Could you try the Dracula theme I added in v1.12.2 and see what you think? If you’re not a fan I can look into expanding the theme options, but ideally the next theme will be noticeably different from the 2 existing options.

I think that’s a good idea. I created this issue if you wanna track this work https://github.com/Blorp-Labs/blorp/issues/409

Just wanna confirm does post pagination start at page 0 or page 1? Looks like photon starts at 0 but Blorp assumes PieFed starts at page 1. An API update should unblock Photon, but I don’t see a way around fixing Photon or Blorp if we don’t all agree on which page is first.

Blorp dev here. Did some investigating and it looks like Photon is asking PieFed for page 0 of posts. I’m not sure how technical you are, sorry if this is duh, but programmers like to start counting things from 0. PieFed however doesn’t seem to like this.

Here’s what I think is happening:

• Photo asks for page 0 of posts
• PieFed says “there are no posts at page 0”
• Photon thinks if page 0 is empty, then there is no page 1

What should happen:

• Photo should ask for page 1 of posts
• PieFed will respond “there are 25 posts on page 1”
• Photon says page 1 is full so page 2 must have content
• Photon then asks PieFed for page 2 of posts
• …etc until we run out of pages of posts

In other words, page 0 is a short circuit that prevents the entire feed from loading

CC @Xylight@lemdro.id @Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev (photon dev)

Or maybe we wanna fix this at the API level? @rimu@piefed.social @wjs018@piefed.social

No problem! I think making the “Block User” button will be a genuine improvement. I don’t think Lemmy lets you report users, but it looks like you can report private messages. I’ll add that as well.

The banner will look something like this

|----------------------------|
| Bock User | Report Message |
|----------------------------|
| Message                  ^ |
|----------------------------|

I’m the blorp dev. I added a comment to your post with block instructions. Sorry for the confusion.

Hi I’m the developer that made the app you’re using.

Click the persons name

Then click the 3 dots menu

\

Then you can block from there. If it’s not intuitive enough, I’m open to suggestions for how to make it easier.

Actually, what if I just added a big “Block” button if the message is from a person you’ve never interacted with?

Blorp dev here. This is an interesting feature. I probably won’t add it now, but I could probably be convinced if you can make a good case.

Blorp dev here. First off, honored to have the first app mention in onehundredninetysix. I’ve been slowly expanding support for alt text, but I need to add the actual input to enter all text. Sorry, I know this is important for accessibility, and I’ll try and get that into the next app release.

If you have any other accessibility requests for Blorp, don’t hesitate to @ me in the comments. Screen reader should be working already.

Why not get a dvd player? Simplify the whole setup, and I bet you’ll spend less money.

I’m guessing you’re subscribing to more niche communities. For example, I really enjoyed r/homekit, r/WLED, and r/TvTooHigh on Reddit. I think some of those exist on Lemmy, but they are very very inactive compared to Reddit. But if you look at more broad topics like !news@lemmy.world or !technology@lemmy.world, those are way more active.

There are a few exceptions. Lemmy seems to attract lots of Linux and Star Trek fans. I consider those topics more niche, but here they are very active topics.

I know this is easier said than done, but I really want the niche communities here to be more active. If you see a community missing, create it. If you see the one you’re looking for but it’s inactive, post to it.

I’m the developer behind Blorp. The trouble with the threadiverse (a term that refers to Lemmy and PieFed) is it’s not tuned by big cooperations to get you addicted. That also means you gotta dig a little more to find the content you’re looking for. I’m happy to help direct you if you have questions!

Thanks for using my app!

Found the issue. Good catch! Will fix in the next release.

Could you make a wishlist of themes? If there are any others besides the two you mentioned

Where do you see the ad in blorp? In the sidebar?

Blorp dev here. No idea, but those embeds usually come from html meta tags that I’m guessing the official Piefed UI is setting. I suspect PieFed has some sort of announcement/banner field and they are populating the meta tags with the banner text.

Totally a guess.

Could you try this little experiment I setup on web? It has a theme dropdown in settings. This is a very janky proof of concept for themes, which will likely change a lot before it gets released. But just to give you an idea.

https://claude-add-theme-system-5d8n.blorp-6rm.pages.dev/home

Nice to meet you too! Could you be more specific? Which type of video are you trying to play? If you’re unsure, could you send me a link to the post? Either here of via private message.

Video playback could definitely be improved in general, though it’s a bit tough because there are like 5 different types of video embeds and they all work a little different.

The F-Droid maintainers added that. It’s probably my fault for not explaining my app well. At the time, I just really wanted to get Blorp on F-Droid, so I didn’t make any sort of argument against the anti feature labels. After that, my focus was mainly on improving the app itself, and I never went back to ask them to change it.

But you’re not the first person to mention this. I should probably fix it.

Blorp dev here. Let me know if there is anything I can do to make the app even better for you!