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started work on my bluesky client after idly thinking about it for like a month straight. working name "goungle"

it's going to suck for a pretty long while until i figure out all the basics but afterwards i want to fill it with Touys. i want to make a client that you can't take seriously because you shouldn't be taking social media seriously

getting there. can you tell i have a longing for cohost

today's progress. this is probably a bad post to be using as an example because of the recursion

i've decided to not use a framework for this at all btw because i've decided i hate frameworks. the client is so far one very beautiful 300-line js file

refactored it to not use appviews. this actually ended up making handling qrts easier, somehow

i'm handling qrts similar to how tumblr does it because it's kind of just the better way of presenting information without encouraging quotedunking. so a qrt is just a boosted reply now oh yeah i forgot to mention but there's a dark theme now

light skeumorphism on these buttons. they're like little shaped pop-out toggleable buttons. they glow when pressed. not 100% sure on the positioning and colors but i think they look neat

temp account switcher. very cohost-esque. gets the job done

not certain on this cw behavior for images but it's ok for now. i can call it temporary too between the options of "blur until dismissed", "hide and leave a massive amount of empty space until dismissed" and "collapse and increase post size when opened" i think i prefer the first, so

a few tweaks later, i'm happier with this i think. also did some tweaks to the header & like/repost button. tomorrow is probably individual posts day which means figuring out handwriting an SPA day

nevermind it's tomorrow (was tomorrow, it's 00:51) and i spent the whole day writing a following feed shim because the one i'm currently using broke. shooould be done by tomorrow. feedgens are hard

you can also look at it here if you want. it'll take a while initially to load because it has to backfill everything. afterwards it's fine and fast and good bsky.app/profile/oat....

OK it's not quite identical to following feed - following checks parents of parents of posts for reply following status, this feed only checks parents of posts (eg. a <- b <- a <- a gets shown if you don't follow b) - your own self-replies don't show up i want to fix both of those but not now

i've been using this regularly instead of the main app and it's good because i get to iron out a lot of the more nitpicky stuff and get a good amount of testing done. and also it's awesome that i can already just use it as a replacement client