google.ms/share.google?q=KWXY8@OpenBikeSensor @interstellar @bandbreite @Mecid @mjaschen @streetcomplete @tylerhall @tab @gomi__ @celfred @FrancoisMockers @s427 @sovga @NG0E @johnjanney @Estellelacha @Apres_fr @victorpereira @koseidiamond.bsky.social @ZossouDona @Digori @phaphapha @gilles @luxorator @CyclingGuide @appmanager @AnarchyTime @lisyarus @Mastoot @appdevcon @hendrik_kueck @Leafus @richardgolias.cz @sa7sky @developersummit @Cally8 @AnnabelB @faggi @salatan

cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/piefed_help@piefed.social/p/2087781/the-interstellar-app-for-piefed-cannot-be-used-to-post-does-anybody-know-why

It looks like there are multiple post types on Piefed (link, image, poll, text, etc.), and the Interstellar client throws an error for me when I try to create a text post on it. It says that the link cannot be null, as well as the alt text (neither of which are relevant for a text post).

Has anybody experienced this issue and know how to resolve it? The app definitely supports Piefed from what I can tell, and I can do everything else (receive notifications, read posts, comment, updoot, join and leave communities, etc.)

If it helps, I'm running the Android client installed via F-Droid

It's some sort of number station; on the web interface, it's just a really long post with no spaces, but on Linux it causes Interstellar to completely freeze up when I try to open it.

Warning while it may not make your Intersteller lock up, it reliably hangs mine on attempted opening, every time.

https://piefed.zip/c/programming@lemmy.ml/p/1760562/ii-ugroza-dlia-aitishnikov-ili-shans-izmenit-kareru

Fixes

Improve inline reply UI on narrow screens; by @olorin99 Fix password length condition for Lemmy/PieFed login UI; by @olorin99.

Other

Remove dead instances from recommended servers list; by @jwr1. Translations update from Hosted Weblate.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/interstellar-app/interstellar/compare/v0.11.3...v0.11.4

Features

Add option in debug screen to manually clear OAuth identifiers; by @olorin99. Add option to set default action for links; by @olorin99. Add support for locking posts and comments; by @olorin99. Support UnifiedPush on Linux; by @jwr1. Add extra compact setting; by @olorin99. Additional PieFed feed support; by @olorin99. Add support for the modlog on PieFed; by @olorin99. Add support for PieFed events; by @olorin99. Allow back navigation to Feed tab from other tabs; by @olorin99. Add filter for PieFed feeds to allow switching between all and personal feeds; by @olorin99. Show snackbar to notify on successful image download; by @olorin99. Enable using domains in feeds on mbin; by @olorin99. Support moderation on Lemmy; by @olorin99.

Fixes

Use webview for Mbin auth on Android to fix login issues; by @olorin99. Fix download/share file and image upload for web target; by @olorin99. Fix community picker for Piefed/Lemmy; by @olorin99. Fix alignment in markdown editor preview; by @olorin99. Fix null error and multiple routes of same type on stack error; by @olorin99. Truncate entered password to match Lemmy/PieFed limits; by @olorin99. Fix missing menu button on collapsed comments; by @olorin99. Fix null error caused by unhandled Mbin notifications; by @jwr1.

Other

Optimize build runner by using narrowing builder analysis scope; by @jwr1. Remove Archive.today from alternate links; by @jwr1. Migrate away from deprecated mbin api creating entries; by @olorin99. Updates to navigation routes; by @olorin99. Refactor ServerClient to handle MultipartRequests; by @jwr1. Switch to using auto_route tabs router for bottom navigation; by @olorin99. Enable legacy packaging for Android to reduce APK size; by @jwr1. Translations update from Hosted Weblate.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/interstellar-app/interstellar/compare/v0.11.2...v0.11.3

Love the app but Ive recently been having trouble scrolling to the top to refresh on the All feed. As it reloads posts when scrolling up the app begins to lag and often crashes. Ive been resorting to force closing the app when I want to refresh my feed.

