Post by @Gargron@mastodon.social

2026-10-16 21:14 UTC

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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@Gargron@mastodon.social 2026-10-16 21:20

It's interesting that my bio as seen in the demo said "Developer of Mastodon, a GNU social alternative". That was the level of my ambition at the time: GNU social had a niche, tiny as it may in the grand scheme of things, and it appealed to me, so I just wanted to make something that would be nicer to use. (My original intent was making a TweetDeck-like app for GNU social, but I quickly pivoted into writing my own backend because GNU social's API was a mess and I like things to be neat).

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@iamdtms@mas.to 2026-10-16 21:28

@Gargron@mastodon.social Tweettodon or Mastodeck?

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@prsfalken@mastodon.social 2026-10-16 21:51

@Gargron@mastodon.social Oooohhh, the memories... The UI wasn't very different when I joined in 2018.

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@coe@digitalcourage.social 2026-10-17 06:14

Thank you @Gargron@mastodon.social for all your efforts. Mastodon is the best thing that happened in the social network landscape during the last decade.

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@larand@appdot.net 2026-10-16 21:19

@Gargron@mastodon.social As one of the first 5000, I was wondering why you didn’t mention it on the day. Anyway, still glad to be on Mastodon. 😊

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@halcy@icosahedron.website 2026-10-18 09:53

@Gargron@mastodon.social oh, I remember that avatar :D

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