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Written by Jeremy Bornstein on 2024-08-24 at 06:31

This is a casual-ish screen recording of the in-progress UI state of oolong, my #ActivityPub / #Mastodon server+client.

I started with the traditional four columns but recently switched to a more dynamic style where the utility/controls column and the timeline column are the only constants. As you can see I haven't worked out the right way to make the column widths balance, and haven't spent any time trying to e.g. adjust font sizes when columns are small, etc.

But already, with the paradigm shift of new-stuff-at-the-bottom I like it a lot better than new-stuff-at-the-top interfaces because the natural reading order of text for me is top-to-bottom.

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Written by aneel on 2024-08-24 at 04:37

@jeremy Yesss. I was so pleased when I found mona

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Written by wakest ⁂ on 2024-09-12 at 09:37

@jeremy does Oolong have a logo or symbol yet?

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Written by Jeremy Bornstein on 2024-09-12 at 14:38

It doesn't… but if I were to pick something preexisting it would be 🥞🐇.

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Written by wakest ⁂ on 2025-01-20 at 17:45

@jeremy a bunny eating pancakes or a bunny and a stack of gigantic pancakes the the size of the bunny?

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Written by 𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚊𝚗 on 2024-09-12 at 19:42

@jeremy That's good. I would like to suggest a couple more must-have features, which are really lacking in the existing clients.

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Written by Jeremy Bornstein on 2024-09-13 at 02:53

Thanks, I'm glad you like it. Tree-format threads are definitely on my list already; moderately-sized discussions are nearly impossible to follow without them.

Hiding read posts is not applicable at the moment since I'm only keeping a last-read time for the entire timeline. That may have to change when I start processing the feed to coalesce discussions and eliminate redundant boosts, and possibly selectively hiding certain items too.

What may not be clear from the original post is that, at least for the moment and possibly forever, oolong has a user base of exactly one person, so it's laser focused on what makes my personal experience better. It'll never expand to be a general Mastodon client, for example, although it does interoperate to a certain extent. (If at some point there is substantial interest I'd consider sharing the source, but it's nowhere near ready for that yet.)

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