Hey 👋

If you've got 10 minutes to spare, would you consider taking this *unofficial* survey about  Mastodon? It talks about the advanced interface, but you can fill it in even if you've never heard of it.

Also, please boost this message so that as many relevant people as possible can fill it in! Thanks in advance   #StanOnAdvancedInterface

https://forms.signez.fr/advanced-interface/

A survey about Mastodon's advanced interface

I'd love to hear your thoughts and feelings about Mastodon's advanced interface and how I might try to improve it. This should take about 10 minutes.

We've just passed the 100th respondent mark! Thanks again for your warm welcome, it's much appreciated.

I took a couple of days off to write up this survey, adding little Easter eggs here and there to give it a bit of personality. Of course, this has made it less scientifically relevant (i.e. you can understand where I'm coming from and where I'm going with this!), but I think it's very interesting nonetheless and will be useful in writing a great roadmap, so thanks 🙇‍♂️

#StanOnAdvancedInterface

In 24 hours, you were more than 850 respondents. Thanks again!

(I lost the track of some of your mentions so if I wasn't able to answer your specific questions about the survey, I am sorry ✨)

I think I'll let this survey open for a week, but I am not sure yet. I will keep you posted with this hashtag!

#StanOnAdvancedInterface

A THOUSAND ANSWERS

Thanks again!

I've started to analyze the dataset, and there are some clear conclusions that I can't wait to share with you. I'm going to wait until at least this Sunday before closing the survey, and I won't share the results publicly until then (to make sure it doesn't distort the results even more than the storytelling I employed while writing it 😅).

#StanOnAdvancedInterface

@Signez ah ah le nuuuuuul maintenant il doit traiter toutes ces données ah ah mdrrrr
@Kocobe littéralement en train de me créer un script pour transformer ça en base sqlite qui va être embed dans le blogpost qui permettra de faire des choses interactives si j'ai la foi
@Signez Trop cool ! Merci pour ton investissement 🙏
@Signez I would really like to see more performance, the vertical scrolling on user interaction is always so expensive and confusing but I don't know a better way to do that. Also it would be amazing if it could know list of Hashtags I'm natively following and to show those as separate columns - I find creating columns/filters very cumbersome.
@pl Great feedbacks! Feel free to write them in the survey, there is a field at the end where you can write anything :)
(beside personal information, please don't slip any personal data in it 🙇‍♂️)
@Signez Ah sorry already filled it out and accidentally skipped the feedback section
@Signez Bravo, tu m'auras fait rajouter Mastodon à mes contributions Patreon
@flns AH C'EST ÇA QU'ON VEUT ! Merci pour eux, ils ont vraiment des montagnes à gravir et ils n'ont qu'un petit sac banane pour le faire.
@Signez Done. 🫡
@Kmeuh Héhé, y'a plein d’autres réponses interactives comme ça, mais c'est souvent si tu réponds un truc qui ne me permet pas de t'inclure (potentiellement) dans ma recherche. Genre…
@Signez Ahahah c'est bien pensé 😄
@Signez Your survey seems a little broken. If I select all three options on Question 3, I can't click Next Question. I'm leaving out Tablet for now.
@Wikisteff Oh, that's weird! I can't reproduce the problem here. I think a refresh would have solved it, but thank you for reporting the problem to me. I hope it doesn't show up more often 😬
@Signez I run on Brave on Android, so it is hopefully a cookies thing. I had to stop at Question 6 or so because I couldn't progress further. I can try it in a different browser.
@Wikisteff I should not be a cookie thing, but it may be a mobile-related thing. Either way, I am not in control of the whole experience (it's hosted by Tally that provide a form-builder), but I'll make sure to report your problem to them so they can fix it for other users, either on this form or other forms in the future!
@Signez Confirmed: it worked fine on Chrome, I was able to complete the survey. Yay!

@Wikisteff Great! Let's note that I always used Firefox to design the form, so at least it also works on something not-Chromium related.

Thanks again for your bug report! ✨

@Signez Renseigné, boosté, "Je ne suis plus seul".
Concernant les listes y'a déjà une option qui te permet de "Cacher ces postes depuis la page d'accueil", à faire pour chaque liste.

@Signez Le sondage n’est pas vraiment « neutre », mais comme je suis complètement raccord avec ce qu’il suggère (colonnes plus larges, plus de densité, ouvrir les nouvelles colonnes en overlay, etc.), je trouve ça très bien. 😄

Je vois aussi que tu es passé sur Tally. \o/

@djo Ça ne se prétends pas franchement neutre, tu l'auras remarqué. Je parle régulièrement à la première personne, etc.

