Post #3104148
2026-06-02 12:33 UTC
@zl2tod@mastodon.online @_elena@mastodon.social Thank you much for very useful tip!I had many tabs indeed because I need them to keep a list of people from my "Notifications" who followed me to examine their profiles whether I want to follow back.
Why doesn't the error message say "Mastodon doesn't support tabs, close tabs"?And why does the message deliberately prevent typing?This way I don't know what to do to get rid of the message.
Also, how am I supposed to keep a list of people from my Notifications who followed me to examine their profiles whether I want to follow back?Just hovering over each of them takes about 10 seconds to display whether they follow me or not, which is a huge waste of time.
Have Mastodon authors actually tried to use Mastodon?I guess not.Did Mastodon do UX testing?
#ux #mastodon #PITA #tabs #tabbedbrowsing #list #people #notifications #following #follower #followers #uxtesting #errormessage #badux
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@zl2tod@mastodon.online 2026-06-02 12:46
@clock@net.miaumuh.ch You can look at your list of followers to see who you want to follow, or the notifications give you a list. The solution is probably to not defer the decision. I'm not privy to the development process or familiar with the code. It's a long standing problem like the failure of clearing notifications in one tab to propagate to other tabs. The UX is significantly better than it was but some of the old problems remain, and some of the current development is not improving things. @_elena@mastodon.social
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@TheOneDoc@tech.lgbt 2026-06-02 13:28
@clock@net.miaumuh.ch @zl2tod@mastodon.online @_elena@mastodon.social I'm 100% sure UX testing is just a myth and no one ever actually engages in it.