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Mastodon 4.2 A new search experience and more!
Just saw this, haven't tried any of the new features myself, and there are more than I am posting here. Link below.
As Mastodon continues to grow, wed like to make sure were doing all we can to help you connect with your friends and your interests. Most importantly, we want to bring you features that make it much easier to connect with people that matter to you.
In this version we overhauled search. The interface for searching is completely new and inspired by the app Ivoryas you type, a popout provides you with quick actions, such as, go directly to hashtag, search only for profiles, or, when writing or pasting a URL, open URL in Mastodon. Your recent searches are now available for quick access, and search results use infinite scroll. Thats only the surfacewe reworked and fine-tuned all of the data indexes to make searching for peoples profiles more intuitive, so you can now find people by words in their bio and not only their name. In order to make it easier to distinguish the results youre looking for from impersonators or third-party bots, were now surfacing verified links prominently in the search results. The most exciting news is that for the first time, you can now search for posts. We support a wide variety of operators to help you narrow down your search, such as only retrieving posts that have an embedded link, or a poll, or is from a specific user, or posted between specific dates. Correspondingly, weve reworked settings to assemble all privacy choices in one place to provide an easy overview, so you can control if you want your posts to appear in search or on the Explore pageboth are opt-in.
In this version we overhauled search. The interface for searching is completely new and inspired by the app Ivoryas you type, a popout provides you with quick actions, such as, go directly to hashtag, search only for profiles, or, when writing or pasting a URL, open URL in Mastodon. Your recent searches are now available for quick access, and search results use infinite scroll. Thats only the surfacewe reworked and fine-tuned all of the data indexes to make searching for peoples profiles more intuitive, so you can now find people by words in their bio and not only their name. In order to make it easier to distinguish the results youre looking for from impersonators or third-party bots, were now surfacing verified links prominently in the search results. The most exciting news is that for the first time, you can now search for posts. We support a wide variety of operators to help you narrow down your search, such as only retrieving posts that have an embedded link, or a poll, or is from a specific user, or posted between specific dates. Correspondingly, weve reworked settings to assemble all privacy choices in one place to provide an easy overview, so you can control if you want your posts to appear in search or on the Explore pageboth are opt-in.
Weve also revamped the interaction experience when youre logged out. When people land on a Mastodon server other than their ownfor example, when following a link shared through an instant messengerthey find themselves on a website that does not know who they are, and therefore cannot allow them to perform certain actions they can perform through the logged-in interface. To perform those actions, we must take them back to that logged-in interface. Previously, we overestimated how often such a scenario would occur to someone whos on their own Mastodon server but isnt logged-in, and overemphasized the login option. At the same time, we offered instructions on how to get to the given profile or post in the users own Mastodon server or app using copying and pasting URLs to the search box, which ended up being confusing, and perceived as overly complicated. In the new experience, you are asked to type in the domain of your Mastodon home while being offered autocomplete as you type, and are then redirected to the given post or profile in your logged-in interface.
All of these changes will be available to you once your Mastodon server operator upgrades to this new version. If youre new to Mastodon, there is no easier place to start than simply signing up on mastodon.social, either from the web, or by downloading our official app for iOS or Android.
Link to complete blog post by Eugen Rochko the CEO/Founder of Mastodon. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/09/mastodon-4.2/
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Mastodon 4.2 A new search experience and more! (Original Post)
BootinUp
Sep 2023
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(48,766 posts)1. And a nice write-up here about version 4.2