FinchHaven sfba

Y'all ready for the next new "feature" our boy #Gargron has decided #Mastodon simply *must* have?

How about #HoverCards?

Currently for the web UI only, this will be like those delightful #PreviewCards that appear in posts with links out to mainstream web sites, but Hover Cards will pop up a preview of the user's profile if you hover your mouse over the user name in posts

Still a few bugs to be worked out, but this is an active Pull Request, so just you wait!

Whee!

Here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/30850

Change hover cards to not appear until the mouse stops in web UI by Gargron · Pull Request #30850 · mastodon/mastodon

Reduce the amount of times that events get added and removed from body because of state changes Block hover cards from appearing when actively scrolling Delay hover cards until mouse movement stops...

GitHub
Jun 27, 2024 at 1:24pmWeb
Show threadFinchHaven sfbaJun 27, 2024

My reply to this issue, over on Github:

"I've been following this closely, and as a pure Mastodon user (not a coder) exclusively of the web UI, what I'm seeing is a UX/UI "enhancement" that makes the web version a minefield for the mouse cursor and the unwary user

Acute attention will need to be paid to where the cursor comes to rest at any given moment

And two core questions never seem to have been asked (that I've seen) let alone answered:

Who decided that popup user profiles would be a good idea in the first place, and how many times do people need to see the same unchanged user profile pop up, again and again and again when user profiles almost never change, only because the user was careless about where the mouse cursor came to rest at any given moment?"

Here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/30850#issuecomment-2195748733

Change hover cards to not appear until the mouse stops in web UI by Gargron · Pull Request #30850 · mastodon/mastodon

Reduce the amount of times that events get added and removed from body because of state changes Block hover cards from appearing when actively scrolling Delay hover cards until mouse movement stops...

GitHub