Introducing Indigo

[soapboxsoftware@mastodon.social]

If you want more details, there’s a lot more in our announcement blog post here: https://benricemccarthy.ghost.io/indigo/

And for the design geeks, Ben put together a deeper dive on how Indigo’s UI has evolved since we started work on it, here: https://benricemccarthy.ghost.io/indigos-design-evolution/

[jiji@ohai.social]

@soapboxsoftware time to learn BlueSky, i guess?

[user47@vmst.io]

@soapboxsoftware How is the cross-posting functionality? I have a friend who will be running for local office. He's going to be bluesky first (ugh) but I've talked him into including masto. We've been thinking Croissant?

[soapboxsoftware@mastodon.social]

@User47 Croissant also supports Threads, but is posting only. Indigo is a full client for Bluesky and Mastodon, which he might want for replies, etc

[pauls@social.lol]

@soapboxsoftware @BenRiceM Congrats on the release Ben, appreciate the detailed blog posts too!

[richaesthetic@mastodon.social]

@soapboxsoftware I didn’t even know there was a beta for this! I’m so sad. Happy that I get to try it out now though, just bought it

[petergracar@mastodon.social]

@soapboxsoftware Just went ahead and purchased it - does the app support URI schemes so that I can wire it into the tapestry app?

[soapboxsoftware@mastodon.social]

@PeterGracar only limited support right now, but if you want to shoot an email to aaron @ soapboxsoftware .net with details on exactly what you’re trying to achieve we can look into it

[petergracar@mastodon.social]

@soapboxsoftware I assume that Tapestry will eventually support Indigo as a bluesky and mastodon client, but until they do that I just want to be able to open a given toot/skeet in Indigo if I have a direct link to it. Is that possible?

[lexfri@hachyderm.io]

@soapboxsoftware My first thought from the third screenshot is that it would have been fun to marry a person named Lux so we could be Lex and Lux Friedman.

Also congrats on shipping! It’s a beautiful app!!

[soapboxsoftware@mastodon.social]

@PeterGracar We currently have the ability to do that, but it’s an internal feature for testing. We would like to add a user-friendly way to do that though (like a share sheet extension)

[timonus@mastodon.social]

@soapboxsoftware congratulations!

[benricem@mastodon.social]

@lexfri The kids call it looksmaxxing

[lexfri@hachyderm.io]

@BenRiceM meeting her would be my luxy day

[joelion@mstdn.social]

@soapboxsoftware i’m sure this isn’t your fault, and it’s probably on the Mastodon server instance, but managing my mastodon login is the worst part about this whole ecosystem

[soapboxsoftware@mastodon.social]

@joelion we agree. sorry

[crinkles@front-end.social]

@soapboxsoftware The UI looks brilliant and is basically what I want Ivory to be. Especially the threads look really good.

Are you guys considering maybe more tiers in the subscription? I basically use the iOS version only, which makes the price pretty steep for only that device. Maybe only a iOS + ipadOS tier? (similar to what Ivory has and I believe Mona as well, or atleast in the past).

[thatstheguy@beige.party]

@soapboxsoftware For those on Android looking for something similar, check out Flare.

[soapboxsoftware@mastodon.social]

@crinkles For launch, at the very least, we wanted to keep the pricing simple but we’ll keep it in mind

[ianrobinson@mastodon.social]

@soapboxsoftware The path to generate an app specific Bluesky password on the sign in screen is wrong.

Also, I got a Rate Indigo dialog on iPhone immediately on first view of the timeline. I don’t know if you control when that’s displayed.