Mastodawn

Fun Fact: the child actor who plays Young Deloris in the opening scene of Sister Act only has one other credit in IMDB, and that’s in her role as Young Guinan in that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Picard, Ro Laren, Keiko O’Brien, and Guinan get youthified in a transporter accident and have to save the ship from the Ferengi.

There has to be a story there for her only two appearances to be as a young Whoopi Goldberg.

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Robert 3d ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] Perhaps my second point is moot with recent releases. My experience today has been mixed, where earlier (I believe, but cannot fully remember) that opening the app brought me to the newest post … but I have just now experienced the persistence I saw as lacking.

I am not certain of my experience though, and need to test it further.

Robert 3d ago

@[email protected] I am enjoying the app, and it does most things I really need. But there are two convenience features that keep me using Mona as my primary client:

1. Context: If a post in my timeline is a direct reply to another post—even if they are not someone I follow—the parent post is shown.
2. Persistence: MastoBlaster will always take me to the latest/newest post when opening the app. This behavior makes extra work for the user, having to manually scroll backwards in the timeline to find where I was last. I personally prefer (at least the ability to configure) having the app remember my place in the timeline, allowing me to manually catch-up, while the standard tap-at-top-of-screen shortcut to should still function to move to the newest post.
3. Full threading: While not a feature of Mona, it is a feature of snac. MastoBlaster does not seem show/indicate the nesting level/depth of replies in a thread.

Robert 6d ago