Pachli 3.10.0 is now available. This release can warn you before boosting posts with missing media descriptions, improves support for Cloudflare bot detection, and more.
New features and other improvements #
Add preference to warn before boosting posts missing media descriptions #
Pixy’s Journey suggested a Fediverse accessibility improvement; Pachli could show a warning before boosting a post with media attachments (images, video, etc) where one or more of the attachments was missing a description.
Jaressen Kyle Salcedo saw this request and lead the work to implement this feature (#2388 and #2473), marking their first contribution to Pachli. Thanks Jaressen!
The “Show confirmation before boosting” preference used to be an on/off toggle. Now it has a third state where the confirmation will be shown if the post is missing media descriptions. The confirmation menu has also been updated to flag missing descriptions any time the menu is shown, so if you have confirmation set to “Always confirm” you will also be informed.
The accessibility actions have been updated to also show this information.
Return to Pachli after navigating away when writing a post #
Since Pachli 3.3.0 you can write multiple posts simultaneously, and switch between them.
user-name-pc reported a confusing Android behaviour with this (#2409, their first contribution to Pachli).
Briefly, if you created a post with these steps:
- Open Pachli
- Tap the “Compose” button
- Write the post
- Tap the “Send” button
then Android remembers the “Compose” screen was started by Pachli, and returns you back to Pachli after you hit “Send”.
However, if you did this:
- Open Pachli
- Tap the “Compose” button
- Start writing the post
- Switch to another app; e.g., a browser to find a link, or copy some text
- Switch back to the Pachli post editor
- Tap the “Send” button
then Android forgets the “Compose” screen was started by Pachli, and unceremoniously dumps you back to the main Android launcher. If you’re not expecting this in can appear as though Pachli has crashed.
This seems to be an Android bug, as other apps, including GMail, show the same behaviour.
This is improved in #2483. Now, after you hit the “Send” button you are returned to the previous Pachli screen.
Support Cloudflare Turnstile bot detection when logging in #
@ronsboy67@mas.to reported an issue logging in to their account at https://mas.to.
Investigation showed https://mas.to uses Cloudflare Turnstile as a CAPTCHA alternative to try and prevent bots from scraping their servers.
Unfortunately, the mechanisms Cloudflare use are strongly biased towards complete browsers, and not the stripped-down browser Pachli normally uses when you’re logging in, causing the login process to fail.
Handily, Cloudflare provide some documentation for mobile apps with suggestions to make the process more reliable. Pachli can now reliably log in to servers using Turnstile.
Updates to translations #
Languages with updated translations are:
- Estonian by Priit Jõerüüt
- Finnish by Kalle Kniivilä
- French by Terry L
- Irish by Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin
- Norwegian Nynorsk by Kraksen
- Slovak by Russssty
- Spanish by Juan M Sevilla
If you would like to help improve Pachli’s translation in to your language there’s information on how you can contribute.
Significant bug fixes #
Allow compose UI to take full display height on large devices #
Terence Eden reported #2471 (their first contribution to Pachli) the editor when writing a post was the wrong height (too small) on large devices, or smaller devices where you had configured Android to shrink the UI size.
Ibrahim Al-Alali also provided helpful debugging information. This was fixed in #2482.
Thank you #
Thank you to everyone who took the time to report issues and provide additional followup information and screenshots.
Download Pachli 3.10.0 from Google Play, F-Droid, or the GitHub release page.