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   see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 20:53:58 JST see shy jo

   amazed at phanpy.social's transformation of the mastodon web interface

   I don't understand why, but somehow usenet news readers keep coming to mind as I use it. (This is a complement.)

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     see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 20:53:57 JST see shy jo

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     It does thread posts in the timeline. No more reading threads in reverse order. Also indicates when a boosted post is part of a thread.

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     see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 20:54:26 JST see shy jo

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     I think the main thing about Phanpy is that it's designed in lots of ways to display enough information to scan quickly, but invites clicking to dig into things. I find myself clicking more than I scroll.

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     see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 20:54:27 JST see shy jo

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     And it bundles notifications together with some nice interface. And there are many other interface touches. Also page down scrolls properly (except in multi-column mode which is a bit janky, but which it does have, and which makes the columns nice and wide).

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     And it threads comments on posts. Including deep threading and collapse/expand of sub-conversations. This makes me much more likely to dig into conversations.

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     Lars Wirzenius (liw@toot.liw.fi)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 02:16:34 JST Lars Wirzenius

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     @joeyh Thank you for the recommendation. I hadn't heard of Phanby before, but I've been trying it today, and it's overall a much nicer user experience than the native UI of Mastodon. I've not had any big problems so far, but it'll take a while to find how to do all the things I'm used to doing with Mastodon.

     Overall, with half a day's experience, five out of five stars. It's easy enough to try, for anyone curious.

     https://phanpy.social/

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