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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Spacewizard! (Ed H)

@nelson toot! on iOS has a subtle feature I love. if you're looking at, for example, tweets ABC...JKL and click "load more tweets," there's this little pointer that changes as you change scroll direction. when it's pointed up, and you load more tweets, you end up with ABC...GHIJKL and can keep reading upwards. If it's pointing down and you load more you get ABCDEF...JKL and can read downwards.

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Spacewizard! (Ed H)Dec 27, 2022

@nelson it's a neat little sublety that allows you to load posts old-to-new or new-to-old, and it's really helpful for catching up in chronological order if that's what you want to do.

Not sure which-all clients can do that but it's sure nice when it's available.