• Little8Lost@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    Tesseract looks really nice
    Only downsides i see are:

    • Not a phone app (which is not that bad, there are options)
    • need the server to support it or selfhost

    And none of them sound like a problem to me

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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      Depends on your definition of “phone app”. I use it on my phone as an installed webapp (Add to home screen on iOS / Install on Android). Look and feel-wise, it’s indistinguishable from an “app” app. Only thing it lacks is system notifications (which may or may not be a dealbreaker for some).

      Lemmy World runs an instance of it, but it’s locked to .world.

      I run an unlocked hosted instance at https://tesseract.dubvee.org/ which is configured to allow login to any Lemmy server.

      Selfhosting is also an option; I believe it also works fine from localhost (there used to be issues uploading images, but I think that went away as of 0.19.0).

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        Installed webapps it what i meant with options so its neat that we booth reached the same conclusion

        About localhost: at least in the readme there still is mention of image upload issues because of the cors handler

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          Yeah, that’s me failing to update the readme. lol. Good catch.

          The CORS handler / upload proxy was removed completely a good while ago (I think in 1.4.0 when I dropped support for 0.18.x API). I’ll make a note to myself to clean up the readme.

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      I also use it on mobile and have it installed as a web app. Firefox can occasionally be very finicky about which web apps are installable, but I had no issues with Tesseract. I assume on Chrome/etc it’s no problem at all.