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 threadChristopher NeugebauerDec 27, 2022
@nelson
Fedilab has "load more" buttons for both directions, so it supports up-scrolling or down-scrolling. Do recommend. (It's open source, but the Google Play version charges a modest fee to support development work)
@kevin
Show threadNelson MinarDec 27, 2022
@chrisjrn
Oh I'm liking Fedilab so far!
@kevin
Show threadChristopher Neugebauer
@nelson @kevin Oh I'm so glad! I hope it continues to work well for you!
Dec 27, 2022 at 10:39pmWeb
Show threadNelson MinarDec 29, 2022
@chrisjrn @kevin sadly, bloom is off the rose with fedliab for me now. Twice now it's had this bug: there's several hours of missing posts and no way to load them. When I first opened the client the 5 hour old post was the last I'd seen. It only loaded some fairly new ones, not the ones 1-5 hours ago.