So, on this fine day, I set out to explore what it would take to add mlpol.net support to, for example, KurobaEx.
Well apparently not that much - most of the site parsing code seems neatly organised (https://github.com/K1rakishou/Kuroba-Experimental/tree/develop/Kuroba/app/src/main/java/com/github/k1rakishou/chan/core/site). Surely it shouldn't be too difficult to hack something together to parse /mlpol/ too and add it into the supported sites.
Well no because it's an android fucking app and that means gradle and that means java and worse that means the shitty android tools that are never packaged in a way that's installable unless you jump through five hoops to get them running. Also apparently the kuroba nigger may or may not(?) have left the code in a state that fails to build, it's not even clear to me - not that it matters because I haven't even managed to start a build yet. Well maybe I shouldn't have started at 1:30am, that's on me, but still. Also the only alternatives are blue clover that hasn't been in development for years, chance which is fucking flutter, and maybe dashchan which also hasn't been in development for even more years, which is why I wanted to try messing with kurobaex first.
Anyway, with /g/ dead and me not even able to vent to /dpt/ (or ask if anyone has messed around with a fork), I guess a rant here is the next best thing. If I mess around with it more in the coming days and get anything going, I'll blogpost here I guess, also obviously anyone else with actual mobile dev experience (or without, really) welcome.
If I abandon this thread without any further posts forevermore then rip.