Has anyone else tried using a kanban board to manage the things they would normally forget to do? Specifically moving physical sticky notes through columns as you start and complete tasks.

I’m a software engineer professionally, and it occurred to me that this organization method is natural to me for work, so maybe it would also work for life tasks.

So far, I’ve gotten like 100x more tasks done than I normally do, but maybe it’s a short term thing. Need more time to tell.

I absolutely love my kinesis advantage 360. So much so, that I wanna find a similar portable keyboard that I can bring with me in a backpack. I’m looking for split keyboards that has a similar key layout and similar size thumb cluster.

The Halcyon Elora looks promising. Any other recommendations? This will be mostly for coding if you need an idea of what keys are import to me. And I use vim (bwt) if that context helps too lol.

I’m sick of closing a post and losing it into the abyss, so I had an idea. Similar to how you can see recently viewed communities, what if we also have a list of recently viewed posts?

But here’s the fork in the road:

Option 1: we group all posts together into one feed, no matter what account you viewed them from. For this to work, we have to disable voting. That’s because grouping viewed posts from multiple accounts kinda breaks down the barrier between accounts. This is ok as long as the posts are read only. You can vote on them if you open them first. The benefit is you can find a post more quickly without considering what account you viewed it from.

Option 2: the list of viewed posts is per account. If you view a post on account A, and you open recently viewed posts list from account B, the post from account A will be missing from that list. You have to switch to account A to see posts viewed from account A.

What do you think of this feature?

Do you prefer option 1 or 2?

Almost every time I fly somewhere, I get sick, and it kinda ruins every vacation ever. I’m not sure if it’s the germs on the airplane (causation), or the time zone difference affecting my sleep (correlation). Maybe a combination of both? Last trip, it hit me about 3 days in.

I wouldn’t say my drinking/sleeping habits are that different on vacation compared to my regular life. Is this a common thing people experience, or time to see a doctor?

I desperately wanna enjoy a vacation sickness free and then return to work refreshed instead of sick.

I can generate ideas way faster than I can actually work on those ideas, so please rank which of these you want to see most:

• Expand post to load more types on content directly in Blorp (e.g. redgifs were added recently)
• Less comments moving/shifting around as they load (most noticeable on posts with 100+ comments)
• Fix Android full screen video controls getting cut off (if you've seen this bug)
• The groundwork to allow viewing posts that aren't in communities, which could maybe (no promises) make mbin possible
• Comment jump button, which jumps to the next top level comment
• Translate Blorp into other languages
• Continue adding support for nsfw content viewing
• Streamline login experience
• Edit alt text in posts and images in comments
• Edit community sidebar in Blorp
• Create communities in Blorp
• Promote moderators in Blorp
• Or anything else you wanna add

My time is limited, and some of these could send me on a 1+ month journey which would delay other work. Choose wisely

• New theme system with a Dracula dark theme

• Create and edit polls on PieFed communities

• Alt text labels on images in comments

• Saved comment indicator now show in profile, search, and inbox

• Fixed an issue where profiles with lots of comments would stop loading

I'm laying the groundwork that will allow you to use different accounts in different tabs. That wasn't really the intention of the work I was doing, but it turned out to be a happy accident.

You can try it out using this experimental build:

https://fix-auth-store-state-merge.blorp-6rm.pages.dev/

What's New

• Block instance support

• Moderation log (modlog) viewer

• Improved post, user, and community actions

• Error boundaries for better app stability

• Improved PieFed multi community feed support

• Improved Lemmy and PieFed settings integration

• Tooltips for collapsed sidebar

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed image filename normalization when saving

• Fixed typo in create post screen (thanks nicolasmaia!)

Up next

• Create PieFed polls in app
• RedGif (NSFW) embeds
• Improved NSFW viewing in general

Shot in Asbury Park NJ, right by the beach, on my Fuji XS-10 + Tamron 18-300mm. I shot this photo last year.

Let’s say you click on a NSFW post on home tab, a community, etc, should it unblur the post? Currently you have to click the “show nsfw” button. If you open the post, it requires a second click.

I’m thinking about making it so it unblurs when you open the post. The exception would be if someone direct links you to the post. The I will still require you click “show nsfw”.

