2026-09-23 00:13 UTC
To address some of the immediately obvious problems with the Mastodon 5.0 design:
1. The red boxes are totally wasted, totally blank space.
2. The left column is still TOO WIDE. It uses way too much space for the meager information it offers, even if you ignore the completely wasted space.
3. The overlay composer obscures the context of the posts to which you are replying. That's not a usability improvement over the current composer.
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@gcvsa@mstdn.plus 2026-09-23 00:22
The Mastodon interface doesn't need a complete redesign. It just needs to: A. get rid of the wasted space to the left and right. B. make the right column narrower, because it doesn't need to be that wide to display the small amount of info it shows. C. make the left column (the composer) wider and the text larger. or at the least, resizeable. Screenshot again for reference. Why is there 2 cm of wasted space on both the left and the right??