Nelson MinarDec 27, 2022

Every morning I load up Mastodon or Tusky and see the newest messages. Then I scroll down and press "load more" 5-20 times to page in all the messages until I see one I remember. Then I slowly scroll back up, reading in time order. It's bad UX.

Every social media feed product is like this (except RSS readers). I want to read everything, in time order. Why is that so hard?

Show threadNelson Minar
another UX complaint; having a popular post on Mastodon's web interface is terrible. Page after page of notifications that are copies of my post. They really need to collapse favourites and boosts, or at least not show me 100 copies of my own post.
Dec 27, 2022 at 4:34pmWeb
Show threadSean TilleyDec 27, 2022

@nelson Yeah, I've had to disable favorite and boost notifications a few times because of this.

It would be nice if there was a way to group notifications together if they're for the same activity, kind of like how boosts can be grouped?

Show threadopal hartDec 27, 2022
@nelson yeah your first complaint (resuming from where you were on home tl) its most likely cus many people ended up using microblogging more conversationally and as a transient means of communication. thats why i still keep a separate blog on my site for things i actually want people to see even years later

fav/rt notifs is something twitter did and should definitely be a feature thats brought here
Show threadThe Raccoon Pope Dec 27, 2022

@nelson i know glitch-soc does do that, but I don't remember if it'd by default or not

would be good for a upstream push but if it's not already in there eugen must have some issue with it (whether it's a valid issue or not) and it's annoying to try and get past that point

Show threadAdam Hall 🇳🇿🇺🇸 Dec 27, 2022
@nelson +1 on notifications … just increment the count please
Show threadChuck Taggart, Private EyeDec 27, 2022
@nelson Agreed. Also, the post composition window on the web UX is absurdly tiny, literally the size of a couple of postage stamps.
Show threadJason Parker-Burlingham 🏳️‍🌈Dec 28, 2022

@nelson this is what "no algorithms!" is creating for us. Mastodon devs are gonna have a rough couple months when they finally decide to collapse stuff like this and present threads in, well, threaded form.

(I guess what will actually happen is that someone will make a kick-ass Mastodon client that gets this stuff right. I'd be more or less fine with that.)

Show threadBjörn 🌸 StarkimarmDec 28, 2022
@nelson +1 on both
Show threadJohn GordonDec 28, 2022
@nelson clients could help too.
Show threadMOVED [email protected]Dec 28, 2022
@nelson you totes sorta can!!! if you click the three sliders at the top right and select "show filter bar" and "display all categories," you can filter your notifs by type 😁
Show threadMOVED [email protected]Dec 28, 2022
@nelson this is the only way i've been able to make mastodon usable during the big surges lmao
Show threadRiot Nu (Marcus Reid)Dec 28, 2022
@nelson @_benui this is why I make sure all my posts are mediocre at best
Show threadluddite 🇵🇸 computerDec 28, 2022
@riotnu @nelson that's using your head