• Properly hide the "Try new TweetDeck Preview" button as of July 3rd 2023
• Ensure the rollback dialog when on New TweetDeck properly shows up as of July 3rd 2023

I know I said the last update was the last one, but I felt like the changes Twitter made over the Verified status warranted at the very least that BTD displayed those badges properly to avoid confusion.

• This release shows Business and Government verified badges independently from the Blue badges. It also fixes a bug where those accounts would show up with the Blue badge despite not being actually subscribed to Blue(? I don't think? Twitter's API says they're "Blue verified" regardless so who knows 🤷 )
• Adds a "Mute accounts subscribed to Twitter Blue" option, you can find it by going to the ⚙️ icon -> Mute

• Fixes the GIF search on Chrome

Important

Since the last release back in November of 2022 it is clear that Twitter doesn't give a shit about 3rd party developers and apps so I will not be spending any more time and energy developing on top of Twitter's platform.

Thank you for using and supporting Better TweetDeck over the years, it was a wild ride, I wish it didn't end this way but it is what it is. 🫡

If you want to stay tuned about my future side projects that may or may not include a 3rd party Twitter(+Mastodon?) web client:

• https://twitter.com/Eramdam
• https://octodon.social/@eramdam
• https://cohost.org/eramdam

Important

Since the last release back in November of 2022 it is clear that Twitter doesn't give a shit about 3rd party developers and apps so I will not be spending any more time and energy developing on top of Twitter's platform.

Thank you for using and supporting Better TweetDeck over the years, it was a wild ride, I wish it didn't end this way but it is what it is. 🫡

If you want to stay tuned about my future side projects that may or may not include a 3rd party Mastodon web client:

• https://twitter.com/Eramdam
• https://octodon.social/@eramdam
• https://cohost.org/eramdam

Important announcement

This release probably will be the very last one for the time being. I decided to put BTD in a "feature freeze" state and will only address critical bug fixes should they arise until the eventual rollout of the new TweetDeck that will break BTD entirely. Please read the following issue for more details https://github.com/eramdam/BetterTweetDeck/issues/848.

Note that this decision was taken before the Elon Musk takeover of Twitter, but this situation confirms my intention of not wanting much to do with TweetDeck until the new version releases, or it disappears/breaks completely. Thank you all for using and supporting the project, and thank you to the Tweeps who allowed it to stay alive and contributed/worked on TweetDeck. 🫡

See also thread on Twitter about this release

If you want to stay tuned about my future side projects that may or may not include a 3rd party Twitter(+Mastodon?) web client:

• https://twitter.com/Eramdam
• https://octodon.social/@eramdam
• https://cohost.org/eramdam

Feature highlight

Add a setting to show a badge for accounts that are "Blue verified". This setting is opt-in. Who knows if this whole thing will still be up by the time this update reaches you? Oh well!

Thanks to:

• @luciascarlet for the nerd checkmark
• @JoshQuake for the clown checkmark

Other changes

• Add settings to highlight/mute tweets made in a Twitter Circle (https://github.com/eramdam/BetterTweetDeck/pull/853 thanks @Vogeslu)
• Migrate the Chrome extension to Manifest V3. This shouldn't break or change anything, but Google will stop accepting Manifest V2 extensions soon, so this was needed. I'll be doing a similar update when Mozilla/Apple starts accepting Manifest V3 extensions.
• Made tooling optimizations to have smaller files so Mozilla's validation system wouldn't reject the extension because of its size.
• More fixes around content warnings detection.
• Fixes around the "show link preview" setting.
• Mark the extension as requiring Safari 15.4 at a minimum due to the switch to Event Pages.

[^1]: All of that assumes that Twitter even stays around long enough 🙃 "Thanks" Elon Musk.

• Hopefully fix the issue some users were seeing where the extension doesn't show up in Safari
• Fixes the profile badge display in some cases

• Added a setting (opt-in) to hide pronouns on your own accounts
• Fixes around the custom accent color feature
• Fixes around the profile label feature

• The emoji picker, emoji completion, and emoji display now supports Twemoji 14
• The emoji completion and emoji picker search should be improved
• The "rainbow" item in the Accent Color setting should more reliably show a color picker to make it more obvious that it is a custom color setting 😅
• Add a way to force dismiss the update banner in the settings in case it keeps showing up on every load of TweetDeck. You can find it under the "Support" section of the settings.

This is a hotfix release on top of 4.8.1, 4.8.2 and 4.8.3

• Fixes a regression when using a custom accent color with the light theme

This is a hotfix release on top of 4.8.1 and 4.8.2

• Fixes a layout bug in the GIF picker when scrollbars are visible