Month: October 2018

This is more of a question for other open source developers.  I recognize there are payment structures in the Mac App Store that do not work for paid software. However, I’ve always wondered why other open source apps do not publish there.

My general experience publishing  Monal there has only been positive.   While I still push out beta clients on the web the App Store has been the primary way that users have discovered Monal.  It also takes care of several things that are pain points for developers such as upgrades and hosting/bandwidth costs.  I honestly think more people use XMPP because I have made the software readily available in a trusted location. The Mac App Store has a lot of good software but also a lot of junk. The ratio is a lot worse than on iOS and I think we should change that. 

If the problem is the $99 developer fee, would you be more interested in publishing software there if it were to go away (or at least not be something you need to worry about)?

There was a push server outage on push.monal.im for a few hours this weekend. It was  my mistake while upgrading components. I will be more careful in the future. Obviously no messaging traffic goes through this server so there was no data loss. Some people may not have reliably received new message notifications this weekend. 

I’ve completed my server changes. Monal for iOS and Mac should both be available in EU stores.  I will update the next release of both with links to the privacy policy. 

The new Mac beta for OSX should support dark mode. I am still tweaking it so there may be places where colors are less than ideal.  This build also supports OMEMO.

I’ve seen a bug come in and some comments on reddit saying that Monal doesn’t work well on Mojave.  I actually don’t have a machine that supports Mojave. My mini and old Macbook aren’t supported anymore, so this time I didn’t have a build out for the new OS around day 1.  I am in the process of installing it on a VM and will test.   

Feel free to let me know what you have noticed that may be broken in the comments below. 

I have updated the privacy policy. I am working on other changes to make the iOS client GDPR compliant. The other apps should return to EU this week.