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I think the spacing for the cards might need to be adjusted anyway, but yeah, some sort of dense layout mode would be good to add.
If you have any feedback for Interstellar (the only Mbin app I know of), please share. I use the app daily, and it works great for my use case, but I don't automatically know what other people would like until they communicate it. (I'm the dev, btw)
Mbin does support microblogs. I believe there's a "Microblog" button in the navigation bar for desktop, and the same button found in the side drawer on mobile.
The migration to Mbin is complete! Let me know if you run into any issues.
Sounds good! Migration probably won't happen today, but maybe tomorrow or the day after if we get lucky. Unfortunately, I ran into a problem while trying to set up Mbin due to one of the mbin/kbin dependencies suddenly disappearing out of the blue (see here).
Ok, I was able to figure out what was wrong. All registration and password reset emails should be working now.
Sorry about that, and thanks for letting me know. I had no idea the email system was down. I'll probably try to look into it after the migration to Mbin. I've gone ahead and manually verified each user from the past week, so you should be able to sign in now.
This post doesn't directly affect kbin.social users, but it is relevant. It discusses some of the potential pros/cons of Kbin and the pros/cons of Mbin, and also the direction the kbin.earth server is heading.
Just curious, what was the reason for blocking those first three instances?
That's great! I'll add it to the recommended instances section once I get a change.
Maybe @jerry knows what's going on? Is it possible oauth client creation is restricted to admins on fedia?
Maybe because Google doesn't think it's popular enough, I've noticed that too though. The search does work if you search the app id directly though, like one.jwr.interstellar.
If you're trying to login to your fedia account, I've noticed that server doesn't seem to work (which is why it's not in the recommended instances section). It's probably an issue with how they setup the api (you'll notice other mbin instances work with interstellar just fine).
Yes, there's Interstellar.
kbin.social is also showing 404 for me at /sub. https://kbin.social/*/sub still seems to be working though.
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It's possible we could add sublinks support to the Interstellar app when the time comes. It already supports microblogging for kbin/mbin and is built with multi-software compatibility in mind; it currently supports kbin, mbin, and lemmy and could easily add support for sublinks.
I don't have a lot to say this time, but here's the biggest Interstellar update we've had so far. This update includes almost full support for Lemmy (notification viewing, direct messages, and post creation don't work yet though), there's a new user/magazine mentions feature, user profile pages now let you view a user's comments and follows, and even more listed below. Additionally, Interstellar is now out on Google Play to the public. Here's the full list of new features and fixes that were included in this update:
New
- General Lemmy support, including account login, feed view, voting, commenting, viewing communities, viewing user profiles, searching, and more. The main features not included in this release are viewing notifications, viewing/interacting with direct messages, and creating new posts. Thanks @jwr1 and @olorin99.
- Support for editing your user profile, including the about and uploading a new profile avatar and banner; thanks @olorin99.
- Huge improvements to the user screen, including being able to view a user's threads, microblogs, comments, replies, follows, and followers; thanks @olorin99.
- A new user/magazine mention feature; if a user/magazine mention is detected in markdown, it tries to fetch the corresponding avatar and name and allows you to click to view the user/magazine page if available.
- Support for blocking users, magazines, and domains.
- Support for reporting posts and comments.
- Show a copy button on the open link dialog.
- Show an option for posts and comments to open them in a browser.
- Add local filter to magazines explore.
Fixes
- Add post/comment deletion confirmation.
- Fix account list sorting to go by host, then the local name.
- Fix the coloring for the subscribe button so it's easier to tell when you're subscribed or not.
- Hide the error snack bar for several common errors, including render layout issues and image loading issues.
- Fix empty search error from the search screen.
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GitHub: github.com/jwr1/interstellar Magazine: https://kbin.earth/m/interstellar Matrix: #kbin-interstellar:matrix.org Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=one.jwr.interstellar
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Just as a side note, those who have the app previously installed will need to re-signin into their accounts and might need to clear their app data if the app doesn't start up, as a few changes have been made with the way accounts are stored.
