#Mastodon 4.2 is rolling out across the social web! On our quest to make Mastodon more delightful and easy to use, we've overhauled search, sign-ups, cross-server interactions and a whole lot more:
Loving accessibility things such as bigger link previews, padded out context menus, focus change indication, and working thread indication (consequent nested replies still look disconnected from parent, though). Also, collapsed closure hashtags are bae - assumption that hashtags in the end of post are meant for better discoverability (as opposed to something we would like to consciously read) is always the correct one and I'm glad it's taken care of. #Mastodon is a maître of microblogging, so I hope more similar platforms take this into consideration now that it's a thing out of beta.
@Mastodon Thanks for this update! The overhaul of the search function is fantastic. I noticed recently that indeed the search function now operates on the bio too, which is super useful to find more people to follow. Keep up the good work!
@Mastodon Far from 'interesting'/'intuitive' compared to X.
I hate X due to the insane EM censoring what isn't his opinion.
To name one drawback here (next to the fact that no or few interesting research institutions are here):
to get to the latest post on my wall on iPad I have to scroll; to pick the tiny scroll bar is an annoying task.
Swiping down takes ages.
Why not copying things X uses as good practice: double-tapping the home button should get us users to the latest post on our wall!
@Mastodon I don't know if this is the right place: I miss a button next to the CW-button to add a hashtag at the actual position in the text field.
Easier hashtagging would improve the visibility of posts across instances a lot!
I thave taught some friends how to follow hashtags but post authors need obviously more convenience to set them. This is frustrating to my friends.
@Mastodon#fulltextsearch i am a mastodon user who also happens to run a few websites. i have this feeling that searching being enabled in mastodon might be effectively creating a denial of service by hitting sites all at once. or something. i cant really explain! i am seeing hundreds of simultaneous hits to the exact same url on my site from mastodon instances all over. all seem to be at ~02:30 UTC. 🥴 wassup? help? is it just me -- which would be weird. #mastoadmin#mastodev
@Mastodon is Mastodon nothing more than bots that mirror Twitter sites? I can't find any sports accounts to follow that are not bots that mirror twitter sites?
Is there somewhere a setting to make "Alles" ("Everything"?) the default view for entering "Live-Feeds"?
Normally, I am only interested in my Home and in the Federated Timeline. Therefore, I'd like to have the switch between them a one-click operation in both directions.
@Mastodon Grateful for this, but I notice you've changed the interface's behavior when switching from timeline to notifications, then clicking "Home" to go back to timeline. It used to take users back to the same place in the timeline; now it jumps back up to the top, whereas before it only took users back to the top if they were on the home feed already.
I know I could just use the back button instead, but I was in the habit of clicking Home.
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