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   Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 13:41:05 JST Eugen Rochko

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   With our most recent update, creating and editing lists has never been easier in the #Mastodon web app. Lists allow you to declutter your home feed by organizing accounts into arbitrary alternative feeds. And there is some other stuff we may be working on to make this feature even more powerful...

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     Greg Hills (winterknell@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 13:48:08 JST Greg Hills

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     @Gargron Cool. However, the ability to List a hashtag, not just an account, would be nice. There are topics I am interested in and want to follow at my leisure (so I can't just hide them entirely), but don't want popping up in my timeline where they can randomly grar me when I'm trying to focus on something else.

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     Nigma (nigma@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 13:53:39 JST Nigma

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     @Gargron TOUCAN MINIVAN MENTIONED

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     ElectroFetish (electrofetish@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 14:01:26 JST ElectroFetish

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     @Gargron Nevertheless, Mastodon will remain a fairly lightweight web application in the browser.
     I would like to believe that it will remain so.

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     Ivan Temchenko (jonyua@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 14:23:41 JST Ivan Temchenko

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     @Gargron adding tags to lists when? :)

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     Marckabesa (marckabesa@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 15:58:39 JST Marckabesa

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     @Gargron Hello Mr. Rochko, I am Marcel Kabesa and writing to propose an innovative idea to improve the comment section on Mastodon. This feature, not yet used on other platforms, could attract more users to Mastodon. As I am currently unemployed, I would also like to join your team if my idea is accepted. My email is: marcelkabesa6@gmail.com. Thank you.

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     Elric (elricofmelnibone@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 17:16:56 JST Elric

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     @Gargron Tha'ts nice. But you know what would be even nicer? Fixing replies, so that I can read the full text of the toot(s) I'm replying to. That would make conversations a lot easier.

     It's not like there's a lack of space on the screen...

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     Colin Devroe (cdevroe@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 23:29:15 JST Colin Devroe

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     @Gargron Last I used this feature (years ago now) I had to follow the account to add them to a List. Is that still the case?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 23:30:00 JST Rich Felker

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     • David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

     @david_chisnall @afewbugs @aku @leadegroot @Gargron Disabling auto fetch of new posts mostly makes back button work for me.

     Open in new tab always works.

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     David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 23:30:01 JST David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

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     @afewbugs @aku @leadegroot @Gargron I came with exactly the same question. About 80% of the things in my feed are cats and dogs, and sometimes I want to just see the cute animals, other times I want to just see the things in between them.

     The other thing I'd really like for decluttering my feed is to not see replies to a post if that post is in my feed. I unfollowed someone today because a huge amount of my feed was filling up with their followers replying to their posts, which they then boost. And, because the feed is in reverse-chronological order, I see the replies first, so if I do click on them I then see the entire thread.

     But my number one feature request to Mastodon would be stop doing whatever you do that breaks open in new tab. Given that both the back button and opening in new tab are broken, navigating in the web app is far harder than it should be. If I click on a post and come back, I lose my place because the feed is refreshed in the middle and I end up somewhere random. If I try to open in new tab so I don't lose my place, it doesn't work (the least discoverable bit of UI: The date in the corner actually does let me open in new tab if I click on it, but it does so on the original instance that made the post, not mine).

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     Jules (afewbugs@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 23:30:02 JST Jules

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     @aku @leadegroot @Gargron +2

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     alien (aku@anakmanis.com)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 23:30:03 JST alien

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     @leadegroot

     I am also +1 for this suggestion. At least it can also help if someone abuses the hashtag, and it will not flood the home timeline.

     I do hope @Gargron will consider it.

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     Lea de Groot 🇦🇺 (leadegroot@bne.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 23:30:04 JST Lea de Groot 🇦🇺

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     @Gargron it'd be nice if we could put hashtags in those same lists :)

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 23:31:10 JST Rich Felker

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     @david_chisnall @afewbugs @aku @leadegroot @Gargron "I unfollowed someone today because a huge amount of my feed was filling up with their followers replying to their posts, which they then boost."

     You can disable seeing an account's boosts without unfollowing. It's on the ... on their profile page.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 23:48:14 JST Rich Felker

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     • David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

     @david_chisnall @afewbugs @aku @leadegroot @Gargron Yeah but of there's a particular account whose boosts are annoying, just turning those off is a decent mitigation.

     Not sure about a list because different ppl have different ideas of what's needed for best UX..

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     David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 23:48:15 JST David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

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     @dalias @afewbugs @aku @leadegroot @Gargron

     Is there a list somewhere of all of the things that you need to do to make the Mastodon web UI usable? And, ideally, a way for instance operators to make these the defaults, if upstream won't?

     That said, I do want to see boosts, I just don't want to see boosts of replies to a post that's already on my feed.