Do you use lists?

Today's #Pachli Current release improves their usability by remembering your reading position in the list, similarly to how it behaves on the Home and Notifications timelines.

Lists can be a great way to move content from some people you follow out of your home timeline and into a dedicated space, and of course, each list can be added to its own tab.

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# Pachli 2.13.0 is released

## New features include

- Highlight media descriptions when writing posts
- Replace the "Local" tab with the "Trending posts" tab for new accounts

## Fixes include

- Prevent crashes when taking photos
- Unclear UI when features are disabled when writing posts.

## Updated translations

- Chinese (Simplified Han), Finnish, Irish, Italian, Kabyle, Latvian, Lombard, Polish, Slovak, Spanish

More details at pachli.app/pachli/2025/05/28/2…

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Pachli 2.13.0 released

Pachli 2.13.0 is now available. This release makes it easier to add captions to media attachments, replaces the Local timeline with the Trending timeline when logging in for the first time, and more.

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#Pachli Current is rolling out the new media description UI for feedback.

Since the last screenshot some of the padding has been tightened up and the colours toned down a little. The image size adjusts to the device size to leave enough room for writing the caption.

Also, some servers report the actual max number of characters you can put in the description. If it's available that's now used, instead of being fixed to 1,500.

Feedback (after you've tried it in Pachli Current) welcomed.

It's been a rainy day in Zurich, so I had a free hour to prototype some changes to how media is attached to posts in #Pachli.

What do we think?

# #Pachli 2.12.0 is released

## New features include

- Backup and restore
- Improved admin notifications
- "Tab tap" preference graduates from labs

## Fixes include

- Translated media descriptions show in threads
- Fixed "Record not found" errors
- Crashes with admin notifications

## Updated translations

- Finnish, Irish, Latvian, Polish, Slovak, Spanish

More details at pachli.app/pachli/2025/04/30/2…

Pachli 2.12.0 released

Pachli 2.12.0 is now available. This release includes new features to backup and restore your data, improves display of notifications for server administrators and moderators, and more.

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While I'm waiting for #Pachli 2.12.0 to go through the Google review process I'm working on a significant quality-of-life improvement.

If you follow a moderately popular account you've probably seen the following situation.

1. They post something popular.
2. You see it on your timeline.
3. For the next 48 hours other people you follow boost it, which means it keeps spamming your timeline.

No fault of the original author, or the people boosting it, this is just how Mastodon works.

I have tried #Pachli and _do_ like it. The search feature that @nikclayton called out were a nice improvement.

Although I will still keep using #Phanpy as my primary Fediverse client, I ... was about to say that Pachli will replace #Tusky, but it turns out that composing in Pachli is nearly impossible because the compose dialog is entirely underneath the keyboard and not visible, making it very difficult to compose posts and responses like this!

looks interesting.

It's also on #FDroid: Pachli for Mastodon f-droid.org/packages/app.pachl…

I mostly use #Phanpy, and keep #Tusky around for notifications and link sharing. I don't do a lot of searching, but do like to link to relevant posts, so I'll definitely check out #Pachli when I get home.

Thanks for the tip. 💚

Pachli for Mastodon | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

A full-featured Android client for Mastodon and similar servers.

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if you do a lot of searches from a mobile app you'll probably enjoy #pachli.

I put quite a lot of work into making it easier. pachli.app/pachli/2024/07/29/2… has details, including screenshots.

Pachli 2.7.0 released

Pachli 2.7.0 is now available. This release makes it easier to use Mastodon’s search operators, prompts you if it looks like you’re posting in a language other than the one you’ve specified, improves the UI when a post is filtered, as well as the usu…

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You can now **export** and **import** your settings from #Pachli. Rolling out in Pachli Current now, this will be in the next release at the end of the month.

This is available in **Preferences > Lab experiments**. Tap **Export settings** and you'll be prompted to choose a location and filename for the saved preferences. The settings are saved as JSON, if you want to inspect the contents.

Tap **Import settings** to chose a file to import settings from.

# #Pachli 2.11.0 is released

## New features include

- Support translation throughout the app
- Experimental Markdown support
- Content filters default to all contexts

## Fixes include:

- Toot button accessibility
- Grammar fixes
- Report UI updates
- Content filter updates
- Fewer crashes

## Updated translations

- Finnish, Indonesian, Irish, Latvian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Slovak, Spanish

More details at pachli.app/pachli/2025/03/31/2….

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Pachli 2.11.0 released

Pachli 2.11.0 is now available. This release provides post translation support throughout the app, adds experimental support for rendering Markdown content, changes content filter defaults, and more.

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@jotaluis I believe that's a misunderstanding then (/cc @grishka).

You have to provide **in-app** reporting (cite: support.google.com/googleplay/…).

I made this work with #Pachli's existing report capability, and wrote pachli.app/csae/.

