Hello all, got a few bits of feedback for #mastodon any #devs #dev interested? #mastodev #mastodevs #mastodondevelopment #MastodonDevelopers #MastodonDeveloper #mastodondev #mastodondevs

Attention Mastodon app developers:

I really want more web/device apps to prioritize reply text being shown before mentions!

Mentioned accounts mostly exist as a technical requirement for notifications, they aren't the most important part of a reply and do not need to be placed above the text.

A good UI to me, would have a separate area that contains all the suggested mentions for replies, in-order, that allows the user to remove mentioned accounts by unchecking them or add more.

#MastoDevs

With the most recent updates to Mastodon, I've noticed a significant performance improvement. I think the #mastodevs are kicking ass.

#mastodevs know this is confusing, right? Normal people conclude Mastodon is broken and leave...

Jumping to 4.1.0 using the docker images was real smooth. Great job #mastodevs!

#mastoadmin

Hello #MastoDevs 😊

Here are some screenshots of the progress I made today on my prototype #RPG game 🎮 Now you can select wich one of the three main characters you wan to control 😯 run around and jump with animation blending (needs adjustments thou). Also I fixed some bugs from yesterday. Next comes the camera control, I guess 🥵

#JRPG #ARPG #Unity #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #Persona4 #FinalFantasy #LinuxGame #LinuxGameDev #LinuxDev

Hello #Mastodevs !!!

Here's a screenshot of the prototype I'm currently working with Unity.

The idea is to make a JRPG kind of game, the same I posted before that I was using #ChatGPT to help develop the characters for the game. So far this is how it looks. The models are from Persona 4 Dancing, and the environment is done with @kenney Retro Urban Pack.

Wish me luck with this new project, as I need it a lot! 😊

#Unity #GameDev #IndieGame #JRPG #ARPG #RPG #RolePlayGame #Persona #Persona4

I wonder if the #noIndex meta tag is something #MastoDevs could enable for profiles and even a setting to turn it on per post? 🤔 #Privacy #Google #SearchEngine

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/block-indexing?visit_id=638078005153163997-3592004197&rd=1#meta-tag

@atomicpoet cool, i'm interested to learn generally what's its application architecture #mastodev #mastodevs

I just had the chance to try the new "edit" feature of the Mastodon web client.

Fantastic. I was able to correct a typo, just a little thing, but one I had missed with the original posting.

No notifications disappeared.
I didn't need to apologize to the kind people who react to my stuff.

Thank you #MastoDevs

there are a potential 320 hashtags in our Trending list, but only 10 are shown on list, and i cant find rhyme or reason as to which ones are picked... why cant I make more hashtags visible to my users #MastoDevs

there are a potential 320 hashtags in our Trending list, but only 10 are shown on list, and i cant find rhyme or reason as to which ones are picked... why cant I make more hashtags visable to my users #MastoDevs

Looking for Front-end developers willing to contribute to https://osintukraine.com

I have tons of war data, different ways to enrich it, search, consume but what's missing is a unified front-end that allows to do all of this from a single point.

I do have API's for my aggregation (Nocodb) , Databases (SQLite) so what you see at osintukraine.com/#videos is a v1 front-end that I want to replace/evolve into one single front-end.

Interested? Ping me! #mastohelp #mastodevs

#mastodevs I have a status I want to post with the API that's 498 characters long. But when I try and post it, I get the following error: 'Mastodon API returned error', 422, 'Unprocessable Entity', 'Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded'

Any ideas? I'm using mastodon.py to post and shorter statuses work just fine.

@socrates It would be interesting to see some of the apps make a “post thread” option which automatically took care of these permissions.

#MastoDevs 😜

i still don't understand why the #MastoDevs dont let us customize the interface with more settings to better express our communities... like custom placeholder text in the post window, or renaming the post button.

and yes, i know there are forks that make this easier and you can customize your config if you're self hosting, but baking it in so folks on a hosted platform in containers can have that freedom too would be really nice and doesnt seem that complicated to figure out...

@humanetech I'll also raise my annoyance with CWs once more: as these are presently implemented, a heavily CW'd conversation when visited by someone outside the Fediverse, I've started calling this #DirectWebAccess as opposed to authenticated in-network access ... is a wall of roadblocks. Each. Single. Individual. Toot. Must. Be. Individually. Opened. One. At. A. Time. And. Any. Mis-click. Means. Starting. Over. From. Scratch.

This is entirely a design/UI flaw with Mastodon and derivatives that @Gargron and #Mastodevs have so far refused to address, despite it being raised as an issue for years. It's a really shitty first experience for anyone outside Mastodon. (And pretty bad for those of us who do use the site regularly.).

It is possible to both support use of CWs and NOT make the experience a nightmare for all others. There's been no developer will to do so yet.

@rysiek

It's another big news / disturbing news day.

I'm looking at a toot in which the name of a key individual is deliberately obscured. For the sake of those who filter by keywords, I strongly suggest not doing that.

As a reminder:

• CWs hide payload, they also make viewing threads much more difficult, especially when explicitly opened to view in an unauthenticated session. This is a long-standing misfeature of Mastodon that I'd really appreciate @Gargron and #MastoDevs address. I generally though not always limit my use of CWs on account of this. I do include keywords and hashtags which can be filtered if at all possible.

• Many Fediverse interfaces offer keyword filtering. You can drop topics and terms into your profile configuration, either permanently or on a temporary basis.

• If someone begs off a discussion, let them be. My preferred response is simply to apologise and acknowledge, privately. "My apologies, dropped". If you attack in response, you're not a good person, just sayin'.

And as fair warning, I may have things to say on news events. If you'd prefer to mute or block me, that's your prerogative. That said, I think it's critically important that significant issues can be discussed publicly, with intelligence and respect.

@Gargron how would you feel about adding something like an "exchanged" request to the instance API that would complement "peers" and "activity" https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/instance/#list-of-connected-domains

It would return:
[
{
"week": "1574640000",
"peer": "masto.example",
"status-received": "37125",
"status-sent": "14239",
},
...
]

i.e. the number of statuses exchanged (in and out) with each of its peers for the current week.
How easy/hard would that be?

Also tagging #MastoDev #MastoDevs

@feditips

I was waiting for this feature for literally years on #Diaspora. Good job, #Mastodevs!