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U.S. election results - a critical moment for Mastodon
Patrons and Mastodonians, Two years ago, Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion and rapidly corrupted the platform through extensive layoffs and hobbled content moderation. No wonder hate speech and misinformation have flourished on the platform now known as X.In response, many of you sought an ...
Mastodon 4.3
Hi Patrons and Mastodonians,Hope you all had a great, restful summer. We’re not quite sure how it is October already? With less than 3 months until the end of 2024, we wanted to give you another update on our latest developments from August and September.Disclaimer: We promise, this will be a much...
The big first half of 2024 update
Hey folks,We know it’s been a while since our last update on here, but we are committed to providing more frequent updates moving forward. As you may know, our core team remains small, without a dedicated communications person. Despite this, we're pooling our efforts across engineering, financ...
Winter-themed merch and merch restocks just went live
Hi all! Once again giving you an advance notice that our new merch just went live. Lots of people were not able to grab a mug or enamel pin last time since they sold out so fast; in general, almost all items were gone within a few days. This time we've got a new, winter-themed mug, new tote bags...
Mastodon: Annual Report 2022
This long overdue report is now ready! Find out what we've accomplished in 2022, who was involved, and what the big numbers were like. Thank you for your continued support of the project! Mastodon would not be possible without you.
New merch just dropped
Hi all! Giving you a heads up that our merch store is now live. To help us raise more funds for our development efforts, we've launched a new line of merchandise for Mastodon including t-shirts, mugs, enamel pins, and stickers. Our artist, Dopatwo, has come up with brand new, exclusive designs f...
May update
Hi everyone! It’s been a while since my last proper Patreon update, and before I head out on my honeymoon (I got married in March!), I’d like to share what we’ve been up to. It has been amazing to see so many fun and diverse conversations happening across Mastodon with new and interesting peop...
Hiring progress, 3 months in
Today marks 3 months since Inga came on board to help us with recruitment, so we wanted to take this opportunity and share an update on our hiring efforts (thanks to the suggestion from one of our Product Design candidates, Petro).Over 3 months ago we opened 3 roles to grow the Mastodon team: DevOps...
We are hiring
I'm excited to announce that thanks to all the new patrons we are now able to hire more people to work on Mastodon. So far, I've been the only full-time employee, so this is a big step for us. I know that some folks have kindly donated so that I could give myself a raise, but my priority is ...
Where we're at
Hello all, it's been a long time since I wrote an update on Patreon, and there are quite a few things to catch up on. November last year turned out to be a very turbulent time with the amount of active users on Mastodon jumping from about 300K to 2.5M and with them also the pressure on the proje...
We redesigned joinmastodon.org
Hi! This has been in the works since June and we're finally done!Mastodon 3.6 is still a work in progress, there's a lot of new stuff in the main branch, in particular in terms of moderation tools. Customizable user roles, improved IP and e-mail domain blocks, ability to suspend all accounts...
Preparing for Android release
Hi! We've just uploaded a new build of the Android app. We want to speed up the process and release it sooner to make use of the heightened attention on Mastodon due to the news of Elon Musk becoming a Twitter shareholder (Mastodon was trending on Twitter yesterday).This could be the build that ...
Mastodon for Android beta
Hi! The Android app that we started developing in January is now ready for beta testing. As supporters of Mastodon's Patreon page, you get early access to the app (link above).Note: At least some of tabs in the app rely on new features in Mastodon 3.5, which we expect to release before the app i...
Mastodon: Annual Report 2021
I'm happy to present Mastodon's first annual report since incorporation as a non-profit. I hope it's informational, and here's to many more in the future! Thank you all for your continued support of our project ☺️
Mastodon for iOS, iPad beta testing
We got some feedback on the iPad designs we came up with before and changed things around. The split view layout was more confusing than useful, so now there is just one content panel. The sidebar design was changed to be more compact but always visible. Most importantly, the search function is now ...
Mastodon for iOS, iPad designs
Hi all! After the launch of Mastodon for iOS on July 28, the app has been downloaded 18.9K times and rated 199 times for an average of 4.1/5 stars.Our next milestones are to add the ability to login to multiple accounts and switch between them, and to have an iPad-appropriate design. Both of these f...
Mastodon for iOS beta
Hi! Our app has been approved for TestFlight testing. As patrons of the project, you get to test it first. Your feedback will be most welcome!
Feature preview: Onboarding
Back when I was working with Pam Drouin on improving the UX on joinmastodon.org and we did user testing sessions, one of the (at the time) out of scope suggestions that came up was to give a new user some choice of accounts to follow. This came up again during the development of our iOS app as I saw...
iOS app progress report: Publishing
I am currently waiting for the new Mastodon legal entity to be entered into the German company register so I can get a D-U-N-S number and apply for an Apple developer account, which would allow us to get a Testflight of the app going. Until then, the UX design part of the project is on hold, with al...
iOS app progress report: Profiles
We'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 sc...
iOS app progress report: Onboarding
I'm happy to present to you the first part of the official Mastodon iOS app: The onboarding flow. We have implemented a starting screen that leads into sign up and sign in with server choice.Both sign up and sign in begin with a server picker that loads information from api.joinmastodon.org (whi...
Mastodon 3.3.0 and official iOS app
Hi all, on December 27th, 2020 I released Mastodon 3.3.0, which you can read about here. Besides a number of bugfixes, the release adds another mod tool to the arsenal (IP blocks) and makes a different mod tool less prone to mistakes (suspending an account no longer irrecoverably deletes data immedi...
Mastodon 3.2.0
Time for an update! At the start of this month I've released 3.1.5 with just security patches and now I've released 3.2.0 with all the other changes that have accumulated since the last time.The center piece of this version has become audio functionality. Inspired by Twitter's announceme...
Mastodon 3.1.4
Hello friends! Since my last update, I've tagged a few small releases: 3.1.2, 3.1.3, and now 3.1.4. They add and improve admin tools, command-line tools, and change up how media files are processed and stored to be more robust. There are also lots of bugfixes including some security-related ones...
Mastodon 3.1 preview and other updates
I've tagged the first release candidate for Mastodon 3.1.0, so the stable release is coming within a week. There's two semi-major new features among the bugfixes and quality of life improvements: Server announcements and bookmarks.Server announcements are a way for admins to broadcast update...
Mastodon 3.0
Hello Patreon! I'm finally writing this. The release of 3.0 was somewhat stressful, because it was wrapping up a very long period of work. On one hand it's nice to be able to work on something for longer without interruptions, because it gives an opportunity to find bugs and usability issues...
Mastodon 3.0 Patch Analysis
Hi! So 3.0 came out, and because the changelog for it is so incredibly long that not even a fraction of all the features could be covered in the official editorialized blog post, I had the idea of recording a patch analysis video like they do for video games.Mind you, I have never done anything like...
Mastodon 2.9.3 and work on 3.0
I have been working on the 3.0 release for about two months now. It's shaping up to be a large one in terms of code changes. There are a few major features that are already done:A secure mode ("authorized fetch") which allows servers to have better control over which other servers can re...
Mastodon 2.9 and other news
On June 14th I released Mastodon 2.9 with a new default web interface and a much improved light theme.The new interface has a single central column and as such resembles other sites more closely and is perceived as less overwhelming by new users. The old interface is now behind an "Enable advanc...
Mastodon 2.8.2 and the Mastodon Server Covenant
There are once again a few things to catch up on. I released Mastodon 2.8.0 on April 10. Meanwhile, the latest version is now 2.8.2 and has a new blurring behaviour worth reading about. I've also reworked the server picker on joinmastodon.org and created a Mastodon Server Covenant to be able to ...
