Mastodawn

We released Mastodon 4.3 today, packed with a lot of awesome features: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/mastodon-4.3/

I want to thank @Claire, @Gargron, @dave for their hard work on the code, as well as @samhenrigold for the design. Also a lot of thanks to our regular contributors, including @matt and @thisismissem

Now let's focus on 4.4! We have a lot of exiting things to work on, we will do our best to release it before September 2025 😅

#mastodev #mastoadmin

Mastodon 4.3

Grouped notifications, notification filtering, better onboarding and a refreshed look await in this new release of our decentralized open-source social media software.

Mastodon Blog

peterF Oct 8, 2024

@renchap @Claire @Gargron @dave @samhenrigold @matt @thisismissem
Do I have to download anything?

Renaud Chaput Oct 8, 2024

@PeterF No, mastodon.social is already up to date!

Emelia 👸🏻Oct 8, 2024

@PeterF as a user on mastodon.social, no, as this is a server upgrade

peterF Oct 8, 2024

@thisismissem thanks

Antimundo Oct 8, 2024

@renchap Hi! I commented on the "fediverse:creator" pull request, since I think "fediverse:author" is more in line with the already established standard "author" meta tag. Could you take a look at it?

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/30398

Add support for `fediverse:creator` OpenGraph tag by Gargron · Pull Request #30398 · mastodon/mastodon

A new OpenGraph tag to highlight article writers and website creators on Mastodon. Putting <meta name="fediverse:creator" content="username@domain" /> on a web page will ...

GitHub

Andy Piper Oct 9, 2024

@antimundo @renchap thanks for the feedback. We had the feature rolled out in preview for several months already and do not have an immediate plan to change this; there is also now an effort to work on this alongside the SWICG at w3c, so that's the most likely path forward if changes come along at this stage.

@renchap @Claire @Gargron @dave @samhenrigold @matt @thisismissem

Thank you to all of you for your hard work! 🙏

Stefan Bohacek Oct 8, 2024

@renchap @Claire @Gargron @dave @samhenrigold @matt @thisismissem Congratulations to everyone!

Jon Henshaw Oct 8, 2024

@renchap @Claire @Gargron @dave @samhenrigold @matt @thisismissem

It's an awesome release. I love all of the UX improvements. The Web version really feels like a significant upgrade.

Lox ⏚ 🇳🇨Oct 8, 2024

@renchap @Claire @Gargron @dave @samhenrigold @matt @thisismissem

Well done. Easy upgrade. Thank you.
The only thing that I need and miss are quoted posts...

Emelia 👸🏻Oct 8, 2024

Those are planned for the next version, 4.4, are work is starting now on them

Lox ⏚ 🇳🇨Oct 8, 2024

@thisismissem @renchap Awesome !

Elysia Macht Oct 9, 2024

@renchap NO grey text, please. Text needs to be visible, not try to blend in or fade in input boxes or otherwise. Things need to be visible, with clear separation or defining borders or whatever, the way the faint grey where there is now white in the background used to be. For one.

Some of us need to SEE text as well. Whether because of ageing, failing eyesight or some other reason.

This new text is far too faint.

Also, NEED to be able to scroll-read posts replied to in FULL. Basic needs.

Charles Chin Oct 9, 2024

@renchap @Claire @Gargron @dave @samhenrigold @matt @thisismissem
Support Markdown Please!

Brendan Jones Oct 9, 2024

@renchap @Claire @Gargron @dave @samhenrigold @matt @thisismissem Great release team. Grouped notifications are such an important improvement, the lack of them was always the number one thing that had me using 3rd party apps instead of the default interface. Very appreciative that we now have them built in.

Lots of other great improvements here, too.

MeaTLoTioN Oct 9, 2024

@renchap @Claire @Gargron @dave @samhenrigold @matt @thisismissem

Great work guys! Thank you very much for keeping us up-to-date and giving us lots of shiny things to play with.