Tisty 1.19.0
Nothing to migrate: the log stays on schema 14, so this build and 1.18.0 read
each other's stores and you can update one machine before the other. What is
new is on the surface, and one of it asks you something — once.
A card that asks for a star, and only once
Tisty is free, has no telemetry and no ads, so nobody hears about it unless
somebody says so. After a fortnight, and once you have closed ten tasks or
written ten documents, a small card appears in the corner after you finish
something: a thank you, a line, and two buttons. It never appears when you
open the app, never covers what you are doing, and never comes back once you
answer. Ignoring it — closing the window, going to another screen, pressing
Escape — quiets it until the next thing you finish; only «Don't show again»
retires it for good. It reads nothing over the network: the page opens only if
you press the button.
About says what Tisty is, and how to help
The screen now opens with what the program is in one block: what it does, what
it does not, and four plain labels — your data is yours, open source, free, no
telemetry. Below, the ways to help sit together: a star on GitHub, sponsorship,
a coffee, and the AlternativeTo listing as a link that asks for nothing. A copy
the Microsoft Store keeps is offered the Store's own rating window as well,
which is where a rating is worth something on Windows.
The build on the releases page is the AGPL one, and says so
DISTRIBUTION.md used to put every signed build under the same terms. It no
longer does, because only a store imposes terms of its own. The installers and
disk images on the releases page — and the copies Homebrew takes from there —
are the AGPL-3.0 program: mirror them, hand them to a colleague, put them on a
USB stick. The copy an app store keeps is the one that carries the store's
conditions, and the page now says which is which.
Smaller, and worth knowing
The privacy policy records the two facts the configuration file now keeps: the
day this copy first opened, and whether the star has already been asked for.
Neither leaves the machine. The description shipped to every store used to say
every change can be walked back; erasing something for good never could, and
now it does not claim otherwise.
What's Changed
- feat: a document says what each part costs before anyone reads it by @rgdevment in #45
- feat: winget, and a card that asks for a star once by @rgdevment in #46
- ci: one cache per system, four actions pinned, and the sweep by @rgdevment in #47
Full Changelog: v1.18.0...v1.19.0