New "TWiT Army Canteen" Beta Client

Over at 32Hours I posted links to the beta versions of the BeTwittered client that connect to Identica and to the TWiT Army's Canteen.  Almost immediately after making the Canteen version available, I found that a simple port is OK, but that those darned Laconica servers actually have MORE features, not just a Twitter compatible API.  I have a bug in BeTwittered to fix (favoriting has broken.  bah) and now I have some features to add to the two new beta clients.  A couple of those new features are proper connections to friends at other Laconica servers, and a public timeline tab that auto refreshes.  Laconica servers are federated (you can subscribe to friends on other servers) and the public timelines should be more relevant.  The reason I point out the relevance of the public timelines is that I think it's important to know that as more servers come online, the more important it is to note that they are each a community.  They are separate from other servers and will probably tend to be centered around some common interest of the people that create accounts there.  Federation is important to that model too since it allows you to still find friends on other servers and to subscribe to their messages, too.  So in the end, your communities public timeline will not be the horrible firehose that is the Twitter public timeline, it may be more interesting to you.  And all of that means that I have more coding to do. :-)