Coming soon in Mastodon 4.6 - a redesigned profile page.
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Coming soon in Mastodon 4.6 - a redesigned profile page. We've used community feedback and surveys to inform these updates. In our latest blog post, @imanijoy explains our design thinking and choices. Here are a few highlights 🧵
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-redesign-for-profiles/
@Mastodon Really looking forward to this update!! Thank you
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There's much more to discover! Read the blog post for more information, and let us know what you think.
These updates will start to appear on mastodon.social and other servers running nightly builds from today, and will be available to everyone in Mastodon 4.6, coming in a few weeks.
I can't use mastodon as my primary social media yet because the ui and ux are still not Facebooky enough to entice my family and friends over from facebook.
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@katzentratschen @frumble yes, i was referring to that; right, it's a click, but before that, the sentence simply wasn't available to be shown fully; it doesn't cut off earlier than it did, it just allows you to see it in a more convenient way when it does
@ClearlyClaire @frumble It's definitely an improvement. Just not the one I was hoping for. Thanks for your reply!
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I can't use mastodon as my primary social media yet because the ui and ux are still not Facebooky enough to entice my family and friends over from facebook.
@kayrah87 this has been on my mind as well – in fact, I addressed in in my talk last week at FOSS Backstage design. I'd love to hear your thoughts in more detail sometime.
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@wordsmith @Mastodon these are the real questions!
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@Mastodon Could you make an option to display the "You follow each other" resp. "Follows you" badge on the profile page, please? Preferably more (!) prominent than it was before you've removed it.
@katzentratschen Agreed!
I also rated this lower on my list of what I look for when it comes to "trust and interest", but only because the other signals are more important to me.
I still want to see this information.
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@katzentratschen Agreed!
I also rated this lower on my list of what I look for when it comes to "trust and interest", but only because the other signals are more important to me.
I still want to see this information.
@Mastodon But loving the more compact custom fields, those look great!
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There's much more to discover! Read the blog post for more information, and let us know what you think.
These updates will start to appear on mastodon.social and other servers running nightly builds from today, and will be available to everyone in Mastodon 4.6, coming in a few weeks.
@Mastodon you are aiming at lower tech users and are adding the local server regardless of whether it's the one of the viewer.
1 - how does this impact the user experience if they browse a post and try to boost it? or follow while viewing on a server not their own?
2 - it might be good in the tool tip to call out iff the server matches that of the user and say "this person's posts will show up in your local feed". (I'm not sure how to phrase it to be clear and not clutter, but that matters) -
@kayrah87 this has been on my mind as well – in fact, I addressed in in my talk last week at FOSS Backstage design. I'd love to hear your thoughts in more detail sometime.
I find the tiny space we're allocated on the left side to write posts and replies very off putting. It's too small and feels strange having to focus on the side of my screen instead of the centre. I find myself leaning to the left when I'm writing to correct for that, which isn't comfortable. Would prefer something in the middle and also inline when replying to others.
Thanks, J.
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Coming soon in Mastodon 4.6 - a redesigned profile page. We've used community feedback and surveys to inform these updates. In our latest blog post, @imanijoy explains our design thinking and choices. Here are a few highlights 🧵
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-redesign-for-profiles/
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Coming soon in Mastodon 4.6 - a redesigned profile page. We've used community feedback and surveys to inform these updates. In our latest blog post, @imanijoy explains our design thinking and choices. Here are a few highlights 🧵
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-redesign-for-profiles/
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Coming soon in Mastodon 4.6 - a redesigned profile page. We've used community feedback and surveys to inform these updates. In our latest blog post, @imanijoy explains our design thinking and choices. Here are a few highlights 🧵
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-redesign-for-profiles/
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@katzentratschen @Mastodon one of the advantages of being on the flagship instance I guess
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@katzentratschen @Mastodon one of the advantages of being on the flagship instance I guess
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@Mastodon Maybe you finally give users the option to choose from several variants themselves?
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Coming soon in Mastodon 4.6 - a redesigned profile page. We've used community feedback and surveys to inform these updates. In our latest blog post, @imanijoy explains our design thinking and choices. Here are a few highlights 🧵
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-redesign-for-profiles/
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@jeremyjackson @Gamrok @Mastodon thank you, and we're certainly taking this into consideration.
@imanijoy same for polls, please! I've seen others doing this already (with Mastodon, not other softwares), but probably they used a certain Mastodon app to do this.
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Coming soon in Mastodon 4.6 - a redesigned profile page. We've used community feedback and surveys to inform these updates. In our latest blog post, @imanijoy explains our design thinking and choices. Here are a few highlights 🧵
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-redesign-for-profiles/
@Mastodon Add a handy keyword search function to profile posts
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Coming soon in Mastodon 4.6 - a redesigned profile page. We've used community feedback and surveys to inform these updates. In our latest blog post, @imanijoy explains our design thinking and choices. Here are a few highlights 🧵
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-redesign-for-profiles/
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I follow Mastodon on Github and I've been waiting for this to happen
I've been on Mastodon basically seven days a week since Nov 2 2022 and currently have one Main and two Alt accounts
My Profile page is highly evolved to look --> exactly <-- as I want it to, featuring --> exactly <-- what I want people to see of me on all three instances
(The Pinned Post carousel notwithstanding)
But now that's all going away, to be replaced by the opinions of 500 people from 300 instances, was it?
Funny
I never saw any opinions being asked of anyone, anywhere
Guess my range of view on Mastodon is too constricted
I did see questions and dissent on Github being silenced as "violations of the TOS" however
Interesting how that works
Oh well
Gotta onboard those weekender / short-timers, right?
I'm looking at your profile on the mastodon.social site (running an early 4.6) and your home instance and other than the custom fields being compacted a bit, I don't really see much of a difference:
Please don't ever remove this feature. I use it all the time and find it very helpful. 
