Lisa Melton
After the disruption from the nightly build on Monday, I began experimenting with both @phanpy and @elk, alternate Web interfaces for Mastodon.
While #Elk is quite nice with always-available mouse-based back navigation, it doesn't seem to support either multi-column views or auto-refreshing timelines.
So, #Phanpy is a much better fit for my use case. However, it suffers the same limitation sorting notifications as the current unfixed nightly build, i.e. no quick-access filter bar.
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Lisa Melton
Still, #Phanpy is worth checking out if you're an over-caffeinated Mastodon power user like I am.
I wish the developers well and hope they keep iterating on it. 💖
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Lisa Melton
And while #Phanpy allows creating a shortcut/pinned column for most views, including an individual List, for some mind-numbing reason Phanpy does *NOT* allow the Lists view itself (i.e. the view of *all* your lists) to be a shortcut/pinned column. 🤦♀️
Why is this important? Because if you have a shitload of lists like I do, then going back and forth from the master Lists view is something you do *A LOT*. And you don't want to shortcut/pin that many single List views.
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Lisa Melton
With #Phanpy, liking or boosting posts---as you know, something I might do once or twice a day 🙄---requires multiple clicks since Phanpy's timeline post preview tiles don't have affordances for either task. 🤦♀️
You need to right click on a post preview for a context menu or left click to get an enlarged view in order to like or boost. And for boosting you need another click to select between a normal boost and a quote post. This dance is... very inconvenient. 😬
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