Je ne suis pas un scientifique, et je pense mettre un énorme paragraphe au début de mon blogpost de résultat en mode "Je ne suis pas un chercheur !", pour le rappeler :)

Cool que tu aie pu prendre le temps de le remplir ✨ (et ouais, Tally, c'est pas mal !)

@Signez Omg thank you for that!

As soon as I'm done with you survey, I'll put it as an announce in my instance in order to try to give you more answer.

Contribuing to the advanced interface (which is great atm) could really benefit the whole community.

@abel Oh, thanks a lot for the nice words! ✨
@Signez (Oh mais en plus ça sent le français ici, cool. 🇫🇷✌️)
@abel (2 des trois principaux développeurs/euses de Mastodon aujourd'hui sont français 😄)

@Signez Oh ? Lesquel.les ?

Posté sur h4.io, btw.

@abel Y'a https://github.com/ClearlyClaire (dont le compte Mastodon n'est pas public) et @renchap !
ClearlyClaire - Overview

ClearlyClaire has 29 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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@abel merci encore pour le partage :)

@Signez Deux remarques sur le sondage :

1) Il n’y a pas Metatext iOS dans les choix
2) Il n’y a pas de champ texte pour préciser « Other reason » à la fin

@abel J'ai pourtant rajouté Metatext, car justement il manquait… bizarre 🤔 (et des gens l'ont bien sélectionné depuis)

Pour l'Other reason, si tu parles de la question sur le financement, c'est volontaire — c'est vraiment hors scope du sondage, et je savais que je n'allais pas passer beaucoup d'énergie à analyser en full-text des réponses pour ça. C'était aussi surtout un nudge pour que les gens pensent à contribuer s'ils le peuvent ! (j'ai des gens qui m'ont ping pour dire que ça a marché 😅)

@Signez Il était sur Android mais je ne l’ai pas vu sur iOS, j’ai peut-être mal lu !
@abel Pas impossible que je me sois planté là dessus ! Merci du head's up !
@Signez I was confused for a bit about the "Which of these interfaces is best suited to your day-to-day needs?" question, because the advanced interface *is* the classic one, as it was the default until mid-2019

@val I fully understand the confusion — I should have used "the normal one" or "the single column one". Oops!

It's too late to change it but thanks for the feedback!

@Signez boosting! I know you’ve been big on improvements to the advanced web UI, thank you!
@Signez
Norton blocks this link as a "Dangerous Website." Sorry, no can do.
@AZfriend Oh? Could you try this link: https://tally.so/r/wQeMK7 ? (it's the same survey, it's just less easily shareable.)
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@Signez That worked. Survey done. Good luck.
@AZfriend Thanks for taking the time to ping me about it!
@Signez I'm filling your survey, but you should steal things from @mastodeck
@Signez Merci pour ton implication !
@Signez Stuck at "Why have you stopped using it" because none of the answers reflect my view and there is no "other" option.

@philmoscovitch Oh! Sorry about that. It's hard to make a great survey that encompass all the answers people can have, while reducing them to options (and I prefered limiting the "Other" options to push people to try to select one — but I failed you if really no option reflected your view!).

Thanks for trying to take it anyway! I won't have your data (only full surveys are saved), but I still appreciate the time and effort. 🙇‍♂️

@Signez Really well thought out survey!
@Signez @andypiper Fwiw my problem is external hyperlinks to a user or post open out of my user context. I can view them but I can’t comment or interact.

@jgordon @andypiper What do you mean by "external hyperlinks"? Links inside posts that leads to other instances?

Both the standard interface and the advanced interface should open you posts and accounts in your own instance, letting you interact freely on them. (But it is a problem if the link comes from *elsewhere*, like on website or a text conversation, yeah, it's a common problem that is quite hard to fix! There are ideas though…)

@Signez @andypiper Yes it’s the latter. A link that is outside of the web client context. I figured it was a hard fix
@Signez the damn emoji menu shouldn't be INSIDE the text box
@CatHat Haha, makes sense. Feel free to add your voice in the survey — there is an open field at the end where you could write that down (so I won't forget about it :D)
@Signez as someone with approximately zero tech skills i do not have any familiarity with the advanced interface.
Menus that stack send me into mental bluescreen mode.
@Signez seems to be missing subway tooter from the mobile app dropdown
@enterprisey It's in there! But if you chose to write it down in the "Other" answer, it's okay too! 👍