iOS app progress report: Profiles
Added 2021-04-12 15:18:25 +0000 UTCWe're pretty far ahead with the UX design part of the app. All the screens that were intended to be in the MVP version have been designed (and I will be showing more in separate posts over time). This is what the profiles will look like.
Here's where the implementation is at:
Done:
- Starting screen
- Sign up
- Login
In progress:
- Compose new post
- Search/explore
- Profiles and profile editing
- Home feed
- Hashtag feed
Not started:
- Notifications feed
- Push notifications
- Reporting
- Thread view
- Favourites feed
And yes, local/federated feeds are not anywhere on this list. Though a progress report on profiles might not be the best place to talk about that decision, the short of it is that as a vehicle for onboarding new users, those feeds have too many downsides (confusion with geographical locality, alienation through unfamiliar languages, way too low signal-to-noise ratio, not to mention the risk of encountering obscene content -- all feedback I've received from new users over the years) and so I have opted to deliberately not include them in the MVP version.
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Also, I know Twitter has something when you start using an account that says “Hey, wanna see only tweets in languages you know?”. Mastodon has this setting under the Account settings, but I think it would be pretty cool to see all those things right when you add a new account.
Gabriel Guedes
2021-04-13 01:16:34 +0000 UTCDon’t you think it would be better to rename the “Local/Federated” to something like “Instance/Global”? I know the fediverse by itself is something related to “federation” but people may be more familiarized by changing the name to instance & global.
Gabriel Guedes
2021-04-13 01:14:28 +0000 UTC
