Nik (@nikclayton@mastodon.social)
Föderation · So 11.06.2023 15:33:00
Day 2: Editing image description and focus point
#Tusky v21 introduced support for editing the text of your posts.
Unfortunately, Mastodon introduced support for editing image descriptions and focus points too late in the release process for Tusky 21 for it to be included in Tusky (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/20878).
Nik (@nikclayton@mastodon.social)
Föderation · So 11.06.2023 15:33:58
But here we are, a few months later, and #Tusky v22 supports this too. When you're editing one of your posts you can now tap any images you attached and edit the description and focus point.
@Tak did a lot of the initial work to support post editing in Tusky, and he's responsible for this new feature too, in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3215.
Nik (@nikclayton@mastodon.social)
Föderation · Mo 12.06.2023 14:56:15
Day 3: #Tusky v22 is smarter about the language defaults when you reply to a post.
The list of languages in the language menu is now sorted to prioritise:
- The language the post you're replying to was written in
- Your default posting language
- The languages you've configured in Tusky
- The languages you've configured in Android (Settings > System > Languages and Input)
@Tak did the work here, in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3293.
Nik (@nikclayton@mastodon.social)
Föderation · Di 13.06.2023 17:27:26
Day 4: Android Notifications
#Tusky v22.0 changes how Android notifications are displayed.
There's quite a lot to cover, and rather than spam the feed with 20+ posts I've put the write-up at https://write.as/nikclayton/tusky-v22-0-day-4-android-notifications
Nik (@nikclayton@mastodon.social)
Föderation · Mi 14.06.2023 21:17:49
Day 5: The Notifications Tab
The #Tusky notifications tab has got some new behaviour in v22.0.
Like yesterday there's quite a lot to cover here, so I've written about it over at https://write.as/nikclayton/tusky-v22-0-day-5-the-notifications-tab
Shorter updates to resume tomorrow...
Nik (@nikclayton@mastodon.social)
Föderation · Do 15.06.2023 17:28:46
Day 6: Show media controls for audio files
This was a regression in #Tusky v21 -- if you were playing audio file attachments the controls (play, pause, etc) would disappear, and tapping on the screen would not bring them back.
That's obviously not great.
@vv noticed this and provided a very clear bug report. @EricFrohnhoefer did the work to fix this in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3286.
Nik (@nikclayton@mastodon.social)
Föderation · Fr 16.06.2023 12:31:57
Day 7: Additional filtering controls
Mastodon 4.x introduced new filter options.
New filters have names, so you can give a filter a name that does not include the text you are filtering.
Filters can also be configured to hide content or show a warning.
And a single filter can be used to filter out multiple different words, instead of needing one filter per word.
The new filter support in #Tusky supports all these options, thanks to @Tak in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3188
Nik (@nikclayton@mastodon.social)
Föderation · So 18.06.2023 19:23:52
Day 8: See what's changed in edited posts
In #Tusky v22.0 you can now see what's changed when a post has been edited. Deleted text is shown with a red background and struck through, while new text is shown in bold with a green background.
This is a great example of the collaborative nature of open source. I did the initial work in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3314, using DiffX, a third-party library that computes text differences (https://github.com/pageseeder/diffx).
Nik (@nikclayton@mastodon.social)
Föderation · So 18.06.2023 19:24:21
Then @rauschen noticed that this didn't work well with text that contained accented characters, provided an example, and a fix (https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3314#issuecomment-1429669093).
We reported this to the DiffX maintainers in https://github.com/pageseeder/diffx/issues/10, they took the fix, released a new version, and now everyone else that uses their library benefits too.
Nik (@nikclayton@mastodon.social)
Föderation · So 18.06.2023 19:32:48
There are two bugs we know about that will be fixed in the 22.1 release, and are already fixed in #Tusky nightly.
1. The mechanism that's used to highlight changes does not work well if the changes run over more than one line. The change highlighting runs off the right margin.
2. Your server might know that a post has been edited, but it does not have a copy of the actual edits, so it doesn't return them. If this happens Tusky will crash. Sorry about that, https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/25398.
Nik (@nikclayton@mastodon.social)
Föderation · Mo 19.06.2023 23:42:42
Day 9: Account headers
In #Tusky 21 you could view an account and tap the avatar picture to view it full screen.
But you couldn't do that with the account's header image. Now you can.
KWierso (https://github.com/KWierso) noticed this and suggested it should be fixed, and @Tak made the change in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3274.
It was also possible for an account's header image to obscure the buttons at the top of the page. I fixed that in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3272.
Nik (@nikclayton@mastodon.social)
Föderation · Mi 21.06.2023 01:26:01
Day 10: Accessibility improvements
We made a number of changes in #Tusky 22.0 to improve accessibility
Some users reported that the design of the "Load more" break made it difficult to spot amongst other posts in a timeline.
@lakoja updated the design so that it is more visually distinctive in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3376.
The swipe-to-refresh gesture is not always accessible to assistive devices. I added an accessible "Refresh" menu entry as an alternative in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3121.