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JoyRant build 48 adds mentions!

@whimsical/@retoor has made a mentions crawler (I guess you can call it that?).

joydev://rant/19381730

I‘m using it as a source for mentions now (because devRant's mentions are broken, in case that you didn’t know it)

It can be disabled in the settings, if devRant's mentions will come back one day.

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

The implementation was a bit tricky but fun:

Molodetz mentions don’t have avatar info, so I‘m pulling avatars from the "encountered users" store, a feature that I implemented a while ago and it comes very handy now.

The "mark as read" is done locally now, for obvious reasons.

A funny side effect is that in theory, now it should be possible to mention users directly in rants too, not just in comments. That wasn’t possible in devRant :)

Thanks to retoor and have fun!

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  • 2
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    > 'The implementation was a bit tricky but fun'

    The things you can learn w/ side-gigs.

    Anyway good feature to have, especially since the original app is broken. iOS people should be delighted.
  • 2
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    Haha, so nice :) Considering it's a static file server with a file that's get updated frequently. Well, that's absurd performance if I did not write the file server myself :p I wrote my own cgi server just for fun. Did you know that gemini literally refuses to help someone with a cgi server? Anyway, it's almost 30 times slower than asgi or something. Still, the server is performant as fuck and I have my cgi scripts running in any language on earth 😁😁😁

    Someone wants to know why gemini doesn't want to help?
  • 3
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    Fuck, you know about me and whimsical? Who told you?

    Ooeeeeh, you're having your own url scheme? How fucking awesome is that? That's the dream.
  • 1
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    @whimsical

    > Someone wants to know why gemini doesn't want to help?

    I guess some kind of "security" feature.

    I really started to hate Gemini in Google results since it‘s hallucinating like hell.
    The amount of plain wrong facts that it spews out is really worrying because I bet a lot of people just believe it blindly and then spread the misinformation.
    When this misinformation then ends up on the internet again, it will be taken as a source and then it becomes credible.
    It will be harder and harder to know what the hell is true anymore.
    This shit is happening already.
  • 1
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    @whimsical honestly I don’t remember anymore why I implemented that custom scheme 😅

    I‘m sure it‘s somehow related to deep linking though.

    Also I had to change the god damn name to joydev because Apple reviewers complained about it being copycat but didn‘t accept it anyway. I forgot to change it back to joyrant after that.
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    @whimsical

    > Fuck, you know about me and whimsical? Who told you?

    All I know is that it’s your alt account to be able to use AI bots who try to mimic you.

    I didn’t know that it’s supposed to be a secret 🤨

    Is there more to it?
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    @Lensflare > 'Also I had to change the god damn name to joydev because Apple reviewers complained about it being copycat'

    Interesting... They haven't caught up to the fact that my previous company published _a lot_ of reskins of their apps in direct violation of a similar rule for a long time.

    /* Think 8..10 apps that worked the exact same way or barely any differently, w/ graphics being pretty much the only difference. They caught up w/ the reality some 2..3 years later. */

    Their reviewing processes are terrible.
  • 1
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    @D-4got10-01 in your case it might be different because it was on the same vendor account and it might have been considered a while label solution.
  • 1
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    @Lensflare Hmm... while slightly different category than impersonation: 4.1 Copycats, it is still covered by other 'rules': 4.2 Minimum Functionality && 4.3 Spam.

    https://developer.apple.com/app-sto... .
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