 New change landing in Mastodon for Android soon! In user testing, people have expressed confusion over “why are all the handles so long?” We're presenting handles on profile pages in a new style, with the username and server separated. Tapping the server will show you more details, along with a neat easter egg animation when you tap the rows. @grishka did a phenomenal job on this animation 🙏 18 comments
 @samhenrigold @grishka 🤔 judging by the copy, I assume it won't be clickable on non-self profile pages?  @cheeaun @samhenrigold @grishka You get slightly different copy on other people's profiles. @jeromechoo @samhenrigold @grishka I do have some thoughts, though now I'm more interested in the details and results of the UTs conducted. @samhenrigold@hachyderm.io @grishka@mastodon.social very neat change! I am curious though - Is there any special handling for when multiple people are using the same handle within a single thread? @samhenrigold @grishka is “handle” the official user-facing term? I generally say “username” to refer to the whole thing when speaking colloquially (especially to non-techies), similar to Threads’ explanation but I also get that be confusing when explaining the username + server part… @rileytestut We were thinking about it, and we needed a good way to refer to each part. It’s been pretty fragmented so far, so we decided “handle” has the least baggage and sounded more social than “address” (like email) @samhenrigold yeah that makes sense, handle isn’t the worst and I agree it’s better than address at least @samhenrigold I like the word "community" instead of "server" a bit better, especially for non-technical people. Have you thought about a less technical term? :) but I love the idea behind this change 👍 @nethad We spearheaded change a few years ago! We dropped it since most people don’t use their server as a community, rather as an ISP. We also wanted to reserve the word “Community” for some future ideas we have. We figured that, between “instance” and “server,” the latter is a little more recognizable to the average user.     @samhenrigold |
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@samhenrigold @grishka Oooh, that looks nice!