BetterMeower

BetterMeower is a third-party Meower Client created by community members JoshAtticus, Mdwalters, Bloctans and catonmeower. It is a fork of Meower Svelte.

BetterMeower is currently released as BetterMeower Classic at https://classic.bettermeower.app.

Features
A word-to-word copy-paste of the features section in the readme:


 * Better dark orange theme
 * PWA Support
 * More themes
 * More profile pictures
 * Better support for small phones
 * Emoji Shortcodes

History
On the 22nd of September 2022, community member JoshAtticus was waiting for Meower Svelte 1.4.0. Instead of waiting, he instead decided to make a fork of Meower Svelte, which was originally going to be called Meower BetaNow, although community member Mdwalters said that it should be called BetterMeower.

BetterMeower initially had problems with npm and nodejs, although JoshAtticus eventually discovered that you need node.js 16 or higher to build a svelte web app.

BetterMeower was and still is to this day, hosted on Cloudflare Pages, a free service provided by Cloudflare to host web apps and static websites.

Domains
BetterMeower was originally hosted at https://bettermeower.osmanic.co (along with the https://bettermeower.pages.dev site provided by Cloudflare Pages), however after the domain expired, JoshAtticus bought 2 new domains, https://osmanic.net to replace https://osmanic.co and https://bettermeower.app, which is the new home for BetterMeower.

All domains used by BetterMeower (except the pages.dev subdomain provided by Cloudflare Pages) were registered with VentraIP, an Australian wholesale domain registar.

1.4.0 Rewrite
After the BetterMeower Team had issues with upgrading BetterMeower to use Meower Svelte 1.4.0, JoshAtticus decided to perform a full rewrite of BetterMeower. BetterMeower 1.3.2 was moved to BetterMeower/Old-BetterMeower while BetterMeower/BetterMeower was replaced with the 1.4.0 rewrite.

1.5.0 Rewrite
Due to codebase issues, the BetterMeower team was going to rewrite BetterMeower to use the new Meower Svelte 1.5.0 codebase. This rewrite however was cancelled, as the CL4 Meower Svelte client would be coming out soon, and rewriting on top of that would be a better idea.

Although the rewrite was cancelled, BetterMeower remained inaccessible, as the Meower Svelte 1.4.2 based BetterMeower 1.5 was broken due to git merge conflicts.

CL4 Rewrite
The CL4 rewrite is a planned rewrite which is planned to commence around the end of January 2023. It will bring compatibility with the updated CL4 based Meower Server, and update the Meower Svelte codebase from 1.4.2 to the latest version.

BetterMeower Classic
BetterMeower Classic is an exact copy of BetterMeower 1.5.0, with new features and changes, such as a 4K home character limit and 2K group chat character limit, moderation panel, better profiles etc. It is accessible at https://classic.bettermeower.app.