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Niléane@nileane@nileane.fr (2026-06-17 23:48:08)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116765910384325070

yay!

but also: ouch. I am so not functional enough these days to bring @TangerineUI up to date with all the changes + I would have really liked to take the time to upgrade the theme cleanly to make use of the new design tokens (https://docs.joinmastodon.org/dev/frontend/design-tokens/)
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Niléane@nileane@nileane.fr (2026-06-18 00:08:57)
(Just thinking out loud here, please no one be dramatic) Is it still worth it for me to keep maintaining Tangerine UI?

I had a ton of fun creating the theme and evolving it. But now that it's come to a point I had considered finished, it's genuinely depressing to spend many hours on it every time there's a new Mastodon release, all just to un-break it and bring it up to speed. No fun involved 😅 (and no money either)

I think the team at Mastodon did a fantastic job creating a future-proof token system for building custom themes that don't break as easily with every update. But in the case of Tangerine UI, a pre-existing theme, adopting it now requires rewriting many lines of CSS to ensure it becomes more future-proof (and that also involves hours spent on testing/tweaking to make sure every UI component looks good). I'm just not sure I have it in me to work on this rewrite now.