Howdy folks! I wrote a native app for Lobste.rs to give back to the fantastic community and was wondering if I could have the opportunity for some feedback. It is still very early days but here is a list of things that work:
- Read only access to the trending, active & new tabs.
- Comments for the said tabs.
- Infinite loading for data in the said tabs.
- Offline caching for when you need to read stuff but don’t have internet.
What I want to add in the future:
- User login! It would be nice to interact directly from the app.
- Theming and customization.
- Support for iPad.
Feel free to take it for a spin!
The code is all open source as well: https://github.com/say4n/crustacean, feel to file feature requests, bug reports or even contribute!
That’s a fun project - like Claw, could you please note in your app store title and description that it’s an unofficial app? I got some support requests and other confusion before Claw added that. Thanks. :)
Absolutely, will do! I will need to push a new release and get it approved for distribution on the app store so it might take a couple of days.
Did anyone else read the privacy policy https://crustacean.optionalstudio.work/privacy/?
Nice.
I for myself will forever be contend with using a web browser as the app to browse web sites, but whatever floats your boat :)
that is not an open source software license. the term is source-available proprietary.
Yeah that’s fair, my plan is to transition to GPLv3 or AGPLv3 in some time.
But, for now, please remove the Open Source claim.
It’s AGPLv3 licensed now, appreciate the nudge.
Neat.
Purchased as a way to support your effort even though without user login it is unlikely I’ll use this on a daily basis.
I have now implemented login with v3 — its live on the App Store, support for comments coming soon too!
Is there a possibility of relaxing the iOS version restriction? I’m not upgrading to the pushed AI features until the phone gets bricked. Thank you!
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-turn-off-apple-intelligence/
Unfortunately since it’s opt-out there will be some amount of time where it is on, and I have not seen a way to prevent it from being on ever. Appreciate trying to help.
It won’t do anything unless you engage it.
Sure thing let me take a look. I have created a issue on GitHub tracking this – feel free to add any context that might be useful (things like what iOS version you’re presently on etc).
Great one! Happy to support the project by paying a small fee. Like a friend once said “why are you complaining for a 2e app and buy 5 coffees at 0,40e each? One you’ll use often, the other is gone in 5 seconds!”
Looking forward to the login feature so I can comment and like from the app!
I have now implemented login with v3 — its live on the App Store, support for comments coming soon too!
Just tested it, worked great! Amazing work !!
Spamhaus.org lists the
.workdomain as one of the worst TLDs (more than half of the websites with this domain are malware). I am not removing that exception in my DNS server, sorry. Do you have an alternate domain?I was unaware, yikes! It’s been posted below but here’s a direct link to the app store listing: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/crustacean-for-lobsters/id6742195107, in addition I’ve also added it to the repo’s readme file on GitHub.
Thank you kindly!
Here’s a link to the Apple app store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/crustacean-for-lobsters/id6742195107