@design_RG Fair, QOTOs column design does make it possible for you to reduce the columns to 2 or 3 and get some pretty good real estate. Still, I keep a lot of columns opena nd its a pain to destroy and create them just because I want to read a post in full form.

What I wish is there was a button where a column would temporarily expand to full width and then click it again to shrink it back down to normal.

That would let me keep my 6+ columns open but still exploit the full width of our UI on a per-post basis when needed (most posts dont need it, in fact mostly just yours do, lol :) )

@freemo LOL...

> but still exploit the full width of our UI on a per-post basis when needed (most posts dont need it, in fact mostly just yours do, lol :) )

I consider this a mark of distinction. 😃

WEB Magazine UI for me!!!

BTW -- you should be using dual monitors no? 6 columns??? OMG

@design_RG I use a 4K+ monitor at full resolution with no scaling, extra large. so I get a lot of space to work with. But a second monitor wouldnt play too nice as it wouldnt be in my field of vision as you would get with a smaller set of monitors. So I dont really get much benefit out of it. Even with my 5-6 columns open they are actually relatively wide due to my massive resolution and large monitor.

@freemo wow!! Very nice.

@freemo How about this idea -- a Reply editor box in Real Writer mode...

Opening right below the post we are reading and replying to -- anywhere in the columns in the screen?

Collapsed Mastodon Firefox Extension adds this magic for me, great tool.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/collapsed-mastodon/

v------ Screenshot of this very post being typed in, right below your own post. This could be in ANY post, anywhere in the screen.

@design_RG Teh nice thing about that layout is you dont waste a whole column on having just an editor box there. So I can dig it!

@freemo Yes.

And -- the editor box is a huge nice wide mama.... :)

Love it.

@design_RG I love the idea.

I wish we could get some of the community contributing to the QOTO source code. I'm actually surprised they dont. The idea of users being able to submit source code to their own social media network and actually see it incorporated youd think would be rather enticing :)

@freemo Yes, I think that is indeed great, but few users (myself included) would have the knowledge of the platform to propose and add code to it.

Wish I could, but i am on the Writer's department, will support as much as possible with my own skills in the area I have some.

@design_RG We are a STEM instance. I'd imagine a fair number of our users could figure out how to edit the source code if they were driven to do so.

@freemo Just visited the Github for Collapsed Mastodon and realized he HAS Chrome version as well -- just get it from the Git.

https://github.com/Eskuero/collapsed_mastodon

Eskuero, the author, is on Fediverse too, although I think his instance is kaput. https://github.com/Eskuero

@design_RG how would this help us in the QOTO front end? This appears to be a chrome app so not readily integratable into a plain webapp at first glance.

@freemo It is an add on for the browsers, and it does require AWI enabled.

So for the more dedicated users, unhappy with Eugen's handling of wide screens, which is pretty sucky IMO.

Not for everyone, yes,, but it's nice the Chrome users can benefit too.

@design_RG Certainly good to let people know about.

@freemo I am trying Whalebird client again, and it has some nice features.

Including, surprisingly the Load REmote Instance local timeline -- on screen are posts from Hackers.town, along with my ow profile in column at right side.

https://i.postimg.cc/WbzKB9QY/Whale-Bird-HT-Qoto-Profile-FS.jpg

Posting from Whalebird now too.

@freemo Another screenshot.

Qoto local timeline, and the right side column will expand a selected toot, show any replies below it.

Here showing my long one that started this thread.

Pretty handy for normal, shorter toots too since it shows multiple replies in the wide column.

Resizeable panes -- see the slider at center of vertical divider. Hold and drag, it will resize and wrap text on left column.

https://i.postimg.cc/TwHjgcCh/Whale-Bird-Qoto-Expanded-post-FS.png

@freemo Gosh, my version is way outdated.

Whalebird home is https://whalebird.social/en/desktop/contents