Adnan @Decad3nce@qoto.org

Taking a pass on scoping out the rest of the work required before I'm comfortable making this client public.

I dislike T shirt sizing since that process doesn't give enough insight into what is contributing to estimates, so I'm trialing out a new process for myself.

Glossary:
Trivial - I know how to do this, it's easy to knock out in hours w/ limited research.
Involved - I need to research some aspects, might be a week or two.
Significantly Complex - Need a ton of research, tough to estimate.

While dogfooding my little prototype here, I think I'm realizing that the 'Public/Federated' feed is a bit useless (at least for me). I'm going to make custom feed tabs a priority.

#trunkssocial #flutter #mobiledevelopment

Enjoying the sunsets here in the #PNW. #dogsofmastodon #mastadon

@Decad3nce Just realized the text colors need fixing on the light mode 😂

Implemented notifications (not push yet) and dark mode toggle. I will say material 3 is awesome when it leverages colors from the underlying Android phone, though it still looks pretty good on iOS.

Probably the last things I'll do today as I'm taking a break to drink some beer 🍻.

#flutter #mastodon #mobiledevelopment

Anyone aware of any data consistency literature for #mastodon. I'm curious to see if a lot of the issues I've seen with other apps is because of poor client caching strategies or it's something more of a headache.

@Decad3nce The other concern I have is how instance feature advertisement is completely ad hoc. The way instances advertise custom features is by stuffing fields into the Instance objects.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/4915

@Decad3nce If the scale of conversation really takes off, this will be one of the biggest bottlenecks to ensuring discourse continues.

Without it fixed, the threads can take a long time to load and users would have a disincentive to participate in an attempt to avoid latency.

One of the most glaring concerns with the #Mastodon API I can see right away is that the context API isn't paginated. It's very interesting to see how different clients fall over when a thread has numerous descendants.

The bug has been open on it for a while. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/11029

I'm working around it by doing some crafty graph transversal on batched context requests.

@Decad3nce This is getting out of hand.

@novice definitely on my radar.

Tomorrow I'll knock out alerts and notifications, after all that really remains is settings and per instance customizations.

Added support for status posting and reply mechanisms to this new Mastodon client.

#flutter #mobiledevelopment #postedfrommyprototype