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In the Mastodon web UI for interesting people that pop into your timeline (via boosts/retweets) it is 2 clicks, go-to-profile + follow. Some clients have it as
by rapnie 4y ago
In the Mastodon web UI for interesting people that pop into your timeline (via boosts/retweets) it is 2 clicks, go-to-profile + follow. Some clients have it as one click directly from the timeline. That is hardly a high UX barrier. OTOH when I am in Twitter UI I am always surprised how cluttered it is by Twitter recommending me all kinds of people I should be interested in somehow. Any UX takes a bit of time to get familiarized to, and then you no long notice its warts so much.
- jeroenhd 4y agoI disagree, this is a problem that needs solving. Clicking the link on my phone brought up Mastodon's web interface (which is fine) but there's no way for me to easily follow this account. My phone doesn't prompt me to open the link in an app because those prompts are domain based and the follow button showed me a whole bunch of text and instructions to copy/paste something somewhere else. It's perfectly understandable to me, but it's also not exactly great UI design.
- mal-2 4y agoThere have been proposals to use a custom URL scheme to accomplish this (you don't need the link to point to the person's home domain at all), but they were shot down by Mastodon lead Eugen due to browser support and UX concerns. I think that is a mistake and it needs to be looked at more seriously. Perhaps another fedi software project will adopt a useful standard and then Mastodon can follow after the kinks are worked out. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19679#issuecomment-1301180085 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19679#issuecomme... https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2291 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2291