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Phanpy
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**Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client.**
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This is an alternative web client for [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/).
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- 🏢 **Production**: https://phanpy.social
- `production` branch
- break less often
- slower fixes unless critical
- 🏗️ **Development**: https://dev.phanpy.social
- `main` branch
- may see new cool stuff sooner
- may break more often
- may be fixed much faster too
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🐘 Follow [@phanpy on Mastodon](https://hachyderm.io/@phanpy) for updates ✨
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Everything is designed and engineered for my own use case, following my taste and vision. This is a personal side project for me to learn about Mastodon and experiment with new UI/UX ideas.
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**🐘 This is an early ALPHA project. Many features are missing, many bugs are present. Please report issues as detailed as possible. Thanks 🙏**
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## Features
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- 👪 Multiple accounts
- 🪟 Compose window pop-out/in
- 🌗 Light/dark/auto theme
- 🔔 Grouped notifications
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- 🪺 Nested replies view
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- 📬 Unsent draft recovery
- 🎠 Boosts Carousel™
- ⚡ Shortcuts™ with view modes like multi-column or tab bar
- # Multi-hashtag timeline
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## Design decisions
- **Status actions (reply, boost, favourite, bookmark, etc) are hidden by default**.<br>They only appear in individual status page. This is to reduce clutter and distraction. It may result in lower engagement, but we're not chasing numbers here.
- **Boost is represented with the rocket icon**.<br>The green double arrow icon (retweet for Twitter) doesn't look right for the term "boost". Green rocket looks weird, so I use purple.
- **Short usernames (`@username`) are displayed in timelines, instead of the full account username (`@username@instance`)**.<br>Despite the [guideline](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/guidelines/#username) mentioned that "Decentralization must be transparent to the user", I don't think we should shove it to the face every single time. There are also some [screen-reader-related accessibility concerns](https://twitter.com/lifeofablindgrl/status/1595864647554502656) with the full username, though this web app is unfortunately not accessible yet.
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- **No autoplay for video/GIF/whatever in timeline**.<br>The timeline is already a huge mess with lots of people, brands, news and media trying to grab your attention. Let's not make it worse. (Current exception now would be animated emojis.)
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- **Hash-based URLs**.<br>This web app is not meant to be a full-fledged replacement to Mastodon's existing front-end. There's no SEO, database, serverless or any long-running servers. I could be wrong one day.
## Development
Prerequisites: Node.js 18+
- `npm install` - Install dependencies
- `npm run dev` - Start development server
- `npm run build` - Build for production
- `npm run preview` - Preview the production build
- `npm run fetch-instances` - Fetch instances list from [instances.social](https://instances.social/), save it to `src/data/instances.json`
- requires `.env.dev` file with `INSTANCES_SOCIAL_SECRET_TOKEN` variable set
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- `npm run sourcemap` - Run `source-map-explorer` on the production build
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## Tech stack
- [Vite](https://vitejs.dev/) - Build tool
- [Preact](https://preactjs.com/) - UI library
- [Valtio](https://valtio.pmnd.rs/) - State management
- [React Router](https://reactrouter.com/) - Routing
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- [masto.js](https://github.com/neet/masto.js/) - Mastodon API client
- [Iconify](https://iconify.design/) - Icon library
- Vanilla CSS - *Yes, I'm old school.*
Some of these may change in the future. The front-end world is ever-changing.
## Mascot
[Phanpy](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Phanpy_(Pok%C3%A9mon)) is a Ground-type Pokémon.
## Maintainers
- [Chee Aun](https://github.com/cheeaun) ([Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun)) ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/cheeaun))
## Backstory
I am one of the earliest users of Twitter. Twitter was launched on [15 July 2006](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter). I joined on December 2006 and my [first tweet](https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/1298723) was posted on 18 December 2006.
I know how early Twitter looks like. It was fun.
Back then, I [made a Twitter clone](https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/789031599) called "Twig" written in Python and Google App Engine. I almost made my own [Twitter desktop client](https://github.com/cheeaun/chidori) written in Appcelerator Titanium. I [gave one of my best talks about the Twitter client](https://www.slideshare.net/cheeaun/story-of-a-thousand-birds) in a mini-conference. I built this thing called "Twitter [Columns](https://twitter.com/columns)", a web app that shows your list of followings, your followings' followings, your followers, your followers' followers and so on. In 2009, I wrote a blog post titled ["How I got started with Twitter"](https://cheeaun.com/blog/2009/04/how-i-got-started-with-twitter/). I created [two](https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/1273422454) [themes](https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/1487781343) for DestroyTwitter (a desktop client made with Adobe Air by Jonnie Hallman) and one of them is called ["Vimeo"](https://dribbble.com/shots/31624). In 2013, I wrote [my own tweets backup site](https://github.com/cheeaun/tweets) with a front-end to view my tweets and a [CouchDB backend](https://github.com/cheeaun/tweet-couch) to store them.
It's been **more than 15 years**.
And here I am. Building a Mastodon web client.
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## Alternative web clients
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- [Pinafore](https://pinafore.social/) ([retired](https://nolanlawson.com/2023/01/09/retiring-pinafore/)) → [Semaphore](https://semaphore.social/)
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- [Cuckoo+](https://www.cuckoo.social/)
- [Sengi](https://nicolasconstant.github.io/sengi/)
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- [Soapbox](https://fe.soapbox.pub/)
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- [Elk](https://elk.zone/)
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- [Mastodeck](https://mastodeck.com/)
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- [Trunks (alpha)](https://alpha.trunks.social/)
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- [Tooty](https://github.com/n1k0/tooty)
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- [Litterbox](https://litterbox.koyu.space/)
- [Statuzer](https://statuzer.com/)
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- [More...](https://github.com/hueyy/awesome-mastodon/#clients)
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## License
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[MIT](https://cheeaun.mit-license.org/).