Notices by AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org), page 30
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AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2016 16:17:27 UTC 
AndStatus
@dwmatiz Thank you for the feedback. It's a pity that you didn't decide to hep by raising issues at https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues and testing the fixes :-(
Regarding your notes on problems:
1. Sync on pulling timeline down works only if the "Top” downloaded timeline item is already shown. In other case another newer "page of messages” is being loaded from the local cache. Of course something can be improved here, but focused discussion is needed on how exactly this should work in all cases...
2. I just successfully reposted your reply from the Conversation view. It looks like ”repost icon/button" wasn't updated though...
3. If you don't like vertical lines in the Conversation view (this is actually, an image, which can be changed...) please provide its better alternative or simply turn off ”Show threads of a conversation” option via a Navigation drawer.
4. Regarding long threads: yes, special Conversation API is not used yet to retrieve entire conversation. So AndStatus retrieve related messages from a server one-by-one. In todo... https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/328
5. Multiple attachments are not supported yet. This is in the queue: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/189 I didn't think that this is a priority task... ?! -
dewoo ❎ (dwmatiz@sealion.club)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2016 10:06:57 UTC 
dewoo ❎
@andstatus The general comfort of use. In Twidere I can scroll up, and it automatically syncs and updates the timeline. In AndStatus scrolling up only seems to update the timeline after either an automatic or manual sync. The way it actually does it still puzzles me.
Each new update brings a lot of fixes and improvements, but it also tends to break something else, at least on my end. I haven't been able to favourite and repost notices ever since the last one, and the favourite and repost buttons on the new conversation view don't even work at all. Before you ask: doing it from the context menu doesn't work either.
Speaking of conversations, AndStatus seems to struggle when it comes fetching notices from (long) threads. I either have to constantly refresh the thread or hunt down individual posts on my timeline to have it display the whole conversation in its entirety.
The threaded view for conversations still remains a mess. Pixel-wide lines don't look elegant, and the needless padding around them only takes up valuable space.
AndStatus has also been struggling with multiple attachments. In past versions it would display a notice multiple times with a different attachment, but now it just picks one at random. Sometimes it also adds a lot of padding around attachments, which usually disappears after refreshing the timeline.
Sorry, I know AndStatus is pretty much a one-man operation, but after months of using it I've simply grown tired of its quirks. -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2016 06:01:12 UTC
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@dwmatiz What's better there for you personally, except your own Timeline background? -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Nov-2016 16:24:17 UTC
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@mcscx Do you mean custom background or something else? -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2016 11:38:55 UTC
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@gargron @dwmatiz I see that the bot combines parts of similar/related messages to create its own message. This should be a scientific project?! :-)
Do you know if the bot is evolving, becomes smarter? -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2016 10:45:00 UTC
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@markov What Performance test suite do you mean? -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 31-Oct-2016 15:30:04 UTC
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@maiyannah I think it would be overkill for us to invent some completely new API. From this position I see two main ways of current API improvement, and we can go both ways, implementing them separately:
1. Improvement of "Twitter” compatible API. The change that I propose is easily described and it may seem not that deep, but for some reason even @gargron, who, as I thought, is building a new API now, took a long pause on it:
in ALL API calls get rid of ALL "local IDs" (IDs of people, messages etc...), replacing them with URIs, which are the same for the same identifiable things (i.e. for the same objects) in all GNU Social instances. This requirement is easy to implement, if an URI:
1.1. Contains unique hostname of the GNU Social instance.
1.2. Contains type of the identifiable object,
e.g. ”acct:andstatus@loadaverage.org” - for an "account" ("person"), like in Pump.io.
The hard part of this change is that it requires changes in request parameters and (or) in data returned of all API calls. I mean we should go through all API calls and replace all local IDs with URIs, which I suspect not always exist in GNU Social for some objects...
2. Complete and document an API, based on Activity Streams and JSON format. As @mmn wrote me, Activity Streams + JSON are already implemented in GNU Social. But absence of documentation and working examples is a blocker here. This could be the second step of changes...
