Patrons and Mastodonians,
Two years ago, Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion and rapidly corrupted the platform through extensive layoffs and hobbled 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 ...
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, wit...
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 ...
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 ...
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, mu...
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 amazi...
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 ...
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 kn...
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 ac...
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...
2022-09-21 03:05:13 +0000 UTC View PostHi! We've just uploaded a new build of the Android app. We want to...
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...
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 o...
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 ...
2021-11-03 17:08:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
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 us...
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 ...
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). T...
2021-04-12 15:18:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
Hi all, on December 27th, 2020 I released Mastodon 3.3.0, which you can read about here. Besides a number...
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...
2020-07-28 20:27:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends! Since my last update, I've tagged a few small releases: 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: S...
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 ...
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 t...
2019-10-11 07:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostI 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 mod...
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. 2019-07-04 03:58:58 +0000 UTC View Post
There are once again a few things to catch up on. I released Mastodon 2.8.0 on April 10. Meanwhile, the l...
2019-05-16 03:48:23 +0000 UTC View Post