2026-10-16 21:08 UTC
The codebase has been about 6 months in the works at that point (the first git commit was dated March 16, 2016) and mastodon.social had been running for a while too, since it was my way of testing how the federation works with other fediverse servers (and software, like GNU social) at the time. The API was the very first thing I worked on, and some of those API methods are still literally unchanged today, but the UI had already gone through multiple iterations by October 5.
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@wouterkobes@mastodon.social 2026-10-16 21:13
@Gargron@mastodon.social 2016?
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@Gargron@mastodon.social 2026-10-16 21:14
There is a little time capsule of the UI as it was on that exact day, as I recorded a demo video for the Product Hunt submission. You can see how some UI concepts have persisted to this day, even as the details and level of refinement changed. You can also see the original blue accent color... I took that color palette from a website where people posted various color palettes, I do not remember its name anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO1jQ8_rAMU
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@mike@sauropods.win 2026-10-16 21:15
@Gargron@mastodon.social "the first git commit was dated March 16, 2026" Surely 2026 must be a typo.