TIL: with git redate -c <# OF COMMITS> you can change the commit date/time and messages of commits in your repo. However: make sure you do NOT include the very first commit or the command will fail. So if you have N commits in your repo, make sure that -c is always at least one lower than N.
@jwildeboer That's a client thing not platform thing per se. #Elk renders markdown beautifully, so if I follow someone who is posting markdown, I see it. But yeah it would be nice for the default interfaces to have it. Its in the roadmap 4 sure.
Checking out the listed web / desktop #apps for #Mastodon most of them are really underwhelming. They even fail to describe on why one should use them. I didn't find a single desktop app which was worth installing, just from the information provided on their webpage. Multiaccount usage is irrelevant to me, for now.
With the #webapps I am now briefly trying out #phanpy#tooty#statuzer#trunksapp#elk and #mastodeck
#Chautauqua, #Cowley#Elk, #Montgomery, #Neosho and #Wilson, #Kansas are also under a #FlashFlood warning until 3:00 AM CDT. Flash flooding can be as if not more deadly than a #tornado so please take care if you are in an area in danger of flooding - do not attempt to travel unless you're evacuating or seeking higher ground. Cars are particularly susceptible to being swept away in floods!
WOAH! #Elk, my mastodon client, (https://elk.zone) but released version 14 that allows for composing multiple posts at the same time so you can compose threads easier!
@brennansv I use the #Mastodon app on my laptop & phone but I also use the #Elk on my laptop and #Tusky on my phone, because there are some things that the latter 2 can do that the Mastodon apps can't (& vice versa). 🤷♂️
"In his life, Bob brought a sense of awe and wonder to many. His death has prompted a much-needed conversation about how humans and elk can share the same home. Many more elk will die on our roads this year. None will be as famous as Bob, but each one will be a life lost, and endanger human lives in the process." —Emma Gilchrist for @thenarwhal
This is a photo of Bob, in 2016, on Christmas eve day. He visited our neighbours, across the road - at their holidays sharing table with Santa.
Our rental home is in the background.
After the disruption from the nightly build on Monday, I began experimenting with both @phanpy and @elk, alternate Web interfaces for Mastodon.
While #Elk is quite nice with always-available mouse-based back navigation, it doesn't seem to support either multi-column views or auto-refreshing timelines.
So, #Phanpy is a much better fit for my use case. However, it suffers the same limitation sorting notifications as the current unfixed nightly build, i.e. no quick-access filter bar.
Hey @elk! On Elk my lists are not sorted alphabetically. I number them so on Mastodon they show up in the order I want. Is this something that is on the roadmap for Elk? Thanks!
Technical question. Does anyone happen to know why, when I use the alternative Mastodon UI, #Phanpy, I never see rate limit errors, but when I try using #Elk I get the error constantly? So often, in fact, that for me, Elk is completely unusable.
Elk ist ein Fediverse-Client als alternative #Weboberfläche und nutzt die #Mastodon-#Client-#API, um sich mit Konten auf kompatiblen Instanzen zu verbinden.
Nach eigenen Angaben befindet sich Elk im #Alpha-Status. Bugs und fehlenden Funktionen sind zu erwarten.
@happy I am aware of it and though I do want an interface that uses the space properly their vomitous parallel iframe design is intolerable. I was willing to put up with a narrow single column - #Elk is limited to this view - I think it is some UX designer disease that they think mobile-first means mobile-only - but then they also obliterated the compose post box by adding huge buttons inside it.
#Trunks has the best UX by far but it keeps losing any settings you have and is very blurry.
If someone could try to takle this bug, I would highly appreciate that.
If you want to make a pair-programming session with me killing this bug, ping me on https://chat.elk.zone/
There are a lot of different interesting front end projects. These let us access our home servers via an app or an alternate webpage front end.
#Icecubes#Mona#Tusky#Elk are a few examples of #Mastodon front end projects. Many of these have some unique features that vanilla webpage Mastodon doesn't yet.
We can always access our servers by just typing their address in to an internet browser to get the regular webpage frontend too.
Everything is all connected, these are just a few examples of additional ways of navigating & experiencing. So we can use several routes, depending on need, mood or device. Regardless of which frontend we use, our account(s) remain the same so it's safe to experiment and try things out. #Help#HelpThread#Welcome#New#Newbies#NewHere#FediTips