#Mastodon is getting a new look in our upcoming 5.0 release.

We wrote a bit more about our design process and how we approach community input. If you’re on mastodon.social you will see the new design tomorrow, on Tuesday. We rely on your feedback!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/10/5.0-a-closer-look/

We didn’t want to require you to have a GitHub profile to report issues or suggest ideas, so starting now you can do it on our new community forum.

You can also vote for other people’s ideas to keep things manageable. It’s the main place we’ll be looking for feedback!

https://community.joinmastodon.org/

@Mastodon amazing! Why not just a classic mailing list?

@machocam s/classic/archaic/

@Mastodon

@mo @Mastodon

It works! It has given us the oldest running archives of open source discussions. Nothing stuck in some db schema nobody will bother to parse in 15 years.