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Progress update: Mastodon Bird UI support for Mastodon v5 is progressing nicely.
Vanilla Mastodon v5 on the left
Mastodon v5 with Mastodon Bird UI v5 on the right
My goal is to keep the familiar Mastodon Bird UI on the latest version of Mastodon.
And yes, I'll add some trending posts and other stuff to the empty right panel, but those will only be available on our instance.
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@rolle looks very clean!
Had a small question/request. Would it be possible to include the version of Bird UI somewhere as well? Tangerine has that and it is an easy way for me to check if I'm on the latest version.
@spiezmaestro That's for each server admin to decide, not me. Mastodon Bird UI is just a style, a theme. It doesn't really care about anything else, like features or how the version is displayed.
@rolle I understand that it is "just" a theme, but as admin I provide Bird UI as an additional theme for mountains.social and I just found it convenient, that Tangerine has added its version to be visible in the theme itself. Hence my question. But "no" is a perfectly viable answer as well. No sweat.
@rolle So pretty. I find it funny that we both seem to have had a similar idea about a blurry banner. Yours is better though. Looking forward to seeing how you modify the rest of the UI. Mine's mostly just a re-colour.
@david Btw, this is how your posts look on other servers, including mine. It seems you're using a Cloudflare bot challenge, and it's blocking other Mastodon servers. I had to open the original post on your server to see it, and I didn't tell you first thing, because I wanted to make sure to narrow it down.
Everything throws 403 cf-mitigated: challenge in your end. Any server that tries to download your avatar or photos gets a "Just a moment..." page instead, so it's not just us. The fix is to skip the challenge, at least for /system/* (media), /users/*, /api/* and /.well-known/*. Or you can turn off Bot Fight Mode / "Under Attack" mode, which causes a lot of false positives on social media servers...
@rolle Interesting. I thought I had fixed this by disabling the challenges before, and bot fight mode is disabled because as you say it causes nothing but problems. Ill look into it further. Thanks for letting me know.
@david I'm just using the theme I've had since 2022. I've grown fond of it and won't be making any radical changes anytime soon. Now I just need to port it to v5.
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Mastodon v5 alpha with Mastodon Bird UI v5 alpha and additional sidebar content in the test/dev environment for our Mastodon fork, mementomori.social.
It's coming together nicely.
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