimistic about the future of ActivityPub in client apps across all server platforms.
3. Some important fixes, including more Avatars and Images will be shown.
4. More convenience for developers. Logging of network level messages (including response headers) improved. Even file names with responses are much clearer now, e.g. 2020-04-25-03-34-51-663_social.tulsa.ok.us-oauth_register_client_response.json or 2020-04-25-03-35-02-235_mastodon.technology-get_actor_response.json (real names from my log). Remember that logs are stored for 10 days and can be optionally included in a Backup!
Server developers, please use AndStatus as your testing client! https://loadaverage.org/attachment/5911794 -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 20-Apr-2020 04:45:23 UTC AndStatus @panko AndStatus may tell that credentials belong to another user even when case of any letter in a username that you typed differs from a username, returned from a server
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DEATH TO GASTONS DESU~ (roka@pl.smuglo.li)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Apr-2020 07:51:57 UTC DEATH TO GASTONS DESU~ AndStatus now has support for Mastoturd scopes.
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Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Apr-2020 00:39:33 UTC Sorokin Alexei @colegota @andstatus @diogo !loadaverage is using nginx.
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AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Apr-2020 06:42:49 UTC AndStatus @diogo @xrevan86 Oops, I see that 404 error was due to the wrong domain :-).
But my questions regarding API changes and their descriptions are still valid: now authentication fails with 401 error and I simply don't know, where to look at? Any reference client app/tool to lookup?!
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AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Apr-2020 06:14:05 UTC AndStatus @xrevan86 @diogo One of users reported that #AndStatus app doesn't work with the new #GnuSocial server "v.2.0..x dev". I started investigation and see that /api/statusnet/config.json API point now returns 404. Looking in current Source code of the server I see that the API is documented now as /api/gnusocial/config.json - but that returns 404 also...
So the question is did Client API change radically or the server is simply broken, or... ?
And where can we see any info on Client to Server API changes / current docs?
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DEATH TO GASTONS DESU~ (roka@pl.smuglo.li)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2020 16:42:10 UTC DEATH TO GASTONS DESU~ Interesting, AndStatus has a generic ActivityPub instance type now. It seems limited in how well it works with splergoma which only serves as more proof that splergoma is merely a client of the Mastodon® social network™ now, built up with porn money, hookers and blow.
In any case, AndStatus works great nowadays and doesn't crash like dedicated dead elephant clients. I like it~
Attachment provided as a deterrent for some. It would be very funny if it didn't work though :smug2:
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AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Thursday, 26-Mar-2020 18:00:00 UTC AndStatus @roka It works!
Thank you for noticing #ActivityPub support. -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2020 05:23:57 UTC AndStatus @strypey Please see this thread https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/499 and references to #Pleroma in particular. I don't know better #ActivityPup #C2S implementations...
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AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2020 15:00:05 UTC AndStatus @coolboymew Me also :-) -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2020 05:41:27 UTC AndStatus @coolboymew I heard recently that #AndStatus doesn't work properly with Pleroma as with "Mastodon type" social network. Didn't investigate this...
But since last year #Pleroma is adding #ActivityPub #C2S (Client to Server) interface, and AndStatus has basic support for this type, checked and tested with Pleroma team! See https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/499
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AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2020 15:38:09 UTC AndStatus @coolboymew Thank you for the feedback.
As I see you mentions not "outdated things" but features/settings that didn't meet your expectations or were unusual for you :-)
Most of what you mentioned can be configured in #AndStatus settings. Including a list of timelines to be shown, whether or not request all notes/tweets or recent only...
Notifications were improved a year or two ago and now you can see "Unread notifications" timeline (yes, another timeline :-) ) and explicitly mark all notifications as read.
@dielan @thefaico@quitter.se