Pinafore Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Native Windows client

  For Windows, Whalebird is your go-to since it's in the MS Store. Most of the stuff I've found online as suggestions for Windows are web apps like https://pinafore.social/ or https://elk.zone. Personally, I just use the advanced web view. I need the columns. Source: over 1 year ago

• Paul Graham is leaving Twitter

  Which instance are you on? Mastodon is decentralized, there may be servers that are overloaded whereas other are fast. Like email. I haven't noticed any big differences in speed, I use both Mastodon for iOS and Pinafore (https://pinafore.social/ ), a PWA. Just add it to your homescreen and it will behave like a native app (and sometime in 2023 Apple has said they will add push notifications to PWAs). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Fosstodon Hub – More Upgrades

  I continue to see people stumble at mastodon resource requirements when setting up their instance, but I fail to understand why everyone is going for a mastodon instance for their personal use. I am running https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial on a micro instance, probably using 100M ram, with a 30M sqlite database. True, I don't have all features. It is pure backend, but I can use... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Mastodon Client for Windows

  I use https://pinafore.social on windows fine. Source: over 1 year ago

• Mastodon v4.0.0 Release Candidate

  There are web frontends available where you can sign into your instance, just like you so with a mobile app. For example https://pinafore.social/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Web devs rally to challenge Apple App Store browser rules

  Https://pinafore.social is one I use. Google Maps Go is a PWA, though the actual turn by turn navigation is a separate native app. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• The Single-Page-App Morality Play

  The best example I know of a purely client-side web app that makes effective use of local storage is the Pinafore [1] client for Mastodon. [1]: https://pinafore.social/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago