A couple of quality of life improvements in the left navigation menu coming in the next #Pachli Current.

1. "Notifications" now get their own entry, so you can remove the Notifications tab if you're so inclined. The "Edit profile" option moves down to join the other settings.

2. Each list now has its own menu entry, making it quicker to open any lists you haven't added to tabs.

The attached screenshot shows the new menu.

I don't know who needs to hear this (literally: #Pachli doesn't contain any analytics, so I have no way of knowing), but Google Play dashboards show that a lot of people still have Pachli 2.1.1 installed.

That's a couple of versions old, and there are important bug fixes in the new versions. 2.2.0 in particular has pachli.app/pachli/2024/01/29/2….

If you're not certain you're running at least version 2.2.0 I recommend you check, and if it is 2.1.1 or below then update (Google Play, F-Droid, or GitHub)

#Pachli 2.3.0 is now available. This version contains UI improvements, assorted bug fixes, and continues support for non-Mastodon servers. See pachli.app/pachli/2024/02/28/2… for details.

Thank you to @ButterflyOfFire, @martijn, @kallekn, Reza Almanda, Juan M, and @bittin for their contributions to this release.

Thanks also to @markusseifert, @deivpaukst, and @Piky_Nieves for reporting issues fixed in this release, and apologies to anyone I've missed.

#AndroidDev

Pachli 2.3.0 released

Pachli 2.3.0 is now available. This version contains UI improvements, assorted bug fixes, and continues support for non-Mastodon servers. Read on for more details about these, and other changes in this release.

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The server changes have identified a number of bugs in Mastodon and Mastodon like servers, including:

Friendica
- github.com/friendica/friendica…
- github.com/friendica/friendica…
- github.com/friendica/friendica…

Mastodon
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

Pleroma
- git.pleroma.social/pleroma/ple…

These have been found and (in some cases) fixed because #Pachli Current users encountered them and reported them. Many thanks to all of you who did so.

Preview card returned without mandatory `author_name` property (#3238) · Issues · Pleroma / pleroma · GitLab

Environment Pleroma version (could be found in the "Version" tab of settings in Pleroma-FE): Backend 2.5.5 / Frontend eec27700...

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The available version of #Pachli Current is looking like it's the one that will be the next release of Pachli.

As well as a significant overhaul of the server parsing backend this includes user visible changes that:

- Keep the screen on while playing audio/video
- Show previews for playable audio attachments
- Show full image previews on an account's "Media" tab
- Translation updates (Arabic, Finnish, French, Spanish, Swedish)

and more.

There may be more issues lurking, especially on servers that are not-Mastodon but implement the API (Iceshrimp, Sharkey, Akkoma, etc).

If you're using #Pachli on a non-Mastodon server and have the time it would be incredibly helpful if you can install #Pachli Current (pachli.app/download/#pachli-cu…) and report any issues you find.

Thanks again to everyone who's helped so far.

The newest #Pachli Current contains the feature I mentioned a few days ago to make it easier to debug delayed notification delivery.

pachli.app/pachli/2024/02/17/d… has the details on how to see this information and report bugs with it.

Other recent changes include updated Spanish translations, fixing the font shown when viewing a post's history, workarounds for buggy behaviour from #Mastodon, #Pleroma, and #Friendica servers, and more.

#Tusky (and therefore #Pachli) has regular reports from some users that notifications don't work.

I've never been able to reproduce these issues. To get to the bottom of it the next version of #Pachli Current will show a lot more debugging information so users can understand how notifications are being processed and we can fix them.

See the attached screenshot for a preview.

The version of #Pachli Current that's rolling out now contains a fix for a crash on posts with audio attachments with no preview image.

There are also significant changes to how Pachli validates the responses it receives from your server. Previously an invalid server response might trigger a crash much later, and be very hard to diagnose.

Now, invalid server responses should be caught and worked around. It's possible some have been missed, so please don't hesitate to report any problems.

Two quality of life improvements when viewing media attachments in the latest #Pachli Current release.

1. The screen will stay on while media is playing. Thanks to @markusseifert for suggesting this in github.com/pachli/pachli-andro….

2. While I was experimenting with this I noticed that preview images on audio attachments weren't showing up. Now they are.

If you're not using Pachli Current and want to try features like this before they're released check pachli.app/download/#pachli-cu… for instructions.

Keep Display on while playing media · Issue #335 · pachli/pachli-android

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When viewing a video or hearing an audio recording from a toot the display of my mobile goes to sleep after 30 seconds with no display...

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