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Mastodon 4.2 released, with (opt-in) search, and UX improvements
- andypiper 3y agoLots of small improvements across the user experience, and opt-in search, make this an important release. New iOS app release with it as well.
- andypiper 3y agoCorrected link https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/09/mastodon-4.2/ https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/09/mastodon-4.2/
- dredmorbius 3y agoMastodon's Search updates are a huge boost for the platform. I'm still sorting out what's been added and changed, but: - People can now opt in to full-text search (this is disabled by default), through user preferences. - There are apparently search modifiers, though I'm trying to track down the full sequence. "from:me <search terms>" will turn up your own content on specific terms. I've long found that whether or not a platform has an effective search capability has a huge impact on how useful I find it. Hacker News's search (by Algolia) is a big draw of this site. The lack of effective search on services such as Ello (RIP, apparently), Diaspora, and Reddit (text posts are searchable, comments are not) played a large part in my ultimate dissatisfaction with those tools.
- iguana_lawyer 3y agoA useless platform until they implement quote tweets. It’s been years. What is taking them so long?
- rsynnott 3y agoIt's on the roadmap (https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap) - I gather that doing it _properly_ (requiring consent, working sensibly with non-Mastodon ActivityPub things, etc) is somewhat non-trivial. But yeah, very much my most-looked-forward-to feature. I certainly understand the argument that it can increase toxicity, but requiring users to opt into being quotable should help there, and a lot of use on Twitter was non-toxic.