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> Neither issue has anything to do with FOSS I think part of the complaint is that the app should not be showing those servers front and center - or rather, it
by anonymousab 4y ago
> Neither issue has anything to do with FOSS
I think part of the complaint is that the app should not be showing those servers front and center - or rather, it should be made obvious when an option is not going to work or if unavailable, and functional servers/choices should be front and center in the UI.
It's the kind of polish that does matter for the common non-technical user, and the kind that is typically missing from FOSS apps in many ways because there's just so much of it to do. It's never-ending and there usually isn't enough development resources on an open source project to handle everything.
- guerrilla 4y agoSure but Mastodon the app isn't Mastodon. It didn't even exist until recently and has nothing to do with the website which has been the main thing. It would be a lot better if that mobile app wasn't released until it was ready, since the other ones, most people agree, are fine. Remember how Reddit existed long before its app? And how there were plenty of working non-official apps? This is like if Reddit had released their app in beta.