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@bigzaphod I installed Tapestry on Mac for the first time today. It didn’t appear to have picked up my existing accounts so I went ahead and signed into Mastodon.
Later I noticed some posts were showing double on my iPhone timeline. I realized I now have two instances on my Mastodon account in Tapestry. I assume it’s my prior iPhone login and one from Mac.
I went ahead and deleted the extra one. Easy enough fix. But that onboarding might need a tweak so users don’t re-add the same accounts.
@bigzaphod Yeah, exactly. When I saw the first-run screen I thought it must not sync accounts and made a snap decision that I must need to sign in on each device.
If there is a way to immediately detect that sync data exists, it might be useful to throw up a dialog like “We noticed you’ve used Tapestry before. Please wait while it syncs.” and then list what the detected accounts are as soon as that information is available.
@dmnelson yeah unfortunately to find that answer still takes some time but I think it might be better if it threw up a spinner and said something like... "Checking iCloud..." or something for a moment until it knows the answer for sure one way or another before moving on. Then it can skip the onboarding (or not). The tricky bit is a user could be offline, iCloud could be especially slow that day, a totally new user won't have any data to find at all so it makes them wait for no reason, etc.
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@dmnelson did you end up adding the account during the first-run sequence, I assume? It starts syncing right away, but yeah it's too slow usually and there's a race there. I should try to find a way to get it to wait.. or like... put up a first page showing it's checking for the cloud info or... something, I guess.