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Just an update on this. There's been an update to the issue on the 10th of January with "Under Investigation. This issue is currently being investigated...", which is a nice change from "more info needed", or even worse "this isn't a bug it's a feature", so they've managed to reproduce the bug and are looking into it.

This means if you see the 17.8.4 update available message, the fix isn't in there, so don't update yet. I'm using 17.8.0 - I'm not sure if the bug was introduced in 17.8.1, 17.8.2, or 17.8.3, but 17.8.0 is definitely safe to use.

Just an update on this. There's been an update to the issue on the 10th of January with "Under Investigation. This issue is currently being investigated...", which is a nice change from "more info needed", or even worse "this isn't a bug it's a feature", so they've managed to reproduce the bug and are looking into it.

This means if you see the 17.8.4 update available message, the fix isn't in there, so don't update yet. I'm using 17.8.0 - I'm not sure if the bug was introduced in 17.8.1, 17.8.2, or 17.8.3, but 17.8.0 is definitely safe to use.

Ah ok. Hopefully there'll be another update soon then that might fix it (a programmer's most feared words - "update available" ;-) ). Thanks! And also thanks for confirming not just dotnet.social that this is happenning on.

P.S. the bots which boost the content from here to Mastodon have also been broken for at least that long.

You know it was Christmas right?

I'm not sure what you mean about embedding a browser - do you mean writing your UI in XAML? If so I wrote a whole blog post suitable for beginners and up on how to write a MAUI UI using only C# Creating MAUI UI's in C#

Well, that was interesting - when I cross-post a programming.dev post I originally made from Mastodon, it links to my Mastodon post instead of the !dotnetmaui@programming.dev post, which is here BTW

I found it. You just have to have the title on the first line, then mention the community, then your text :-)

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Ok thanks. I'll see if I can find out how many it is.

OMG, just over half-an-hour after you posted this and the bot already has 24 followers on Mastodon!

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Awesome! Yes, that sounds like a good strategy. Thank you so much. :-)

Really? I thought you could only reply. How would you specify the title of a post for example?

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You can use Lemmy from Mastodon - that's what I've been doing up until this week. There's no way of telling how many of them are doing the same thing. There's not really such a thing as a separate service in the Fediverse.

Either we have people interested on the topic

We do, but they're all posting on Mastodon.

a post volume that barely goes above 1 post per day

1 original post - that count doesn't include replies to that post where they haven't used the hashtag (nor posts where people didn't use the hashtag in the first place). That count is only people who have used the hashtag, which is one issue addressed by having a community (don't need to remember to use a hashtag anymore).

a small subset of that traffic

It's not a subset - people aren't posting about MAUI in the dotnet community, they're posting about the runtime. All the MAUI discussion is happenning elsewhere in Mastodon threads because we don't have a MAUI community anywhere in the Fediverse yet. On Mastodon #dotNet and #dotNetMAUI are separate hashtags - MAUI people see them as separate topics (runtime and App/UI).

That's right, hence wanting a MAUI community (and that doesn't even include the people who forgot to use the hashtag in their posts, which is partly the problem I'm looking to solve).

See my other reply. There's no MAUI activity in the dotnet community because all the MAUI activity is happenning in threads on Mastodon - that traffic could all be brought here to a central place. People are still working out how the Fediverse works.

The activity isn't here because it's happenning on Mastodon. #dotNetMAUI has been used in posts 33 times in the last 26 days, and several more times people I follow have forgotten to use the hashtag (which means only their followers see it). Creating a community here would help centralise all that discussion, and mean it doesn't matter if people forget to use the hashtag. Indeed I was participating in some discussions here solely via Mastodon, but then realised I need to get on here to start such a thread in the first place, and so here I am, and hoping to get all those MAUI comments into one place that everyone can see (either here, or in their Mastodon feed as I had been doing up until now, but there's only been dotnet content from here, cos there's only a dotnet community so far - people are just discussing MAUI willy-nilly in Mastodon threads, perhaps unaware that we can centralise all that discussion here. People are still learning how the Fediverse works). The Xamarin forum was a very lively place until Microsoft killed it off. Many people miss that community. Now we can rebuild it as a MAUI community here. :-)

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