We continue to roll back the years this week as we cast a nostagic eye over the beginning of the PS2 era's "big three" of platformers with the zany space-fantasy, Ratchet and Clank
Feditext beta users: we're aware of the performance regression under the release version of iOS 17 and are tracking it in https://github.com/feditext/feditext/issues/253. we don't know the cause yet. if you're a heavy Fedi user and don't have a pressing need for iOS 17 features, it might be a good idea to stay on iOS 16 for a few more days.
hey, folks! progress update: i've been coding and testing a possible fix for the iOS 17 hangs and stuttering, and hope to release a new build with that fix sometime next week.
see issue #253 for more details, but the short version is that the iOS API we were using to turn HTML in posts and bios into displayable styled text is now unusably slow, and i'm replacing it with a Feditext-specific text formatter. this might also give us some speedups on iOS 15 and 16, although the difference won't be as dramatic there.
i know there are some people waiting for beta invites as well; we'll get those out soon.
Congrats to Kira0 on minting out last night. We've been at a lot of events over the last week talking up Alba, and the buzz on the ground for this piece has been tangible π₯
So well deserved! And still available on secondary (e.g. OS).
Connections #253 Monday 19 February 2024
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