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If you use Mastodon, I'd really urge you to try Phanpy. It's not just a great Mastodon client - it has a few genuinely innovative interaction patterns that work really well.

Really hard to believe that it's pretty much made by one person, given how polished and full-featured it is: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun

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Phanpy is extraordinary, and my main client. Unfortunately, it pushes mobile browsers to the limit. The scroll performance in Firefox for Android is abysmal, and deep threads can make Chrome choke on rendering. Despite all that, I keep using it for lack of better alternative.

Odd, it works really smoothly for me, on Firefox for Android as well. Which is not to discount your experience, but just to emphasise that people will probably have to try for themselves to see what it'll be like on their device.

Did you try on both Firefox and another chromium-based browser to compare? If it works similarly for you, I might take more time to investigate why it's janky here.

Edit: I tested with nightly (so a new profile), and performance is similar: lower on Firefox than Chrome, even on already-loaded content. I don't think it was fair to call Firefox's performance "abysmal", but this is definitely not 60fps scrolling; but then I have no idea how to measure that.

I did not (and it's a bit too much of a hassle given the lack of password manager and having to mess with OTP codes to try it now), but it feels basically instant, especially in normal use (e.g. just scrolling from post to post). So even if it were even faster in a Chromium-based browser, I really don't think yours is as fast as mine - you wouldn't be calling it janky, and it wouldn't be a hurdle to use it. I think you're just unlucky, e.g. with the combination of Firefox+your device?

I hadn't read this far so went ahead and used it on Safari for iPadOS. Performed, scrolled, threaded, etc. smoothly enough I forgot it was a web page.

I have a suspicion that this is due to the blur backdrop effect. I wish that many website have an option to turn this off. It doesn't have any benefits other than aesthetic.

After the loss of Tweetdeck, which made Twitter/X quite useless for me, I switched over to https://mastodeck.com/.

It works quite well for me.

I have found the official Mastodon client for iPadOS to be generally OK. What would I get using a web client like Phanpy? Thanks in advance for the information.

> What would I get using a web client like Phanpy?

You can use it in a browser.

Well, since it's a web client, it's pretty easy to just try it out, but the benefit of Phanpy is not that it's a web client. It's just it has a lot of nice little UI touches that make it very pleasant to use. There's an overview at [1], but I'm not sure if that does it justice - you kind of have to experience it. The most noticeable is that all boosts are grouped in a horizontal carousel, whereas you vertically scroll through other posts, but I can't quite explain why that's no nice.

[1] https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy?tab=readme-ov-file#design-...

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