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Programming isn't really about programming computers. It's about communicating precisely and unambiguously. And looks like humans are pretty bad at it.
Ah, I think I know what is going on...? :thinking:
IIRC, GNU social handles notifications in a very specific way that I haven't studied in detail yet (but intend to this summer). I think you have to go through your timeline so that AndStatus can collected previous notifications, or just accept that only newer marked as read notifications will show up there. Try to trigger a notification and then mark it as read, it should then be added there.
@AndStatus@GnuSocial.no Can you confirm this to be expected behaviour?
@mmn Can you add some inside on how notifications are handled?
Okay, just read about what Mastalab is and you definitely shouldn't be using qvitter API given that some instances (like the one I'm using) don't have that plugin installed.
About getting notifications, I've been using @andstatus and it is very competent in notifying me, so I guess maybe that app developer might be able to provide you with the required guidance. Or you can just look for the bit of code handling that on AndStatus, it is FLOSS :)
It's short, but it's designed mainly to complement the website rather than duplicate it. It discusses the challenges to privacy and looks at the alternatives on offer.
It's a DRM-free ePub file, which should work on most major eBook readers.