Notices by Jorge Candeias (jorgecandeias@mastodon.social)

@atomicpoet That's pretty cool, sure, but... from what I've been seing the number of people still using these systems is quite limited these days. Most of that stuff migrated to facebook and/or whatsapp long ago.

Maybe federation might revive them (and allow people to build facebook groups' replacements), but still...

@atomicpoet I'm talking about independent forums. Facebook groups is precisely what killed them (reddit not so much, among the people I know). That and orkut.

As far as I know, those use their own software.

@atomicpoet

Hope you're right. I just don't see anyone in my circle using forums anymore. All of those I hang around in back in the day died pretty much as social media took off.

@nodebb

@Gargron I can't see it. I'm missing a banana for scale.

@feditips Full text. Hashtags get cut if you add a space to them, after all...

Hey, @feditips , got any tips about this?

https://mastodon.social/@jorgecandeias/111506271658422201

@feditips No, nothing. It works simply as a site wrapped in fancy wrapping. No "external" functionalities at all.

And it's also pretty slow, though I don't know if that's due to the instance I'm in (it's also relatively slow on a computer browser).

@feditips None.

I.e., after I open the thing, they're there, but there are no red numbers by the icon as per usual in normal social media apps.

@feditips also: no notifications. Just tested it quite thoroughly and nothing.

@feditips Apparently it does, yeah.

On the other hand, I tried to do it with some other random sites (and with DDG), and it just worked as a simple shortcut. The two logos appear, and then the sites get opened with the browser interface in place. It's a bit weird.

@feditips Hang on... I tried this "add to main screen" thing, and it did create a shortcut on the phone. With a Friendica logo and a smaller chrome logo in the lower right. Is that it?

@feditips I did. Tried with DDG for android and with the default browser. Using Android 12

@feditips Nothing. There was no link to "install the app".

@feditips Well, I tried to do it, with Friendica. Didn't work.

Are there version constraints in that?

@Gargron say hi to Adam Neely for me.