BetterMeower

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

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.

Possible 1.5.0 rewrite
Due to codebase issues with BetterMeower 1.5.0 (which is the first version of BetterMeower to be based on an older version of Meower Svelte, 1.4.2 in this case), the BetterMeower Team is considering a new rewrite of BetterMeower.

The existing BetterMeower/Old-BetterMeower GitHub repo would be deleted, and instead be replaced by the Meower Svelte 1.4.2 based BetterMeower 1.5.0, and the BetterMeower/BetterMeower GitHub repo would be replaced with 1.5.1, which will be based on Svelte 1.5.0.