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Eugen Rochko

I think one of my professional highlights of this year was the moment @mike and I came up with the fediverse:creator tag over lunch in San Francisco, and the subsequent implementation with my team. I love seeing that feature in action, besides being useful for discovery it just looks so nice.

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stux⚡

@Gargron Yeah @mike is awesome ❤️ :cat_hug_triangle:

Matti Järvinen

@Gargron @mike so what's the fediverse:creator tag about?

It doesn't ring any bells and I'm quite sure I haven't heard about it anywhere.

Chris Bond

@Gargron @mike Mine stopped working after a few weeks, not sure why, but I still see them on other people's posts now and again, but much less often than before.

Eugen Rochko

The Material You redesign of our Android app came out quite early in the year but it's another highlight. I maintain that it must be one of the most beautiful apps on Android. The design is so clean. And the whole app is just 5MB. It makes me wish I had an Android phone. @samhenrigold and @grishka really hit it out of the park.

Uwe Neufeld

@Gargron You're the only one who has'nt an Android.

kleines Filmröllchen 📞5534

@Gargron @samhenrigold @grishka Too bad you violated Material You guidelines on accessibility, and still apparently haven't fixed it. But clean designs are clearly more important than accessible applications.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon-a

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@Gargron @samhenrigold @grishka Having the Mastodon app respect my system design and theme is AMAZING and actually plays a significant role in me wanting to be on the platform.

Genuinely awesome stuff. Thank you guys!!!

Jon Lindemann

@Gargron I just posted that I've been rotating between Android Masto apps (Official, Tusky, Fedilab) and the official app is the slickest. It looks the cleanest, and most importantly, its scrolling is SUPER solid. No hitching or anything like that, which I really appreciate as a user. #Fediverse #Mastodon

mesa keith :damnified:

@Gargron I really appreciate the app being very lightweight. I'm no dev but, I notice many apps inflate in size by simply updating to the next design language for no reason

Григорий Клюшников

mesa keith :damnified:, it's because most Android apps use Google libraries. Google really acts like those bloated libraries that provide useless indirection are the only way to build M3 UIs. I had to go out of my way to keep things sane. I had to reimplement some components from scratch because the only "official" implementation that exists depends on the Google way of doing things so much it's really easier to do what I did than to try to decouple them. And, let's just say that my approach is very controversial among the Android developer community. But users are happy, and that's what actually matters in the end.

mesa keith :damnified:, it's because most Android apps use Google libraries. Google really acts like those bloated libraries that provide useless indirection are the only way to build M3 UIs. I had to go out of my way to keep things sane. I had to reimplement some components from scratch because the only "official" implementation that exists depends on the Google way of doing things so much it's really easier to do what I did than to try to decouple them. And, let's just say that my approach is very...

Eugen Rochko

With the understanding that some people will and do call it a waste of time, another highlight of my year was getting the #Plushtodon out into the world. I didn't want to just make another soulless piece of merch to tick off a box. I wanted to create a toy, a friend, that would rival anything you could get at a toy store. It brings me joy seeing that people seem to appreciate the effort.

Viviana

@Gargron
Thank you for doing that. #Plushtodon is really really cute!

HoHoHo MacGuffin :damnified:

@Gargron

People really seem to like them. I plan to order one myself at some point.

It is kind of a little thing, but it does seem to bring people joy.

PandaChronicle Resists

@Gargron
I love it!
It was a lovely thing to bring into the world.

Tinman

@Gargron @mike is the tag an image? If so I would love to see it

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