@AskPippa Indeed! The Mastodon community is like no other. It's, of course, not perfect but, ZOMG!, the people here are so much more pleasant and helpful than those on any other social media platform I've been involved in.
The previous post is over four and half hours old, north of 600 faves and 250 boosts, sooooo... I just notice it's missing an entire word---the definite article, of all things---in the first sentence. Sorry about that!🤦♀️
Two weeks ago, a build of Mastodon's Web interface removed two features which impacted me, other power users and some folks with accessibility issues.
And many of us complained 'cause, well, it kinda sucked.
But @renchap and the developers listened to us! And they didn't just back out those changes. No, they restored the functionality integrated with other new features.
So, I wanted to publicly thank them for all that hard work and landing it last week. Y'all rock! 💖
March 31 was already significant to me because that's day in 1998 when I helped #Netscape Navigator become #OpenSource.
Now this day has a whole new meaning for me as a #transgender woman. And it's my first #TransDayOfVisibility that I celebrate publicly since coming out to everyone on June 21 of last year.
To all my #trans siblings, I see you. Even if complete visibility isn't possible for you right now. You still matter. You're still loved. And you're still trans. Never doubt that. 🏳️⚧️🫂💖
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.
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. 😬
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.
@renchap Thank you, but I figured a strong but polite public post would be the best way to get my point across. And also show support for that point from others.
No disrespect, but I find that GitHub issues sink into oblivion with a project of this size. This ain't my first rodeo, in software development or Open Source.
Now, is there a timeline for reverting the changes so I can get back to my job?
Are there more details or an update about the fix to the two issues I brought up on Monday, i.e. restoring the "Notifications" column quick-access filter bar and "Back" buttons for other columns to the Web interface?
Thank you for your time and attention to this matter. 💖
@renchap I understand your developer constraints and time zone. Thank you.
But please be aware that the current state of the Mastodon Web client severely impacts my ability to curate and augment the feed of over 25,000 other accounts. Most importantly, the speed at which I can do that.
I already donate multiple hours of my day for this task. At this point, I can't really dedicate more time. My apologies.
@Gargron Yes, but that's an absolute pain in the ass to use when you're rapidly switching back and forth between notification types as I do.
And I'm sure it's stressful for anyone with accessibility issues to constantly click on the gear icon and navigate the complexity of the configuration system.
I'm sorry, but your suggestion is not an adequate solution.
My name is Elizabeth but please call me Lisa.I'm probably best known as the person who started the #Safari and #WebKit projects at #Apple. You may think you know my deadname but... you don't.I've drawn underground comics, pioneered using a Mac for newspaper graphics and developed software at Adobe and Netscape.Now I write video #transcoding scripts and sometimes podcast.Follow me and I'll fill your timeline with boosts.