 It's extremely frustrating how much the Mastodon v3 -> v4 frontend client upgrade was like, 50% really good improvements and 50% baffling decisions that make stuff worse and/or slower on the clientside for bad reasons. I have so much work to do for the #Hometown v4 integration (and getting ahead of it since literally every time I post about Hometown people ask what it is -- it is this: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki ) 28 comments
@scott fun fact: if you are not logged in on v3 and you land on a page from an external link, it is 1.5MB of JS. If you are not logged in on v4 and you land on a page from an external link, you get 6MB of JS (this is because they got rid of serverside static page rendering in most views, which solves a bunch of problems for devs and imo hurts users)  @scott it is complex to get into but my sense is lazy loading would not really help here @scott @darius @tychi yes! speciation on the front end and letting lots of people hack on design and other approaches is great. I call this the “MySpace” approach — can we get motivated end users to easily customize their interfaces. My main idea was to take Pinafore and do GitHub Templates and set up “deploy to X” on various places. Is there a space where I can help? Point others at to help? @jasmin Yeah, I have a general patreon here though probably by January 1 I'll have a way to support Hometown directly. @jasmin once I release a v4 compatible version you should be able to move your server to Hometown (unless you're on a managed host that doesn't offer it)  @darius @aredridel it’s honestly surprising how little (public) discussion there was about this major change. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19306 @aredridel @est basically v4 has a lot of what I call product-brain features (in addition to a lot of really really good updates) @darius i’d be interested in possibly collaborating on a fresh ui for hometown that caters to our niche corner and maybe we can make it mastodon agnostic. @tychi ah, so an alternate frontend kind of like how you can pick your frontend for pleroma? @tychi I think a fork of Pinafore might be a good place to start, and then it gets deployed alongside Hometown @tychi Pinafore is really, really nice and well written. I think you'll have a good time with it @darius exactly. i’m a huge proponent of user customization, so being able to turn on/off features and control themes/skins is important to me and fundamental to how i approach coding @darius it would be really nice if the “instance only post” feature was adopted by Mastodon. It makes so much sense. @tim there have been arguments about it here for 4.5 years now: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/8427 |
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@darius the sidebar on mobile is just…. whyyyy