New blog post: "Introducing Pinafore for Mastodon" https://nolanlawson.com/2018/04/09/introducing-pinafore-for-mastodon/
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. 😊
@nolan Looks awesome! Would it be practical to embed the server in a mobile app and make it entirely stand-alone?
@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. https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore/issues/35
@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.