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In a shock to everyone, including and especially myself, I made good progress on getting things moving again.
Please cross your fingers the momentum continues.
So, yeah, completely missed my (self-imposed) deadline for new version. Real Job™ was very hectic the last month.
Resolved to get time over the next couple of weeks to get on top of this.
Currently looking for a regularly updated list of AI scraper bots to disallow in the robots.txt file, because that’s a thing we have to worry about now, while also trying not to block useful bots 🙃
For the avoidance of doubt, the “new” TwitLonger isn't some company that takes over abandoned apps and “relaunches” them to suck up personal data for advertising and AI training. It's still just the same single person, doing this as a (sometimes) fun side project.
Quick update on where development of new TwitLonger is on my local development system:
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And still to be done…
🚫View your post history
🚫 Add additional passkeys
🚫 Account recovery
🚫 Account deletion
🚫 Post deletion
🚫 Security hardening
🚫 Beta server deployment
At that point of development where the hard bits are done, and it’s mostly filling out the functionality and polishing the roughest edges.
Of course, the deployment and dealing with servers bit still has to come 🤢
Tried using DALL-E to get some inspiration for a new icon.🙃
ALT Four AI generated icons. All blue squares with the following texts 1. “Towerngr water, wntrg” 2. Speech bubble. Underneath “Wilannginge” 3. “tongr” 4. “TWinglor Twlnger toekefer loNrwtng 1var”
Update on what’s next: twitlonger.com/
(tl;dr: I’m not planning to go anywhere, but do need a little more time for what’s next)
So, we’ve now moved to Twitter completely suspending my access to their API without warning (this seems to be a common issue for app developers), despite no changes to how TwitLonger works in 15 years.
There is also no longer any way to contact developer support. 🤷🏻
The first version of the new TwitLonger won’t be massively different, but, because I know you’re asking, yes, it supports dark mode.
Automatic sending to Twitter is currently not working as expected due to an unexpected API change, although you should still be able to create TwitLonger posts and share them with the Twitter share button on the post itself.
50% done.
Also, I really need a proper “maintenance” page instead of everything just breaking when the front end is up and backend is done 🤦🏻