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mcc@mcc@mastodon.social (2026-08-19 06:54:02)
This is it; I don't like anything about it and will be considering alternate frontends when it ships. I have no feedback. My advice is "identify everything different between Mastodon 4 and 5, and do the opposite of that". The worst thing about this is the cursed "floating" compose window. I hate this in gmail, I hate it in every app that has it. I like how in current Mastodon Advanced I can work on a post on the left side while looking at something else on the right side

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/
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mcc@mcc@mastodon.social (2026-08-19 06:54:29)
I hate the anxiety of feeling like the window I'm typing into is a soap bubble that will disappear if I try to interact with anything

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mcc@mcc@mastodon.social (2026-08-19 06:58:22)
I hate when interfaces that previously had nice, clear lines, *literal lines*, between interface elements of different semantic type, get redesigned to instead have vague, fuzzy, screen-eating¹ whitespace dividers. I have hated this since 2009. I stopped using the iPhone because it adopted this philosophy. I feel it massively increases cognitive load because instead of functional areas the screen is just various floating text

¹ I use apps at a relatively high zoom level and my screen is not big