Zing: A (beta) ILX client for Macs

Ah.

Any word from the app store?

keep your pants on

where my zing at

I thinking it going to be this week. Surely.

While I'm waiting, I'm adding bookmarks to Zing Mac, but was also wondering if anyone would like a like menubar thing that glowed when you had updated bookmarks, showed you what they were, and opened them in a browser?

Bugger. Rejected for having "henfap" as one of the keywords. Had to submit new binaries, so could take another 7-14 days. Sigh.

I will never buy another Apple product as long as I live, this is lunacy.

heh, meant to quote there. Anyway, f u apple and your henfap hating ways

Rejected for having "henfap" as one of the keywords.

Umm...could this be explained, somehow?

You're not allowed keywords that aren't linked to the app, and I figured it'd take even longer to explain the link as to just take it out.

"it's, uhh, something you need to have." lol, might not cut it with testers. thanks for all your work, stet, this is gonna be great.

Any signs of a new update to the desktop app?

Oh, yeah! Are folks still using it? I don't get any stats, so I didn't know. If you are, yeah, I learned a lot from the iPhone version so could do a pretty big update, with bookmarking and polls etc. I'll see about making some time for it.

roxor!

i would be interested in this

<-- also interested

<-- could also assist with development

If I do the work required to make an iPad version it'll make doing a new Mac version way easier. I cld just do a framework that wraps the API essentially, and you could build on that maybe?

I would pay for and use both.

So there y'are, six quid guaranteed.

can i just say that with the new system font on iOS this is finally REALLY THE WAY ILX IS SUPPOSED TO BE

where did the top left "back" button go in this new update. is it just me?

oh nm I thought it was on the home screen but it's in thread view, sorry

https://i.ibb.co/MRMPZp5/Screenshot-2020-05-14-at-17-27-09.png

🤯

only took ten years, like :/

(the last 1% of bugs will take another ten years at this rate)

whaaaaaaat

is that a desktop client?

YESSS

holy cow! might finally be time to switch my work PC to a mac. :)

i’m not sure how i feel about this

Me too. I spent ages wondering if it was worth it now that browsers are so good and fast. But I got tired of testing Zing Touch in the simulator so then I made this as a wrapper ... and then I found I was using it nearly exclusively.

Need to add search but it's pretty usable. I'll put up a beta if people would like a play.

yes, please!

I'm in.

OK, here goes!

It's definitely a beta but it's OK to use for checking bookmarks and posting.

Notes:
- Search isn't implemented yet
- Nor are themes (but dark mode works)
- Can't favourite borads
- Can't cmd-c on selected message text, you have to right-click
- Single-pane mode (close the message list from X) is a little buggy.
- The menubar checker drags off but doesn't resize.

Download here:
https://www.ilxor.com/MacZing.zip

(Oh also: drag it out of the Downloads folder before opening it for best results)

downloading now - thanks stet. zing is genuinely one of the best apps on my phone, so looking forward to giving this a go.

and posting from it now : )

Stet is the man

Trying this now. thanks. Right now all my bookmarks are duplicated. Two lines for every one (to the tune of "Surf City").

oooh that's weird. Can you check you don't accidentally have two accounts listed? (In preferences go to the accounts tab)

Same account listed twice, yes.

I deleted one at which point it logged me off. I logged back on. Now it shows no accounts.

well done me - if you trying adding once more it should hopefully work

Now it's there twice again.

But this time I deleted the first and not the second and now I'm back down to one.

Trying this now -- works very nicely from here!

Works pretty good for me. ILX links in posts open in my browser though.

Yes, this later was kind of shocking, tbh, although I suppose it makes sense.