One of the challenging aspects of building a federated mobile app is parsing post captions and being able to render them properly
See, when you make a post with mentions or hashtags, mastodon converts it to HTML and mobile apps have to deconstruct that HTML to be able to render mentions, hashtags and links properly
We could just render the HTML, but when you would tap on a hashtag or mention, it would open the browser instead of in-app
Working on a few backend bug fixes, currently fixing the avatar cache logic
The issue is we store remote avatars and update them after 24 hours (which is being changed) and we never purged older avatars, leading to avatar caches ballooning to multiple GBs (containing dozens or hundreds of old avatars)
The fix will be shipping soon, and will contain a command to manually purge old avatars