Mastodon1d ago

Coming soon in Mastodon 4.6 - a redesigned profile page. We've used community feedback and surveys to inform these updates. In our latest blog post, @imanijoy explains our design thinking and choices. Here are a few highlights 🧵

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-redesign-for-profiles/

A Redesign for Profiles

Sharing the design thinking for the new look coming to profile pages.

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Show threadMastodon1d ago
A new Activity tab has a dropdown menu for filtering different views of information (posts, boosts, replies) so you can find the information you're interested in.
Show threadMastodon1d ago
We've reworked featured hashtags, pinned posts, and custom fields to make the most important details more easily discoverable, and make better use of vertical space.
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Profile editing is now a unified experience, with everything in a single view. You can also now add alt text for profile and cover photos.
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There's much more to discover! Read the blog post for more information, and let us know what you think.

These updates will start to appear on mastodon.social and other servers running nightly builds from today, and will be available to everyone in Mastodon 4.6, coming in a few weeks.

Show threadRealGene ☣️
@Mastodon
When do we get search that works?
Mar 26 at 5:51pmWeb
Show threadEugen Rochko1d ago
@RealGene @Mastodon In what way does the search not work for you?
Show threadRealGene ☣️22h ago
@Gargron @Mastodon
I try to search for things I know I've seen, and get incorrect results. Search syntax, like from:me is completely inconsistent and has obvious gaps.
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES20h ago

@RealGene @Gargron @Mastodon

if the post was from another instance, depending upon your server's retention policy, it may "forget" older posts

you can't search posts that aren't public

and people may change their settings to make their posts unsearchable

i found that search only returns the first few posts. at which point it's helpful to take the last returned post, get the date on it, and search again adding the search term "before:2024-04-25" for example to get the next page of results