After publishing the results of Discovery Week, we can now give you a first sneak peak at Mastodon 5.0, our next big version. It will bring a new visual look to your screens, a refreshed and calmer layout, as well as a new composer.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/
blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/
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This looks really nice, if a little sterile for now. Easy colour scheme configuration sounds like the perfect fix c:
I like the floating modal, it would give my character limit-straining ass a lot more breathing room. Especially if you could resize it via dragging.
I might have just missed this in the post, but would it still be possible to reply to someone and make the reply a direct message? I think it's a really neat Fediverse feature that you can initiate a private conversation that already has a prior thread natively attached to it. It's useful for taking previously public conversations private, or for talking to artists about announced commissions.
Of course, doing this while keeping the semantic separation between private and public messages up sounds like a pretty serious design challenge, so I can understand if that had to be sacrificed.
Thankfully Mastodon loves custom frontends and apps so these power features won't just disappear c:
