Scott Hanselman ✅👸🏽🐝🌮iPhone tooters of Mastodon! Yes we have figured out by now that #MetaText is the early leader in phone clients. However, I do encourage you to have all the clients installed and try them out as updates are happening. I’ve turned notifications of on all but one, but the official Mastodon iPhone client just got a nice update. Has a news tab. Tooot (3 o’s) has been getting updated lately as well. Choice is good! Mix it up and don’t be afraid to have several secondaries installed and revisit them.
Stefan Koell@shanselman As soon as someone finds a client (mobile and desktop) which remembers the last read toot and starts the timeline there, please let me know.
Dave Dustin@stefankoell @shanselman
I would be willing to pay (checks pockets) $21.70 and a 25% chipotle discount for the first person to rebuild tweetdeck for mastodon...
Probably more... once I check the sofa cushions.
@venzann @stefankoell on the web on desktop, turn on Advanced Web Interface and you’re 90% of the way there. On iPad, the older Mast app is effectively Tweetdeck for iPad.
Bart@venzann @shanselman I can highly recommend Metatext as an iOS client. Feature rich and very responsive.
Dan Skaggs@stefankoell @venzann @shanselman I’m hoping Tapbots will build something like TweetBot for iOS and MacOS. I bought TweetBot years ago and it’s one of the main reasons I’ve been able to stomach all the changes to the *other site* over the years.
Paul Biggar@stefankoell @shanselman And keeps you there when you expand new tweets!
Sören@stefankoell @shanselman the Mastodon API has supported this since ca. 3.0. (It calls these “markers”.)
I *believe* the regular web app sets and reads them. I haven’t found anything else that does.
(I’ve started implementing it in a macOS client. And here’s a feature request for it in an iOS app: https://feedback.mastoot.app/feature-requests/p/timeline-position-syncing)
@shanselman @chucker Thanks, Sören! I know about the API but I can't really say that the web client is using this. For me this doesn't seem to work (or I don't know how to use it). I often change machines/browsers, so it's always a struggle. iOS client which honors the markers would also be nice.
OracleClyde 🔮@stefankoell @shanselman Toot! For iOS does this very well.
Guillaume Lacasa@stefankoell @shanselman
the Mastodon API allows to save markers with the position, and share it across apps/devices
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/markers/
Too bad most clients don't use it (maybe they just don't know it exists)
Joar@stefankoell
@apps do this on #Android. It can also fill in gaps in the timeline by pushing new posts up and preserve your timeline position. Would like a synchronization across devices though.
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@apps do this on #Android. It can also fill in gaps in the timeline by pushing new posts up and preserve your timeline position. Would like a synchronization across devices though.
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Axel Gutmann@stefankoell @shanselman Oh, yes, *please*! I so hate the permanent reload of the timeline after every short absence.
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Windows On Windows@stefankoell @shanselman Whalebird does this. 🙂
Josh Bruce@stefankoell @shanselman: Curious. My timeline always starts from the last read and I scroll up instead of down.
Don’t think I’m doing anything special there.
Is this not the experience of others?
@itsjoshbruce @shanselman I'm honestly not sure if that's the case. I will observe but I quite often switch devices (several desktop and mobile devices) and it's a pain to find the last read toot. It definitely doesn't sync across devices.
@stefankoell @shanselman: Agree on it not syncing across devices or apps.
For me, when I see the "20 new posts" or whatever the number is, it sticks to last read and loads the new stuff above without scrolling to the top, which I appreciate.
rschuerer@stefankoell @shanselman Tusky does this
Timo Zimmermann@stefankoell @shanselman It appears @paul started working on Tweetbot for Mastodon which might become the client to look out for considering the quality and polish of Tweetbot.
Martin Herndl@stefankoell @shanselman Tusky (Android) might have that soon if we're lucky https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issues/2788
Mike Rockwell@stefankoell @shanselman Mastoot is my current favorite.
Chris Cochrun ~ >@stefankoell @shanselman tusky/husky on android
Standa Lukešfedilab does that
El Greco@stefankoell Have you tried activating „Slow mode“ in „Preferences > Appearance“? If you do, the timeline is not updated automatically anymore.
@elgreco247 yes, Slow mode is active.