Two weeks ago, a build of Mastodon's Web interface removed two features which impacted me, other power users and some folks with accessibility issues.
And many of us complained 'cause, well, it kinda sucked.
But @renchap and the developers listened to us! And they didn't just back out those changes. No, they restored the functionality integrated with other new features.
So, I wanted to publicly thank them for all that hard work and landing it last week. Y'all rock! 💖
/cc @Gargron
A new (?) feature, that I really like, is the display of author and date in the preview cards of external links. (Obviously it can only work for websites, that provide this information as structured data.)
2 weeks ago!!! Incredible.
@eatyourglory The temporarily removed features were the quick filter bar in the Notifications view (which looks better now!) and Back buttons/arrows (which also look better now!) in several views, e.g. in Lists.
@eatyourglory These features have been in the nightly build since Wednesday of last week and are visible on servers like mastodon.social and others.
And that is what makes this a great environment!
I had a similar experience with Mastodon's spectacular team.
The problem was a lot simpler and undoubtedly required a much lower tech solution than yours, but they responded immediately & fixed it.
No matter how big or small the issue, they actually & authentically care.
So glad I made the move from X-itter.
I'm *so* glad it turned out this well and you received a good response that solved the issue that this build caused you (and others)!!
Jarf
Lisa Melton
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Stefan Bohacek
anlomedad
Sumukha S
eatyourglory
Katzentratschen
AskPippa🇨🇦
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Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴
Erin Conroy
Martha