manton
manton

Released a new beta of Micro.blog 3.0 for iOS. It’s still early, several things aren’t wired up yet, but you can join via TestFlight here if you’d like to follow along.

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gdp
gdp

@manton Very nice!

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maique
maique

@manton Thanks.

Text size still not dynamic, but seems bigger 🙏🏼

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maique
maique

@manton Spoke too soon! Just needed a quit and relaunch! 🥳

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pajp
pajp

@manton looking like a great update so far!

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maique
maique

@manton And replies!! Thrilled! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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pratik
pratik

@manton Is the share sheet enabled in this one? Had to revert to the app store version since I use it to cross-post photos to my blog.

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pajp
pajp

@pajp trying to post an image with alt text gives a “something went wrong, try again later” error

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vincent
vincent

@pratik no share sheet yet. Sorry.

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vincent
vincent

@maique it should be dynamic… 😅

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vincent
vincent

@pajp thanks, I’ll look into it. Perhaps there was a server side error.

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maique
maique

@vincent I thought so, from yesterday’s talk. That’s what prompted me to try the relaunch. It does work, but can’t make it do it without the forced quit and relaunch.

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vincent
vincent

@maique hmmm. That’s not right.

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vincent
vincent

@maique good thing it’s a beta 🤣🤣😅😏

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maique
maique

@vincent Anything I can do from here to help?

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maique
maique

@vincent Yeah, glad to help if I can. But, even though it’s not perfect yet, I love the fact that I can get the text size bigger, in exchange for one relaunch 🤣

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vincent
vincent

@maique I’m going to try and reproduce this. How do you change your text size? Is it from control centre or from the settings app?

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maique
maique

@vincent Text settings are on the control center, Micro.blog only selected. Do I have you on Signal?? I can try to shoot the process and send it over.

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maique
maique

@vincent I’d DM you, but Vincent is still working on that one 🤣🤣🤣😅

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vincent
vincent

@maique just tried it via control centre and it’s working for me 😭 It’s updating and reloading the web view… hmmmmmmmmmm

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vincent
vincent

@maique email is good.

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maique
maique

@vincent Oops! Sent the video on Signal. Sorry.

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benjohnson
benjohnson

@manton OMG it fixes the bug where scrolling would often load the conversation view. I’m in love.

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pratik
pratik

@vincent Dang it!

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vincent
vincent

@maique shocking 😱

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MarcoZehe
MarcoZehe

@manton A few observations from a VoiceOver user: 1. The menu button isn’t labeled and doesn’t have button traits. 2. Same goes for the Close item in said menu. 3. The items in the menu have funny names, two words per item, like synonyms.

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mcg
mcg

@benjohnson That was so annoying!

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vincent
vincent

@benjohnson yay 🥳 Never heard of this one for the v3 beta, but know it was a thing in version 2 of the app (the one in the App Store). For version 3 it checks if your scrolling before allowing navigation to a conversation.

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vincent
vincent

@mcg yeah. It was the web view. It was triggering a navigation as you scrolled. It thought you were tapping on it… it has no idea if it’s scrolling or not (in a way).

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mcg
mcg

@vincent Love how nice the timelines scroll. And dynamic text seem to be working for me without restarting.

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vincent
vincent

@MarcoZehe thank you for reporting this. There is a menu button on the top left of the screen (which also doubles as your profile image), in the header area, this opens the main menu. I will check the titles for the menu items here, I wonder if I set the wrong titles and/or keys.

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vincent
vincent

@mcg That's good to know! Thank you 😄

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vincent
vincent

@pajp I’ve had a look at alt text with an image, and it’s not throwing any errors. Can you try again?

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mcg
mcg

@vincent Just tried this on my iPad and did have to restart the app for the font size to change.

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pratik
pratik

@vincent Trying it out my iPad Mini. Looks great. BTW where can we edit our posts? I see the tab for the Replies now

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brian_wolf@mastodon.social
brian_wolf@mastodon.social

@manton started using it tonight. Thanks for the chance.

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MarcoZehe
MarcoZehe

@vincent Thank you for looking into it! The menu item for Mentions reads something like "Conversations Mentions" or such. And yeah, the spot at the top left that is the menu button is currently silent when tapping it once with VoiceOver on. As is the big area that closes the menu when double-tapped.

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someone
someone

@manton it looks really good!

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vincent
vincent

@pratik thanks! Post editing and uploads will come at some stage. I have a November dev list I’m working through… so most likely for the December list.

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vincent
vincent

@mcg ok, good to know about the iPad… maybe I’ll give it a whirl and see if I can reproduce it.

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pratik
pratik

@vincent Cool. No rush.

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briandigital
briandigital

@manton is search available? Or did I just miss it?

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manton
manton

@briandigital No search yet. That'll come before we finish the final 3.0 release.

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jomalo
jomalo

@manton @vincent any chance on the timeline remembering where you were between sessions?

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vincent
vincent

@jomalo There is bigger work to be done for this. At the moment it will always sync the last read post, so any third party app can make use of it. We'll eventually have it, but it needs more thought to get it right.

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pajp
pajp

@vincent still doesn’t work for me. I wonder if there’s something special with my image or the alt text itself.

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pajp
pajp

@vincent ok now it works with and without alt text, no idea what I did differently, if anything 🤷‍♂️

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vincent
vincent

@pajp Ah sorry, just replied but read your message wrong. Let me know if it happens again.

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