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Any third-party apps being developed? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by OverfedRaccoon@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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I've heard there's an official kbin app in very early stages. I don't know who's working on that, but it's not in the 2023 roadmap that Ernest has shared in the sidebar - and it rightfully doesn't need to be a main focus at this early stage. I know most people reading this have probably just gotten here as well, but I wouldn't be surprised if a developer out there has already started. The PWA (web app) experience isn't bad on mobile. It's no native app though. Lemmy has that going for it, and I'd love for that experience here on kbin.

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[–] hariette@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm working on one. They have API documentation but no public access yet... so in the meantime I cooked up a simple scrapper. Just to get the basic UI up and running.

Huge fan of Apollo so that's my inspo.

[–] Zippythezigzag@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

On the reddit app called Joey For Reddit they had a feature that quickly became a must have for me. It would automatically mark a post as "read" after you scrolled past it or clicked on it. The second part of this feature was a little button you could hit to hide all posts marked as "read". It constantly kept the frontpage fresh with posts I haven't seen yet. Please please please add that feature. It was the only reason Joey was the only app I could use.

[–] rebul@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I prefer PWA to native apps, but I suppose I am in the minority.

[–] OverfedRaccoon@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I had made a long ramble about how it's not saving between sessions, likely because of my own privacy settings, but then I realized I was making an argument for changing my privacy settings if I'm okay with an app staying signed in. I guess maybe I just prefer the self-containment aspect?

[–] ScottyB@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would love a native app but more than anything I'd love for the biggest third party devs to reorient their products to use the Kbin API.

It'd be great to boot up Sync for Kbin. LJD make it happen

[–] Valdair@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think one of the big 3rd party developers throwing their weight behind Kbin or Lemmy right now could get a lot of attention in this news cycle. I think they've all expressed they'd rather work on other things than just shift their app to a competitor though. Which is a shame, I'm really going to miss the polish of Apollo.

[–] Kata1yst@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no publicly available API for kbin yet, though it's intended. Once the lead developer has breathing room I'm sure that's still on the to-do list.

[–] tal@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no publicly available API for kbin yet

Heh. That's a little ironic, given the context of the influx.

[–] thgs@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not entirely sure but I think the influx is happening not because of the API perse but for the direction Reddit took.

I might be terribly wrong!

[–] Valdair@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

API discussion was definitely the catalyst. But the doubling down and response of the admins to the community was what finally sealed it. Hopefully the mass exodus of users to federated servers makes the news cycle too. When communities reopen in a few days then I think there will be a lot more awareness raised for them and there'll be another wave. We won't get to Reddit's 15mil or whatever active users in a week but the fact that we could be even 5~10% of that is insane.