A Geek in Korea
Overall stability and usability of #calckey for June hasn't been great for me. I'd say 90% of the time I was seeing the fail bird when I tried to view any timeline. No Timelines loaded. The UI was unresponsive or slower than usual when I could see posts. I deleted the cache, tried different browsers, and waited for updates.

Oddly, lists worked flawlessly throughout June, so I was able to keep up with articles and topics of interest to keep me returning for news, although I didn't have much time to post anyway.

I'd rather stay at one place and watch it grow. I value stability over fancy features, so I am still considering another #fediversemigration. I'm still seeing errors, but #calckey is loading on my phone some of the time now.

Considering the alternatives, I could have returned to #mastodon and endured the loss of so many quality of life UI features as a trade-off for greater timeline stability, or hope that #calckey stabilizes. I think calckey has the superior interface, so I'm here, for now.

If #Mastodon ever catches up on the UI to implement the timeline features #calckey introduced me to, I might switch back, but I get the feeling that's not likely.
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Jun 28, 2023 at 7:51amWeb
Show threadOzzy🕯Jun 28, 2023
@GeekinKorea unfortunately Calckey doesn't have a Saudi bank balance to fund its development.
What it does have is a small dedicated dev team building an amazing bit of software with very limited funding.

Not disputing what your experience has been and my experience has not been issue free but I have absolutely enjoyed my time on Fediverse with Calckey during June and look forward to its future development.
Show threadA Geek in KoreaJun 28, 2023
@ozzy Yeah, the small dev team is dedicated and has radically improved on the microblogging interface for the #Fediverse. I appreciate their work. Complaining about free stuff is gauche too. I think that a #TwitterMigration with #Calckey around is a lot easier to explain to people.

I had several uninterrupted months of excellent experiences on both the Dice.camp #Mastodon server, and the later move to calckey.social was seamless. I'm glad other people's experience wasn't as frustrating as mine was!

I think the incongruity between the lists working well enough and the timelines not working at all meant I kept having a reason to return, but the difficulty in contributing or following up with things I wanted to comment on got under my skin a bit.

I also met some people I knew from previous Twitter meetups that bounced off Mastodon, and I would have liked to been able to show off calckey to them instead of hearing about how excited they were for a BlueSky invite. #calckey