Post #758426

2026-03-23 09:36 UTC

RE: https://social.ayco.io/@ayo/116269259048212523 My 2 cents: - Some (not all) maintainers have moved on to another platform. To regain interest, maybe implement AP on npmx, or revive Nimbus/tsky within Elk as an AP+AT client? - Elk is more popular than Phanpy &amp; should stay that way; Phanpy is experimental &amp; won’t cover the whole user base. Let Elk take the (2nd) bigger slice of the pie. (1st should be Mastodon Web) - Jeff Atwood’s donation seems focused on porting Elk&#39;s UI innovations into Mastodon, which undermines maintaining Elk itself…? 🤔

Replies (7)

@ayo@social.ayco.io 2026-03-23 09:38

@cheeaun Thanks Cheeaun -- it amazes me how much we are aligned in vision even from the early days! :)

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@fasnix@fe.disroot.org 2026-03-23 09:43

@cheeaun Elk is really being used more widespread than phanpy? 🤔 Inhowfar do you see phanpy as "experimental"? I use it primarily and love it! Wouldn't see any reason to call it "experimental"!

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@shlee@aus.social 2026-03-23 09:46

@cheeaun @ayo donation?!

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@daj@gofer.social 2026-03-23 09:50

@cheeaun for me, I've settled into Phanpy. Early days I was using Elk, but it was still missing a few options. I often landed back on the Mastodon Web interface. Eek! Now I'm on a gotosocial server I needed to find a front end. Phanpy was interesting, and quirky. I stuck with it and now really enjoy the interface. I even throw money at it every month😁 (I try to skip past the 'A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client', which should say Fediverse!) Elk is a beautiful product too, but I can't use both. I hope we don't loose it.

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@MoritzGlantz@mastodon.social 2026-03-23 09:52

@cheeaun Elk offers by far the best UX for me. It just needs to be updated with 2-3 current features and it is perfect (for my taste).

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@fedicat@pc.cafe 2026-03-23 20:34

@cheeaun Good point about the donation, I don't want to tell anyone what to do with their money, but I'd rather see elk get funded to catch up with mastodon, e.g. one reason I stopped using elk is because it doesn't show quoted posts (like this one), which is confusing, like what are they talking about? Also, it turns out I can only manage two different web clients at a time, which currently is phanpy and nicolium, without getting overwhelmed by tabs.

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@sherold@mastodon.online 2026-03-31 22:46

@cheeaun I really like your experimental take, Chee Aun. Phanpy is my go-to client for everyday Mastodon on mobile and desktop for a couple of weeks now. I love it, but every so often I'm rotating between Phanpy, Elk and the official app. Thanks for putting all of this work into it. 💖

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