@eudaimon I really found a bug with getting actors' avatars for actor, which are present in different fediverse instances. #AndStatus could mistakenly ask the wrong host for the actor's information :-( The bug is present since AndStatus started to merge logically actors (and their lists of activities) of different Social networks by their Webfinger Id. The fix will be in v.41
@eudaimon Regarding my account's selection: if you cannot distinguish accounts by their avatars (when they look the same, like in my case), you can always select them from a list of names. Just click on the selected account's name in the navigation drawer. https://loadaverage.org/attachment/4399113
@eudaimon Not showing some avatar is not a bug, but may be a result of unsuccessful avatar download. "Get Actor information" in the user's/actor's context menu forces #AndStatus to re-download the actor's avatar also. https://loadaverage.org/attachment/4399107
@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!
@dwmatiz I think there are more than two options here :-) I didn't find any of your complaints about "syncing and refreshing". But I recently added options to limit image cache size, as you wished...
@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 ) ?!
@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...
I found out that #AndStatus v. 40.01 has a bug, crashing its Timeline in a case a User selected "Device default" Color Theme in AndStatus Settings -> Appearance. As a workaround before a fix please select the other Color Theme: Dark or Light. In order to get into AndStatus settings without opening a Timeline please do the following: 1. Go to Android Settings -> Accounts 2. Select any AndStatus account 3. On the window of the account click "AndStatus account settings" words. 4. "Select an account" list with accounts inside AndStatus will open. 5. Don't Select any account, but press Back button on your device instead. 6. Now you're in AndStatus Settings. 7. Go to Appearance -> Color Theme and select Dark or Light.
@delores #AndStatus is designed to sync in a background and to allow a User to browse timelines that were downloaded earlier. When you press Sync button, it downloads and stores timelines, users and attachments into a local database first, and only after that it loads the updated timeline from the database. As I see, performance is quite acceptable with about 300,000 notes stored locally.
@hckr I already did this yesterday. Now Back button closes soft keyboard first, and next Back button press closes the Editor and saves the Draft. Will be included in the next #AndStatus v.40 update
@hckr To cancel Note Editor in #AndStatus, please find "Discard" in the Action bar (top menu). If the Action bar is hidden, just goto the Home screen and return back to the application, or simply rotate the screen. Maybe I need to Save Draft and close the Editor in a case Back button is pressed on a device?!
@why Regarding saving images: this can be done using image viewer that has this feature. Another option: switch in Settings #AndStatus Storage to External storage - and all downloaded images become browsable by any viewer: they are stored as separate files in the "downloads" subfolder.
@imojito As I found out looking at a source code repository, #Twidere isn't "dead": it's being developed. It just wasn't released for some months, maybe due to migration to #Kotlin ?!