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Thanks to everyone who participated in the closed test program, we finally had the app accepted (again!) on Google Play. An "open testing" channel has been configured which now points to the last beta, but there are no more restrictions on who can participate in it.

Once I finish with the activities I'm working on – manly bug fixes for issues you have reported or small feature additions – I'll be releasing a candidate for the production track. Thanks to all those who helped and to all new translators, your contribution was really welcome and will surely improve everyone's experience.

I hope to see this project continuing to grow this year! #livefasteattrash #procyonproject

I've decided version 1.14.0 is ready, despite the lack of feedback, maybe holidays didn't help with this respect.

Changelog:

• feat: implement user tags (as requested here);
• feat: restrict local user search on current instance (request on Matrix);
• feat: custom sort for user posts and comments (as requested here);
• fix: prevent crash while switching account (reported on Matrix);
• fix: explore result and listing type bottom sheet titles (discussed on Matrix);
• fix: window insets and bar colors (verbally reported by a friend);
• fix: default theme color (reported here);
• enhancement: improve accessibility;
• chore: update dependencies;
• chore: update l10n (thanks to all new translators, you've been included in the acknowledgements);
• chore: add more unit tests.

I remind everyone, if you want to help to see the app on Google Play again, that we need at least 12 testers and now there are only 5, even asking to complete strangers on the forbidden R* site.

Here are the steps to participate:

• join this group with the same account you'll be using on the Play store;
• become a tester using this invitation link;
• download the app from here.

Thanks to everyone as usual.

Happy New Year to everyone! To start the year in the best possible way, a new beta version of the app is available for testing!

Changelog:

• feat: restrict local user search to results on the current instance;
• chore: update acknowledgements (with new translators);
• chore: update dependencies.

For those of you who may have missed it, the new "user tagging" feature is available since beta01. For the 1.14.0 milestone, I'll be working on making it possible to select custom sort types for users posts and comments, similarly to what can already be done for communities.

As requested by some of you (@rfr_[email protected]), we set up the process to release on Google Play too. The app is now only available to closed testers, who can participate in the testing program using this link. Since this is only available to a closed list of users, please make sure you join the following group with the same email address you are going to use on Google Play.

After the minimum number of testers have been enrolled for two weeks, we are going to be able to distribute it to the general public. For those of you who are getting the app from F-Droid, don't despair: the build job is stuck some versions behind but I've solved the issues so after these holidays I can ping them for updates and have it in-synch again.

p.s. This is also the first Wednesday of January, so we can use this post as the starter for the usual Q&A session. #livefasteattrash #procyonproject

Hope you are all on holiday and preparing for new year's eve… in the meantime I've been working on the new user tagging feature someone requested in a comment.

You can find an "User tags" item in the profile side menu to see the list of tags, add/edit them and see the list of tagged users.

By using the "⋮" button in the top app bar from a user detail, you'll be able to add one or more tags to that user which will be displayed next to their handle whenever that users appears in a timeline, post detail or search.

Hope you find it useful, just keep in mind that:

• these tags are a client-side extension so they are only stored in the device you are using and not saved remotely (if you have multiple devices or delete the app data) and they are only visible to you
• this is still an experimental feature, if you happen to find any bugs please report them here in the comments or on Matrix.

Have a nice continuation of the week and of your holidays!

Hi everyone, Raccoon Santa 🦝🎅 delivered a little bug report to me this morning, so I decided to release a new version with the hotfix.

There is not much included except:

• a fix for a crash when opening some screens (image detail, multi-community, multi-community editor, report list) due to dependency injection misconfiguration
• routine library updates.

What's more important, let me wish everyone happy holidays: have fun, relax and recharge for the new year! I would like to express my gratitude especially to all the subscribers of this community, all users and contributors (coders, testers, translators, etc.) of the Raccoon project, who have virtually walked side-by-side with me during this year. It has been a long journey with a lot of happenings but it was worth it, and I enjoyed every bit of it.

We created something new together, we met new people and learned a lot of things in the process. This is simply awesome.

❤️🦝🎄

#livefasteattrash whenever you can on Christmas and New Year's eve and as always #procyonproject

I am going to (finally) move again the localization of the app to Weblate, just like before the project changed ownership this summer.

Considering:

1. there is a number of messages for the free tier which is shared with the other app;
2. in order to be compatible with Weblate, resource files have to be converted (manually 😅);

I am planning to remove some of the least used languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Greek, Esperanto, Estonian, Hungarian, Croatian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian (both variants), Dutch, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Toki Pona, Turkish… based on the fact that nobody ever reported translation errors (which are there).

