Ryan HeuserFeb 10, 2023

Introducing my hobby coding project since xmas:

Mastotron!

It's a different interface to Mastodon, replacing the mindless "feed" of most social media with a network map of conversations and recent and popular posts.

👉 You can download it here: https://github.com/quadrismegistus/mastotron 🖖

There's easy, double-click installation for Mac and Linux; Windows is a bit trickier for now.

This is b new, so bound to be bugs. But if you can, give it a whirl, and let me know if it works and what you'd like to see!

GitHub - quadrismegistus/mastotron: A different interface to mastodon, and other experiments in social media

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Show threadKevin MarksFeb 10, 2023
@heuser I likely follow too many people for this to work well, it is sprawling all over the place on my very big screen
Show threadRyan Heuser
@KevinMarks If you click that pound sign on the sidebar you can change the maximum number of posts shown. But yeah they'll take up as much space as the window allows. You should be able to resize the window, though the zooming-to-fit isn't working that great.
Feb 10, 2023 at 4:10pmWeb
Show threadKevin MarksFeb 10, 2023
@heuser I turned it up to 250 and they went offscreen, then I resized and it became a weirdly zoomed out thing. is there a way to zoom? pinch zooming would be nice
Show threadRyan HeuserFeb 10, 2023

@KevinMarks I turned off zooming to make it easier to pan and drag but maybe we need it back because the window is overriding the refresh button to pull in new tweets and there's no manual refresh button on the pywebview mini browser.

If you open up http://localhost:1789/ in a browser you should get same interface with your browser's refresh button. That should resize the interface better. Posts might take a while to load in the second interface at first.