null, 8 months ago

@cheeaun 🤔 also their own server?

cheeaun, 8 months ago

@null they have their own instance now (Mastodon back-end, Elk front-end)

pevohr, 8 months ago

Nice catch, @cheeaun! A quick peek under the hood shows that both are new MPL-licensed projects.

The Android client (started by @obez in early July) is steadily climbing the feature curve + may already be usable internally for dogfooding purposes.

By comparison, so far the iOS effort (started by @gio barely a month ago) is just a placeholder by members of the Pocket 8.0/8.1 team. Presumably they're still assessing whether they'd be better off rebranding #IceCubes like they did with #Elk.

cheeaun, 8 months ago

@pevohr thanks for the additional context!

I'm curious to know why Mastodon's official mobile apps are not considered (or were they?).

pevohr, 8 months ago

@cheeaun I'm just working off what can be inferred from GH repos, so I can't comment on what they did or didn't consider.

But historically, the official Mastodon clients have been both underfunded + not super successful at recruiting outside contributors, so their featuresets have continued to lag their more energetic competitors.

If I had access to Mozilla's engineering resources, I'd likely start elsewhere too.

cheeaun, 8 months ago

@pevohr got your point. From my observation, most folks will start from official apps first, so I felt would be great if more work done there, in the same community-driven collaborative vibe like #Elk and #IceCubesApp

For Android's side, there are @megalodon and @moshidon — forks of Mastodon Android app.

emic, 8 months ago

@cheeaun @mozilla @IceCubesApp Elk, on the other hand, is their web client.

cheeaun, 8 months ago

@emic yeah, that make sense. @elk front-end is a good full-fledged alternative to the current official web UI.