I don't make a big deal about it, but one of the reasons I donated to Mastodon is to improve the UI, and the stellar work of @imanijoy is a direct result 🤩 https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116302074492502983

@codinghorror very much appreciated.

Must be nice for a ui expert to work on one of these sites without aiming for maximum exploitative ad engagement.

@codinghorror wow, thank you from all of us.
@codinghorror Funding of open source is such an under-talked-about topic. I try to throw money at developers any time I can, but man, if only these big corporations would actually pay for all the free software they're using, it would be such a better place in this world.
@codinghorror in any other case I'd go "pffft... showoff" but that's a ridiculous amount for an individual donation to Free software. Thank you for your contribution to the fight against enshittification✊
@codinghorror nice to see a rich person not use their money for something super villains would do.
@codinghorror @imanijoy Fully agree with your enthusiasm over Iman's work!

@codinghorror

Thank you so much for your major contributions to @Mastodon, Jeff! Your continued support allows us to grow the team intentionally, improve the user experience, and build what matters.

And we have even more in store, thanks to the generosity of donors like you.

@imanijoy @Mastodon I really enjoyed your talk. And really, what the fuck is "quiet public"?? Developers do not let fellow developers create UI. Steal it, absolutely, but create it? HELL TO THE NO
@codinghorror we really appreciate your support, Jeff.
@codinghorror Thank you so much for this Jeff. This is helping all of us using Mastodon! 

@codinghorror

Thanks for the money you donate.

@imanijoy

Thanks for the talent and effort you bring.

@evan @imanijoy the money is easy. the talent doing the ACTUAL WORK is the difficult part, so all kudos to @imanijoy
@codinghorror @imanijoy @Mastodon native alt text for profile and background photos are going to clean up a lot of people’s custom fields 😍