MyDeck Release v0.13.0 #157
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@Alanon202, here's the new release. |
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You hit the mail on the head... clicking on the card before the Readeck extraction completed breaks an internal process in MyDeck and what it stores internally just ends up being the bookmark metadata without the content but it has recorded the fact that there is no content (yet) so it never tries again. I was able to add that link successfully once by waiting till it was clearly extracted and then a second time "break" it by tapping on the card right after it first showed up. I'll figure out how to harden the process so it can't be interrupted in a way that breaks the internal storage. BTW, if when adding, in the bottom sheet you click on View instead of Add, you'll notice it takes longer - the app is intentionally monitoring to confirm extraction is complete before opening in Reading view. To make sure I understand your suggestion, assuming restating it as: “Can MyDeck register my private Readeck website as a Verified Android App Link so Telegram links to my Readeck article open directly in MyDeck?” is correct... For a one-off personal build where your own version of MyDeck has your own server host name, probably. For arbitrary users at runtime, not cleanly with Android’s verified App Links model. Google doesn't support setting verified links dynamically. However, if your bot could emit a URL like this... (the internal URL with mydeck:// instead of https://) ...then it should be possible to mod MyDeck so that when you click on that link Android opens MyDeck and then that article is opened in reading view. It's similar to Verified Links but different, referred to as "custom scheme deep link". Would that handle what you had in mind? Regards, |
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Hi, @NateEaton,
Ah, so I did break it. At least it was easy to reproduce!
Yup, this was pretty much my idea, if a general feature could be made from it, but I had a feeling this is not how those links actually worked. I will say, however, there’s an app called Mastodon Redirect which seems to do something clever under the hood to proxy the innumerable URLs of Mastodon instances and route them to one of the supported client apps. It seems to (ab)use something in Android which allows them to bulk apply a set list of Fediverse domains. The only way this could work, from what I’ve seen, would be something like a simple companion app where a user could enter their instance URL, whereby the app would inject that URL into MyDeck. I’m not saying this is something MyDeck should adopt, because I’m not sure how useful this would be to anyone but me, or maybe anyone that’s sharing articles on the same instance, or something? Nonetheless, worth pointing out just for the novelty of it.
I’m already doing some dynamic link parsing and creation, and the domain is taken from the API data, so tweaking that a bit should be trivial. On the off-chance someone other than myself is ever interested in this niche, I should probably keep both kinds of links. There are several ways to go about that as far as I can see... I can add an env variable that switches between https:// or mydeck://, or I can simply add a button "Open in browser" below the quote, and have the article title hyperlinked to the deep link and have both links always visible... Basically I can probably make this work very quickly. The larger question seems to be, much like above, is there any actual utility for anyone else but me and my bot? 😅 I’d hate for you to go to the trouble of creating something just for me? Interested to hear your thoughts! Best, |
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Give Snapshot build #197 a try. It has the fix for clicking on a bookmark when it is still being processed at the server. It now correctly waits for the extract process to finish and then displays the bookmark in Reading view. It also spins through existing bookmarks and if they were marked "no permanent content" without there actually being an error condition, it clears that. Unfortunately, since the issue was just in the app database and not on the server side, even if you still have that broken bookmark, the repair code wouldn't take care of it since you'll be installing the snapshot alongside the prod build. If you leave the broken bookmark alone in your prod, build instance until I push v0.13.2, then when you update with that version then you should see the broken one be repaired. As for the deep linking idea, it doesn't look like implementing it would be all that complex. It may take a while before I get to it but it is in my backlog now. One other thing... would you please retest the issue you raised previously about the app not behaving if you quickly delete several bookmarks in a row? The fix I made for how delete processing works when I implemented the swipe actions will hopefully resolve that issue too. Regards, |
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Hi, @NateEaton!
This seems fixed now, at least I was no longer able to reproduce it. I do try to open each article after import, just in case, so I don’t think I have many problematic articles, but I may have missed some. Since I can’t really be certain when the issue may have started, I’ll gladly wait for the release version for it to fix all the articles.
Oh, no issues with that whatsoever.
I’ve been trying to test out the new changes, the removal process has been much improved. It’s so quick that I always feel as if I’m too late to trigger simultaneous removals somehow. No matter how quickly I do it to a half-dozen or so articles, I can’t trigger the previous bug! Best, |
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Full Changelog: v0.12.6...v0.13.0
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