@thatgeoguy@joeyh this looks cool I will have to take a closer look. I wonder if there are any implications it you tried to put this on top of the #Hometown variant of Mastodon that I run on my server
@effigies@joeyh this is the only down side I notice sometimes @cheeaun. It sometimes types sluggishly. Can't tell exactly when it happens, but mostly when my Windows computer running slowly (using Edge), or when using Chrome on a low end Chromebook.
@cheeaun 2023.12.06.efca016. It feels ~100-200ms behind. It's just enough lag to notice, but if I type at full speed, the lag doesn't increase. It's most noticeable when deleting because my estimates of how much I need to delete are off.
Also it has some interesting cross-instance features. Can read other instances local timelines (when publically available). And can view posts on other instances, handy when you want to catch up on the gnashing of teeth of your enimies.
@joeyh a question about this cross-instance feature, probably better directed at @phanpy though: I'm seeing from the screenshot that it warns that interaction with the remote post aren't possible, which makes sense if that post doesn't have a local cache. But does it allow trying to import said post to make it “interactable”?
@oblomov@joeyh clicking on "Switch to my instance to enable interactions" will try to load the remote post from your local instance. Depending on how things federate, replies/boosts/likes count might differ.
And it threads comments on posts. Including deep threading and collapse/expand of sub-conversations. This makes me much more likely to dig into conversations.
And it bundles notifications together with some nice interface. And there are many other interface touches. Also page down scrolls properly (except in multi-column mode which is a bit janky, but which it does have, and which makes the columns nice and wide).
I think the main thing about Phanpy is that it's designed in lots of ways to display enough information to scan quickly, but invites clicking to dig into things. I find myself clicking more than I scroll.
@oblomov I also bounced off of Phanpy earlier wanting multicolumn. It's available in the settings under "Experiments" so must be new.
I actually switched from a multicolumn mastodon advanced web interface to single column though. The other UI improvements improve the information density enough I don't need columns.
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