Starting today I've been having an issue posting to piefed servers.

The account I've been posting with is this one, a Lemmy account. I haven't had issues before, didn't change anything with interstellar or my Lemmy account. I regularly post on the server wetshav.ing and my posts wouldn't work today. I also tested posting a a piefed help community and got the same error message.

I was trying to migrate my Lemmy account to a Piefed one and the only option I was given was subscriptions. The description for the feature mentioned blocks and that was actually what I'm mostly interested in transferring. Is that not possible at this time?

gehirneimer.de/m/mbinReleases/ and kbin.earth/m/interstellar/t/23 - nice to see #Mbin and #Interstellar make such good progress.

Features

Add Modlog screen at the user, community, and instance-wide (on About screen) level; by @olorin99.

Add button to clear search on explore screen; by @olorin99. Create an emoji picker for PieFed reactions and markdown editor; by @jwr1. Note, you are currently not able to select custom PieFed emojis from the emoji picker.

Add error page for login restricted instances; by @olorin99.

Fixes

Fix totp code not being passed to login on Lemmy; by @olorin99. Fix UI elements overflowing on mobile Linux; by @olorin99. Fix Linux gtk header bar always being used on Wayland; by @jwr1. Fix error on empty body for microblog; by @olorin99. Remove incorrect check for empty accounts; by @olorin99. Fix create microblog community picker helper text being truncated; by @jwr1.

Other

Huge navigation backend overhaul (moved to auto_route package), with web support coming soon!; by @olorin99. Note, due to specific changes in the way oauth authorization is handled (specifically, the callback URL has been changed), Mbin accounts will need to re-login. Adopt very_good_analysis and add PR dart checks; by @jwr1. Translations update from Hosted Weblate.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/interstellar-app/interstellar/compare/v0.11.1...v0.11.2

Really nice work! Looks great on a big screen. Functional. Ontly tthing it's missing that I can tell is a spell checker.

Ole more thing, how do you refresh? on desktop there is no way to pull down?

Crossposted from https://kbin.earth/m/kbinEarth/t/2381924

Hey everyone, I just wanted to say thank you for supporting kbin.earth and Interstellar!

Thanks to all our generous sponsors, all expenses from the year 2025 (including server rental, object storage, domains, Apple Developer License, and Apple hardware) have been covered; almost no out-of-pocket needed from me. That's a huge deal!

To the Mbin team: none of this would be possible without you! You've forked /kbin and have kept supporting it ever since, adding new features, diagnosing and fixing bugs, recommending server setup improvements, and much more. You guys are quick to respond and are nothing but reliable! Special shout out to @BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de and @melroy@kbin.melroy.org!

To Interstellar's co-developer: thank you @olorin99 for literally being around since the beginning. Interstellar's very first commit was on Dec 11, 2023, and yours was just a few weeks after, on Dec 28, 2023, adding initial support for microblogs. Thanks for contributing to and developing Interstellar all this time!

To kbin.earth's mods/admins: thanks for keeping this place clean and manageable! Especially checking for sign up requests every day :) @green_copper @kindenough @aasatru

Lastly, thanks to all the 1-off contributors, translators, anonymous sponsors, and anyone else I haven't mentioned. And of course, all you users who stick around here :)

@interstellar Acabo de terminar a tradução para o português brasileiro do app Interstellar para Mbin e Lemmy. Espero poder utilizar em breve. Parabéns pela iniciativa. Viva o fediverso e sua diversidade de opções!

between the static top and bottom toolbars, nearly half my screen is being taken up. is there a setting I'm missing to collapse these while scrolling?

It's available for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The macOS build has not been approved yet, so give it a few days if you wish to install it.

Features

Add scroll to top floating button for explore and user pages; by @olorin99.

Fixes

Fix app crashing with videos; by @olorin99. Updates image layout so when "Full image size for threads/microblogs" setting is checked then the full image is shown even on desktop; by @olorin99. Fix markdown editor text input area; by @olorin99. Fix full screen images from being cut off; by @olorin99. Fix scrolling broken in comments tab for piefed/lemmy; by @olorin99. Fix app to be compatible with the new 16kb page requirement for Google Play; by @jwr1.

