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> those people should feel free to contribute or sponsor a non-JS version It will be rejected. Mastodon used to have a good HTML view with progressive enhancem
by progval 3y ago
> those people should feel free to contribute or sponsor a non-JS version
It will be rejected. Mastodon used to have a good HTML view with progressive enhancement for logged-out users. But in v4.0 they replaced it with the same React app as the loggin-in users, to lower the maintenance cost.
- lucb1e 3y agoOh, that's a bit disappointing, but yeah understandable if you'd otherwise break the HTML view all the time and you can't let the noscript crowd take care of that independently :(
- progval 3y agoThey could have kept the HTML view as the only public view. It would benefit everyone, as it was faster than the react app. Instead they now have to keep backporting security fixes to the 3.5.x branch for admins who don't want to force the new view on their users. (Well, the 3.5.x branch will stop getting security updates in three months, we'll see how many admins will still refuse to update to 4.x.x then.)