Well, I’ve been looking at adding Mastodon support to Wasted Time since removing support for twitter a few months back. I was talking to my good friend and podcast co-host @andypiper about this yesterday, and he asked why. I thought about it long and hard. While back in the twitter days I used this for two reasons:
- A fun way to show people how much time is being wasted getting meetings started with the hashtag #wastedtime
- A way to promote the app with a AppStore Url
We discussed that this mode of app promotion was frowned upon in the Fediverse. I also looked back at my apps number of users and marketing strategy and came to the realization that I had almost no-one who downloaded the app based on seeing the AppStore Url in a tweet. Why would I think this would be different in the Fediverse?
While I want to play with the Fediverse API, I think I’ve decided that it would be better not to add support for Mastodon in the app.
One of the big features that I took away from the app a few years back, when I was completely rewriting it to support SwiftUI was the ability to capture ToDo’s during a meeting. I think my time would be better spent working on adding that feature back in.
What do you think?
Post Script
I was finally able to get my lasted update to the WatchOS version of Wasted Time submitted to the App Store yesterday. I had been having issues with the app versioning. Everything worked for the tvOS, macOS and iOS versions of the app, but the watchOS version kept ignoring the new version number. This cause the App Store to reject the upload every time.
I even spent time with Apple developer support for 2 months going back and forth to try and figure out what was going on. No luck, until yesterday I was digging around in the many different configuration files, and found one that somehow got hard coded to an old version. Strange.
Yeah, I’d think something functional like adding ToDos etc would be a great option!