Sengi version 0.1
First release statement
If you don’t know what Sengi is, please find a detailed description here.
The goal of v0.1
This is obviously a very early release, there isn’t enough functionalities to be reasonably considered as a viable state, but I’m very interested to gather early feedback and I believe there is already enough to play around.
It’s also not a public release, I’d like to keep it somewhat confidential to be able to have better exchanges with selected testers, and not be flooded by remarks of all kind.
Of course, since it’s FLOSS, you’re free to build and test it on your own if you’d like to have a first and raw taste of it.
What’s in?
Let’s dump here what you can expect from this release:
Platform
- Browser only (tested on Chrome/Firefox)
Authentication
- Mastodon ready
- Pleroma ready
- No password asked (OAuth workflow used)
Accounts
- You can add/remove multiple accounts
- The selected account is the one that is used to reply/fav/boost/search/navigate thread/open profile
Timelines
- You can pin Federated/Local/Home timelines from account panel
- You can pin Hashtags
- You can move and remove timelines
- Supports websockets (real-time update) and use fallbacks if not available
- Lists, Notifications, DMs and Favs aren’t supported yet
Statuses (Toots)
- Messages are displayed properly and links should work accordingly
- Images are displayed (but opens outside the app)
- Fav/Boosts are functional
- You can reply to status (length display isn’t implemented yet)
- Videos/Gifv aren’t implemented
- Content-Warnings aren’t implemented (don’t yell to people)
Profiles
- Displays the avatar, background, name and description
- Displays the lasts statuses
- Follow/Unfollow isn’t implemented
- Statistics aren’t available (and might not be implemented at all)
Search
- You can search for hashtags, peoples and statuses
UI/UX
- There is a “tutorial” to help you to get started with the app
- Most animations aren’t implemented (for the fav/boost/send reply/etc), so it’s normal that you don’t have immediate feedback (yet).
This is only the start and now that I have the foundations ready, I should be able to push more often new functionalities!
Feel free to follow the Sengi account to keep in touch!
