andypiper,
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Co-authored an update from the @MastodonEngineering team with my friend @renchap - a sneak peek at what is coming in 4.3 (and looking ahead from there). We'll aim to make these updates a regular feature for the blog. Let us know what you think! https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/05/trunk-tidbits-april-2024/

box464,
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@andypiper @MastodonEngineering @renchap Great update, very interested in the API changes. What amazing things will our community do with it?! A shout out for the design of these blog entries, easy to ingest all the information in there.

andypiper,
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... as with many large software projects, there's a balance between choosing features to implement, keeping things stable, and fixing known or emergent issues. We have to make decisions about the scope for a release, so there will always be some things that need to wait until the next time. We want to try to share what we've been working on in a more consumable format, more often.

rzeta0,
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@andypiper

I've raised a GitHub issue about the lack of a "permalink" in any post on the web interface.

This also prevents "right click to open in new tab".

... now, some have said the tiny "time" indicator is the permalink ... But that is a huge accessibility and UX problem.

Twitter actually did this well - right click anywhere worked.

I'm mentioning it here as the replies on GitHub didn't seem to appreciate the UX dimension.

andypiper,
@andypiper@macaw.social avatar

@rzeta0 thanks for pointing this out - I'd taught myself to use the time (which I also used on Twitter) to get to the permalink, and hadn't appreciated a) that it works differently elsewhere and b) the actual UX expectation around being able to grab a permalink. Good point. As mentioned, we do have to find time to address, but thanks for surfacing further.

thomas,
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@andypiper @renchap thanks to both of you! I appreciate your summarizing post very much - keep this up! :)

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