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c/blorp · by moseschrute@lemmy.ml · 1y

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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22 Comments

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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

Blaze@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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

moseschrute@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

Blaze@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

Lemmy.zip or piefed.social would be great instances to host your community

RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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

moseschrute@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 1y

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

RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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

moseschrute@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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.

RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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)?

moseschrute@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y

I just pushed 1.9.20 eveywhere. TestFlight lags a little behind (maybe a few hours) and App Store a little behind that (maybe a day or two). Android is much faster. F-Droid takes 3-6 days.

I’m hesistatnt to rush anything out the door that could break other things. Turning off features based on PieFed or Lemmy has to happen soon. Maybe in the next few weeks. For now, the name of the game is stability.

Software teams don’t really work without QA and a product manager. I’ve had to do everything myself for awhile, but your QA work recently has really freed me up to just write code. Give yourself more credit!

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
  • Block a community

You can block communities now? Nice!

RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 1y (9 replies)

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?

moseschrute@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y (8 replies)
  • PieFed banner bug is fixed on blorpblorp.xyz but I’m not rolling out to app stores quite yet.

::: spoiler If you’re interested in why PieFed plans on pruning some stuff from their API responses to cut down on size. Looks like they return community.banner from but maybe prune post.community.banner. Lemmy doesn’t do this, so whenever we see post.community we can assume it’s up to date. But with PieFed, we have to be more careful as it can return only a subset of the data about the community. :::

  • 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.

RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 1y (7 replies)

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)

moseschrute@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y (6 replies)
  • You’re now a mod! Feel free to update the sidebar. Unfortunately Blorp doesn’t really support moderation features… yet. I’m also not sure how well moderation works from PieFed to Lemmy, so let me know if it works.
  • I’m not seeing the embed in the link you sent. But I think I know what you mean. There are a bunch of embeds we recognize and can handle gracefully (without autoplay) but if we don’t recognize an embed, we fallback to rendering it in an iframe. I’m not 100% how to diable autoplay in the fallback case. I’m considering just disabling any unrecognized embeds.
  • Loops is kinda a hack. The Mac, iOS, and Android app should be able to play the Loops video in app. For the website to work we would need some sort of API access from Loops.
  • I have hover implemented in the accesibility branch build in my origianl post.
RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 1y (5 replies)
  • Thanks, sidebar has been updated. Moderation between Piefed and lemmy in my experience isn't a problem, the only thing is that some things (like post flairs) only work on one side
  • arte.tv is probably region locked to Germany and France so that could be why you can't see it
  • I just asked because the only other lemmy client I tried that embeds loops (Tesseract) always displays loops in site
  • Nice
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

arte.tv is probably region locked to Germany and France so that could be why you can’t see it

I'm in another European country and I can reach arte fine, but maybe outside of Europe they are locked indeed

RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I checked the arte faq:

The entire replay offer of the ARTE media library is available in Germany and France. Outside these two countries, 85% of the programmes are available in German and French speaking countries in Europe. Two thirds of the programmes are available across Europe and nearly half of programmes worldwide.

Blaze@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y

Thanks!

moseschrute@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I think Tessearct proxies requests via a backend, but I would have to double check. We could do this, but I’m trying to avoid setting up any sort of backend. Idk how much pull we have with Loops, but maybe we can ask them to setup a way to embed videos.

RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 1y

As long as loops play in the apps I don't think it's a problem as otherwise your using a browser anyways