Mastodon
Coming soon in Mastodon 4.6 - a redesigned profile page. We've used community feedback and surveys to inform these updates. Our latest blog post explains our design thinking and choices. Here are a few highlights 🧵
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-redesign-for-profiles/
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A new Activity tab has a dropdown menu for filtering different views of information (posts, boosts, replies) so you can find the information you're interested in.
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We've reworked featured hashtags, pinned posts, and custom fields to make the most important details more easily discoverable, and make better use of vertical space.
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Profile editing is now a unified experience, with everything in a single view. You can also now add alt text for profile and cover photos.
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There's much more to discover! Read the blog post for more information, and let us know what you think.
These updates will start to appear on mastodon.social and other servers running nightly builds from today, and will be available to everyone in Mastodon 4.6, coming in a few weeks.
Katzentratschen
@Mastodon Could you make an option to display the "Following you" badge on the profile page, please? Preferably more (!) prominent than it was before you've removed it.
Chris Bond
It all looks great, and everything I've tinkered with so far seems seems to work very well. Great job!
Qwey
@Mastodon Is this survey prompted automatically or can i opt to take it voluntarily?
onarian
@Mastodon ❤️
Thomas Leroy ??⬛
@Mastodon Could you please allow users to post images and videos in quotes? (this is possible on other social media platforms)
Tagomago
@Mastodon Cool!!!!
David Schmidt
@Mastodon I really admire the Mastodon team’s commitment to transparency. Their official updates are consistently professional and reflect a team that is deeply passionate about their decision-making process.
Ed G.
@Mastodon I don't like the added friction for adding personal notes, which I do very frequently, almost every time I look at a profile.
Tonanio 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 🇺🇦 🇵🇱
@Mastodon @imanijoy 99,9999999% of people I speak with say that they won't leave Facebook only because that's where they can talk wit (older) relatives...
Sooo??
LillyLyle/Count Melancholia
@Mastodon @imanijoy It's looking really good 🤩! My compliments to Imani 🏆
Distante
@Mastodon Add a handy keyword search function to profile posts
MadeInDex 📰🌎
@Mastodon @imanijoy Looking forward to it, going to miss the nerdy outlay but a cleaner design like dat is probably better in the long run, especially for UX :)
Laura :bongoCat:
@Mastodon @imanijoy hello ! I can't see the exact date i joined mastodon anymore :(
Roman
So excited 😁
CritteRo 🇪🇺
@Mastodon @imanijoy Cool redesign overall, but the "Also followed by" section uses the same 4-column grid as the custom fields, and I am not sure if that's intentional.
Definitely doesn't feel great.
Megan Marie Hart
@Mastodon @imanijoy I can’t see profiles on the desktop anymore, I get
“Network error
There was an error when trying to load this page. This could be due to a temporary problem with your internet connection or this server.”
It works on my phone.
lonelyautomata
@Mastodon could use some colour instead of all white... not sure what's the point of paying for a color screen to see a black and white UI.
jandi
@Mastodon @imanijoy I'll use this event to ask for exportable notes. User notes are very important, I don't mind hiding the empty field per se, but coupled with the lack of export, it's turning the notes into a third-class field, when it should be promoted to first-class, as the only private/not shared free-form field available to us.
It could (should?) even be encrypted client side so server admins couldn't see it! Please consider.
Janie Karma S 🏳️🌈🖖🏿
Is anyone getting errors when trying to look at anyone's profile page or even your own profile page.
I haven't been able to see anyone's profile page all day, all I get is this error.
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES
i have a pinned post that doesn't show up anymore
i tried pinning it/ unpinning it again: nope
i tried pinning and unpinning others posts: fine
it still shows up on the mobile app as pinned, but not the web
I Write Like
@Mastodon I like how it became easier to edit profiles and switch off boosts. The 'Following you' badge seemed logical and informative. The fact that the same info now requires a treasure hunt is puzzling.
I have no suggested featured hashtags. My Featured menu states I haven't set any hashtags, which doesn't reflect the reality; I have. They are hovering above my Activity with no label of what they are.
Eduard
Ray Cheung
@Mastodon :blobaww:
Danny Dragon
Katzentratschen
@Mastodon @imanijoy I'd appreciate to have a toggle for the "Activity" tab toggle, i.e. I'd like to alter its default settings in "Preferences".
Not (!) for other users visiting my own profile page like displaying/hiding the "Featured" tab, but for me browsing profile pages in general.
(I've used the "Posts and replies" tab on a daily basis to find my way back to recent discussions. Now I have to toggle "Show replies" every time I want to do so which is quite annoying.)
Toni :mastodon:
@Mastodon Enseña la opcion del "?" al lado del nick donde pone lo de como funciona mastodon como los mails.
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