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JoyRant build 48 adds mentions!

@whimsical/@retoor has made a mentions crawler (I guess you can call it that?).

joydev://rant/19381730

I‘m using it as a source for mentions now (because devRant's mentions are broken, in case that you didn’t know it)

It can be disabled in the settings, if devRant's mentions will come back one day.

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

The implementation was a bit tricky but fun:

Molodetz mentions don’t have avatar info, so I‘m pulling avatars from the "encountered users" store, a feature that I implemented a while ago and it comes very handy now.

The "mark as read" is done locally now, for obvious reasons.

A funny side effect is that in theory, now it should be possible to mention users directly in rants too, not just in comments. That wasn’t possible in devRant :)

Thanks to retoor and have fun!

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    > 'The implementation was a bit tricky but fun'

    The things you can learn w/ side-gigs.

    Anyway good feature to have, especially since the original app is broken. iOS people should be delighted.
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