Does anyone have any objection? I can add one or two more if you are using some of them (but you've been very silent indeed if you do). All the other languages which have not been mentioned in this list will be preserved.

Raccoons of Lemmy, as promised in December's AMA session, version 1.13.3 has been published. Here is the changelog:

• feat(app): support for opening posts and comments;
• fix(postlist): image height;
• fix(zoomableimage): high resolution image, loading state and action buttons;
• fix(createpost): autofill empty message;
• refactor(di): improve dependency injection;
• refactor(build): define and apply Gradle convention plugins;
• chore(deps): update dependencies;
• chore(qa): add more unit tests.

Enjoy the rest of the week and – as always – #livefasteattrash 🦝

Hi everyone! Sorry, I forgot about last week's "Ask me anything" session, so let's use this post as usual: you reply with questions and I'll answer them.

Moreover, I would like to give you some news about the project roadmap. I did not forgot to release a stable version, actually 1.13.3 is expected by the end of the year. In the meantime I've been focusing mostly on technical improvements, refactoring and code cleanup. For example I made dependency injection and gradle scripts much more maintainable, and I've been fixing a couple of issues that you reported.

Once I'm done with some more bugs (e.g. the ones concerning images) I'll be releasing, so don't worry. If some of you are willing to test the beta releases, you are more than welcome, thanks.

As always #livefasteattrash 🦝🦝🦝

Today a new synchronization job has run and the app has been imported! 🎉🎊🎉 I know it may not mean much to you, but for me (after more than a year for the first build attempt) this is a great achievement! I had lost hopes but, since I was starting the submission again for the "twin" project Raccoon for Friendica, I thought it would cost little to try again. And the idea proved successful!

If you are wondering what the root cause of the issues was last year, builds were not reproducible due to a l10ns plugin. F-Droid maintainers told me so I proceeded to remove it and find another way to read localization files.

Another "infrastructure" news is that I've set up a cool code coverage (Kover) plugin to measure how much the code is covered by unit tests and upload the reports to Codecov to see charts about how the metric evolves.

Hi there, I decided the app is ready to see a first stable release after the project "relocation".

Here is the changelog of this version compared to the latest beta:

• fix: ripple effects (e.g. top bar titles, drawer drop-down button);
• fix: video rendering in timelines and attachment detail;
• feat: button to reveal sensitive images in timelines;
• enhancement: update "Saved" label for bookmarks;
• enhancement: update font scale factors;
• enhancement: change default name of settings JSON when exporting;
• chore: dependency updates (most notably, Compose Multiplatform 1.7.1);
• chore: update CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, SECURITY.md and PRIVACY.md.

Hope you like it, have a nice rest of the weekend and remember to #livefasteattrash 🦝

In the Friendica/Mastodon application I am working on, while it was in alpha and beta stage, I have adopted the Sentry SDK for crash reporting, which works very well on Kotlin Multiplatform and is easier to setup than other (closed source, capitalistic and ugly) alternatives.

In doing so, I made an interesting , while I was submitting the app to open source stores (IzzyOnDroid and F-Droid), that if crash reporting is opt-in (i.e. disabled by default but it can be enabled in the app settings) the app is acceptable for their policies because users have to give their consent to enable reports (which are a form of tracking).

Considering there are users complaining about Raccoon for Lemmy crashing (e.g. while creating posts/comments) and that being a "deal breaker" (understandably!), my question is: would you accept it if I included Sentry, making it opt-in? In this way you could enable it just if there is some reproducible issue and turn it off whenever you like (restarting the app is needed to make any change to initialization effective).

Opinions are welcome, I will not do anything unless we decide together, especially because adding this service implies extra work for maintainer(s) 🤣

Hi raccoons of Lemmy! A new version of the app has been released and is available to all testers!

Here is the changelog:

• fix: text style used for links in Markdown (which appeared larger than the rest of the paragraph);
• fix: restore UI state after closing default sort bottom sheet in community detail;
• chore: improve readability of vote actions with arrow icons;
• refactor: migrate image loading to Coil3 (and remove obsolete Kamel library on iOS);
• enhancement: add new instances to default list;
• refactor/feat: migrate video player to Compose Multiplatform Media Player and make it possible to open videos full screen;
• refactor: migrate web views to Calf;
• enhancement: add Atkinson Hyperlegible font instead of Charis SIL;
• chore: review inter-item spacings in setting lists, modlog and side menus;
• chore: update user manual (new screenshots, new sections, table of contents and internal links);
• chore: update several dependencies.

Remember to have fun and #livefasteattrash