manton
manton
Preview of Sunlit 2.2 manton.org
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ChrisHannah
ChrisHannah

@manton Wow, that's a huge improvement!

It's looking like it could become the way to do photoblogging. A true Instagram alternative, and competitor.

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pseudomichael
pseudomichael

@manton Looks great! I am still loving my micro.blog experience and I'm excited to see the ways this service continues to mature while keeping the independent spirit that drew us all here in the first place! 💥 🎉

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ronguest
ronguest

@manton This new version looks like it will be a huge step. And I’m sure it gives you more talk about in Portland. 😀

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Cheri
Cheri

@manton Looks great!

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kaa
kaa

@manton App looks amazing so great work! Just a quick question, are there plans to upgrade how these images are presented on our sites? Is the intention to create a new /photos default page (like the about page) that presents only the photos?

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Burk
Burk

@manton It's so good!! 👍👍

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craigmcclellan
craigmcclellan

@manton YES. This looks so good. Home screen worthy.

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aclaman
aclaman

@manton looking good!

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alexwaddell
alexwaddell

@manton looks awesome.

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atog
atog

@manton Can't wait! 👍🏻

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johnholzer
johnholzer

@manton I am loving this timeline!

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spratte
spratte

@manton Can’t. Wait. Well done.

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sakurina
sakurina

@manton I realize this is a fringe usecase, but do you know if images are downloaded lazily as you scroll the timeline? Was looking forward to using Sunlit as a low-bandwidth uploader to Micro.blog on an upcoming trip with a metered connection but if a dozen pics or so get loaded every time I launch the app, I may have to reconsider…

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EddieHinkle
EddieHinkle

@manton Very cool! I’ve been enjoying poking around Sunlit beta. I think the only thing I’ve run into (not sure of the solution) is I end up seeing duplicate content across micro.blog and Sunlit. It’s like micro.blog needs a “no photos” timeline for people that use Sunlit for their photo timeline

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manton
manton

@EddieHinkle We're not attempting to solve that for the first version, but it probably should be expanded so that your Sunlit timeline and Micro.blog timeline can diverge (maybe even different people in some cases). We'll be listening to what people think.

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manton
manton

@sakurina It shouldn't load the photo until you scroll to it in the timeline. @cheesemaker might be able to better answer if there are any edge cases for pre-caching.

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cleverdevil
cleverdevil

@manton so, FYI, Sunlit beta crashes for me on the timeline view. iOS 12 beta 2, though. May be related to the fact that I have a self hosted main site and a M.b hosted podcast site. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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manton
manton

@cleverdevil That should work, but try signing out of everything if you haven't yet. I think there are some cases where settings aren't reset properly for the new version.

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cleverdevil
cleverdevil

@manton so I tried that, and it made the Discover tab work, but the timeline view still triggers a crash.

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cheesemaker
cheesemaker

@manton @sakurina so yes it lazy loads the images. It also caches them locally so they will only ever load once. The cache is keyed off of the url fwiw. We definitely try to minimize bandwidth.

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cheesemaker
cheesemaker

@cleverdevil @manton hmm. I will take a look at the crash logs and the users you are following. We do a bit of parsing on the client to try and figure out how large images are etc so my guess is that you’re following someone who has a custom rolled blog that’s breaking the parsing.

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sakurina
sakurina

@cheesemaker Wonderful, thanks for the hard work 😃

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cheesemaker
cheesemaker

@cleverdevil @manton yep. That was it. Very sorry. It will be fixed in the next build. Not much you can do to workaround at the moment either unless you want to unfollow @aaronpk. 😞

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cleverdevil
cleverdevil

@cheesemaker no worries at all! This is the point of betas 😀 The app looks amazing, looking forward to the official release.

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EddieHinkle
EddieHinkle

@cheesemaker hahaha 😆😆 I love that it was @aaronpk of all people

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thedimpause
thedimpause

@cheesemaker Hmmm ... guess that explains why the same thing is happening to me too 😀

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cheesemaker
cheesemaker

@TheDimPause yes. I’m guessing a number of people here follow him. 🤪

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aaronpk
aaronpk

@cheesemaker Wait haha what'd I do?

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thedimpause
thedimpause

@cheesemaker ... and I can confirm that unfollowing him solves the Sunlit crash for me 😉 He will be back!

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thedimpause
thedimpause

@cheesemaker Hold that thought! It did initially fix the crash, but now it’s started happening again 🤔

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cheesemaker
cheesemaker

@TheDimPause heh. I can’t promise there aren’t other people you follow with similarly problematic content in their posts. I’m hoping we can get a new beta out shortly since this is a pretty terrible bug.

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cheesemaker
cheesemaker

@aaronpk it wasn’t anything you did. It’s just a bug in the Sunlit parser. Your post just happened to be a source of data that causes it to choke for @cleverdevil. We need to put out a new beta ASAP to fix it.

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thedimpause
thedimpause

@cheesemaker I appreciate that and I'll go back to following @aaronpk and be patient ;)

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cleverdevil
cleverdevil

@cheesemaker @manton good news, the latest Sunlit build no longer crashes for me! Bad news is it pretty much just shows me a blank screen for Timeline and no navigation at all.

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cheesemaker
cheesemaker

@cleverdevil progress!

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