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v1.9.13 released to fix PieFed

v1.9.13 fix PieFed

PieFed was broken if you

  • Block a person
  • Block a community
  • Moderate a community

That has all been fixes in v1.9.13

Next up!

Give those a try, and let me know if you like seeing early previews like that.

I’m trying to formulate a long term plan

  • Lemmy V1 is going to ship later this year. I suspect a lot of clients that aren’t maintained are going to break. I would like to get Blorp to a place where I can be a home for all those new users.
  • Anyone here who’s first language isn’t English? Interested in Blorp being translated into your language?
  • I have no idea how to market this app. I’m estimating I may have 400ish users. I honestly have no idea. Could be much higher or much lower. My marketing mostly consists of me annoying people on Lemmy into using Blorp. At least that’s how I percieve it, and I cring a little at myself.
  • I have no idea how to build out a team, but if you have any skills that you feel could contriute to this project, please don’t be shy. I would like Blorp to be bigge than myself.
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  • First of al, thank you for your work!

    I have no idea how to market this app. I’m estimating I may have 400ish users. I honestly have no idea. Could be much higher or much lower. My marketing mostly consists of me annoying people on Lemmy into using Blorp. At least that’s how I percieve it, and I cring a little at myself.

    Posting it to !lemmyapps@lemmy.world, !fediverse@lemmy.world and !fediverse@piefed.social will probably help with awareness that it exists

    • You also might want to create another account on another instance, .ml tends to be blocked by a few instances

      • Yeah, I try not to get too involved with the drama, but I'm wondering if hosting this community on ml was a mistake because of the blocks.

        But I think I have enough accounts lol

  • I believe I found another Piefed bug. When viewing my saved posts it just shows the posts from my home feed and when going to comments nothing at all

    • Will fix. Also I guess I forgot to let you save comments in Blorp, so we should probably add that too.

      • Btw is it correct that in your inbox it says “replied to your comment” no matter is it’s a comment or post?

  • I found another Piefed bug, when searching from a community it returns results for all communities instead of just that one

    • I think you are single handedly finding every PieFed bug. Good work!

      Unfortunately this one liks like PieFed API. I don’t know if they support search scoped to a specific community. I don’t think they support comment search either.

      I really need a way to turn off certain features in Blorp when PieFed doesn’t support them. For example, it looks like you can register for a PieFed account through Blorp, but it will fail every time as the API doesn’t support registrations.

      I’m traveling a lot this month, but if you could do me a favor and keep a running list of all the PieFed bugs, maybe on GitHub? Include this in the list. I’ll get to it when I can. Right now I’m trying to get the app as stable as possible while I’m still near a computer.

      • You’re the one fixing the bugs, I’m just using the app

        If you implement the turning of features thing maybe implement it so it works both ways, so piefed specific features could be added to Blorp sometime in the future

        I’ll do that tomorrow (or whenever that is in your timezone). blorpblorp.xyz has the latest version right (not TestFlight)?

  • Soo I think I just found another Piefed bug. The Blorp community when using a lemmy account:

    When using Piefed:

    The icon appear for a second when opening a community for the first time, the banner doesn't and then both disappear. This happens across communities on blorpblorp.xyz and the latest testflight on an Ipad and is the same on all lemmy/piefed instances I tried. The little icons in the feed are fine, so I assume this is related to the banner.

    I do like the search overhaul, however the comments in the preview are way to small to be useful. I would maybe just hide them from the preview to make it more simplified, or maybe make the expandable (though that might make it to cluttered for a preview)

    My native language is German and I'd be happy to help translate, though I personally just use all my apps in English as it is my preferred language for anything digital.

    I also wanted to suggest updating the community description with the links to f-droid, google play and github

    Btw where do you prefer getting bug reports/feature request?

      • PieFed banner bug is fixed on blorpblorp.xyz but I’m not rolling out to app stores quite yet.
      • Done, removed comments from search. Good call
      • Would you be interested in being a moderator for this community? Otherwise I can update the sidebar
      • Feedback is fine wherever. If I forget about something, feel free to message me again. But GitHub issues are less likely to get lost as I have to close them. Matrix is nice for things that require a lot of back and forth.

      • Banners are working thanks. I'd be happy to be a mod of this community.

        A few more thoughts:

        • I noticed there are embeds for arte.tv (example: https://blorpblorp.xyz/home/c/mediatheque@feddit.org/posts/https%3A%2F%2Ffeddit.org%2Fpost%2F17170531) However they only work seem to work when using a lemmy account. On lemmy they work but they autoplay, which is kind of inconvenient. To disable this in the iframe the src url should have "?autoplay=false" instead of "?autoplay=true"
        • I noticed that loops embeds don't play in blorp but rather just take you to loops.video. Is this a bug or intended? For me it works either way, but it just seemed unintended
        • One feature I'd like to see is a way to see up and downvotes separately. This could either be implemented like in Voyager where there is a setting and it shows them directly, or like in piefed where you can see them while hovering over the vote count (which I think is the cleaner way)
    • Block a community

    You can block communities now? Nice!

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