Released 5.0.0-beta.1-2026-11-09 of Mastodon Bird UI: https://github.com/rollecode/mastodon-bird-ui/releases/tag/5.0.0-beta.1-2026-11-09
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I have to say, holy shit, this new design has been an experience... not just in terms of basic UX, but also UI regressions, accessibility issues, and weird corner cases. And I'm not talking about my theme on top of it - I'm talking about the core. Everything has been rethought.
There are some good bits, but lots of things I personally wouldn't have done. I know drastic measures were needed, but in my opinion, this should NOT be in beta right now. I rarely see stuff this incomplete or untested in betas in general.
I'm not trying to blame anyone or say the work has been poor, but I'm a bit surprised after 4 years of pretty stable and safe Mastodon nightlies. Now it feels like a constant battle to fix my fork.
#Mastodon #Mastodon5 #MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI #UX #UI #CSS #FrontEnd
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Lots of nightly updates coming in today!
Most notable bugs:
- When you type a hashtag or at-person, the popout gets in the way
- Ultra Accessible themes for vision impaired have some font size issues
- Some hover states and element proportions, especially padding, have regressions from v5 and the new nightly theme
- Bugs in the advanced viewThe latest changes are in the nightly branch, and work is still in progress. You can follow my work here: https://github.com/rollecode/mastodon-bird-ui/tree/nightly
Some of these are core issues and will probably be fixed or changed in Mastodon v5 stable. If not, fixes will go live in our fork.
#MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI #CSS #MastoAdmin #UI #Mastodon #OpenSource
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🐦⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 5.0.0-beta.1-2026-11-08 (nightly) is out. This is Bird UI rebuilt for Mastodon 5, the new 5.0 design that is now in beta.
The nightly follows Mastodon 5.0.0-beta.1. If you are on Mastodon 4, stay on 4.7.3-2026-10-11 from the main branch.
New:
- Rewritten from scratch for the Mastodon 5 design
- Micro-interactions, likes and boosts are whimsical
- Notifications, content warnings, link cards and thread lines look like they did on Mastodon 4
- Follows Mastodon's own light, dark and high contrast settings
- A darker, blurred backdrop behind the composer and every popup
- A new install script for Mastodon 5, or paste dist/mastodon-bird-ui.css into Custom CSS
- The star favorite, light and language variants are no longer supportedYou can see it live at https://mementomori.social.
Release notes and full changelog: https://github.com/rollecode/mastodon-bird-ui/releases/tag/5.0.0-beta.1-2026-11-08