Notices by terhechte (terhechte@mastodon.social)

The Ebou macOS #TestFlight is here! It explores a different kind of Mastodon experience.I'm eager to learn whether it works for you.

Many features are missing as I wanted to focus on a core experience. The website has more info: https://terhech.de/ebou.

These core ideas are

1. Timeline grouped by contact much like a messenger (Telegram, iMessage)
2. Show conversations as a "comment tree" to see the context and related interesting toots

Feel free to DM me for feedback

https://testflight.apple.com/join/7CpOOK4w

I've decided to open source Ebou, the cross platform Mastodon Desktop Client.

You can find the repository here:

https://github.com/terhechte/Ebou

It also supports Windows, although this is beta and Windows binaries are not included yet (you'll have to compile it yourself). Attached is a Windows screenshot. Linux should be easy to support, too.

I'm open sourcing it because I think there's great value in a high quality cross platform Mastodon desktop client and I can't pull this off alone.

#rust

Man, Ebou is slowly getting somewhere. I’m only working on it in my spare time so progress is not as fast as I’d hoped...

On the right you can see the “Conversation” view, which makes it easy to see participants of a thread in a comment list view (like reddit or hn).

Lots of things aren’t working correctly yet, and there’re so many rough edges, improper paddings, etc that will take time to fix, but I’ve started using Ebou for my own Mastodon consumption and I love it. Progress towards beta :)

@tille Like this:

https://mastodon.social/@terhechte/109819253099005012

I've had the idea for a weird kind of Twitter client for years. With Mastodon being all open, I've decided to do the experiment:

What if your Timeline looked like iMessage. A normal timeline confuses me to no end because everything is out of context.

My experiment, Ebou, is a Mastodon client that looks like iMessage. Conversations are grouped by friends and sorted by recent postings.

It is super basic right now, but this already feels much more natural to me ?