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 "We didn’t want to require you to have a GitHub profile"

Thank you. I don't think I'm technically-illiterate, but I still can't understand how that site works.

@David @Mastodon it often doesn't 🤪

@Mastodon
Did you guys stop using Zulip or are you keeping it for team coordination?

@tuneintodetuned @Mastodon We still use Zulip internally, but figured out that Discourse would be a better platform to engage with the broader community

@renchap @tuneintodetuned @Mastodon Could you enable AP plugin there? We did that on SocialHub: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ap/about

@Mastodon The kind of "detail" I do appreciate. Thank you !!!

@Mastodon Any chance it would be possible to add logging in/signing up with a Mastodon/Fediverse account instead of having to create yet another one?

@max would be fine! @Mastodon

@max @Mastodon
+1

I am unsure the forum software they are using supports it @max @Mastodon

@WeirdWriter @Mastodon
Software can be modified to do things it doesn't support natively ;) Also at least an ActivityPup plugin exists for Discourse already, not sure if that allows login/posting too but would be a good feature to add if not.

@Mastodon Thanks for being inclusive with the non-techies with that community!

@Mastodon Great thx. Also thx to @codinghorror & team for providing that excellent piece of software.

@Mastodon Seems like all categories are about "the app". It that the *mobile* app, or does that cover the *web* UI? And if not, then what category should I use to report something about the *web* UI?

@Mastodon Answering myself: the web UI is one of the "apps", and there's a "web" tag.

@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.

@machocam works doesn't mean fits

@Mastodon

@Mastodon great developments!

I have one request, can you please adjust this heading? Especially the second word. Thanks.

Clarity trumps convenience

@mbootsman @Mastodon Adjust how?

@mimi @mbootsman @Mastodon

I think to remove the "t" word...

@mimi @mbootsman @Mastodon I’m guessing it’s because of the verb “trumps”.

@Gargron @mimi @Mastodon exactly that 👍

@mbootsman @Gargron @Mastodon Ohh sorry, I thought that was a statement instead of the heading you wanted to be adjusted … maybe use quotation marks next time?

@Mastodon Love this design, so clean and modern, great work ✨

@Mastodon

why is 1/3 of the screen completely empty? does not look good :(

feedback:

you want to move the posting box, sure ok. but don't move everything over to the left side, leaving the right side completely empty - until there's a UI/UX purpose for it

@yawnbox @Mastodon as it is written in linked blog post, they are planning new features, which will require space in the future.

@enkydu @Mastodon

yeah i see, thanks. moving a bunch of stuff to the opposite side and leaving the space completely empty seems like a bad design choice to me, but hey i just use it

@yawnbox @enkydu @Mastodon Just in general: a screen/page doesn’t always need to be filled with stuff anyway. “Empty space” mostly is not really empty.

@mimi @enkydu @Mastodon

for sure. but a UI is very personal and when it feels awkward, that can and will turn people off. i have to stand in front of people who don't use Mastodon and convince them this is a better platform than Twitter

@Mastodon Thank you for finally addressing this issue, I think calling them "likes" and using a heart icon is way nicer, and most people nowdays will understand it way better!

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/13268

@Mastodon

Discord space

Babes, its called a Forum

@Mastodon @dansup Wow. @velvetshadow t’as vu ça ? Ça a l’air super clean !

@raph @Mastodon Pas fan de la proposition pour le Post Composer MAIS sinon 10/10 on rentre vraiment en phase avec notre ère ! Enfin de la modernité ! J'adore et hâte de voir le rendu en dark mode !

@velvetshadow @Mastodon J’ai bloqué sur le composer aussi. Mais vas-y, j’accepte la proposition. Ce n’est pas rédhibitoire !

@Mastodon@mastodon.social Not a fan of showing metrics for likes and boosts on the timeline.
Imho. this is a feature and not a bug of Mastodon, encouraging me to judge the content on its own merits and not on engagement metrics.

@monkee @Mastodon Wasn't that always a user setting to hide or show though?

@Mastodon "We’re headed towards more roundness to invite a friendlier brand tone, and to make Mastodon feel more native within modern browsers (most of which have adopted a rounded aesthetic)."

Oh, FFS, first it's Firefox that have fallen for this and now its Mastodon.

Maybe we need alt. themes for both.

@marjolica

Second this with great emphasis.

@Mastodon

@marjolica @Mastodon Greasemonkey to the rescue!

@marjolica @Mastodon

Exactly. Make rounding radius configurable please.

@Mastodon Again?!

@landelare @Mastodon When do you think was the last time?

@Gargron @Mastodon I think around June.

@Mastodon I like the overall design. But I don't like the use of color. Mastodon only has versions of violet in its' color scheme. To me it's lacking secondary colors for accents and to really show a hierarchy of elements. Although I don't realy like the violet as it makes everything look sad, I accept that it is the established color for mastodon. But there should be complementary secondary colors that are not just a variation of the primary color. And making the base-color freely definable doesn't make it better.
I am not a designer, but it could look far more friendly and happy with a touch more color.

@Mastodon I hope we will be able to copy and paste, to allow translation of interesting posts in other languages from people around the world. Information and knowledge is limited without being able to translate.

@Quarky @Mastodon Mastodon already has a translation function build in, if your instances has that enabled.

@kaffeeringe @Quarky @Mastodon it doesn't always appear, has to have the language of the post set correctly (and to a language different from your used one) and LibreTranslate is unfortunately mostly useless. Copying and pasting text is unfortunately quite important.

@phl @Quarky @Mastodon You can use Deepl. And that works quite well.

@kaffeeringe @Quarky @Mastodon That's a choice of the instance (and I guess it isn't the choice of some because it's not free). As a user I have to get around LT manually.

@Mastodon kinda like it, I don't use Mastodon's native apps/web but it looks good!

@Mastodon
no embedded composer anymore?

will I still be able to browse the timeline and looking for other posts while the pop-up composer is open?

@Mastodon I'm already on nightly; the new design looks great, and everything works as expected (as far as I can tell). I'm happy with the new popup composer. Thank you for providing amazing software all these years!

@Mastodon But why put the composer at the bottom center instead of just the top? Newer posts are usually added on top, so why should I add mine at the bottom?

Wouldn’t that also be more aligned with this statement?: “Whenever possible, we’ve based the redesign in existing UI patterns used frequently across the web, […]”

@Mastodon looks great, I hope the round avatars will be adapted for mobile apps as well

@Mastodon
Notifications should really not be at the bottom left on desktop web sites when traditionally their place is the top right across tons of sites/programs/games. (as the gaze naturally is at the top part of the screen, important information like notificatiors should be there too)

@Mastodon I like it! Generally a good step in the right direction. Maybe you already have planned ahead for future additions, but at the moment the right column looks very empty with all the space it's using up. It makes the visual distribution feel out of balance right now.

@Mastodon Less Mystery Meat Navigation! Hurray!