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@gargron as I said yesterday I really love the #UX you've created with #Mastodon. Just so you know, now I'm testing, I'll get a bit critical
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@gargron clicking 'Extended Information' in #Mastodon takes me out the standard UI, and strands me with no obvious way to get back #UXFail
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@gargron finding lists of followers, people I follow etc is non-obvious. Would be great to have a button in the getting started menu for it
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@gargron I have had to click 'Back' in the right-hand box several times to get back to the menu #UXFail Getting Started needs to stay at top
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@gargron *but*, following is easy, following my quitter. se account was seamless. Seeing these posts coming through fine. Brilliant! #UXWin
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@gargron how difficult do you think it would be to reimplement the #Mastodon interface as a desktop client? Is this anywhere on the roadmap?
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@kozlika @gargron ah, ok, thanks. Good to know, but still non-obvious to me. Getting Started at the top of the box would be better UX IMHO
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@strypey @gargron I don't have any experience with the mastodon interface, but spotted quite a nice minimalistic windowing system recently called imgui.
https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
I already have a C library for the gnusocial API, so devising a native client in C/C++ could be quite easy.
https://github.com/bashrc/libgnusocial
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@gargron Love the separate boxes where I can see my posting box, timeline, notifications, and other timelines, all at the same time! #UXWin
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@strypey @gargron native clients, rather than things running in browsers, would also be more amenable to integrating real security features.
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@bob @gargron I agree. Having only web clients implicitly assumes that everyone will run their own server. That's ambitious but naive
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@gargron @bob what's more likely, as D* found out, is that trusted admins will run 'pods' for their family/ collective/ business etc.
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@gargron @bob having easy-to-learn web clients is good for adoption, and casual use, they're an essential part of growing the #Federation
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@gargron @bob it's low-hanging fruit because it uses a universal UI (web standards) and avoids the headaches of cross-platform development
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@gargron @bob but I think client-side apps are better for power users. They can do more, without stressing out the web browser with scripts
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@strypey @gargron yes I agree. This is why I like !Pleroma. There's not much too it, and you can bling it up with custom themes and backgrounds.
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@strypey @gargron for power users, yes. With a native client you could have pretty good integration with xmpp and gpg keyring.
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@gargron @bob although client-side apps that use HTML/ CSS for UI development could reduce cross-platform pain
http://qttr.at/1rwn
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@gargron @bob an equivalent to #Apache #Cordova covering all the major desktop/ laptop OS platforms (ideally all of them) would rock too
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@natecull in a funny way it actually makes me nostalgic for the classic 3-column #Indymedia layout ;) Portrait can work better for mobile