Post APcFduBVTsVQn3QVHd by gersande@silvan.cloud
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 (DIR) Post #APc0JVn0yNIy1gmvPE by mcc@mastodon.social
       2022-11-14T23:49:38Z
       
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       A thing I have been very much enjoying the past few days is just periodically opening and reading https://brands.town/public
       
 (DIR) Post #APcFcyuWQM3F9s2dOa by rooneymcnibnug@mastodon.social
       2022-11-14T23:50:14Z
       
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       @mcc its so good
       
 (DIR) Post #APcFdUTh3dbZ3vjf1M by hachx0@mastodon.art
       2022-11-14T23:50:47Z
       
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       @mcc thank you for letting me know this exists
       
 (DIR) Post #APcFduBVTsVQn3QVHd by gersande@silvan.cloud
       2022-11-14T23:56:54Z
       
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       @mcc SO good!!!
       
 (DIR) Post #APcFeLrcZPEidUL1Au by nomand@merveilles.town
       2022-11-15T01:21:40Z
       
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       @gersande @mcc looks like a bulletin screen on a street of a cyberpunk game
       
 (DIR) Post #APdSdw322vjL8ClcQK by mcc@mastodon.social
       2022-11-15T17:14:01Z
       
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       Update: So the screenshot in that last post *was* what the URL I linked looked like last night. But apparently between then and this morning, brands.town updated to Mastodon 4.0. Before 4.0, the Mastodon front page linked a "/public" URL that showed a neat 3-column overview of local-timeline posts on this instance. As of 4.0 the 3-column view is gone completely, and the /public page is moved to a different URL, https://brands.town/public/local .
       
 (DIR) Post #APdSdxcsB9zg1eXkvY by mcc@mastodon.social
       2022-11-15T17:21:19Z
       
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       Getting a bit offtopic, I think a lot of servers just sort of upgraded to 4.0 assuming it would be basically the same with new features, but 4.0 has actually a number of changes and feature *removals* admins might find to be a surprise. Pages no longer load without JavaScript, which means they don't load instantly; the multicolumn "instance at a glance" view for logged out users is gone; margins have been tweaked, (IMO) breaking Advanced mode; the logged-out front page is now totally different:
       
 (DIR) Post #APdSdzINyInJCgyQGu by mcc@mastodon.social
       2022-11-15T17:24:42Z
       
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       There's a lot I don't like in these changes, but I hesitate to say Eugen was wrong in applying them to *mastodon.social*; after all, he successfully created an alt social network and I didn't. At a minimum tho it seems like a mistake to surprise OTHER instance admins with their sites changing in these various ways out from under them, without warning 4.0 had UI/UX redesigns.(Maybe instance admins don't care and I'm jumping to conclusions! But I see many "toots" complaining about the JS change)