[HN Gopher] Phanpy: A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client
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       Phanpy: A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client
        
       Author : ulrischa
       Score  : 72 points
       Date   : 2024-04-14 18:06 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (phanpy.social)
 (TXT) w3m dump (phanpy.social)
        
       | clessg wrote:
       | One of my favorite Pokemon! Awesome logo, too.
       | 
       | I'm sold.
        
       | Vinnl wrote:
       | There's more details on what makes it special on its GitHub:
       | https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy?tab=readme-ov-file#design-...
       | 
       | And relevant recent discussion:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40009148
        
       | zimpenfish wrote:
       | It's pretty good - mostly become my daily driver for my Akkoma
       | instance (and occasional use of GotoSocial accounts.) Doesn't
       | understand posting the Markdown content type which means I have
       | to keep Mangane around for now. Occasionally loses connection to
       | the backend but I'm putting that down to Apple Private Relay
       | shenanigans (which causes other weirdness for me and Safari.)
        
       | ipsum2 wrote:
       | Thought it would be written in python with the name, but it's
       | purely JavaScript.
        
       | stonogo wrote:
       | What is minimalistic about this? It seems like a really nice
       | interface but I don't understand that bit of its description.
        
         | genewitch wrote:
         | it doesn't show instance names (or usernames if they match the
         | friendly name), it doesn't show threads out of order, it
         | collapses hashtags and makes them less dark, it hides all the
         | interaction buttons unless you click through to the post
         | itself...
         | 
         | This is all pretty minimal, and it's opinionated because it
         | both doesn't look or feel like "social" media, it looks more
         | like an RSS feed or something; and it goes against the design
         | decisions of federation (that full instance names should be
         | displayed, for instance).
        
       | koch wrote:
       | The creator of this (Chee Aun) is quite prolific and creative
       | with their work (https://cheeaun.com/projects/).
       | 
       | They created https://cheeaun.life, a timeline of their life, more
       | than 10 years ago (which looks to be kept up to date), which was
       | my inspiration for markwhen (https://markwhen.com).
        
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