Wow. I just discovered @phanpy and love it! It's a very clean, opinionated Mastodon web client that runs entirely from a static site, meaning you can trivially self-host it.
I'd love to see how an instance could self-host this as a sort of "alt" UI with the default server pre-selected and stuff, maybe just allowing registered users on that instance to log in. 🤔
Honestly, using #Phanpy feels a lot like using the #Mastodon web UI if it had been in 2 years of additional development. Lots of stuff people have been asking for, beautifully implemented.
Give it a try if:
you've been overwhelmed by a reply thread on Mastodon because it's all just a big flat mess
Sto provando phanpy.social un frontend alternativo per mastodon e, nonostante sia ancora acerbo (a me ad esempio non funziona il pulsante per scrivere un nuovo post) sembra davvero promettente!
3 cose saltano subito all'occhio rispetto all'interfaccia ufficiale:
le risposte ad albero sui threads permettono una visione immediata di come si è sviluppata la discussione (fig. 1)
i boosts non vengono mischiati ai toots, ma ogni tanto vengono raggruppati nel feed in dei carousel (fig. 2)
è possibile sfogliare le timeline locali di altre istanze e metterle nei preferiti per tornarci facilmente
After the disruption from the nightly build on Monday, I began experimenting with both @phanpy and @elk, alternate Web interfaces for Mastodon.
While #Elk is quite nice with always-available mouse-based back navigation, it doesn't seem to support either multi-column views or auto-refreshing timelines.
So, #Phanpy is a much better fit for my use case. However, it suffers the same limitation sorting notifications as the current unfixed nightly build, i.e. no quick-access filter bar.
La bellezza del Fediverso non sta solo nella struttura dei server, ma dipende anche dalla varietà di client disponibili per accedere alla rete. Laddove Twitter è ora estremamente severo su quali app possono collegarsi alla rete, Fediverse dà il benvenuto a tutti gli utenti sulla piattaforma! E sebbene Mastodon sia sicuramente l'attore più grande, non è assolutamente l'unico elefante nella stanza.
Scegliere il giusto client per il Fediverso può migliorare significativamente la tua esperienza con la piattaforma. Che tu sia un utente occasionale alla ricerca di un'interfaccia semplice sul tuo smartphone o un utente esperto che ha bisogno di lavorare su più account o istanze, c'è un client là fuori per te.
Wow…Catch-up on #phanpy is really great for, um, catching up!
It’s really nice to be able to click on a particular person to see their stuff that you missed or to sort your feed by likes or boosts to just see the popular stuff at a glance
It’s a PWA (a web-app) that is totally free, but the ui/ux is absolutely incredible. Works on all platforms you can think of (no settings are synced yet).
#phanpy When I clicked on a post using phanpy, I used to be able to click on replies and like, boost, or reply to them. Now if I want to do that I have to switch to the standard Mastodon desktop app. Is something broken?
For all new (and "new" users), if you don't like the default Mastodon user interface, you don't need an app, there are web-based alternatives, here are a few I've been using…
@phanpy don't know why but using #phanpy, when I write a post, I only have at disposal custom emojis from my server (#mastodonuno ) Is there a way to use "traditional" emojis as well? do I miss any set-up option or anything else?
If you use Mastodon on desktop (as opposed to mobile), I cannot praise highly enough Phanpy https://phanpy.social/#phanpy
It really cleans up my timeline, handles replies very nicely, and allows for a great "refresh" (view updates) experience.
@phanpy I love that I can share posts/profiles to be viewed via the #phanpy interface, I think it's a better first impression of Mastodon than the default web view, great work!