**Nolan** @nolan@toot.cafe · Apr 09, 2018, 15:37

**Nolan** @nolan@toot.cafe · Apr 09, 2018, 15:37

Nolan @nolan@toot.cafe

New blog post: "Introducing Pinafore for Mastodon" https://nolanlawson.com/2018/04/09/introducing-pinafore-for-mastodon/

**Nolan** @nolan@toot.cafe · Apr 09, 2018, 15:42

**Nolan** @nolan@toot.cafe · Apr 09, 2018, 15:42

Pinafore is an alternative web client for Mastodon that I'm releasing today. The goal is to make a lightweight standalone web app that can plug into multiple instances, with a UI focused on speed and simplicity.

Pinafore is still beta-quality in places, but it's already the main client @ElfLord and I have been using for the past few weeks. I've been working on it since the start of this year. Hope y'all like it. 😊

**mélu miou** @melunaka · Apr 09, 2018, 16:44

**mélu miou** @melunaka · Apr 09, 2018, 16:44

@nolan @ElfLord That’s fast, this feels SO refreshing; and very complete!!

Some suggestions I didn’t see in the Github issues:
– it feels a bit too spaced for my taste; especially on small screens. Maybe try to merge CW text and button, or put the button before (on the same line) the CW text with some down arrow icon?
– I don’t like the compose box at the box, it takes place when I really want to see the latest toots.

If that makes sense for you, I can open issues about it. :)

**Nolan** @nolan@toot.cafe · Apr 09, 2018, 16:47

**Nolan** @nolan@toot.cafe · Apr 09, 2018, 16:47

@melunaka @ElfLord Yep I could imagine making the compose box a bit more compact. E.g. you tap it, it expands. These are reasonable feature requests. 😊

**mélu miou** @melunaka · 2018-04-09T17:08:46Z

mélu miou @melunaka

@nolan @ElfLord Oops, seems that changing current instance and then refreshing a toot opened in another tab doesn’t work. I’m not sure that’s easy to fix (or doable at all), because I never saw a client doing it right.

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**Nolan** @nolan@toot.cafe · Apr 09, 2018, 17:34

**Nolan** @nolan@toot.cafe · Apr 09, 2018, 17:34

@melunaka @ElfLord Yeah unfortunately I don't think there's an easy way I can support this. When you switch instances, all the status/account IDs change (e.g. account #1 on one instance is different from account #1 on another instance).

**mélu miou** @melunaka · Apr 09, 2018, 17:45

**mélu miou** @melunaka · Apr 09, 2018, 17:45

@nolan @ElfLord Well you could probably try to find a toot posted from the the same user (same @) at the exact same time but that sounds like a pain to do.