Hey folks! I've opened a bunch of new beta testing slots for @radiant, my Mastodon app for iPhone.

Get them while they're hot 🔥

I'd love to get any feedback and find any new bugs before I submit a day zero v1.0.1 update to App Review.

Boosts / reblogs appreciated 🙏

https://testflight.apple.com/join/ZIPbEz2e

#MastodonApps #MastodonClient #IndieDev #SwiftUI #iOS

@jknlsn @radiant @binarytango Taking a look now. Your content-loading messages are hilarious!

@radiant @binarytango @maxleibman hahaha thank you! I try to entertain myself first and foremost, they have been there since shockingly early in the apps life 😂

@jknlsn Things I can confirm works with a quick test on an M1 Mac:

* Works great on even non-Mastodon servers with Mastodon API support, like Akkoma. Not all clients do this. In fact, a lot of them don’t.

* Works fine on a Mac, but does show a tiny UI. I know that this might not be a huge priority for you, but adding iPad support would make it work better on M1 Macs too.

Will send more feedback later on once I’ve had a chance to use it more.

@f hey, thanks a bunch for testing it out!

That's really exciting about Akkoma! Radiant interacts exclusively with the Mastodon API so it *should* work if a software is compliant, but it's not been a priority to test that yet.

I thought I had turned off availability on M1 machines... haha glad to hear it worked for you though! Adding iPad support, and full Mac support, is on my backlog and I'm working on it but it's not ready just yet. Thanks a ton for the feedback though, really helpful

@jknlsn Sure thing 🙂 I took several open source Mastodon clients when I started on Mastodon and converted them to work on Akkoma and I can tell you that the feed parsing failed on most of them since there were subtle differences in the data received from a Mastodon server vs. Akkoma.

So either the Akkoma side improved (which I don’t think it did) or your code handles the parsing of the data much better than most of the other apps I’d looked at.

Will send more feedback once I’ve had a chance to play around with it. I’m always looking for the perfect Mastodon app. So far, I’ve had to add the features I want to existing open source apps but I’d much rather not have to do all the maintenances myself 😛

@jknlsn Some more feedback in case it is helpful — just a caveat, I don’t know if the features I look for in a Mastadon client are the ones that other people are interested in 🙂

What I really liked about the app:

* The home feed filtering option to view just links, media etc.

* Multi-tags

* The threading — I like how your post thread view looks like. The client I’m using at the moment gives a way abbreviated thread of messages. I hadn’t looked into it till now since I didn’t notice that the threads were abbreviated 🙂 Will need to dig into it now ….

* Post scheduling

* The ability to create post threads

Things that didn’t work well or features I’d like to see:

* I get an “Error 404” whenever I restart the app. MIght be due to me being on Akkoma and some API endpoint being different.

* Remembering your last position on the feed so that you don’t have to scroll back each time you launch the app and try to find where you were ..

* The post editor does not appear to query the server to see what the character limit for a post is. My server has a character limit of 8000 but it shows 500 per post.

* The ability to filter out by followed hashtag and/or list members from the main timeline

* I can’t seem to create lists. Not sure if this is failing because I’m on Akkoma and the API endpoint might be different (in case you’re creating the list on server as well and not just locally) or something else but just letting you know.

* If I go to a user’s profile, I notice the menu has an option to add to a list, but the menu option does not seem to do anything when you click on it. But this might be related to me not being able to create lists in the first place.

@f thanks a ton for the feedback!

- error 404: could you please email me the logs from settings? I'll look into it

- looking into options for remembering your last position in the feed!

- ah interesting. I'm attempting to, but I may need to sign up on a server with a higher limit and test further

- filtering your timeline and followed hashtags from the main timeline is on the backlog!

- ah ok interesting, might be a slight difference in end points for the lists