Other

Translations update from Hosted Weblate

Full Changelog: https://github.com/interstellar-app/interstellar/compare/v0.11.0...v0.11.1

Features

Context menu additions/changes; by @olorin99. On long press, explore items open the community or user context menu; by @olorin99. Add ability to search specific users or communities; by @olorin99. Allow user to quickly re-login on Mbin OAuth error; by @olorin99. Allow uploading images to comments via image hosting services; by @olorin99. Reorderable feed sort/filter/view settings; by @olorin99. Post layout update with reorderable components; by @olorin99. Add ability to create thread and microblog cross posts; by @jwr1. Add links for local and remote fediverse urls to context menu; by @jwr1.

PieFed polls By @olorin99. Support for PieFed polls has been integrated! You can both interact with polls by voting or viewing results, and also create your own polls. Please note the API for PieFed polls has not been stabilized yet, so poll support will only work on cutting edge PieFed servers (such as https://crust.piefed.social) in the meantime.

User Tags and PieFed Flairs By @olorin99 and @jwr1. Support was added for viewing the flairs associated with a post on PieFed. Additionally, you can also assign community-defined tags to your own posts, either while creating them, or afterwards using the context menu.

User tags were also added to Interstellar. They allow assigning little comments (tags) to specific users, which help you keep track of who is who. User tags apply regardless of the platform or account you are signed into, so unlike flairs, they work with Mbin and Lemmy accounts as well.

Fixes

Fix app bar title spanning multiple lines for microblogs; by @jwr1. Fix direct message page error for PieFed; by @olorin99. Fix comment refresh on post page; by @olorin99. Fix user scroll controller attached to multiple positions; by @olorin99. Fix some nsfw blurring; by @olorin99. Fix PieFed mod menu not available; by @olorin99. Wrap post page in safe area; by @olorin99. Fix navigate to reply from lemmy notification; by @olorin99. Fix PieFed feed id not cached; by @olorin99. Early exit if state is not mounted; by @olorin99. Fix several mod actions for PieFed; by @olorin99. Fix next page key not being passed to the paging controller; by @olorin99. Fix accessing state in initState when not mounted; by @olorin99. Fix search input focus on user/community search screen; by @olorin99. Fix error when fetching new page and feed isn't mounted; by @olorin99. Add non-empty database constraints; by @jwr1. Only allow new chat while logged in; by @jwr1.

Other

Migrate to SQL (Drift) backed database; by @olorin99. Remove Mbin specific language options; by @jwr1. Set app user agent to Interstellar/{APP_VERSION}; by @jwr1.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/interstellar-app/interstellar/compare/v0.10.1...v0.11.0

Features

Make several tweaks to the cross post UI, including displaying the number of comments in each cross post; by @olorin99. Split account page into separate account and inbox tabs; by @olorin99. Add a close button to error messages, and hide annoying ScrollController errors; by @jwr1.

Fixes

Fix major page refresh bug that causes infinite loading; by @olorin99. Fix the setting for sensitive media not working; by @olorin99. Fix AppImage build and simplify setup script; by @Samueru-sama. Don't render comment children on the user page; by @olorin99. Don't display und (undefined) language on posts; by @jwr1. Fix PieFed never loading next page on Feed screen; by @jwr1. Fix Windows build; by @jwr1. Fix several PieFed 1.2 API changes; by @jwr1.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/interstellar-app/interstellar/compare/v0.10.0...v0.10.1

