Gargron, 9 months ago

@petergleick Money

shiri, 9 months ago

@Gargron @petergleick to clarify in case anyone misses the exact meaning: app development costs money and the official app is more than just an embedded web browser, so it takes dev time (and therefore money) to add those features there as well.

Personally, when I was using Mastodon I wouldn't have minded the official app being a modified embedded browser. Notifications were the only reason I had the app installed really as the mobile web page is extremely similar and has more functionality (because they don't have to re-create functions).

Gargron, 9 months ago

@shiri @petergleick Not just developer time, but also designer time, which is expensive. Sometimes the work has to pause for us to stay above water.

Brendanjones, 9 months ago

@Gargron @shiri @petergleick Can you open source the design library and components? There are a lot of designers on UX and UI people on Mastodon, surely as long as requirements are clear there would be more than enough contributions?

fembot, 9 months ago

@Gargron @shiri @petergleick
Is that also why there's no ability to see ALT text on images on the mobile web page/Android?

Gargron, 9 months ago

@fembot @shiri @petergleick There is.