I think there’s some sort of DDOS attack going around because I’ve been in the same boat with kbin.earth slowing down. kbin.earth’s traffic has nearly doubled in just the past few days and I’m still trying to figure out the source.

Writing this message on the interstellar app just now. My only minor gripe is that there’s no way to mark something as read with a single tap that I’ve found. (Got to long press and mark as read, but I’ll accept that I may have missed something)

I’ll give a quick overview: to mark a post as read, you need to either open it, vote on it, boost it, or mark it as read explicitly, which can be done through the overflow menu (long press or tap overflow button, like you said) or by configuring the swipe gestures to have the mark as read action (then all you have to do is swipe on the post). In the next update, we will also have a “mark as read on scroll” option, which, when enabled, will mark all posts in your feed as read once it scrolls off the top of the screen.

Lol, that’s insane. I hope everybody saves their money for better things.

Interstellar actually does support Lemmy as well, unless you mean other apps.

I’m the developer of Interstellar, and I am actually from the US. iOS support is something I’d like to add, but is not the priority. @Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org made many good points about it not catering towards FOSS projects, but I’d also like to add, it costs $100 every single year in order to have an Apple developer account, which is required if you want to publish anything to the Apple App Store. Additionally, Apple’s very expensive hardware is required in order to build and release any Apple software, which I do not own.

All that to say, I’d like to support iOS and macOS platforms, but Apple makes it extremely difficult (and costly) for that to happen. Why should I have to pay $100 every year in order to publish a free app that I’m not even making any money off of?

Interstellar is also available for desktop platforms (including Linux and Windows) if you’d prefer to try it there instead (check the GitHub page for info).

Also want to mention @olorin99, as well, for helping test and implement PieFed support in the app!

As always, let me know if you run into any issues or want to make any suggestions.

Ah, yes. I misinterpreted the context.

I’m sure you know, but technically, Microblogs are still considered “posting to your profile”. It’s just that Mbin also happens to categorize those microblogs into a specific magazine, either based on tags or manual placement. They still display in your profile just like normal. Additionally, if you view those Mbin microblogs from a Mastodon server, they will still appear as if the user “posted to their profile”. All Mbin is doing is assigning the Microblog a general categorization.

There will be soon :)

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Upvoting should be your default. Boosting is more like a “retweet”, where you are publicly reposting something on your profile.

Thank you for your support ❤

@asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev

(Interstellar dev here) Not sure what you mean by alpha. Sure, Interstellar could always use improvements, but that’s the same as with any app. I, and I’m assuming many other people, daily use Interstellar, and mainly without any issue.

If you have any specific feedback you’d like to provide, I am very welcome to it. Many times that people have mentioned a bug/issue, I’ve tried to incorporate a change that would fix said issue within an update or so (several were even incorporated in the update that was just released).

I will admit, we need more developers working on Interstellar, but someone making a whole new Mbin app would do completely the opposite of what Interstellar needs (it would mean fewer potential developers working on Interstellar).

I’ve worked hard on this app for over a year at this point, and I would have considered it alpha at the beginning, but at this point, it is definitely ready for general use and not “alpha”. As the solo “active” contributor (I appreciate all the not as active contributors as well), I just can’t work on everything all at once.

I hope it’s still going alright :)

Actually, the migration tool is now out with the latest update. It is marked as “beta” as there are things that could be improved, but subscription migration does work between Mbin and Lemmy accounts.

Lol, yeah, maybe we should standardize the icons. If I remember correctly, I did look at the thunder app to pick some of the icons, so maybe it’s at least the same between Thunder and Interstellar.

If there’s anything you’d specifically like to work on, just let me know.

I’m a bit confused then; there should be a loading indicator that displays once the button is pressed, which prevents you from tapping it multiple times. It should look like this now: .

If this isn’t too much work, the next time you have the null check error show up, would you be able to comment back here (or dm me) with exactly what you did, including which post/comment it was you were interacting with?

• That was something I specifically tried to fix in the last update (the posting button not appearing to work). After the update, almost all buttons that connect to the api have a loading indicator now. Would you be able to verify you are on the latest version: v0.7.1.
• I have seen that error before (null check), which I can definitely try to investigate, but I’ll likely need more context (such as a post it happens on) to be able to figure out exactly what’s causing the issue.

What bugs/issues does Interstellar have that you would like to see fixed? I’m Interstellar’s developer btw. I tried to get the majority of the know bugs fixed in the last big update. If there’s anything specific you’re running into, I can try to focus on that.