@ennenine @elementary It may take a while to refresh the lists. In my case a reboot helped.

@drequivalent At the moment I'm not aware of an API to get the supported character limit, sorry

@bleakgrey I don't even think this API is implemented. That's a major hang-up for @Gargron for some goddamn reason. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/5697

@drequivalent @bleakgrey It's not some reason, I've stated it multiple times: I don't think the basic UX should be different between instances, so people can choose based on community and policies rather than who has the best features. At the same time, I don't think that anything above 500 characters should still be considered a microblog, you're better off writing an article and linking to it. Why even have a limit if everyone's gonna change it? Think about the people who're going to read it.

@drequivalent @bleakgrey OTOH what client apps could do is just let you submit toots above 500 characters, let the server figure out the validation.

@Gargron @bleakgrey It's convenient and expected to show remaining characters. In order to do this, the app must know the character limit, so it has to ask the API.

@drequivalent @Gargron Since there's no official API for this and I don't want to remove the character counter, I think I'll just make a private dconf setting so it wouldn't clutter the settings.

I think this is the most optimal solution as changing the limit is not officially supported.

@bleakgrey
> Think about the people who're going to read it.
That's exactly what I do. I've heard enough of complaints about my multipart posts when I explain something complex, that I had to raise the limit.
Besides, long form posts will be on the Fediverse whether @Gargron likes it or not, and Mastodon'd better prepare and correct the UI around this cold hard fact of life.

@drequivalent @bleakgrey mainline mastodon does not have it, but glitchsoc fork and pleroma do have an endpoint for character limit.
Tusky implements it, too.

@njoseph Yes, it does :)

@se7entime Flatpak is planned for 1.0 :)

@falgn0n I can suggest you a Flatpak by @cagatayy for now

https://mastodon.social/@cagatayy/100095618840738370

@bleakgrey @cagatayy
Sweet, I'll give it a whirl

@falgn0n #Flatpak installed, #tootle running

:thumbsup:

@falgn0n @bleakgrey @Mastodon @elementary

Is there now a .deb for debian 9 somewhere ?

Can't compile since the libgranit is missing…  Thx

@lm @bleakgrey @Mastodon @elementary

I can't answer: I stopped using it so I dunno.

(don't really like it, purely subjective personal preference)

@falgn0n I use whalebird but too slow on my computer...

@ernmander Which notifications do you mean?

@bleakgrey The ones within Elementary OS notification centre. Tootle appears there with all notifications switched on but those notifications don't show within the OS's notifications

@ernmander It works for me :/

Check your eOS notification settings and make sure bubbles, sounds and notification center are enabled for Tootle.

@bleakgrey I'll re-toggle the buttons and see if that makes any difference. Just out of interest do notifications also ping up when Tootle is closed? Thank you for the replies by the way.

@ernmander It receives notifications in background only if "Always receive notifications" is enabled in settings.

You're always welcome :3

@bleakgrey cool thank you. a re-toggle of the buttons seemed to work, got that reply as a notification in notification centre. :)