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AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Oct-2016 20:42:48 UTC
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@maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com I think GNU Social SHOULD change its client API to allow fully use advantages of its federation. Please read this discussion on a new API: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/419
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AndStatus@Quitter.no (andstatus@quitter.no)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2016 18:08:45 UTC 
AndStatus@Quitter.no
@tuxxus I'm a developer of AndStatus Android client for GNU social, and looking at your Fediverse map at https://www.fediverse.org I thought that maybe it would be a good idea to allow AndStatus to load information on working GNU Social instances from your site (on a User's request) in order to ease configuration of user accounts in AndStatus.
For about a year I used the service at http://gstools.org/api/get_open_instances for this but it is down for a long time already...
What do you think?
Please see here, how this was done using gstools service: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/84
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Yuri,
AndStatus, http://andstatus.org https://quitter.no/attachment/659813 -
AndStatus@Vinilox (andstatus@status.vinilox.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2016 04:30:39 UTC 
AndStatus@Vinilox
@aegirs These servers are there historically. Today I see that the list of servers is much longer: http://skilledtests.com/wiki/List_of_Independent_GNU_social_Instances
The problem is that previously working GNU Social instances' discovery service stopped working, and you will need to configure new servers manually in AndStatus... -
Yuri Volkov (yvolk@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Oct-2016 18:15:30 UTC 
Yuri Volkov
I'm beginning to rediscover Pump.io
After the report https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/425 by clacke@microca.st I realised that due to some error in identi.ca I stopped receiving messages from the people, that I follow, at least 6 months ago. Instead, I was receiving messages by some other person, whom I didn't follow (the same in my Timeline of AndStatus and at the identi.ca web site).
After re-following all of my Friends, I started to get something interesting, at last. Although not many new posts are created on Monday :-)
And you know, I received two posts from another unknown person :-)
This time I decided to figure out, why I see these posts and it appeared that these posts were "favorited" by one of my friends. AndStatus, unfortunately, doesn't show me this reason like it shows "shared" (reblogged/retweeted) posts. And it came to me that AndStatus really needs to show that the post is shown, because it is "liked/favorited". The same way as reblogs are shown, only starting with the "heart" 💛 icon. ?!
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yvolk@identi.ca
URL: https://identi.ca/yvolk/note/LSYanK2vTlGiwSuem4eF9Q -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Oct-2016 15:33:20 UTC
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@clacke Only logs can tell, why there is no any sign of that attachment :-) -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Oct-2016 19:11:33 UTC
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@lasagna We only need to define, how exacly we will do this. Are you ready for the discussion on the design?
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AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Oct-2016 16:42:41 UTC
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@hikerus Freezing on loading a Timeline page may mean that there is some problem accessing the AndStatus local database. In _my_ local database I have almost 200000 messages, yet I don't see such freezes...
Maybe you could try to move your database to internal storage to improve access time?! (see Settings-> Storage) -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Oct-2016 15:14:26 UTC
AndStatus
@hikerus I meant that after update of AndStatus it could start syncing just when You started to use it. Hence bad responding sometimes...
This can mean that your device is not good at multitasking. I would recommend you turning off "Sync while using AndStatus“
Regarding your question on "Don't sync old messages.." it clearly says "hours ago", see the screenshot. Maybe translation improvement is needed at https://crowdin.com/project/andstatus
?! https://loadaverage.org/attachment/3274648 -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Oct-2016 14:54:21 UTC
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@hikerus How much time passed since you updated the application? I mean, maybe this is temporary event due to some heavy background downloading?!
BTW, do you have automatic sync turned on? -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Oct-2016 14:22:49 UTC
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@hikerus What do mean by "Blocks totally”? It doesn't respond on clicks... ?!
...English messages, please! Screenshot... -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Oct-2016 14:10:24 UTC
AndStatus
How to implement Groups/Lists properly in AndStatus?
Today I reread our old discussion at https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/248 , which contains, in particular, comparison of this thing's concepts in different social networks and added Pump.io to the comparison.
So now this post compares GNU Social, Twitter and Pump.io: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/248#issuecomment-219826572
Any advises, additions or corrections? -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Oct-2016 06:20:45 UTC
AndStatus
@lasagna Maybe in the Home combined timeline we could mark somehow, for which account each message was downloaded?!
Some of messages can be downloaded by both accounts... -
AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Oct-2016 06:16:37 UTC
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@5n1pp3r5 Please don't turn automatic syncing off for AndStatus. Far better is to set "Default syncing frequency ” to several hours to avoid high load of the device and your waiting, when you start using it
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