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Matthew Haughey

phanpy.social is a pretty incredible Mastodon client. Entirely web based, looks great on mobile and desktop, you can configure your shortcuts that appear above or below the river of news.

Some screenshots from my own account: good notifications page, different kinds of toots get a different status, plus Boosts are shown in their own carousel.

I've heard one developer made all this, it's pretty incredible.

Notifications page showing different interactions
Boosts are rolled up into a carousel of toots you can view with sideways scrolling
Threads are shown grouped together and single posts from threads are indicated as such.
20 comments
Phil Nelson

@mathowie Fuckin a, been using it for months. Maybe the best web app I’ve ever used?

Matthew Haughey

The best feature in Phanpy is the Catch-Up. Say you sleep and come back to Mastodon the next day. Set your Catch-Up to the past 8 hours and you'll get a summary of the most important things you missed while you were gone. It's incredible a web app can do this when no other Mastodon client offers anything similar.

catch up slider setting screen
what catchup looks like once it is done
Al Abut

@mathowie 100% true. In fact I just found your thread on the catch-up timeline and am responding from Phanpy! It’s so meta it hurts πŸ€“

I love the UX of @ivory – that’s my main daily driver and I’m a happy paying customer. But I’m constantly torn between being overwhelmed by the number of boosts and quote tweets, yet not being able to turn them off completely because of the odd gem that makes it worth it. So Phanpy is a great complimentary sidekick.

Jon

@alabut @mathowie @ivory Ivory was my main daily app too but having Phanpy on all my devices works better for me. All these features like Catch Up, make my daily use here better. Ivory locks me to only Apple devices which makes it hard to stay in sync on other devices.

I stopped using Ivory and won't renew my subscription when it ends.

Al Abut

@jnv @mathowie @ivory yeah, I can see going that way if you want one app to rule them all and to be cross-platform. I’m happy with my setup though – app diversity and single platform.

Luke Kanies

@mathowie how does it handle the backlog in the timeline?

Like, with ivory it just tells me how many unread posts I have, and I… scroll. I would almost never use this feature, so I am struggling to understand what makes it so great.

Matthew Haughey

@lkanies the whole catchup feature means you don't have to read absolutely every single post, you can just look at a summary and move on. If that isn't a feature you need, that's fine, it works great for my needs.

Maddler the Badger

@mathowie that's an amazing project indeed!
If you haven't done so already, give a look at trunks.social (also available as a mobile app).

Nelson Minar πŸ§šβ€β™‚οΈ

@mathowie it is so good and a really fantastic example of product engineering

Jon

@mathowie I’ve been testing it out and have not opened my dedicated app yet. I turned off notifications for the app and kept Phanpy notifications on. Works great on all my devices.

Adnan πŸ¦™

@mathowie i just wish I didn’t have to scroll horizontally in the boosts carousel. It is fixed at 5 or 6 at the moment. I wish it adapted to the window width.

Dan Neuman

@adnan @mathowie There is a setting to turn that off and put boosts inline.

Adnan πŸ¦™

@dan613 @mathowie I like the boosts carousel. I wish I didn't have to scroll horizontally to read all the 10 posts in the carousel.

Steph Boragina

@mathowie Totally agree. Phanpy is excellent!

Dan Neuman

@mathowie The one feature that keeps me using Mona for iOS is putting photo captions into the Alt Text field so I don't have to copy and paste manually. But otherwise phanpy.social is the web app I can use anywhere, even in VR.

Theresa

@mathowie trying it out now. This is really nice! Thanks for sharing.

Gianluca :press:

@mathowie It works fine even with Hermit... πŸ’ͺπŸ’ͺπŸ’ͺ

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