We've actually released two features today that I'm really excited about. One is, as you may already know, displaying the author's fediverse account underneath link previews. But the other is showing a profile preview when you hover a user anywhere in the web app, with a quick follow shortcut.
This profile preview features the first two lines of the user's bio and the first two fields (commonly used for information like pronouns or verified links) which should hopefully make people more informed about who they talk to before they do so (similar idea as the reply prompts we launched a while back on Android).
@Gargron The hover preview is nice, one of the few good uses of :hover. But why make it transparent? Seems pretty inaccessible for those who are not 100% at reading text. Whether due to neurodiversity or just age.
@Gargron Great to see the links to journalists' fediverse profiles! However, the profile previews for a hover are unfortunately too destructive to me. I accidentally unfollowed an account and decided to disable it: https://github.com/zunda/mastodon/commit/670f826. I wish the feature would at least be configurable by the user.
As for fediverse accounts underneath link previews, for now this feature requires manual review from our side so that we can avoid the risk of malicious sites framing users as their authors, but we intend to build out a self-serve system to manage which sites you can be featured from very soon.
@Gargron A feature that I would find very useful, please, would be if the app could recognise if a link in a post was actually a link to another Mastodon post, and if you followed the link it would go to the corresponding post (still in the app), rather than just treating it as a normal web link and opening a web browser. 😕
@Gargron Thank you! I'm afraid that the card is still too big hiding the timeline unexpectedly. I just can't see why it is wanted, not just on Mastodon but also on Twitter/X or Bluesky. I imagine there is something I just can't see there...
@Gargron Please avoid devolving into Microsoft Outlook, which won’t even let us copy a user’s email address anymore without opening yet another dialog screen that also refuses to let us copy the shown email address unless we specifically press the copy button. They created 3 actions and a wait time for what could have been as simple as ctrl-c.
@the_moep It will be a specialized list of domains where you are allowed to be featured from. I think it's a bad idea to reuse profile links for this because the intent would be incidental and their number is limited.
@Gargron I assume the plan is to just use the profile links for checking if a site can feature you in the preview? (like the opposite of link verification) If not, there is an idea on how to do it free of charge ;D
@Gargron The profile on link preview feature is excellent. Will it work with bridged accounts too (ie Bluesky accounts that are federated with Bridgy, or a similar software)? Thanks!