Leave a Review Toot! for Mastodon
Near perfect app
I’ve been using Toot! (after trying other apps) for nearly two years and LOVE it. It does (almost) everything I could ask for as a Mastodon/Fediverse user, and it does it without any apparent bugs.
The one exception is not limiting posts to a specific designated language — unless I just can’t find that setting. I know I can select a language on the Mastodon app, but that setting doesn’t flow through to Toot! (Is there a fix?)
Otherwise it’s a 10/10.Show lessNot my app
Purchased and tried Toot! for a couple weeks, but have too many complaints and went back to my old fav app. Some are personal preference, some are more general, but the gripe list includes:
No swipe actions on posts in timeline (eg left to star, right to reply).
Many excessive animations that can’t be turned off.
UX customization options are low in general.
Post privacy isn’t easy to see in the timeline.
When creating a new post, I have to scroll a page length down for privacy and CW options, causing me to forget them regularly.
“Load more” system doesn’t make sense to me - hard to find posts between now and last logon. Would like to see it work more like Mastoot.
Gives 3 options to create a toot (text, image, video) when I really just want a text box with some nearby media upload buttons.
Text posts don’t always format the way you expect after postingShow lessSome basic UX issues for scrolling
Please just add infinite scrolling on "now" without the suboptimal "show more" features below:
1. Selecting "show more" is really easy to miss, and I have to press it all the time as I scan down the feed.
2. Once you miss pressing "show more" the units shift from "Xm" to "Ymn" which I assume is supposed to mean months, typically mo and hard to see either way. The unit is actually useful here but not standard. Consider "min" and "mo" or "m" and "months".
3. Scrolling back up to find "show more" is quite easy to miss, so much that I start to look for the splitting point where the top right units shift from "mn" back to "m"
4. Confusing mechanic where the direction you show more from is based on where you came from, so when you overshoot (always), you then have to scroll back, next you have to slightly go forwards again to reorient the direction you want to scroll.
5. Oh sorry, you accidentally hit "show more" the wrong direction. Please progress back to step 3, scroll up hunting for the seam, and try again.
Otherwise no complaints but this kills the core usability for me.Show less