Notices by AndStatus@Mastodon (andstatus@mastodon.social), page 2

@lonko @puppetmaster Version of #AndStatus for Android 4 is still available here: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/456

@kris You are right, until recently #AndStatus didn't pay enough attention to give a user an easy way to see lists of friends and followers, profiles of users. Only about a month ago (in v.39) users' profiles were added to the top of their "Sent" timelines ("Notes by someusername" in the context menu). The profile view has its context menu, allowing to see that user's friends and followers, and to follow the user.
@dwmatiz

@gdorn Please note that you can use one Search timeline to query notes/posts from a server (make that timeline periodically syncable but hidden from the Timeline selection; and use that server's specific query syntax there, e.g. adding lang:en to a Twitter's query string to filter by language),
but use another timeline with simpler syntax (supported by #AndStatus) to _view_ results of that search!

@gdorn ...We need to adopt some syntax to tell the application that substring search should be used. #ActivityPub doesn't mention any query syntax. So in order to filter by a part of URL I think that Twitter's "premium" :-) syntax could be used, e.g.:
contains:loadaverage.org
or even:
contains://loadaverage.org/
- in order to avoid matching with longer domain names
(see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/rules-and-filtering/overview/premium-operators.html )
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@gdorn Currently #AndStatus can show timelines filtered by full words or by quoted phrases, containing full words only. This is why, for example, domain name loadaverage.org can be found only in a case it is typed as a separate word, like in this post, and not as a part of the URL with a path inside this domain...

@gdorn Strange. I saw some related problem recently: some notification was visible in NOT combined Notifications timeline, (for some selected account...) but didn't show on a Combined Notifications timeline. Could you check?

@tom79 About a year ago I duplicated #AndStatus code depository in #Gitlab and since that time I'm pushing updates to both #Github and Gitlab. Unfortunately, "Issues" aren't part of the public repository, and so they cannot be duplicated easily.
That time I decided that Issues in Gitlab are subpar compared to Githubs, so I stayed with Github for communication with users...
Who knows, maybe Gitlab will be the next bought by some corporation...

#UX improvements In upcoming v.39 of #AndStatus:
Switching between accounts made more like in other Android applications, with avatars of current and two previously selected accounts in the Navigation drawer (like e.g. in GMail app).
Clicking on current account's avatar opens their "Sent" timeline with the account's profile information at the top.

The crash fix in #AndStatus v.38.06 works: Not a single crash after first 200 installs, according to Google Play Release dashboard.

#AndStatus v.38.06 released with a probable fix for Android v.7.0 bug causing native crash "signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 2 (SEGV_ACCERR)" on some devices. More details: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/486
If you experienced such crashes please try the new release: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/456

@amiloradovsky You have the third Reply option: "Reply to mentioned actors" to include only those who are mentioned in the note that you are replying to

@amiloradovsky I have word suggestions in my two hardware devices by different vendors and different Android versions, and in Android emulator also. I use Default keyboard apps. So maybe it makes sense to file a bug to your keyboard's developers?!

@amiloradovsky This is natural Android behaviour: I didn't change anything here. After update the "ChangeLog" screen _is_ the first activity, and in this case going "Back" means exiting the application. This is how Google recommends to work with "activities" (I.e. don't change natural order of activities...)
I understand you, but I'm not sure that "Back" to Default timeline would be more intuitive for an ordinary Android User...

@amiloradovsky "the message text entering area doesn't support word completion"
This looks like some incompatibility. I do have words suggestions on my devices...
"AS may any time strip away e.g. the double newline paragraph separation — I'm having hard time justifying that behavior" This is really controversial, I agree. I added this long ago fighting with unintended blank lines...

@LeeteqXV I also noticed that there are too many automatically created timelines. I will add some quick way to (automatically) delete unused timelines... Did you notice that Manage Timelines table may be sorted by any column?
Thank you for willing to help. For the start you could look at what improvements we already discussed at https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues?q=is%3Aissue+sort%3Aupdated-desc

@amiloradovsky "This toot (reply to own reply, a follow-up) didn't contain any mentions by default (feature?)" Yes, this is done deliberately :-)
Regarding CW (Note name in #ActivityPub terms) - I'm testing this now for #Mastodon and #Pump.io and plan to release...
The keyboard doesn't disapper, when switching or screen rotation, if Note editor is active.
I mentioned "business users" in a context of users' need in "intuitive" UI, not about #AndStatus in particular :-)

@amiloradovsky Regarding #Mastodon's "visibility".
I plan to implement this in a unified way using #ActivityVocabulary, so the feature could be reused for different social networks. Using the vocabulary, "visibility" means, which groups of users will be able to see the note/activity: Public (all, even unauthenticated), "Users of this instance" etc. or no groups at all and only concrete list of recipients (this is close to "Private" timeline).
Not sure about proper indicators...

@amiloradovsky Aha, by "intuitive" UI you mean "like in another application that I used for years"? :-)
What's _your_ example of intuitive social networking client for "power users", for Android?
...It came to me that "power users" (like "business users") don't actually need "intuitive" application. They need it to do what they want and are ready to adapt...
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@FuzboleroXV Generally, you are proposing to group #hashtags with the same meaning. These hashtags could be different forms of the same word, abbreviations, different spellings, including spellings in different languages; and even synonyms. Actions with the #HashTagGroup will be like shortcuts for each #hashtag in the group. E.g. tagging, subscribing or viewing.
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I expect that some users would like to group hashtags differently, so these groups will be user-defined.

@FuzboleroXV Smart server side filtering may be too resource hungry. Maybe it's OK to use simple queries / hashtags plus follow people, who post interesting things at least sometimes... and apply smart / different filtering of that data locally, being able to find what you want without additional requests to servers?!
@rysiek @predrage @Algot @dada