One thing google-plus did absolutetly right, right from the start, was conversations and how they were displayed. I understand that mastodon tries to follow twitter with it's ui, but that's not what i - and i guess many other (plussers) will agree on that - am looking for here. So i hope this changes soon.
@turi i can understand that. i just imagined a better - for me - conversational ui-view. since this all is OSS i'm pretty sure someone is laying ground for that. so, depending on the client or what do i know you can switch the ui and we both get what we want.
@michael_stuhr If i understand it correctly any Instance can make up its own UI, so there is even more potential for diversity. Yay open source decentralized networking :D
@michael_stuhr I disagree but I'm a (very) long time Usenet user (and admin) so I dislike all those stream concepts and prefer threaded articles. And bookmarks, to resume reading a thread after some time, which isn't really possible on streaming sites.
@cynix what do you disagree to? i hope not me, because that's not what i experience on g-plus. i follow a bunch of people there and i get exactly their posts in my timeline there, at least that's what you can tell g-plus to show you and what all sane people have done from the beginning. so we don't differ in that.
@michael_stuhr I disagree with the assessment of "absolutely right" on the display of conversations. Sure, it could have been worse, but e.g. comments are 2nd class citizens in conversations, they aren't threaded, so you don't know which comment refers to which other, you can't start a subthread on them, etc.
@michael_stuhr I am looking for a twitter alternative, not for a google+ or facebook alternative.
So i am quite happy with this UI, its what i am used to.