Did bluesky used to have the ability to longpress select text to copy it in the Android client, and then take that away? I feel like I have a muscle memory for this but it stopped working
Comments
Log in with your Bluesky account to leave a comment
no wait im still on a "text selection works" build and the copy post text option is there
unless the app is a hybrid and has auto updating parts or feature flags independent of the native app updates/parts, like twitter, in which case no way to know
Absolutely. I used it all the time because bsky's translate button is busted and just opens an empty Google Translate page. Been that way for ages. Now I can't even use android's built-in translate option when selecting text.
Excellent app that is written well and definitely works.
I wish I could modify the Bluesky app but unfortunately, despite it being theoretically open source, the only way to build it is "Expo", but despite this ALSO being open source it refuses to open unless you agree to the TOS for a proprietary cloud service.
One of the terms of the Expo TOS—which I'm not sure I read right, but I couldn't figure out a better way to read it—seems to say you agree not to create a competing product that replicates Expo's functionality. So you can maybe understand why I didn't want to agree to that just to build a phone app
Like, if a phone app pisses me off, I'll fork it. Forking it I can do. But "reverse engineering a putatively open source build system so I can remove a seemingly hardwired dependency on an unnecessary cloud service". That may be more than I'd commit to improve my experience on a social network
I would consider the premade fast loader app to be part of "the build tool". At any rate I don't see what purpose the cloud service plays in the process of building an app on my desktop and deploying it to my phone.
Comments
unless the app is a hybrid and has auto updating parts or feature flags independent of the native app updates/parts, like twitter, in which case no way to know
Excellent app that is written well and definitely works.
At the core it’s all JS/TS+React Native though so shouldn’t be too bad (there used to be an ”eject” command in Expo).
We use it all the time at work.