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 @imanijoy I'll use this event to ask for exportable notes. User notes are very important, I don't mind hiding the empty field per se, but coupled with the lack of export, it's turning the notes into a third-class field, when it should be promoted to first-class, as the only private/not shared free-form field available to us.
It could (should?) even be encrypted client side so server admins couldn't see it! Please consider.
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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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@crittero
re 2) The techy ones, yes. For not so techy ones I’ve seen a story or two in recent months of users believing that all Mastodon instances are run by the Mastodon company with the domains being some kind of gimmick – somewhat understandable when you’re used to corpo media platforms and particularily also to BlueSky, where that’s actually pretty acurate. (At least that’s were we suspected it might come from in the comments.)So they’ll probably know the full handle, but not necessarily be aware of what it means.
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@katzentratschen @Mastodon It shows up if the other profile is following you in the context menu (if there's a option to remove follower, then they are following you).
To be fair, let's think on the pros and cons of keeping and removing. IMHO, I agree it ranks low in terms of establishing both trust and interest an account, because many spammers follow hundreds of accounts trying to get followed back (I often block them), but I don't think that's a good reason for removing this info. I also don't think there's a good reason for making it more prominent either.
@qgustavor
I’m on an instance that doesn’t have a bot-mass-follow problem. That really sounds like a mass instance problem (hey, .social!). Also for locked accounts “I got followed by hundreds of bot accounts without noticing” is inherently not a thing
and these are very popular around here...
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@qgustavor
I’m on an instance that doesn’t have a bot-mass-follow problem. That really sounds like a mass instance problem (hey, .social!). Also for locked accounts “I got followed by hundreds of bot accounts without noticing” is inherently not a thing and these are very popular around here...
@katzentratschen @Mastodon@qgustavor
Not that I think, Glitch will remove it either way, so personally I don’t care much.
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@jeremyjackson @Gamrok @Mastodon thank you, and we're certainly taking this into consideration.
Good to hear! I have been noticing the lack of this feature more and more so here's hoping...!
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@crittero
re 2) The techy ones, yes. For not so techy ones I’ve seen a story or two in recent months of users believing that all Mastodon instances are run by the Mastodon company with the domains being some kind of gimmick – somewhat understandable when you’re used to corpo media platforms and particularily also to BlueSky, where that’s actually pretty acurate. (At least that’s were we suspected it might come from in the comments.)So they’ll probably know the full handle, but not necessarily be aware of what it means.
@draNgNon @Mastodon@curiousicae exactly. if people knew their own instance they wouldn't need to have changed how the handles are in the profile display
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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 It's disappointing that you've revamped the profile page in the web app when the profile functionality in the official Android app is still incomplete.
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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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@Mastodon "You can also now add alt text for profile and cover photos."
YESSSSS!!!
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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 Broken profile mention? It does not seems to be clickable...
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@Mastodon @imanijoy I'll use this event to ask for exportable notes. User notes are very important, I don't mind hiding the empty field per se, but coupled with the lack of export, it's turning the notes into a third-class field, when it should be promoted to first-class, as the only private/not shared free-form field available to us.
It could (should?) even be encrypted client side so server admins couldn't see it! Please consider.
Well said. I agree with your suggestions.
Notes have been so incredibly useful, to me, in managing my account and should definitely be a first class feature. They should be _private_ and exportable. -
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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@Mastodon @imanijoy I can see my own profile when i go to https://mastodon.social/profile/edit , but when I click any of the edit icons i get the an error again, but it only says “Something went wrong while loading this screen.”
@meganmariehart @Mastodon @imanijoy
Me too, I've had this error for almost 12 hours now.
I cannot see anyone's profile nor see my own.
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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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if the post was from another instance, depending upon your server's retention policy, it may "forget" older posts
you can't search posts that aren't public
and people may change their settings to make their posts unsearchable
i found that search only returns the first few posts. at which point it's helpful to take the last returned post, get the date on it, and search again adding the search term "before:2024-04-25" for example to get the next page of results
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We've reworked featured hashtags, pinned posts, and custom fields to make the most important details more easily discoverable, and make better use of vertical space.
i have a pinned post that doesn't show up anymore
i tried pinning it/ unpinning it again: nope
i tried pinning and unpinning others posts: fine
it still shows up on the mobile app as pinned, but not the web
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i have a pinned post that doesn't show up anymore
i tried pinning it/ unpinning it again: nope
i tried pinning and unpinning others posts: fine
it still shows up on the mobile app as pinned, but not the web
but I NEED a search bar for my bookmarks, hashtags, favorites and profile posts. A sorting filter for posts on a profile as oldest, newest, popular (based on the most boosts, comments and quoted posts)