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1. Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 04:25:55 JST Eugen Rochko

   We've actually released two features today that I'm really excited about. One is, as you may already know, displaying the author's fediverse account underneath link previews. But the other is showing a profile preview when you hover a user anywhere in the web app, with a quick follow shortcut.

   • sboger (sboger@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 04:27:51 JST sboger

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     @Gargron Yes! Finally!

   • GoatsLive (goatslive@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 04:28:05 JST GoatsLive

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     @Gargron Both excellent additions, thank you!

   • Snowshadow (snowshadow@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 04:28:22 JST Snowshadow

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     @Gargron Sorry to complain but the profile preview is ***really annoying** so is there any way I can disable it?

   • David Schmidt (individual8@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 04:30:14 JST David Schmidt

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     @Gargron I feel the timeout to display the profile preview is a tiny bit too long. The UX would probably feel better w/ 500ms less.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 04:30:46 JST Eugen Rochko

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     This profile preview features the first two lines of the user's bio and the first two fields (commonly used for information like pronouns or verified links) which should hopefully make people more informed about who they talk to before they do so (similar idea as the reply prompts we launched a while back on Android).

   • Jef Poskanzer :batman: (jef@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 04:34:09 JST Jef Poskanzer :batman:

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     @Gargron The hover preview is nice, one of the few good uses of :hover. But why make it transparent? Seems pretty inaccessible for those who are not 100% at reading text. Whether due to neurodiversity or just age.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 04:38:27 JST Eugen Rochko

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     As for fediverse accounts underneath link previews, for now this feature requires manual review from our side so that we can avoid the risk of malicious sites framing users as their authors, but we intend to build out a self-serve system to manage which sites you can be featured from very soon.

   • davecykl (davecykl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 04:42:10 JST davecykl

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     @Gargron A feature that I would find very useful, please, would be if the app could recognise if a link in a post was actually a link to another Mastodon post, and if you followed the link it would go to the corresponding post (still in the app), rather than just treating it as a normal web link and opening a web browser. 😕

   • Ahmet Alphan Sabancı (ahmetasabanci@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 04:43:10 JST Ahmet Alphan Sabancı

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     @Gargron I’m open to help with verification process for Turkish media organizations, journalists, and bloggers. (Also will email you for myself.)

   • Davide Aversa 𒆠𒂗𒄀 (thek3nger@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 04:44:12 JST Davide Aversa 𒆠𒂗𒄀

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     @Gargron Ah, I missed that part. 😅 Oh, well... My blog theme will be ready when the times come! :D

   • Pelle Wessman (voxpelli@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 04:46:31 JST Pelle Wessman

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     @Gargron How come you didn’t leverage the rel-author system that eg. Google+ had in place? See https://mastodon.social/@voxpelli/112718603677990069

   • zunda (zundan@mastodon.zunda.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 04:50:30 JST zunda

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     @Gargron Great to see the links to journalists' fediverse profiles! However, the profile previews for a hover are unfortunately too destructive to me. I accidentally unfollowed an account and decided to disable it: https://github.com/zunda/mastodon/commit/670f826. I wish the feature would at least be configurable by the user.

   • Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 04:52:52 JST Reed Mideke

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     @Gargron Yay, been wishing for profile hover. Thanks mastodon team <3

   • rob (robparsons@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 05:05:53 JST rob

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     @Gargron both of these are very pleasing.

   • Ænðr E. Feldstraw (aeveltstra@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 07:15:01 JST Ænðr E. Feldstraw

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     @Gargron Please avoid devolving into Microsoft Outlook, which won’t even let us copy a user’s email address anymore without opening yet another dialog screen that also refuses to let us copy the shown email address unless we specifically press the copy button. They created 3 actions and a wait time for what could have been as simple as ctrl-c.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 07:49:41 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Max Lee :blobcatverified:​

     @the_moep It will be a specialized list of domains where you are allowed to be featured from. I think it's a bad idea to reuse profile links for this because the intent would be incidental and their number is limited.

   • Max Lee :blobcatverified:​ (the_moep@mastodon.de)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 07:49:43 JST Max Lee :blobcatverified:​

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     @Gargron I assume the plan is to just use the profile links for checking if a site can feature you in the preview? (like the opposite of link verification) If not, there is an idea on how to do it free of charge ;D

   • David Schmidt (individual8@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 15:59:47 JST David Schmidt

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     @Gargron Maybe also interesting for hashtag?!

     The bottom button would allow to follow the hashtag and above there would be room for stats how popular the hashtag is.

   • si_irini (si_irini@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 12:56:24 JST si_irini

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     @Gargron
     I noticed and I like it 👍

   • O. Simard-Casanova in English (o_simardcasanova@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 20:53:07 JST O. Simard-Casanova in English

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     @Gargron The profile on link preview feature is excellent. Will it work with bridged accounts too (ie Bluesky accounts that are federated with Bridgy, or a similar software)? Thanks!