I literally just finished doing the same thing for my own foss app (and I also used Flutter). Right now I'm waiting for my production review. To get people added to your closed test, you have to either collect a list of email address, or create a google group they can join. If you use a google group, that will be a bit easier for testers to join since people can click the group link, and then the test link, instead of waiting for you to add their email.
If you can't initially get all the testers you need, I would recommend making a post on the AndroidClosedTesting reddit; I found them really helpful to get the last few testers I needed.
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Looks interesting. Would kbin support be added at some point?
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Agreed
Also, someone should make a dedicated community to Linus Torvalds quotes.
You can have only one installed, and Fedora KDE ships this way. If your distro doesn’t offer that, it seems like a distro packaging issue.
Thanks for the info; it does look like that's how my distro packages it.
make it easier to change file associations for common file types
That’s in Plasma 6. :)
That's awesome to hear! It's a problem I've had for a while, so I'm glad it's being worked on.
Anyway, I just want to say I really appreciate all the work y'all have done over the years; I've been using plasma for the past 6-7 years, and it's a desktop environment like no other.
Thanks for the AUA and all the work on KDE, especially with plasma 6.
It's not really a question, more of a request, but is it possible you all could make the kwrite/kate situation less complicated? I don't mind having options, but from what I understand, you can only have them both installed (or none), not one or the other. Also, if I want Kwrite to be the default editor, I have to go into every supported mime type (file association) and switch the default (instead of just once for all of them).
My preference would be that there's only one text editor (to cause less confusion; maybe just have a toggle button to switch between basic and advanced modes), and to make it easier to change file associations for common file types (like text files, video files, music, images, etc.); even if it's technically a different file format, e.g. .mp4 vs .mkv for videos, I should only have to set the default app once.
Hello everyone,
It's already been more than a month since I started Interstellar, and it's far from perfect, but it's definitely very usable for someone who's just browsing around and voting or replying to random things, so I thought now's as good a time as ever to "officially" publish it.
I'm currently in the process of uploading Interstellar to the Google Play Store, but before it's considered "Production", I need to meet the following requirement: "you must run a closed test for your app with a minimum of 20 testers who have been opted-in for at least the last 14 days continuously". If any of ya'll would like to help test the app, please send the Google Play email address you'd like added to the test list through either a dm to jwr1 (on kbin.social or kbin.earth), a dm to jwr1@matrix.org on matrix, or email appstore@jwr.one.
I haven't done this before, but you might have to wait a few hours (or days) before anything shows up in your account once your added. If you do encounter any bugs please let me know on the GitHub page.
Thanks for the help; let me know if you have any questions.
To start, Interstellar finally has an app icon; thanks to @BenjMathis1 for designing it and @dannii\_montanii for helping implement it into the app! (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jwr1/interstellar/e55763688df9f62b12997515830344b701e1f47c/assets/icons/logo.png)
Additionally, microblogging support has now caught up to thread support, thanks to @olorin99. Now, viewing, voting, boosting, etc. is supported on posts. Also, @olorin99 has added support for editing and deleting your own threads, posts, and comments.
A few other features added since the last thread here include support for replying to a thread, post, or another comment, a built-in YouTube video player, an interactive view for images (which supports scaling and panning), a collapse/expand button for comments with children, and a recommended instances section for kbin instances that support logging in via the API.
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Here's the link to the latest working build (a new Windows build is now included): github.com/jwr1/interstellar/releases (Android, Linux, Windows).
If you've previously subscribed to the old Interstellar magazine, make sure to migrate over to the new one hosted on kbin.earth (for kbin.social).
So as to not clog up the kbinMeta magazine, I probably won't post as many future Interstellar updates here.
jwr1 @kbin.earth Admin of kbin.earth, creator of Interstellar.
Also on kbin.social: @jwr1