@_elena @cercle @palaisdetokyo @LeMuseum @imacrea Mastodon is doing everything to prevent me from doing what I want: expand a given post in a new tab:

1)CTRL-click wrongly overwrites current tab instead of opening a new one
2)CTRL-click on"Expand this post"in the"…"menu of the post wrongly overwrites current tab instead of opening a new one
3)When I try to work it around by duplicating the tab, the duplication takes ages and functions wrong - the position on the page is wrong, which causes data loss
4)When I try to work it around by CTRL-click and then CTRL-back, the CTRL-back takes ages and functions wrong - the position on the page is wrong, which causes data loss.

I feel contempt towards Mastodon when Mastodon is going out of its way in preventing me from using a standard browser semantics and all possible workarounds I can come up with. I perceive Mastodon as passive aggressive and obstructionist.

#mastodon #badux #ux #contempt #browser #accessibility #click #tab #tabbedbrowsing

@zl2tod @_elena Thank you much for very useful tip!I had many tabs indeed because I need them to keep a list of people from my "Notifications" who followed me to examine their profiles whether I want to follow back.

Why doesn't the error message say "Mastodon doesn't support tabs, close tabs"?And why does the message deliberately prevent typing?This way I don't know what to do to get rid of the message.

Also, how am I supposed to keep a list of people from my Notifications who followed me to examine their profiles whether I want to follow back?Just hovering over each of them takes about 10 seconds to display whether they follow me or not, which is a huge waste of time.

Have Mastodon authors actually tried to use Mastodon?I guess not.Did Mastodon do UX testing?

#ux #mastodon #PITA #tabs #tabbedbrowsing #list #people #notifications #following #follower #followers #uxtesting #errormessage #badux