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.

Mastodon Blog

@Mastodon

I follow Mastodon on Github and I've been waiting for this to happen

I've been on Mastodon basically seven days a week since Nov 2 2022 and currently have one Main and two Alt accounts

My Profile page is highly evolved to look --> exactly <-- as I want it to, featuring --> exactly <-- what I want people to see of me on all three instances

(The Pinned Post carousel notwithstanding)

But now that's all going away, to be replaced by the opinions of 500 people from 300 instances, was it?

Funny

I never saw any opinions being asked of anyone, anywhere

Guess my range of view on Mastodon is too constricted

I did see questions and dissent on Github being silenced as "violations of the TOS" however

Interesting how that works

Oh well

Gotta onboard those weekender / short-timers, right?

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Onboarding #Newbies

@FinchHaven @Mastodon

I'm looking at your profile on the mastodon.social site (running an early 4.6) and your home instance and other than the custom fields being compacted a bit, I don't really see much of a difference:

https://mastodon.social/@FinchHaven@sfba.social

https://sfba.social/@FinchHaven

@gbargoud

Yeah @Mastodon typically is running on a nightly build

Currently v4.6.0-alpha.6+pr-38417-4d53956

Think i read somewhere that all this new Profiles stuff isn't even live on that nightly version yet

And there, you're still looking at my SFBA Profile back on v4.5.5

@FinchHaven @gbargoud the new profiles *are* live on mastodon.social

for comparison, here is how your profile looks like on mastodon.social VS sfba.social

@ClearlyClaire

Yes!

Thank you!

Also, these look like mobile app shots too, which is helpful

cc @gbargoud

@FinchHaven @gbargoud those are screenshots of the main column view of the main app, but the intent is to have mobile apps use the same design!

@ClearlyClaire

Ah... got it!

Again, thanks!

cc @gbargoud