@cheeaun Are you going to demo the lastest and greatest features of #Phanpy at #Fediforum? I think you are continuing to set the bar for federated UX and think the crowd there will love it.

@phanpy Hello. Can you pls advise me if there is a way ordinary users can change #Phanpy's apparent default sky-blue accent colour on numerous UI elements, to another colour?

Not to brag, but #phanpy has scheduled posts all of a sudden

https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/114149642985452634

just noticed a neat #phanpy feature where it alerts you that you're replying to an old post

After using @phanpy for a while, I come to understand just how great this Mastodon web client is: https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy?tab=readme-ov-file

This is what you'd expect from a "modern" web client, i.e. it meets expectations you'll have from using other top-notch web UIs that were built with the users in mind (and with minimal, state-of-the-art frontend technologies).

Also, it's got such a great logo !
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Phanpy_(Pok%C3%A9mon)

Hi, @cheeaun I love #Phanpy so much!
It would be fine if Phanpy saved my last reading message and jump to that message in my timeline.
When I open a link that was shared in Mastodon, and then I return, to discover that I have lost my place.

Absolutely loving my Social Media life these days.
As I say to many, your mileage may differ. I think it all comes down to who you chose to engage with, and the topics you reply to.
We all have the choice to be on certain services and not on others. We should all abide and respect the choices others make in this regard.

My main Social Media area these days is the Fediverse, particularly through a GoToSocial ActivityPub instance named Polymaths.social. Wonderful software, instance, admin, and neighbours!
Since 2009 I was on a Mastodon instance named LinuxRocks.online. It started off really well with good chats on the local timeline. However, over the past year certain people and their followers came in, the local chats got strained, and quite painful at times, and I knew I needed to move on. I was friendly with the owner, and moderators, but the time had come.

To access Polymaths.social I use Phanpy on a browser, and Tusky on my Android Phone.
For browser access I did use Semaphore for a while. Very clean and effective, but Phanpy is like KDE vs Mate. To me this is a good thing. I do use Semaphore at times to check on Follow Requests and to currently "Delete and Redraft" as needed.

Telegram is a large part of my life. I use it to talk with many friends, including Arianna and my Sister Catriona, podcrawl and Linux groups, as well as my own Christian group.

I'm still on Facebook, and yes I question that daily.
For now I am there.
As I said at the start, this is my choice, and I am there for really good friends, family, and groups.

A few weeks ago I activated my Instagram account, which had been set up for no follows and privates, just so I could view content as needed.
I was getting so many requests from good friends if I was on there, and ok... "caved in", but my involvement is relatively minimal. Mostly posting my own photos and commenting on those of friends.

Well, that's my online life, and it is good.
Feel free to reply back with questions, and DM as needed.

#SocialMedia #Fediverse #GoToSocial #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Phanpy #Tusky #Semaphore #Telegram #Facebook #Instagram

Ce petit bout d'interface est vraiment génial sur Phanpy. En gros, il apparaît sur tous les pouets où l'auteur ou l'autrice a répondu directement à son propre pouet, ou est la réponse à un de ses propres pouets, créant de facto un thread/fil.

Comme ça, on comprend tout de suite que soit il faut « ouvrir » le pouet pour voir la suite, soit qu'on peut comprendre le contexte avec ce qui a été publié avant.

J'aimerais vraiment voir apparaitre ça sur toutes les interfaces

I am really impressed with #gotosocial! The installation was as easy as I could have imagined and I can finally store the data in a sqlite (I really don't need postgres for the 10 users of this small instance...).

I can finally use Markdown AND write longer posts. The only challenge I see: gotosocial itself has no frontend. I'm currently using #phanpy as the UI for the test server, and it's a refreshing change from the usual #Mastodon UI.
I'll give it a few days and list my personal pros and cons.

Periodic reminder that https://phanpy.social is a fantastic web app for Mastodon. I have it installed on my phone's home screen and it works better than many native apps.

TIL you can install Phanpy on macOS now too! Open Phanpy in Safari, then go to File -> Add to Dock...

You'll have a dock icon to launch Phanpy, and it will run separately from your browsers. When you click links, they'll open in your default browser.

Have i gone blind? Afaict, the current version of #GlitchSoc used in #InfosecSpace , no longer lets us specify a character-number beyond which toots will automatically fold / collapse. I regarded that as a major reason for even bothering to favour a glitch.social instance [along with, ofc, its support of Markdown formatting].

Maybe this is not even a recent change / degradation? Over recent months i've been repeatedly hopping between the native Masto web page, & #Statuzer, #Phanpy, & #Sengi, so possibly the change happened "unsighted" by me, months ago?

What a bugger!

@jerry - have you heard anything from upstream wrt if they plan to restore this feature, pls?

This is pretty disappointing, not least given the several months-old bug that broke correct behaviour of Unread notifications badge: Display a badge for unread notifications in the column icons when the notifications column isn't open in the #AdvancedWebInterface remains unfixed.

So the Mangane front-end for #Mastodon (and #Pleroma and #Akkoma ) is a little too buggy. There are times when it suddenly consumes all the memory on my computer and my browser freezes for a few minutes before crashing. (I am using LibreWolf).

So far Phanpy has been one of the nicest alternatives to the default Mastodon experience that I have tried. It is pretty minimal, but still looks quite pretty. My only problem with it is that it doesn’t seem to correctly format rich-text posts (Markdown, HTML).

That’s the beauty of #ActivityPub is that you can not only switch instances, but you can switch client software as well. You can view ActivityPub-based apps like Mastodon on your smartphone, or in your web browser, or you can download a native app, and each would use different software to do it, but you still login to your usual server with your usual password and see your own posts and connect to your same friends no matter what device you are using to connect. Even better: you can have multiple apps running in your browser. These alternative clients serves as a kind of “skin” or a “theme” to your ActivityPub-based app. If you don’t like how Mastodon looks on Mastodon, try logging into your Mastodon server with Phanpy or Enaphore.

I think Phanpy probably has the best UX/UI when it comes to image posting, it's simple, everything is at your fingertips without having to click fifteen times everywhere.

#social #fediverso #fediAiuto #pixelfed #phanpy
Phanpy, web-app per browser, è ottima anche coi profili pixelfed (vede le tre timeline (home, locale, federata)).

Unica nota dolente, almeno riscontrata da noi, è che la quantità delle foto nel proprio profilo è limitata ad un anno (nel nostro caso 14 mesi) indietro nel tempo...

Per chi volesse provare:
https://phanpy.social/