@rolle There's one thing about the new design that really annoys me. The transparent shade just below the header that partly hides the top post as soon as you begin scrolling a bit. It touches what I'm reading, which should not happen.

I'm assuming that whoever designed that is not using a smaller monitor/ resolution or using the manual refresh of the timeline. The other elements also seem to work better above full-HD resolution.

I'll probably try to fix it client-side if it doesn't improve.

@rolle

a bit offtopic but I somehow would like #mastodon to separate the backend from the frontend, leaving last one optional.

There are clients, even web one, like phanpy that I'm using , which are perfectly fine for most of the uses.
If not better.

I'd rather like mastodon to push more development forces into evolving activitypub in standard committees, migration of postd, customizable posts length, instead of constant UI rewriting

@rolle The basic interface seems fine to me. The advanced interface, they fixed my two big problems (the static but mostly useless panel on the left and the narrow columns), really only leaving the weirdness on the right-most columns (like the empty one that's just...there) and my needing to get used to the first big change in almost a decade.

@rolle To be precise, I, like @GoatsLive, use the multi-column Advanced Web Interface, and I do not like the changes there. Haven't seen what it looks like in single-column mode.

@rolle For the most part I like it, but there should be a setting to remove, or even a hack to hide, the ”Translate” link from posts that are not in the same language as my UI. It wastes a lot of phone screen real estate.

@rolle I am now using Tokodon mostly. Not ideal but better than the new UI.

I have a Vivaldi social account with the old interface but there is no point switching to using that as they will likely upgrade to the new web UI eventually.

So I am considering self hosting in some vain hope that I can get some personal digital sovereignty over the online tools I use.

A cloud services is where you place your stuff on someone else's computer. For better or for worse.

@rolle

And when I say "No" I did, in fact, work up a method for brainstorming what Mastodon v5.x might look in the manner that --> I <-- use Mastodon

Oh, the hubris!!

Why would I expect Mastodon ever support what I want to spend my time using?

Here: https://hachyderm.io/@FinchHaven/117481072336428869