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Support manifest.json to install as WebApp
I would love to see brid.gy installable as a WebApp on Desktop and Mobile. Here's the manifest.json and all referenced images
Hmm, interesting! Thank you for the contribution!
I'm not sure I see the motivation though. Bridgy isn't really an end user application that you interact with regularly, it's more of a service that you turn on and then let run in the background. I'm curious, do you look at or use the Bridgy web UI regularly? eg https://brid.gy/mastodon/@[email protected], or another user page, or something else? If so, what do you do?
(I noticed that you also added manifest.json to @aaronpk's webmention.io, which I'd have the same question about.)
Yes, I check both brid.gy and webmention.io regularly, because I keep experiencing dropouts. And having both sites installed as web apps makes everything easier for me.
Aha, that makes sense. I get how PWA support would help.
Out of curiosity, could you describe the dropouts? I'm curious what's happening there.
Sure, but it doesn't seem to follow a pattern and I don't know where it sometimes gets stuck. I syndicate a post on Mastodon and get some reactions, which I load into the post via JS. Every now and then I notice days later that certain posts had reactions, but they are not displayed in the post. Then I see on webmention.io that they are missing and initiate a manual poll on brid.gy. A short time later they appear.
Got it! Bridgy only automatically backfeeds to your 30 most recent posts, https://brid.gy/about#missing . Are the missing reactions maybe past that? If by "manual poll," you mean you enter the post URL into the "Resend for post" box, that could be it. But if you just mean that you're clicking the "Poll now" button, it's probably something else.
No, it's not the recent 30 problem. I don't publish so often. If it happens, then definitely at posts below that limit. I usually use 'Poll Now' and see what happens. Sometimes I also use 'Crawl Now'. I guess it's kind of a timing problem because after the post is published I manually syndicate due to the character limit and then manually update the post again with the created link.
Whatever or however, as much as I love your service, my brain sometimes despairs at the complexity of the matter. Then I'm happy to be able to press a few buttons ;) ... But I vow to look more for fault patterns.