Mastodawn

Nelson Minar Dec 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?

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Oblomov Dec 27, 2022

@nelson
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22667
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20956
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8384
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/7900
Also relevant:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/11079

Actual Chronological Feeds · Issue #22667 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch The current feed is Reverse Chronological. We scroll down infinitely instead of reading the posts up until we've cleared our feed like rss. Please allow the option for Chronological Feed (bas...

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Nelson Minar

@oblomov thanks this is a really helpful list. I had no idea about the Markers API, it's a good start for at least tracking what's been read.