Hi there, pumpiverse! o/

I've tagged the development version of Dianara, my Pump.io client, as "alpha", in preparation for a release by the end of the month, hopefully.

The most noticeable changes are these two:

Automatic timeline updates will avoid interrupting the user. If you're in the middle of the timeline page (or not on the first page at all), and the time for the auto-update comes, you'll see a 'banner' message appear below the timeline, and the update will not happen. You can ignore it, close it, or update from there at any time. Updating will take you to the top, too.

Different snippet limits for regular and highlighted activities. These are used in the minor feeds. Up until now, the default was to show these snippets only for highlighted activies. Now you can set up a different character limit for regular and highlighted activities, so I've changed the default to 'Always'. By default, regular activities will have short snippets, and highlighted activities (like someone commenting on of your posts) will have longer ones. You can get the old behavior easily from the Program Configuration dialog.

I'd like to get some feedback for these new features and default settings. Let me know what you think.

You can file bug reports in the issue tracker, though you might want to comment here first.

By the way, Italian and German translations have been stuck for a while. If anyone would like to help updating them, that'd be very appreciated ;)

(or, you know, providing any other new translation, of course!)

Cheers! =)

EDIT: Now tagged as "Release Candidate", with estimated release on June 11th.