Liveblog, the new Mastodon interface designed for live events e.g. watch parties, faced the acid test of #Monsterdon (+ #MonsterMiru) last night... & survived!
- Let me post without having to worry about entering multiple hashtags every time (Mastodon web's capricious hashtag autocomplete is the most frustrating "feature" for me during watch parties)
- It auto-refreshed & kept up with the flow; maybe not as instant as plain Mastodon, Liveblog perhaps every 1-3 seconds, but definitely good enough. (For me at least; at one point another user said Liveblog would only update every ~60 seconds for them IIRC. At the exact same time, it was working fine for me. 🤷♂️)
- Enough vertical space for me in my laptop side-by-side watch party setup to be able to see 1-4 posts (depending on their content)
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... Show more...Liveblog, the new Mastodon interface designed for live events e.g. watch parties, faced the acid test of #Monsterdon (+ #MonsterMiru) last night... & survived!
- Let me post without having to worry about entering multiple hashtags every time (Mastodon web's capricious hashtag autocomplete is the most frustrating "feature" for me during watch parties)
- It auto-refreshed & kept up with the flow; maybe not as instant as plain Mastodon, Liveblog perhaps every 1-3 seconds, but definitely good enough. (For me at least; at one point another user said Liveblog would only update every ~60 seconds for them IIRC. At the exact same time, it was working fine for me. π€·ββοΈ)
- Enough vertical space for me in my laptop side-by-side watch party setup to be able to see 1-4 posts (depending on their content)
Drawbacks last night (it's under development, & changes/new features are being added daily):
- Couldn't click on a post to see its parent/thread
- Couldn't edit a post
- No notification sounds. Not an issue for me, as I have Mastodon pinned as one of my essential tabs in Zen Browser so I heard notifications from that. (It would sound 3-5 seconds before appearing in Liveblog.)
- EDIT: no emojis, had to remember how to use emoticons π
I'm going to keep using Liveblog for watch parties. Give it a try yourself, watch partiers!
Liveblog creator: @stefan
More info: stefanhayden.com/blog/2026/03/β¦
#WatchParty #Mastodon
TLDR: do your live blogging here. The Problem I have had the the same problem since the dawn of micro blogging. If I am watching a live event like an awards show, I often want to have a series of posts all properly tagged with the right hashtags.
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