Pachli
After recent events and looking at the existing open source Android Mastodon clients I decided there's space for one more, with a specific focus.
#Pachli (website, google play, f-droid, github, mastodon)
To quote from https://pachli.app/pachli/2023/09/06/hello-pachli.html:
Pachli is an application (now) and an association (aspirational).
Pachli-the-application is a best-in-class open source Android application for Mastodon and Mastodon-like servers. If you’re familiar with Tusky then you’ll love Pachli.
Pachli-the-association is intended to provide a first class organisation to manage the development of the application under the 7 cooperative principles:
- Voluntary and open membership
- Democratic member control
- Member economic participation
- Autonomy and independence
- Education, Training, and Information
- Cooperation among Cooperatives
- Concern for Community
The application is a rapidly iterating fork of the popular Tusky Mastodon client, branched from version 23.0 of that application.
Pachli includes many changes from Tusky 23.0, including:
New features
- “Load more” no more. As you scroll through your feed new posts transparently load in the background
- Your reading position in a timeline is always preserved
- View trending posts and links from your server
- Use more than five tabs
- Choose from a range of accessible fonts
- A new media player component, supporting more video formats
- Mark lists as “exclusive”. Posts from accounts on exclusive lists only appear in the list, not your home timeline
- Add bookmarked posts to their own tab
- Hide “self-boosts” from your timeline
Bug fixes
- No more missing posts; Tusky and other apps can miss posts from your timeline, Pachli always shows the full timeline
- Images don’t “stick” when you zoom or swipe between them
- Search text is not deleted when you move between search tabs
- Show server error messages, making it easier to understand why an operation failed
- Filters now work in notifications
UX changes
- A visual refresh and new colour scheme
- Determine the default theme (light or dark) from your Android settings, not hardcoded to “dark”
- Move “Clear notifications” to a menu to make it more difficult to trigger accidentally
- Extend the list of available languages