@rolle first time i stumbled over this. best looking Mastodon UI I've seen yet. should be the standard everywhere. so much cleaner. well done!
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@rolle Any idea if this new theming stuff means possible glitch-soc compatibility?
@rolle sleek! love it
@andreklein Thanks! There's not much visually new in this version, it's mostly a big technical refactor. Have you seen Mastodon Bird UI in action before? If not, check out my instance: https://mementomori.social
@rolle first time i stumbled over this. best looking Mastodon UI I've seen yet. should be the standard everywhere. so much cleaner. well done!
@andreklein Thank you! I've heard that quite a lot, though there are other great themes out there too, like @nileane's wonderful Tangerine UI. I originally built this in early 2023 as a quick experiment (you can read the post here: https://mementomori.social/@rolle/109984108360395822), and at first, I didn't plan for it to become a full-fledged theme. I just wanted my Mastodon instance to look more polished, minimal, and reminiscent of how Twitter looked in 2019.
I didn't have time to contribute to Mastodon's core since it was filled with hardcoded colors, so I spent a week creating my own theme. It kind of escalated from there, and before I knew it, I had built a full theme framework that I was developing on daily basis.
Mastodon Bird UI is now quite widely used - most notably it's one of the themes of the @Vivaldi browser's Mastodon instance: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-social-latest-update-built-in-translate-and-themes/
You can see a list of instances using Mastodon Bird UI here: https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui?tab=readme-ov-file#list-of-instances-that-use-mastodon-bird-ui
The upcoming Mastodon UI system refactor will make it even easier to port themes, and I hope it brings great things to the community!