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@cxxvii@aus.social and @ferda@f.cz both reported problems with #Pachli 3.9.0 that necessitated a new release while I'm travelling.
Pachli 3.9.1 has been released with fixes for these. Thanks to both of them for reporting the issues.
This release also includes translation updates:
It also benefits from feedback from (in no particular order): @gemelen@mammut.moe, @RxBrad@mastodon.rxbrad.com, and @Radgryd@mstdn.games who all reported a crash in Pachli Current I could fix ahead of the release.
My thanks to everyone who contributed to this release, and apologies to anyone I missed.
#Pachli Current now highlights the hashtags you follow. Within a post any hashtags you follow are shown in bold. The info area above a post shows a hash-marker and the first followed tag in the post.
This helps answer the "Why is this post in my timeline?" question.
The attached screenshot shows an example with the #mastodev hashtag.
Thanks to @neatnit@fosstodon.org, @_nibbles@mastodon.social, and @quaff@thecanadian.social for the suggestions about this.
This fixes a crash when processing corrupt notification data, thanks to @lucas@toot.treffenstaedt.de for reporting this (their first contribution to #Pachli).
This release also includes translation updates:
When collection support launches Pachli will also allow you to subscribe to a collection as a blocklist.
Quick update on the #collections support that's coming in #Pachli.
Here's two collection notifications. The first one is hidden (in this case, I hid it, but it may also have been marked sensitive) and blurred like sensitive attachments.
The background colour is to distinguish collections from quotes and link previews.
The visibility of the collection is always shown.
Still iterating on design and accessibility features, but the first Pachli Current with this should be out soon.
This is more popular than I'd expected.
Normally when I introduce new options I keep the previous behaviour as the default and people have to explicitly switch to the new behaviour.
I'm considering reversing that for this change, and have underlining links be the default behaviour for all users.
This release also includes translation updates:
It also benefits from feedback from (in no particular order):
My thanks to everyone who contributed to this release, and apologies to anyone I missed.
Hi folks -- according to the analytics on https://pachli.app (umami.is, "No cookies, no tracking across sites, no personal data collection"), roughly 5% of this account's followers click through to read the release notes for each release.
If you're one of the 95% who isn't reading the release notes, and you have a bit of time, could you provide feedback on why you don't? I'd like them to be useful, and they highlight everyone else who has contributed to each release.
It also benefits from feedback from (in no particular order):
My thanks to everyone who contributed to this release, and apologies to anyone I missed.
This release also includes translation updates:
It also benefits from feedback from (in no particular order):
My thanks to everyone who contributed to this release, and apologies to anyone I missed.
This release also includes translation updates:
@stonebear2@hachyderm.io No. Apps on Android are probably 90+% Google code by volume, because of the number of Google-supplied libraries used.
For example (because I have it to hand), the F-Droid app on Android still contains a lot of Google code. If you look at https://github.com/f-droid/fdroidclient/blob/master/gradle/libs.versions.toml and search for:
you'll see all the Google libraries the F-Droid app uses. This is entirely normal for Android development (the equivalent file for Pachli is https://github.com/pachli/pachli-android/blob/main/gradle/libs.versions.toml)
@Aeneas@social.anoxinon.de Hmm, this is two problems.
1. Pachli should not be showing the translation menu option on fedifreu.de because the server can't translate. That's a Pachli bug, I've noted it at https://github.com/pachli/pachli-android/issues/2173. Thanks for raising this.
2. The 503 error from anoxinon means the server is rejecting the translation request. That's definitely a problem that @Anoxinon@social.anoxinon.de will need to investigate (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/503)
@Aeneas@social.anoxinon.de That's absolutely fine. As the blog post notes:
> While the library is free to use it is not open source. As some Pachli users may want to avoid proprietary libraries this feature is not present on Pachli installed from F-Droid or GitHub. If this is you then you can skip the rest of this section.
That's why Pachli gives you the choice of where to install from.
To forestall the next question: I was unable to find an open source library with similar functionality that worked reliably.
@Aeneas@social.anoxinon.de Getting back to your original question -- if translation is failing on anoxinon.de Pachli should show an error message at the bottom of the screen when that happens. What does that say / can you send a screenshot? That will help understand the problem.
@Aeneas@social.anoxinon.de How are the Pachli translation settings configured (https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/08/28/2.16.0-release.html#support-on-device-translation-if-installed-from-google-play)?
If "How to translate" is set to "Server only" it's possible your server is having an issue with their translation service. /cc @Anoxinon@social.anoxinon.de in case they need to investigate.
@Aeneas@social.anoxinon.de @Anoxinon@social.anoxinon.de What error does Pachli report with your social.anoxinon.de account?
https://fedifreu.de (if that's the other server you mean) doesn't support server-side translation. Tusky doesn't support on-device translation, so if you want to use translation on fedifreu.de you'll need to use Pachli's on-device translation support (https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/08/28/2.16.0-release.html#support-on-device-translation-if-installed-from-google-play, only available if Pachli is installed from Google Play).
@stonebear2@hachyderm.io Pachli plays nicely with assistive technologies like TalkBack on Android, and reports where it doesn't are high-priority bugs to fix.
For example:
