@Gargron thank you for your service! :mastodon_oops: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping:

@Gargron You're the best. Thank you so much for making this incredible place :heart_fire:

@Gargron Keep up the great work!

@Gargron thank you Eugen

@Gargron tY

@Gargron Hell yeah. Exciting!

@Gargron Of course I do!
Thanks a lot!

@Gargron Is there a change log showing what new things are coming? (tho being a recent tooter I'm still learning the current offering)

@Gargron It's fantastic! huge quality of life improvement for registration/onboarding experience.

@Gargron thank you for your hardwork sir 🙏

@Gargron Thank you for creating a safe social media space. I've just arrived. 😀

@Gargron You are amazing

@Gargron danke!!!

@Gargron thanks Eugen great job well done.. wishing you a happy Sunday..

@Gargron 🎉🎉🎉 congratulations!

@Gargron Congrats!

@Gargron FYI I can post a profile photo but not a background one. I can upload a photo from my mobile phone’s library but app will not accept photo taken from the app. I will admit to a weaker than average internet connection but still… #mastoissues #techsupport #wherestechsupport #mastogrowingpains

@Gargron Your posts helped me migrate my account! Thank you!! 💙

@Gargron You're awesome! Good work and please take good care of yourself.

@Gargron Thank you from a new user.. and nice to meet you

@Gargron I would well believe it. Good work, you’re appreciated. I hope you get good sleep soonest or have already.

@Gargron Good job 👍

@Gargron How can we support you?

@Gargron yay!! Let’s us know how we can support ! 🥰

@Gargron goddamn dude this feature list makes me happy as hell.

Love to see when a major version is a true step change in functionality

@Gargron you need help man. If this explodes, as we all hope it will, you can't possibly continue the way you do now.

@Gargron thank you for everything you're doing for community here! hope you can take some time for yourself

@Gargron Take some time off. Listen to your body and mind. The community can (and will) wait. Don’t worry about that.

@Gargron You are doing a wonderful thing - THANK YOU! ☕☕☕

@Gargron dude, we're all to tired. and the last week+ has been both exhausting and exhilarating.

Every instance admin and moderator is doing their best to help at this time.

We all thank you. And will probably have new feature requests.....me? I'd like more robust moderation tools to protect my instance....the ability to block a whole instance of nazis from my instance would be super helpful.

but...still...thank you!!!!

I'm an engineer, I can't help but ask for more features. ha!

@Gargron Thank you sooooo much !

@Gargron Big congrats to You (and to your small team)! You are awesome!
Take some rest / a long beauty nap. You are doing extremely well and we don't want to risk loosing You. So please rest. 🙏

@Gargron the github release notes don't mention the upgrade details

@Gargron Thanks, can't wait 👏

@Gargron I feel so grateful for all the techies here fixing and improving things bc I would not know how to. Thanks for all the hard work!

@Gargron thanks for all of your hard work!

@Gargron yes, you are indeed very overwhelmed.

@Gargron Impressive list of features and just in time for UX improvements 👍

Besides of UX improvement `Administrative webhooks` is really crucial for management scaling :mastodon:

@Gargron
Thx for everything!

@Gargron 4.0 RC1 looks awesome 👍

@Gargron great work. Now.... GO REST.

@Gargron you're awesome. Now take a nap.
Sleep well. 😴

@Gargron Well done! 👍

@Gargron nice!

@Gargron Thank you so much !!!
Mastodon's awesome !

@Gargron Thank you for your service Sir!

@Gargron Thank you!

@Gargron Wow, tons of improvements, congratulations!

@Gargron can you put the publish button at the bottom of the screen please?

@Gargron My first day here, but I see new ideas, I hope they are not like Facebook and Twitter, and a suggestion from me to me to add simultaneous translation for more communication with ideas, whatever languages, good luck to you :mastodon:

@Gargron congrats 🎉!

@Gargron I really hope that enough is done to make you working on Mastodon sustainable in a healthy way.
What would you say is needed most? Money?

@gargron

Had a look at the feature and change list earlier. Great work and lots of exciting updates.

Thank you, to you and all the contributors who helped put that together.

@Gargron This must be a crazy turbulant time for you.

Don't worry, I think it will stabalize soon.

Unless Elon completely nukes the bird app.

@Gargron looks like a ton of work! Well done!

@Gargron Take care of yourself! Most of us accept a gradual growth over an overworked owner/admin 😇

@Gargron that is great news

@Gargron can you please also post a link with which we can contribute to mastodon with Ideal?

@Gargron 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@Gargron thanks a lot.

It's a huge amount of work, but I really believe it's meaningful and impactful.

@Gargron Thank you so much for doing this!

@Gargron where’s the shitposting server

@Gargron I can’t get the search function to work.

@Gargron I already sent you a mail but I'll also leave it here 😉 If you need someone who takes a deeper look into your #Postgres workload/configuration/performance and do some tuning - feel free to ping me and I can help you folks 👍

@Gargron :blobcatrave:

@Gargron Thank you very much Eugen, it's noted and appreciated!

@Gargron please take care of yourself.
I appreciate how much you engage in everything (after all, it's "your baby")

@Gargron Take some time off if you can. You deserve it.

@Gargron Watch out for burnout man. Passion + ability to work whenever + social pressure is a dangerous mix. Take care of yourself first!

@Gargron remember to rest too. It's been a rough time with the servers etc. and burnout is not the thing you want to experience.

@Gargron I can image. Please have a break. We can or we should wait.

@Gargron congrats 🎉 bud!

@Gargron Thanks Eugen, I can imagine you will be tire, so take care not to “burn” yourself.
I have to admit I’m totally new with the concept. Was already thinking a long time ago to join Twitter but this option is now totally out of my mind since that Musk weirdo took it over.
I decided to put my effort in getting familiar with Mastodon, first impression is good!
Keep on doing the good work!!

@Gargron GIT is now showing v4.0.0rc2 and my excitement levels to upgrade are going through the roof 🙂
Thanks for the great software, hope you can get some rest soon.

@Gargron
Danke dir :)
So vor 2-3 Tagen lief es hier richtig rund, nun lagts wieder ordentlich. Sind nochmal viele neue eingetrudelt?

@Gargron
This app feels light and fresh so far. I hope it stays this way into the future.

@Gargron You and the rest of the Mastodon team are doing a good thing, de-centralizing the web like this. Thanks to you and every other contributor!

@Gargron Thank you for all you're doing!

@Gargron Hello Eugen, I am new to the platform, and am trying to understand the account setup. How do I get an @mastodon.social username? Or is my handle unique on the whole federated network? Danke!

@Gargron I'm not sure you'll see this but I had a UX issue with Mastodon 4. here is a common situation, someone sends me a link to a mastodon profile. I click on it and it opens in my browser. since I'm not a member of the user's instance when I click Follow I used to get a pop-up that allowed me to enter my instance and follow. but now I get a cryptic (to me) modal that only links me back to the same user profile. useless if you're on web, but I guess in an app it would open.

@Gargron You have my sincere thanks and appreciation! Congratulations on a big milestone.

Now go to bed and get some sleep! 🛌 😴

@Gargron Exciting, lots of new eyeballs on this world you’ve helped build

@Gargron Need help? Hiring?

@Gargron you’re a hero, man. Kudos to you 🙏🏼 for all your great work.

@Gargron thank you for this, it’s actually amazing and appreciated.

If a person wanted to bung a few quid in gratitude, is there a central funding place? I’m on a big server but I imagine some of the smaller ones may be struggling and a bit of cash might be helpful.

@Gargron Rest up! And thank you !

@Gargron looks like I need to upgrade. Thank you for all the hard work!

@Gargron

@Gargron

Thanks Eugen. Your work changes millions of lives. Get some rest and don't forget to be proud of what you've achieved.

@Gargron I assume his isn't just happening to me? Been this way all day.

@Gargron Every big mayor draws a lot of energy. Most of the times that's absolutely worth it, your guys are doing an incredible job. :)

@Gargron 🙏

@Gargron Thanks for all your great work!! 😃

@Gargron The release notes... wow

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1

Jampacked! 🎉

Follow hashtags? Translate posts? Both in there with lots more

@Gargron Thank you for your hard work.

@Gargron im enjoy a place to go besides twitter, thank you. is there a pnw server ?

@gargron what’s new in 4.0??

@Gargron the registration process has to be become much easier. Choosing a server is confusing for novice users. Maybe the user can be offered to either be assigned to a random server or choose their own server.

Reminds me of good old times when logging in IRC. DALnet had setup IRC.dal.net has a gateway to a random server and that was a big hit.

@Gargron thanks for what you've built 🙏 What is the best way for new users to support you? Donations? Recruiting friends? Just being a good person?

@Gargron Thank you so much for welcoming all of us #LeavingTwitter and providing an exciting and better opportunity!