@_elena @aj I know you'll discover this for yourself, but anyway, just fwiw, one bonus of #Statuzer over #Phanpy & vanilla Masto is that it handles #RSS feeds, like #Friendica.

@aj @_elena Also try #Statuzer. It has some advantages over #Phanpy, & some drawbacks, but on balance i've come to like it better. Both are superior to the vanilla Masto web UI IMO. Fwiw.

@statuzer Hi. In your newly released #Statuzer Canary v3.b.103, is this solution implemented pls? I'm a bit afraid to simply go & test myself, coz if not implemented it'll mean losing all my settings again.

@MsDropbear42 Oh ffs, this latest experiment with #ZenBrowser has ended after only a few hours, due to yet another catastrophic failure, preceded by various annoyances:

• the dedicated Search Bar refused to show the drop-down menu of alternative search engines [works fine in and ]
• the #Stylus AO refused to respond to clicks on its various usage & management icons in its drop-down menu [works fine in and ]
• a link i opened from my Masto #Statuzer page decided to behave like i'd used #Glance [i did not], then when i converted it into a normal tab, entirely froze the Statuzer tab
• wondering if possibly restarting Zen might fix the above, i tried to do so, which then destroyed my carefully crafted Zen profile... what ensued was a UI without various standard changes i'd made [eg, the Search Bar was gone again, the native tabs bar refused to Collapse again], but worst of all, all my open tabs were gone... again

My dear old might be less pretty, less visually exciting, & might not have native split tabs, but far out it is & remains way way waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more reliable than Zen. I mean, it's really a bit silly... is Alpha, is Beta, yet the former is generally rock solid reliable in the ~decade i've been using it. Otoh, all my experiments with Zen, over the past ~12-18 months, have ended in disappointment, frustration, & often also destruction.

So, yet again, i return to...

#FirefoxNightly + #Mv2 #uBO + #Sidebery + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = THE best browsing & sophisticated tab management + Web Panel UX i've ever had, easily eclipsing Vivaldi, #Floorp, #ZenBrowser, Waterfox, LibreWolf... ergo =

#FirefoxNightly + #NativeVerticalTabs + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = Very usable already as of Feb 2025, albeit less powerful than Sidebery, ergo =

@normplum Many thanks. Ironically, mere seconds before your toot, i regretfully had to disable my newly-finessed "Custom" settings, & revert to Auto, because atm there is no "Exceptions" option available. So, my carefully-styled #Statuzer front-end for Masto got overridden in a most suboptimal way, but the final killer was my shock discovery that #uBlockOrigin became unusable coz ALL its colour-coded matrix elements were obliterated by my new background colour. The Dev already knows of this problem by implication i suspect, given their example in their blog https://blog.monotonous.org/2025/03/06/New-Contrast-Control-Settings/. I shall keep fingers crossed for an imminent enhancement that addresses these usability problems. If so, i will be happy to be able to then remove another AddOn.

@MsDropbear42 @statuzer I've just realised something that might be a problem for your potential changes you intimated.

I use personalised choices for the various notification types in Notifications... ie, i do not simply use the default settings here. Thus, with my current paradigm of keeping the Notifications column pinned open, all my settings for it are preserved.

However, experimentation tonight has shown me that the potential new paradigm, of me keeping the Notifications closed / hidden, until new notifications arise, causes all my personalised Notifications settings to be lost; instead the defaults are reapplied. Logically this infers that my Notifications aspirations for this putative new paradigm would be at least partly defeated, as some of the notifications i want, would never be generated, whilst some i do not care to see/hear, would in fact arise.

For the general use-case of your app for most people, the current default behaviour of resetting values when removing a column, makes sense. It seems though that for my contemplated use-case, it might be fatal.

@voxel @jerry When you say ...

Blocking RSS takes this ability away from them, ultimately harming both infosec.space members and those who interact with them

...i might be misunderstanding your intended meaning, so the following might be irrelevant to your purpose. That said, fwiw:

I'm using an alternative front-end web client for my IS account; #Statuzer. I discovered last night that it [just like the non-Masto #Friendica SW, for Friendica instances] supports #RSS, so i have now added an extra column to my Statuzer multi-column UI, being the RSS feed from one of my news sites.

@pablopernot @lokigwyn @elk @Qi2Navet #Phanpy is nice, but i prefer #Statuzer even more.

@statuzer Oh i'm so pleased, you indeed now have solved that problem of the Likes not automatically flowing across the columns. Thank you!

@KevinM1 Indeed. That Boost Carousel thing doesn't float my boat. However my larger difficulties with it, which keep me dropping it each time i try it again, are:

• its Notifications paradigm drives me bonkers. Compared to basic Masto, & #Statuzer, i have major difficulty keeping track of all my notifications. Very very very often i have been entirely unaware of some of them, til i happen to revert to Masto or Statuzer again, only then to find various unacknowledged notifications that #Phanpy had perversely buried deep down in its Notifications timeline, out of sight.
• i hate loathe & deplore that each time i am near the top of any of my timelines, they bloody well reload that column & i completely lose my reading place.

Phanpy is great software, & has much to commend it, but those two issues utterly remove all the joy, for me.

cc: @phanpy