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#SocialCoop I just made a simple change to the instance to make Mastodon multi-column mode "make sense" in https://social.coop, meaning use up all space instead of having weirdly narrow columns.

See before/after if interested, let me know if you have any issues! You can try it by enabling multi-column mode in your preferences.

h/t testman42@github.com for the workaround: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8632#issuecomment-850335649

in reply to In #Flancia we'll meet

Trying it now—I like it! Thank you! The spacing really never made sense, it's true.
in reply to Nathan Schneider

@ntnsndr thank you for trying it! Yes, it's very unclear to me why the default hasn't been updated -- I left a comment to inquire/see if we can improve the defaults for every instance: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8632#issuecomment-2282263291
in reply to Nathan Schneider

@ntnsndr FYI this has been reverted, please reapply the CSS manually if you still want this behavior:

div.column {
-webkit-box-flex:1;
-ms-flex-positive:1;
flex-grow:1
}

in reply to In #Flancia we'll meet

Oh darn, why was it reverted?

Honestly, I'll probably just go back to the single-column interface. I am fine with that.

in reply to Nathan Schneider

@ntnsndr one user reported it broke their workflow, said it was too wide and it made the UI uncomfortable to read; they declined providing more details for now so I'm unsure how to work around their issue. Therefore I disabled it altogether.

Unfortunately https://social.coop/@flancian/112956289256023898 is also a thing apparently.

So maybe it'll also be single-column for me. Or I'll fiddle with userscripts 😀 But most people won't, so they will miss out, which is a shame.

in reply to Nathan Schneider

@ntnsndr @openvibe oh neat, thanks for the mention! I had meant to take a look into it, will give it a try

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