@0x0cb9d119 I think this has to go into the Mastodon UI hall of fame.
Because, seriously, these images seem to be quite small they could all fit in the preview area unzoomed, but #MastodonWebUI instead zooms, cropping them, even puzzling me for a moment.
I wonder if @nileane has a back story for getting inspired to create @TangerineUI
TangerineUI is a very popular theme on Mastodon web UI.
There are a few versions as follows:
If you want to use these as a user, just install "live css" on Chrome or Firefox extensions and copy and paste the code into the live css extension and it will automatically change to the TangerineUI or whichever version you copy.
#TangerineUI #LagoonUI #CherryUI #PurpleUI #Nileane #MastodonWebUI
@sb It would be even better if Mastodon's web UI had an option not to short links either.
I mean, visually, literally, it obscures part of the URL and adds "..." if it is long enough. It might not help promoting the idea that it's ok to just put non-cryptic URLs without shortening them first, but it sure annoys me.
And at least here that also makes it harder to select the address to paste it somewhere else, if it's at the end of the post.
@personamatters Now I'd suggest this is *another* good reason to avoid a design that mostly tries to be like TSNFKAT :-P
@faraiwe I think your example will not work for people who are using Mastodon's web UI and have set the option to always expand CW'ed posts.
@cub80_appleby @FediTips Now if having in-text hashtags is a big problem, is there any chance this can be somehow addressed no matter what the post has? Say, an option in clients (including the official web UI) to list hashtags at the end even if they're inline? (Instead showing inline hashtags as regular words)
@job
(And that's a good summary of Mastodon: not as good as #USENET. Federation works better there, "following" topics works better there, threading works better, keeping track of unread posts works better...)
(Maybe if Mastodon's design goal was more of making a federated social network and less of making a Twitter clone... #MastodonWebUI is a disaster that could be easily improved or avoided, but I guess it must have all the endless scroll and behave like tabbed browsing weren't a thing...)
@job this is one of the major issues I have with some Mastodon interfaces. #Brutaldon does this too, I think, but at least it's light. Now #MastodonWebUI doing this with all the processing power it requires is ludicrous.
Yeah, I'm eventually going to end up with a Mastodon client that is pretty much a #NetNews client...
@JasonW @partlyhuman You can also check the hashtags you're interested on on other instances when these allow doing so without login. For example, for Mastodon at bitbang.social, you can check "retrocomputing" either using #MastodonWebUI
https://bitbang.social/tags/retrocomputing
or the RSS feed
https://bitbang.social/tags/retrocomputing.rss
CC:ing @FediTips in case they want to add something else. It's probably thanks to them that I learned the ".rss" trick!
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