New blog post: "Introducing Pinafore for Mastodon" https://nolanlawson.com/2018/04/09/introducing-pinafore-for-mastodon/
Pinafore is an alternative web client for Mastodon that I'm releasing today. The goal is to make a lightweight standalone web app that can plug into multiple instances, with a UI focused on speed and simplicity.
Pinafore is still beta-quality in places, but it's already the main client @ElfLord and I have been using for the past few weeks. I've been working on it since the start of this year. Hope y'all like it. 😊
@ambassador @ElfLord In theory you can run `sapper export` to just output a set of static files. In practice, I need to upgrade to the latest version of Sapper in order to enable this, and plus there is some stuff that just can't work statically without some nginx/apache magic (namely dynamic routes, e.g. /tags/myCoolHashtag).
We have a static web host for artodon/haclyon 😉
Pinafore looks amazing as well. We could see it being a semi-instagram like UI which... kind of our 'killer feature' 😉
(note: we're not asking you to adapt pinafore in any way, just hoping to support the project via a deployment / similar if it makes sense for us)
@nolan @ElfLord I'm actually less concerned about the 'stand alone app' and more about a way to get an instagram like experience 😉
I think I'm going to be deploying a test instance of this shortly to see if it feels like a photo first browser for our instance. (Based on the screen grabs... I think this is darn close to what we've wanted for awhile).
@ambassador
Hey, I'm actually currently working on an instagram-like federated social network called Fontina. I wasn't aware your instance existed until just now, but I would love to see if I could work with y'all to make sure it's great for photographers as well as your average user.
It's still in a very early stage, but I feel it's fairly important to make sure it's welcoming to communities like yours
@ambassador Would you mind if I kept in contact with you throughout designing and developing Fontina?
@phenethylamine I would very much like that.
Is there a code repo?
I wouldn't mind poking at the early builds in my dev environments 😉
@phenethylamine Much appreciated!
Will it be ActivityPub / OStatus compatible?
@ambassador It'll implement ActivityPub but I currently have no plans to implement OStatus, mostly due to it being largely undocumented and because Pleroma is slowly starting to replace GNU/Social
@phenethylamine Is Pleroma only AP?
@ambassador Pleroma is AP and OS, actually, but you only need to speak one language to talk to someone who's bilingual :p
@phenethylamine Very true 😁
As long as there is some shared bridge for comms, things tend to get through 😛
@ambassador @ElfLord Standalone mobile apps are on my roadmap as a possible future feature: https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore#goals-and-non-goals . I do really like that it's "just" a website though. 😊