Gluon usage has more than tripled over the past 45 days. This makes me happy and super energised ❤️
Thank you to everyone that came across it and gave it a chance. It really means a lot!
Vincent Ritter
Gluon for Micro.blog
A beautiful, nimble and customisable app purposely built for Micro.blog. Now archived. Thank you to all through the years ✌️❤️
Gluon is a highly opinionated, but customisable, cross platform app for Android and iOS for Micro.blog.
If you’d like to find out more, please visit the Gluon website. Or keep scrolling to read the development blog.
With Gluon, you can do the following:
- View your timeline, mentions and favourites.
- Reply or post to Micro.blog and also set favourites.
- Discover the discovery feed including all the “emoji” tagged discover sections.
- Search users or posts on Micro.blog.
- View user profiles and follow, or, unfollow.
- Add multiple accounts to the app, if you have more.
- Customise the app from theme, font, accent colours and more.
- And much more.
Project posts JSON/RSS Feed...
To help fund app development, I am opening up spots for the promoted content (at the top of Discover) in Gluon. Details are here if you're interested. Also flexible if you want to do a one time donation of your choosing.
Just shipped a new iOS TestFlight for Gluon. If you were previously on the beta list, you should see it. If you like when things break, or you feel "this is totally abandoned because June was last freakin' century!", then please come and join!
If you're using Gluon, I am still running the "Welcome to Micro.blog" promoted content for another few days.
"Your app Gluon for Micro.blog has been approved for beta testing." - Nice.
Details next week. I've got 3 invites that went out with the "Friends of Gluon" list. Enjoy the release notes! Couldn't help myself 😋
I'm exclusively running a "Welcome to Micro.blog" promoted content, on the main discover timeline, in Gluon, over the course of a few days. Just trying to be helpful to newcomers.
Oooo, and custom colours! Official Gluon red.
🤤 Did not know this is a thing!
Continuing. The Gluon dev blog can also now be followed specifically on any Mastodon instance. You can use @[email protected].
I'm cross posting any project related things to this channel.
RSS and Micro.blog are also good places to keep up. ✌️
Maybe I should have done this earlier...
Next week I'm going to start work on the next version of Gluon. It's going to be including DM's (still some things I need to think about though) and some other perks that I've been thinking about.
Just holding myself accountable...
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If I can take statistics from Sublime Ads seriously, it seems that the number of users on Gluon has doubled over the past 3 weeks.
Hope they don't think it's abandoned because it wasn't updated in like 2 months 🤣
If you're using NextDNS and/or have the AdGuard Base list, or the Energized Regional, enabled... You may notice that Gluon promoted content is missing images. Sorry about that. Nothing I can do, except work on a way to rotate the CDN URL automatically 😒
With Gluon install numbers dwindling on Android, according to the Play Store console, and the Micro.blog official installs taking the throne - A GOOD THING! - I am thinking of removing Gluon and have a direct download instead, like it should. Thoughts?
If you're running the Gluon TestFlight version, please be aware that it's running out in a few days. I suggest you get the App Store version to cover your needs.