Please remember to leave your feedback on the 5.0 design that’s live on mastodon.social and mastodon.online on https://community.joinmastodon.org or the team might not see it in time. There’s an upvote function next to topics (confusingly, not the reactions underneath) that lets you sort topics by most votes.
Oct 23, 2026, 11:43 AM@Gargron I would prefer a wider max-width.
(sorry for providing feedback here, but I don't want to create an account only for this at the moment)
@Gargron zu viel los. in der Mitte laufen die Posts, rechts und links steht was. überladen.
und warum ist es oben abgerundet?
dann dieses Babyblau, der Stream in der Mitte aber Weiß.
schlicht und einfach, bitte.
@Gargron another account? I'm already on Mastodon.social, GitHub, and Codeberg.
@Stefan_S_from_H Well, Mastodon is not on Codeberg, so that one's not on us. I suppose you can leave it on GitHub as well.
Oct 23, 2026, 1:10 PM@Gargron Just give us the option to select a "theme" (that includes the old one), problem solved.
The redesign shows that the people doing the UI/UX can't be trusted to make a universal new design for Mastodon.
Feedback on the redesign: it's bad, it's buggy (even settings are broken!). I will use Mastodon less because of it.
I'm not making a new account somewhere to give you feedback, most issues are very obvious and should never have been added.
@rodlie Unfortunately, telling me this is pointless. If you want the team to hear your feedback, community.joinmastodon.org is the official place.
Oct 23, 2026, 1:31 PM@Gargron You have more than enough feedback already on the forum I see. I just hope it gets fixed soon.
@rodlie I fear that it might not be clear if something is a subjective complaint or a broader issue unless broader participation is achieved.
@Gargron why can't i log in there with my mastodon account ^^
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@Gargron wat dis?
@radome Phishing. I already reported it.
@Gargron well I'd love to give feedback but I can't as I can't load the UX as my instance is not on 5.0.
I am seeing a number of issues being tooted about that I would probably want to support eg. preserving the ability to make full use advanced 4-column web interface that I use but doing so without seeing it for myself is not really fair.
Hopefully some at least of these issues will be sorted out before I land on 5.0 but perhaps you need to keep the review/revise window open until other instance users get the new UX and can provide informed feedback.
@marjolica I know that there will be a beta release next week, and nightlies are already available, but I'm afraid that if social.linux.pizza only upgrades once the stable release is out, there won't be a window for feedback.
I posted this issue in attempt to reduce #racism on #Mastodon:
"Mastodon is being used by racists and other trolls to pile onto people of colour, women, minorities, and so on. They do this as follows:
1. Respond with a racist, insulting comment to the OP.
2. Tag the post Followers.
3. Racist followers of the first commenter then pile on. Only the OP and the racists can see it."
https://community.joinmastodon.org/t/eliminating-racism-making-mastodon-minority-friendly/275
I don't like what you've done to landscape orientation.
I don't like what you've doen to font/button size.
I have hugr problems even writing this becausr of some ridiculous zoom you have implemented.
Oct 23, 2026, 3:37 PM@Gargron Is it worth doing so? How stubborn are the people on the team? How many votes would it take for them to admit it was a mistake and revert it?
Sadly, from the Mastodon Team forum replies that I see, it looks like they are only accepting refinements of what *they* already wanted to do, not changes that they personally disagree with.
@Ross_ It's always worth a try.
@Gargron I shall signup later!
I would LOVE to see the backend (settings) also be a lot more responsive, the top menu for example.. it really should stay on top when scrolling, it just takes so much time scrolling up
Even better would be to integrate the settings backend into the reactive frontend, to be honest I kinda hate it
@Gargron@mastodon.social What does "in time" mean here? For what?
@Gargron what about Vanilla Ice, has he been consulted?
@Gargron I'm hoping the two little things I posted on the github get addressed eventually, uwu
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/38161
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/38162
@Gargron thanks Eugen, already sent some feedback to the Engineering account but I will post it again at the right address :)
@Gargron any related hashtag suggestions?
Oct 23, 2026, 8:46 PM@manalejandro @Irisherself AGENTS.md 🤢
@Gargron grr, I can’t figure out how to post on the feedback site!?
…could you tell them to keep STAR ratings? 🙏 Changing to hearts isn’t ideal; it alters/reduces the utility. 😱
Also, the new ‘deck’ layout is maddeningly confusing to use. (Ex: why does the compose box pop up at the bottom/middle?) …using it now feels simultaneously empty and cramped 🤪