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Nolan @nolan@toot.cafe

New blog post: "Introducing Pinafore for Mastodon" nolanlawson.com/2018/04/09/int

Nolan @nolan@toot.cafe

Pinafore is an alternative web client for Mastodon that I'm releasing today. The goal is to make a lightweight standalone web app that can plug into multiple instances, with a UI focused on speed and simplicity.

Pinafore is still beta-quality in places, but it's already the main client @ElfLord and I have been using for the past few weeks. I've been working on it since the start of this year. Hope y'all like it. 😊

Jaycie @jaycie

@nolan Looks awesome! Would it be practical to embed the server in a mobile app and make it entirely stand-alone?

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beatrix bitrot @bea@glitch.social

@jaycie @nolan related question... since the glitchsoc fork has multiple frontend support, could we make this an optional frontend on glitchsoc instances potentially?

Nolan @nolan@toot.cafe

@bea @jaycie It's possible, but would require a bit of work first to change how auth is handled. What's supported today is self-hosting, but you'd still have to have the user log in to the instance manually.

💀 KemoNine 💀 @kemonine

@nolan @bea @jaycie Would it be possible to have it 'configurable' for a 'lock' to a specific instance?

So we could deploy it for 'instance.com' and have a login experience similar to the standard UI?

Simple username/password/totp that's wrapped up in pinafore to help with multi-instance confusion.

Nolan @nolan@toot.cafe

@kemonine @bea @jaycie Allowing instances to self-host as an alternative frontend where you're automatically signed in is a possible future goal, but right now it's not quite there yet due to having a separate auth system from Mastodon. github.com/nolanlawson/pinafor

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