Features

Add two more servers to the language-specific recommended instances list; by @jwr1. Add tab for viewing and responding to reports in Mbin; by @olorin99. Add page to view logged in users bookmarks (and bookmark lists for Mbin); by @olorin99. Add a setting to adjust the global app animation speed; by @olorin99. Use PieFeds api to mark posts as read when available (instead of client side); by @olorin99. Add time based top sort options for piefed; by @olorin99. Add secondary actions to each of the four navigation bar items when double-clicked (or single clicked while viewing the item); by @olorin99. Display activity pub objects returned from the Mbin search; by @olorin99. Add specific handling for back button navigation while on the main screen; by @olorin99. Add a new chat button on the messages screen; by @olorin99. Add debug settings and an in-app logger; by @olorin99. Clean up existing and add more context menus; by @olorin99 Use Piefed's new replies endpoint; by @olorin99. Allow swiping fullscreen images to exit view; by @olorin99. Make several widescreen adjustments, including expanding/collapsing the side drawer; by @olorin99. Add a reply inline option; by @olorin99. Add default downloads directory option; by @olorin99. Add NixOS Interstellar package link to README; by @JollyDevelopment. Add extra top sort modes for PieFed; by @olorin99. Cross post support with combined comment section; by @olorin99. Add UnifiedPush distributor selection menu when push notifications are enabled; by @jwr1.

Feeds Feeds allow a user to create a fully custom client-side feed by combining numerous sources together! Feeds can be composed of multiple communities, users, and even PieFed server feeds (albeit in a limited fashion). Feeds are disconnected from your account and are fully client-side, so you can manage and access them without needing to be signed into a specific account or needing to use server software that supports feeds. In addition to (settings) profiles and filter lists, feeds can also be shared using Intestellar's config sharing feature. Feel free to post your own feeds on the instellar_config community. To do so, either go to the Feeds screen under settings, and then click the share icon next to the one you want, or use the share icon in the markdown editor's toolbar. Due to the way Feeds work, it allows you to combine any stream of posts with any sorting method, so we have utilized this same functionality to enable full sorting options on the "combined" view (previously called "timeline"). The combined view is now basically just a built-in feed combining threads and microblogs. Last thing to mention here is that PieFed feeds and topics are now supported (within the constraints of the API). If you are signed into a PieFed account, you will be able to view PieFed feeds and topics from that instance. You will also be able to create client-side feeds that combine PieFed feeds and topics. Due to the API constraints, you will unfortunately not be able to use client-side feeds that contain PieFed feeds and topics from a PieFed instance that is not the one you are browsing with. Fixes

Fix image quality for Lemmy; by @olorin99. Hide explore followers filter when not on Mbin; by @jwr1. Catch errors from video media and display in the video player; by @olorin99. Gray out settings irrelevant to the current account type; by @olorin99. Fix saving PieFed user covers; by @olorin99. Remove redundant inkwell from user screen; by @olorin99. Login autofill fix; by @olorin99. Get image details (such as width and height) from Lemmy and PieFed API; by @olorin99. Misc fixes for PieFed 1.2; by @olorin99.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/interstellar-app/interstellar/compare/v0.9.3...v0.10.0

Been getting this error message for about a week. Lemmy instances load with no issues. Piefed.ca loads fine too.

the main reason I use mbin in the first place is the ability to access both threads and microblogs from one account and platform. i primarily use threads but a lot of people and organizations I want to follow are on mastodon, so the timeline view is very helpful for keeping both visible without having to remember to check microblogs. however, because I mostly follow communities, not users, ans because the communities post much more often than individual users, the microblog stuff can still easily get drowned out if I dont scroll far enough.

to fix this, I'd like to be able to weight microblogs higher than threads, so as to make them appear roughly 50/50 compared to threads. I'd also like to be able to change the weighting to do the same for threads, for the obvious reason of not everyone having the same preferences as me.

I noticed the test flight ends in less than a week and I do not see the app in the App Store.

I would love an option to only view text posts. They are easy to find on reddit, with so many subs dedicated to them. They can get easily lost in the threadiverse though, greatly outnumbered by memes and links to news articles.

Is there any way to change what I see first on a post?

Example: I'd like to see it prioritized like this if possible:

1. Instance/community, original poster
2. Title
3. Media (Picture or video)
4. Post body/description
5. External link