@mararm Yes, I compared installs on Google Play and F-droid: number of daily installs via F-droid was about three times more than via Google Play. This is specific to GNU Social / Pump.io audiences, I think. @maiyannah
According to Google Play statistics, number of AndStatus "installs on active devices" from Japan tripled during the last two weeks and is 90 now. Compare with installs in Germany, which increased by 2% only up to 160. Total number of "installs on active devices" is 769
@andstatus Yes, I do see older (previous) messages, but I can't see how to acces the messages between latest 20 downloaded and the ones I already had. To me, it would be nice if, between older messages and newest 20 there was a button which allowed to download more messages. Also I'd be great if this amount of 20 was configurable. Many thanks! 🖖🖖
@hobbsc Your messages (both replies, that you created, and first messages of conversations) are in the "Sent" Timeline. Replies _to you_ are in the Mentions Timeline. Both of them are in the Home Timeline. ?!
@nestort I see why this behavior changed: in the v.32 I introduced ”Sync older messages" feature and simultaneously decreased number of messages to load during the first sync from 200 to 20, as I remember... I guess"Sync older messages" doesn't work for you, because you have older messages?!
@erien @pztrn@f.pztrn.name It looks like Friendica sends HTML-escaped text in a field, which AndStatus expects to be a plain text field. This is why AndStatus shows it as is. AndStatus tries to figure out if the message body is HTML-formatted by searching for presence of both "less than" and "greater than" signs , but it doesn't recognize the text as HTML is this case. Try to add any html tag to your post ;-)
@megver83 Currently you should follow a "group" via web interface of the GNU Social instance, to which the group belongs. AndStatus has custom syncable Search timelines, so in order to have a separate timeline for a GNU Social group, you can create e.g. a Search ”!gnusocial" timeline and make it syncable. The same for hash tags. More on this here: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/248
@bes You opened my eyes, thank you. I thought that creation of a new custom client API for Mastodon with strictly centralized communication was a developer's desire to do at least something "new"... What a naive I was when I tried to argue at https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/419 that federation-oriented API would be better for GNU Social community and wandered why I wasn't heard... Now this looks like a deliberate decision for Mastodon to wall-garden users in separate instances. Quite appropriate for a corporate customer, but bad for federated social networking?! @mcscx
@dwmatiz Attachments to your post are not accessible... but I understand what you noticed: additional padding is shown, when an image with unordinary width/height proportions is loaded asynchronously. AndStatus reserves a blank place for it, not knowing actual dimensions yet, and shows actual image a bit later, after it has been loaded into memory. This could be improved, of course...
@megver83 Follow and Stop following actions are in User lists, not in Timelines (message lists). E.g. Select "Users of message" item in the Message's context menu -> See a list of users -> Select a User and open his Context menu -> See Follow/Stop following actions
@maiyannah Yes, please provide a screenshot. BTW, I tried to lookup this conversation from three different GNU Social instances: none of them holds any messages in this conversation, except yours :-)
AndStatus has three kinds of replies: simple Reply to one user, "Reply to conversation participants" and "Reply to mentioned users” https://loadaverage.org/attachment/3537507
@shnoulle AndStatus has good modularity, which allows to add new APIs quite easily. So no wander that someone plays with this. The main strategic question is: why create another subpar client API, when there is a clear (albeit not that easy to implement...) way to implement far more powerful one, which would support federated architecture of GNU Social.
@shnoulle I don't know about ostatus - this is a server to server protocol. What's about client protocol, Mastodon developer just decided to creat his own protocol. It's not better than GNU Social's, from a client point of view. It's just different :-(