CSAE Policy

Cooperative social media

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#Pachli 2.10.1 has been released. This fixes the issue that could cause Pachli to crash if you had ever signed in with multiple accounts, ensures "Show anyway" works on filtered posts in all timelines, and shows all available languages in Android's system settings.

Thanks to @tinsuke, @Russssty, @kallekn, @alkaf, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, and @LukaszHorodecki.

More details at pachli.app/pachli/2025/03/03/2….

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Pachli 2.10.1 released

Pachli 2.10.1 is now available. This release fixes a crash that could occur when upgrading to 2.10.0, ensures “Show anyway” on filtered posts works on all timelines, and allows you to select all languages in Android’s system settings.

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#Pachli 2.10.0 is rolling out now, with new conversation account filters to deal with #harassment.

Just like notification filters you can control what happens when accounts start a conversation with you.

No longer want to see DMs from accounts you don't follow? You can hide them, or put them behind a warning. Ditto for new accounts that might only have been created to harass you.

This, and other changes are described in pachli.app/pachli/2025/02/28/2…

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Pachli 2.10.0 released

Pachli 2.10.0 is now available. This release adds anti-harassment controls for Conversations (Direct Messages), improves the UI when replying, updates the Atkinson Hyperlegible font, and more.

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Rolling out in #Pachli Current now; anti #harassment conversation account filters.

Just like notification filters you can control what happens when accounts start a conversation / direct message with you.

No longer want to see DMs from accounts you don't follow? You can hide them, or put them behind a warning. Ditto for new accounts that might only have been created to harass you.

The attached screenshot shows the DM view with both account and content filters active.

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How do we all feel about this work-in-progress #Pachli UI when replying?

Instead of low-accessible small text and a tiny triangle to tap, the post you're replying to is always shown.

The text in the post is selectable, for easy copy and paste.

Links/hashtags/mentions in the post are not clickable, so you don't inadvertently click them and go elsewhere.

And the display scrolls, so as you type more the reply moves up.

The version of #Pachli Current available in the Play Store now (2.9.1+11480d80) should fix (a) the crash on startup that some people observed, and (b) home and notification timelines resetting to random locations when returning to them.

Thanks again to everyone that reported issues with troubleshooting information, that was very helpful.

In between rounds of troubleshooting today I found time to answer a question about the #Pachli network code.

pachli.app/pachli/2025/01/22/n…

Could Pachli’s network module be a separate library?

I received the following question as a DM on Mastodon. In your sources you have separated network module.

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If you don't use #Pachli Current you can stop reading now.

If you do, then, as ever, thank you for doing so, and taking the time to report bugs and provide feedback.

The most recent release has a bug that can wildly miscalculate your reading position when restoring state. I'm testing a fix now, but it's unlikely to be widely released until Friday.

If #Pachli Current is your primary Mastodon client I'd advise switching back to #Pachli for the next 48 hours.

#Pachli 2.9.1 is now available; you can view posts discussing a trending link, and easily do that in a Norwegian Nynorsk UI. There's more, including details of bug fixes, at pachli.app/pachli/2024/12/30/2….

Thanks to @kallekn, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Sunniva Løvstad, Juan M Sevilla, and jens persson for their contributions to this release, and apologies to anyone I've missed.

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Pachli 2.9.1 released

Pachli 2.9.1 is now available. This release allows you to view a timeline of posts discussing a trending link, makes the Nynorsk variant of the Norwegian language selectable as a UI language, adds additional information to error messages, and contain…

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#Pachli 2.9.0 is now available, with new features to support users facing #harrassment or abuse in notifications, #accessibility improvements, and more.

See pachli.app/pachli/2024/11/28/2… for details.

Thanks to @gvs, @gefla, @kallekn, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, sunniva, Juan M Sevilla, @st3fan, and @xan for their contributions to this release, and apologies to anyone I've missed.

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Pachli 2.9.0 released

Pachli 2.9.0 is now available. This release adds additional anti-harrassment controls for notifications, improves accessibility, works around Pleroma bugs, and more.

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The new account notification filters are rolling out in #Pachli Current today.

This is the first step in providing more controls for people who face #harassment on Mastodon.

See pachli.app/pachli/2024/11/25/n… for more details.

Feedback welcomed.

Notification filters

The first iteration of the account filtering work mentioned in Anti-harassment controls is now in Pachli Current.

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How do we feel about AI generated image captions in #Pachli?

A user's suggested this over at github.com/pachli/pachli-andro….

I've got some initial thoughts, which are in that thread, but I'm interested in other peoples' feedback (ideally in that thread, rather than a reply to this, please).

/cc @stefan who's done research on this, and @dimillian who implemented this in #IceCubesApp

ALT field filling via AI bot · pachli pachli-android · Discussion #1089

Hello would it be possible to make the ALT field of the images automatically filled in by an AI bot, during the image upload phase on the client, before publishing? the ALT field is designed to be ...

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