@statuzer Hi. In your newly released #Statuzer Canary v3.b.103, is this solution implemented pls? I'm a bit afraid to simply go & test myself, coz if not implemented it'll mean losing all my settings again.

@MsDropbear42 Oh ffs, this latest experiment with #ZenBrowser has ended after only a few hours, due to yet another catastrophic failure, preceded by various annoyances:

• the dedicated Search Bar refused to show the drop-down menu of alternative search engines [works fine in and ]
• the #Stylus AO refused to respond to clicks on its various usage & management icons in its drop-down menu [works fine in and ]
• a link i opened from my Masto #Statuzer page decided to behave like i'd used #Glance [i did not], then when i converted it into a normal tab, entirely froze the Statuzer tab
• wondering if possibly restarting Zen might fix the above, i tried to do so, which then destroyed my carefully crafted Zen profile... what ensued was a UI without various standard changes i'd made [eg, the Search Bar was gone again, the native tabs bar refused to Collapse again], but worst of all, all my open tabs were gone... again

My dear old might be less pretty, less visually exciting, & might not have native split tabs, but far out it is & remains way way waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more reliable than Zen. I mean, it's really a bit silly... is Alpha, is Beta, yet the former is generally rock solid reliable in the ~decade i've been using it. Otoh, all my experiments with Zen, over the past ~12-18 months, have ended in disappointment, frustration, & often also destruction.

So, yet again, i return to...

#FirefoxNightly + #Mv2 #uBO + #Sidebery + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = THE best browsing & sophisticated tab management + Web Panel UX i've ever had, easily eclipsing Vivaldi, #Floorp, #ZenBrowser, Waterfox, LibreWolf... ergo =

#FirefoxNightly + #NativeVerticalTabs + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = Very usable already as of Feb 2025, albeit less powerful than Sidebery, ergo =

@MsDropbear42 @statuzer I've just realised something that might be a problem for your potential changes you intimated.

I use personalised choices for the various notification types in Notifications... ie, i do not simply use the default settings here. Thus, with my current paradigm of keeping the Notifications column pinned open, all my settings for it are preserved.

However, experimentation tonight has shown me that the potential new paradigm, of me keeping the Notifications closed / hidden, until new notifications arise, causes all my personalised Notifications settings to be lost; instead the defaults are reapplied. Logically this infers that my Notifications aspirations for this putative new paradigm would be at least partly defeated, as some of the notifications i want, would never be generated, whilst some i do not care to see/hear, would in fact arise.

For the general use-case of your app for most people, the current default behaviour of resetting values when removing a column, makes sense. It seems though that for my contemplated use-case, it might be fatal.

@KevinM1 Indeed. That Boost Carousel thing doesn't float my boat. However my larger difficulties with it, which keep me dropping it each time i try it again, are:

• its Notifications paradigm drives me bonkers. Compared to basic Masto, & #Statuzer, i have major difficulty keeping track of all my notifications. Very very very often i have been entirely unaware of some of them, til i happen to revert to Masto or Statuzer again, only then to find various unacknowledged notifications that #Phanpy had perversely buried deep down in its Notifications timeline, out of sight.
• i hate loathe & deplore that each time i am near the top of any of my timelines, they bloody well reload that column & i completely lose my reading place.

Phanpy is great software, & has much to commend it, but those two issues utterly remove all the joy, for me.

cc: @phanpy

@katzenberger @phanpy It's very good, but still frustrates me & i keep having to change away from it. Over the past one or two months, lotsa bouncing around these; they all have good pluses, but also weaknesses that sooner or later drive me away.

• #Mastodeck: hardcoded to 500char, no Desktop Notifications, no #SlowMode, no self-toot CWs(?)
• #Sengi: can't resize columns, editing toots loses ALL #Markdown formatting!, quoting via Markdown gives no visual indication that text is quoted
• #Statuzer: Likes, Boosts, Bookmarking toots in one column do NOT flow automatically to same toots in other columns til Reload
• #Phanpy: can't globally suppress Boosts in Lists; does Notifications weirdly in a way that frequently causes me to miss newer ones that appear down the timeline & need scrolling to discover [why on earth aren't they ALL at the top???]

@rl_dane @dm @elk @statuzer I use #Statuzer exclusively on my #Plasma desktop on my pooter, in , & atm* only for my infosec.space Masto account.

*ok, that's now superseded info; i've just also added my anonsys.net #Friendica account to it, & it also seems fine.

I've never seen the #GoToSocial UI, so can't comment on how it might not also be ok in Statuzer... hopefully the Dev can advise.

@rl_dane @dm @elk I thought #Phanpy was very good, except i dislike its handling of Notifications. I tried #Sengi, which has some nice attributes, but finding that i cannot widen its timeline columns to fill the page turned me off it. Later i found [on a friend's recommendation] #Statuzer, which i love, plus as a bonus its Dev @statuzer is very friendly, helpful & responsive to UI tweak suggestions.

Petit quick fix de la notification liée dans #Statuzer pour au moins donner un peu de contexte aux utilisateurs, et que ça soit pas trop moche