Patrons and Mastodonians,
Two years ago, Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion and rapidly corrupted the platform through extensive layoffs and hobbled content moderation. No wonder hate speech ...
2024-11-11 12:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patrons and Mastodonians,
Hope you all had a great, restful summer. We’re not quite sure how it is October already? With less than 3 months until the end of 2024, we wanted to give you another update on our latest developments from August and Septem...
2024-10-10 16:42:46 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks,
We know it’s been a while since our last update on here, but we are committed to providing more frequent updates moving forward. As you may know, our core team remains small, without a dedicated communications person. Despite this, we're pooling our efforts across engineering, finance, and operations to keep you regularly info...
2024-08-06 23:10:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all! Once again giving you an advance notice that our new merch just went live. Lots of people were not able to grab a mug or enamel pin last time since they sold out so fast; in general, almost all items were gone within a few days. This time we've ...
2023-11-23 16:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis long overdue report is now ready! Find out what we've accomplished in 2022, who was involved, and what the big numbers were like. Thank you for your continued support of the project! Mastodon would not be possible without you.
2023-10-03 12:54:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all! Giving you a heads up that our merch store is now live. To help us raise more funds for our development efforts, we've launched a new line of merchandise for Mastodon including t-shirts, mugs, enamel pins, and stickers. Our artist, Dopatwo, has come up with brand new, exclusive designs for each item, and we’ve partnered with FRESH Merc...
2023-08-11 16:31:21 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! It’s been a while since my last proper Patreon update, and before I head out on my honeymoon (I got married in March!), I’d like to share what we’ve been up to. It has been amazing to see so many fun and diverse conversations happening across Mastodon with new and interesting people joining every day, and to see the adoption a...
2023-05-13 12:58:20 +0000 UTC View PostToday marks 3 months since Inga came on board to help us with recruitment, so we wanted to take this opportunity and share an update on our hiring efforts (thanks to the suggestion from one of our Product Design candidates, Petro).
Over 3 months ago we opened 3 roles to grow the Mastodon team: DevOps Engineer, Product Designer and Software...
2023-04-24 20:24:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm excited to announce that thanks to all the new patrons we are now able to hire more people to work on Mastodon. So far, I've been the only full-time employee, so this is a big step for us. I know that some folks have kindly donated so that I could give myself a raise, but my priority is making sure the organization runs smoothly with all of ...
2023-01-19 14:40:40 +0000 UTC View PostHello all, it's been a long time since I wrote an update on Patreon, and there are quite a few things to catch up on. November last year turned out to be a very turbulent time with the amount of active users on Mastodon jumping from about 300K to 2.5M and with them also the pressure on the project from pretty much every angle that still hasn't s...
2023-01-07 08:28:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi! This has been in the works since June and we're finally done!
Mastodon 3.6 is still a work in progress, there's a lot of new stuff in the main branch, in particular in terms of moderation tools. Customizable user roles, improved IP and e-mail domain blocks, ability to suspend all accounts matching an IP or other search query--but also ...
2022-09-21 03:05:13 +0000 UTC View PostHi! We've just uploaded a new build of the Android app. We want to speed up the process and release it sooner to make use of the heightened attention on Mastodon due to the news of Elon Musk becoming a Twitter shareh...
2022-04-07 12:40:39 +0000 UTC View PostHi! The Android app that we started developing in January is now ready for beta testing. As supporters of Mastodon's Patreon page, you get early access to the app (link above).
Note: At least some of tabs in the app rely on new features in Mastodon 3.5, which we expect to release before the app is officially released. For now, some tabs ma...
2022-03-29 07:54:01 +0000 UTC View PostI'm happy to present Mastodon's first annual report since incorporation as a non-profit. I hope it's informational, and here's to many more in the future! Thank you all for your continued support of our project ☺️
2022-01-31 19:13:30 +0000 UTC View Post
We got some feedback on the iPad designs we came up with before and changed things around. The split view layout was more confusing than useful, so now there is just one content panel. The sidebar design was changed to be more compact but always visible. Most importantly, the search function is now always in view, just like on the web app.
Hi all! After the launch of Mastodon for iOS on July 28, the app has been downloaded 18.9K times and rated 199 times for an average of 4.1/5 stars.
Our next milestones are to add the ability to login to multiple accounts and switch between them, and to have an iPad-appropriate design. Both of these features are well underway.
After t...
2021-10-01 16:16:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi! Our app has been approved for TestFlight testing. As patrons of the project, you get to test it first. Your feedback will be most welcome!
2021-06-23 20:25:04 +0000 UTC View PostBack when I was working with Pam Drouin on improving the UX on joinmastodon.org and we did user testing sessions, one of the (at the time) out of scope suggestions that came up was to give a new user some choice of accounts to follow. This came up again during the development of our iOS app as I saw an opportunity to try and address that. I have...
2021-04-25 10:46:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I am currently waiting for the new Mastodon legal entity to be entered into the German company register so I can get a D-U-N-S number and apply for an Apple developer account, which would allow us to get a Testflight of the app going. Until then, the UX design part of the project is on hold, with all screens from the roadmap completed but with t...
2021-04-23 19:24:55 +0000 UTC View Post
We're pretty far ahead with the UX design part of the app. All the screens that were intended to be in the MVP version have been designed (and I will be showing more in separate posts over time). This is what the profiles will look like.
Here's where the implementation is at:
Done:
I'm happy to present to you the first part of the official Mastodon iOS app: The onboarding flow. We have implemented a starting screen that leads into sign up and sign in with server choice.
Both sign up and sign in begin with a server picker that loads information from api.joinmastodon.org (which powers the community wizard on joinmastod...
2021-03-24 11:55:47 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, on December 27th, 2020 I released Mastodon 3.3.0, which you can read about here. Besides a number of bugfixes, the release adds another mod tool to the arsenal (IP blocks) and makes a different mod tool less prone to mistakes (suspending an accoun...
2021-03-09 06:17:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for an update! At the start of this month I've released 3.1.5 with just security patches and now I've released 3.2.0 with all the other changes that have accumulated since the last time.
The center piece of this version has become audio funct...
2020-07-28 20:27:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends! Since my last update, I've tagged a few small releases: 3.1.2, 2020-05-23 13:46:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I've tagged the first release candidate for Mastodon 3.1.0, so the stable release is coming within a week. There's two semi-major new features among the bugfixes and quality of life improvements: Server announcements and bookmarks.
Server announcements are a way for admins to broadcast updates to all of their local users in a way they're l...
2020-01-31 20:57:41 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patreon! I'm finally writing this. The release of 3.0 was somewhat stressful, because it was wrapping up a very long period of work. On one hand it's nice to be able to work on something for longer without interruptions, because it gives an opportunity to find bugs and usability issues as they come, change your mind about features, with le...
2019-10-19 13:37:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi! So 3.0 came out, and because the changelog for it is so incredibly long that not even a fraction of all the features could be covered in the 2019-10-11 07:56:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I have been working on the 3.0 release for about two months now. It's shaping up to be a large one in terms of code changes. There are a few major features that are already done:
A secure mode ("authorized fetch") which allows servers to have better control over which other servers can retrieve data from them (helpful for e.g. enforcing do...
2019-08-30 06:42:53 +0000 UTC View PostOn June 14th I released Mastodon 2.9 with a new default web interface and a much improved light theme.
The new interface has a single central column and as...
2019-07-04 03:58:58 +0000 UTC View PostThere are once again a few things to catch up on. I released Mastodon 2.8.0 on April 10. Meanwhile, the latest version is now 2.8.2 ...
2019-05-16 03:48:23 +0000 UTC View Post