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@mike i use #statuzer and #phanpy as my Masto frontends, but like you also with more columns than fit, so also need horizontal scrolling. i achieve that though without need of the scroll bar. if you happen to use the #KDEPlasma DE, you can too, this way:
@statuzer sorry, another enquiry.
in both Masto itself, & Phanpy, but also in non-Masto platforms like Sharkey & Friendica, when posts contain a linked article, it is previewed with a thumbnail; this is very helpful in rapidly deciding if it is of sufficient interest to click thru & open it in a new tab.
unfortunately in #Statuzer, most of the time, there is no initial preview thumbnail, merely the raw url, per the first pic.
if i then click the post [not its linked url, but the post itself] to display it in the overlay, then it fetches & displays the desired preview. after closing the overlay, the original post in its timeline now does also show the preview, per second pic.
not meaning to be rude, but i dislike this behaviour, as it adds some "friction" to using Statuzer, compared to all the other Fedi clients / platforms i mentioned. is it possible pls to fix this, so all posts in timelines already have fetched their link previews, without me having to manually do it post by post?
ta.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand so, here be me, back yet again almost* at the beginning, the wheel not so much having turned full circle perhaps as derailed from the track & buggered orf into the scrub & mulga, startling the emus & irritating the yowies. 🙄🤦♀️
* Masto again, yes, but not the actual Masto web UI itself, given it's just too painful & a bit ugh, but instead, one of the #FOSS front-ends for it, being #Phanpy, notwithstanding its UI still has all the stuff that historically kept making me drop it. sadly, i'm here not so much out of explicit favour for it, but simply as an exhausted fallback position coz all these months & years have shown me that all the alternatives are on balance worse [& just for fun, each specialising in different aspects of "wrongness"].
Phanpy [for Masto] still irritates me for its
- weird Notifications UI,
- stubborn refusal to include an emoji-picker for standard emojis,
- disruptive habit of auto-reloading the timelines when scrolled to near the top rather than letting me manually choose,
- inability to globally suppress boosts in Lists,
- irritating need to open an overlay just to fav a post...
- BUT it wins major brownie points with me for its
- success in letting me see posts' video thumbnails & play them without having to jump outside P to the original source site PLUS
- its apparent ability to let me create hashtag lists for more than merely five as limited by the actual Masto UI, AND it seems to do a fine job in fetching ample numbers of so-tagged posts from across fedi
#Statuzer [for Masto] had my heart for many months over recent years, at the times i would try Masto again, but today when i tried it again i could not see any way to create any dedicated timelines for nominated hashtags
- CORRECTION: my silly error, it can indeed do this, yay
#Sharkey is aesthetically gorgeous, has a great array of settings options, a really clever flexible UI, brilliant hashtag timelines capability... but
- it uses #MFM not #Markdown & i find this frustratingly limiting
- yesterday i realised that if not all then a significant majority of others' posts, & all of mine, that include videos [eg, youtube & dailymotion], neither provide any graphical thumbnail nor allow said videos to be played directly in the UI [as i said, some do, which is great, but most don't]. Reference thread; https://blahaj.zone/notes/ak1ohqcgacpa0007
- additionally today i discovered a distressing perplexing problem, by chance; a strayan account that whilst not actually following does frequently appear in my hashtag-follows in all the other fedi SW, simply does not appear at all in my Sharkey timelines, & if i try manually searching for them [once alerted to their existence via the hours of comparison i have been doing today & am here summarising], the searches fail with cryptic errors. this has rocked my confidence in Sharkey in that by extrapolation & inference, how many other posts have been hidden from me when i've been using Sharkey?
#Friendica is a complex love-hate story; over the past 3.5 years i've tried many F instances, with my original sense of overwhelm gradually subsiding into understanding & enjoyment. i really do like it, but recently left my active instances yet again, coz:
- compared to Masto-original, Statuzer, Phanpy, Sharkey, every Friendica instance's UI is lethargic in responding to various UI-navigation interactions, but
- the worst problem has become terminal; i follow large nos of hashtags no matter which fedi SW & instance, but Friendica uniquely suffers the major problem that small instances simply do not adequately federate such that large swathes of my hashtags fetch few hits & many fetch none, whereas on larger instances though the hit-rate is acceptable two separate Admins, ie two different instances, told me that following large nos of tags causes them severe problems at their servers, which news shocked me & made me feel terrible for being an unwitting problem to them. Nonetheless, i "must" have my hashtags, ergo sadly Friendica & i have again fallen out of love it seems
i don't for a minute expect this to be the end of the story, given my history... 🥺
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Statuzer is a multi-accounts, multi-columns Mastodon client.
Dave Slusher - Tech StuffI am currently running 3 different Mastodon accounts in #Statuzer. It is interesting how by evening US Eastern time all of them slow down dramatically. These three accounts have overlap but not a huge amount. I guess #Fediverse gets sleepy around now.
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@statuzer Hi there. I am experimenting with #statuzer and liking it so far. Thank you for creating it.
The one thing I cannot figure out for the life of me is how to make the red dot on the notification icon go away. I've tried scrolling up and down the column, clicking the checkbox. What is the trick to this?
The Peter Pan of Nerdery™@statuzer You totally need to get #Statuzer on github and into electron format I reckon. More and more I'm starting to use it over #MonaApp.
Not sure which languages you're proficient in but if you make a native app I'd seriously consider paying for it. Just freaking outstanding work, use it every day.
Masto-bators! Your semi-regular reminder that @statuzer is an absolutely PHENOMENAL browser-based Mastodon interface. I have it open in a pinned tab at all times. Once #MonaApp goes full evernote, even for their users that paid for the full version "in perpetuity", I'll likely switch permanently to using #Statuzer. No shitbox Liquid Glass interface, just a solid, great multi-column experience.
https://statuzer.com for the stable version
https://canary.statuzer.com for bleeding edge
