#Mastodon is getting a new look in our upcoming 5.0 release.
We wrote a bit more about our design process and how we approach community input. If you’re on mastodon.social you will see the new design tomorrow, on Tuesday. We rely on your feedback!
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@Mastodon You need to give users the old theme as an option. The new one looks horrible. Too much white space and rounded corners are ugly. Thank goodness you didn't fall too deep into the ugly Google Material Design trap, although Mastodon is slowly turning into the dollar store version of it. Things looks like it is going to be harder for those with accessibility needs. I'm not looking forward to some of these elements with my Parkinson's. #Mastodon
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/
@paul You may be interested in GoToSocial's fork of the Glitch UI:
@Mastodon I just hope it will work well with 1080p at 200% scaling (I have a bedroom tv PC setup, and my eyes aren't what they used to be!). Some sites are pretty bad for this.
@Mastodon please, add dark blur if the window to write new post is open on screen. It would be looking much more better by UX.
@Mastodon Please also add the option to not use a color scheme. My eyes don't handle color schemes very well.
@Mastodon the legibility looks quite bad to me and I wish to use the older more usable interface
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@Mastodon Gosto do design, das funcionalidades e, sobretudo, da proposta. Não vim sugerir nada, vim agradecer. Deve ser laborioso para os desenvolvedores promover ajustes que agradem aos usuários. 👋
@Mastodon i guess this is more incentive for my adhd ass to try out fedi clients (in addition to this depending on a monopoly browser i desperately want to ditch), i am aversed to this kind of modern design
@Mastodon It'd be nice if you stop flagging things as AI that are not AI without the user having any say in the matter. Otherwise, you're no better than Twitter.
@Firebird7479 @Mastodon There is no functionality that flags anything "as AI" in Mastodon.
@Gargron @Mastodon Then explain to me how I have had over a dozen posts in one day deleted, with a notification from Mastodon, claiming that my content was AI? The decision said that I did not place an alert in my post that the content was AI. It wasn't. I appealed. I lost. My content was removed and never returned.
@Firebird7479 @Mastodon That's not a function in Mastodon, that's human moderators making decisions.
@Firebird7479 @Mastodon I'm not a moderator so it's pointless to argue with me but if it's not AI wouldn't it be easy to point out who was the artist who painted those pictures or who were the models who posed for them? That being said they clearly have the piss-coloured LLM tint on them so I don't know why you are pretending.
@Gargron @Mastodon I am talking about the links to my account on Royal Road, and the words that I have written to promote my novels. You're taking them down because of the book cover? That's stupid, and you're playing games here. There is nothing here that I am doing wrong. I don't make money off these books. You're being an asshole.
@Firebird7479 @Mastodon As I said, I'm not a moderator, I am not taking down anything, but based on your profile and the screenshot you shared it's clearly what's being taken down.
@Firebird7479 @Mastodon Oh no, CGI takes real skill.
@Gargron @Mastodon So people trying to do artwork on their own who have no experience that use Canva to try to do it on their own are suppose to hire somebody instead of using modern technology? Ridiculous. Stupid argument. Mastodon and other platforms are loaded with amateurs doing their own artwork. You need to stop playing games over stupid shit like this. It's not a good look.
@Firebird7479 @Mastodon By your logic why should anyone read your book? They can generate endless books for themselves. If you value your own creative labor but not other people’s, you are a hypocrite. And frankly, a hack. Real artists are cheap.
will they finally fix the permalink issue that has been raised for years?
@Mastodon I hope accessibility has been taken into account
And I just got over move everything around in the grocery store week,
@Mastodon I think it looks good, though I'm not sure what is gained by some of it so far (see below). But everyone's a critic and UX design is harder than it looks, so props to the crew here.
Wondering why the most-used functionality controls were moved to the left side, which as I understand it requires more manual dexterity (to wrangle mice and scrollwheels) just to communicate. Maybe we could add disableds and elders to the design crew so we don't inadvertently add useability barriers.