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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 đ  @terhechte yes, this is the thing i always wanted and been too lazy / inept to build
it could also have grouping so you could have related accounts together  @terhechte Wow! This is exactly the kind of thing that openness encourages... personally I'm most interested to see a client that looks like nothing else that has yet existed. @terhechte not sure if it would "click" for me (Twitter on Adium or via RSS never did), but I am so glad to see something new being tried. I hope it scratches an itch for many users and helps inspire even more experiments!
 @terhechte @terhechte I've been thinking if I'd want this and I think, for me, this may be great for VIPs, as long as there is an "everybody else" category. I think given I follow about 400 people (not including hashtags), I wouldn't want this generally for everyone I follow.  @terhechte I like it a lot, but I'd still like a firehose of every post. Sometimes, if a lot of people have posted a lot of updates, it's easier for me to mark all their updates as read so I can focus on the rest, and then miss that one thing that stands out in a stream. But for most uses, I prefer this view a lot. @terhechte I wouldnât know until I try it, so I hope you go ahead and make it for _iOS_. Spontaneously, it seems like a splendid idea. Not everyone that I follow carry the same weight in importance. In that use case some kind of grouping mechanism would also come in handy. As groups of accounts and you choose one as in your demo or all posts in that group or both. @terhechte love the look of this, grouping people together too would be an awesome feature :-)  @terhechte @peyremorgan I donât think this is what Iâm looking for, but I *love* that it exists. May a thousand Mastodons bloom! @terhechte might get a bit confusing is more than one friend/follow is participating in the same conversation, but I like the concept đ @terhechte @glennf When people say Mastodon is a UI playground this is *exactly* what they mean. This is actual innovation. Super cool! @terhechte While youâre at it, try going all the way, and making those user specific timelines chronological instead of reverse chronological, so it would really work like a messaging app. Would make threads much more easier to read. |
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@terhechte I know its a faff but multiple view types selectable at the top of the left panel could be really cool.
I mean, this is also really cool and kudos for experimenting with layout. We need more of this sort of thing!