If you agree it should unblur, then what should happen when you return to home, the community, etc? Should it reapply the blur or remain unblured in the feed of multiple posts?

This site will also serve as a rough roadmap as well as a way to share the links to download Blorp. If you wouldn't mine looking at the "Feature Matrix" section and let me know:

1. What is missing
2. What needs to be corrected
3. How it could be better organized

Whatever you ask to be added to the feature matrix is more likely to be added to Blorp.

My goal is to make the feature matrix all green checkmarks. Thanks!

It's been pretty quiet around here. I had a pretty slow January working on Blorp, but I found more motivation in February. So I'm back at it.

A few Blorp experimental builds I'm currently working on (experiments are web only):

• PieFed emoji reactions
  • https://piefed-emoji-reactions.blorp-6rm.pages.dev/
• Create and Edit PieFed polls in Blorp
  • https://piefed-create-edit-polls.blorp-6rm.pages.dev/
• Manual pagination for posts/comments/etc if you're not a fan of infinite scroll
  • https://manual-pagination.blorp-6rm.pages.dev/
• Upgrade the rich text post and comment editor
  • https://official-tiptap-markdown-sup.blorp-6rm.pages.dev/
  • This one's kinda boring, because if it's working correctly you shouldn't notice a difference

Depending on when you're seeing this, I may or may not have already merged these into https://blorpblorp.xyz/. Once it's merged there, it's in the pipeline for Android and iOS.

Let me know if you like this format where I show you working examples of what I'm building.

Testing 123

First off, looks like a lot of new people joined the community, so welcome! Let me know if you need anything.

I wanted to get some early feedback on the new Explore (previously called communities) page.

Note: This comparison only really works if you're viewing on web.

This is what the update looks like and this is what it previously looked like

Sorry this took me so long, but you can now manage post and comment reports from the inbox, but only on https://blorpblorp.xyz/ for now. I don't moderate many communities, so if anyone here is an active mod, I would appreciate some help testing the feature. If that goes well, we can roll this out to the native iOS and Android apps soon.

Happy holidays everyone!

Edit: Lemmy only for now, as PieFed doesn’t support reading post/comment reports via the API yet. But I will try and get that in very soon

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted here. For anyone that was interested in Blorp in the past, but it was missing that one feature you needed, chances are that feature has been added/fixed.

My favorite features

• The best multi account support in any Lemmy or PieFed app, guaranteed!
  • Started your post on the wrong account? No problem! Switch accounts and pickup where you left off
  • Trying to moderate a post from the wrong account? Switch accounts without needing to find your way back to the post.
  • Blorp was meticulously designed from the ground up so none of the links in the app break when you switch accounts. If the content federates with your instance, you’ll see it no matter what account you open the link on!
• Draft posts
• Light box feed, beautiful for browsing photography communities or cute cat/dog photos
• PieFed specific features
  • Post flairs
  • Post poll voting
  • Comment thread locking
  • More to come!
• Lemmy V1 support
• Edit text as raw markdown or rich text!
• Many hours fixing little bugs and annoyances

Please give Blorp a try if you haven’t already ❤️

Download

• Web - blorpblorp.xyz
• iOS
• Android
  • Google Play
  • F-Droid
• macOS

v1.10.1 in Beta

• Fix handling of comment loading error
• Show if instance is loading durning login instance search
• Post and comment locking
• Improve message screen loading and refreshing
• Enable PieFed searching comments
• Allow comment actions and voting from more screens
• Fix bug causing tabs to get swapped
• Experimental Lemmy v1 support
• Partial support for PieFed post polls
• Lightbox post feed rewritten from the ground up

v1.10.0 is fully rolled out!

• New app icon, designed by @[email protected]
• Speed up app wide feed refreshing
• Update Lemmy Spoiler editor
• Fix app not refreshing after login
• Label bot accounts
• Fix broken comment links when switching accounts
• And many more improvements!

As always, reviews are appreciated! Thanks for using Blorp!

Really enjoyed listening to this!

Probably a good time to introduce myself. I noticed the mod on the community hasn't been active for 2 years, so I requested moderation from the admin team. I don't really have plans for this community, other than I wanted to set a banner and community icon. Any suggestions (e.g. sidebar, etc) are welcome in the comments.