Tusks for Mastodon 4+

**New**

- A total re-think on how your feed is presented. To best understand the change, it’s helpful to know the logic previously used.

Since launch, your posts were ordered according to the date the *first* post inside a thread was published. For example, if you started a thread three months ago, and you updated it (i.e. replied to it) today, it would only show in your posts list three months down (when you first published it). This obviously isn’t expected behaviour, and was very confusing. So I’m happy to share that this has changed in 1.11.

A thread will now show in your posts under the date its *last* post was published. Going back to the earlier example, your three month old thread will now surface at the very top once it’s been updated today. But there’s more. You won’t just see the last post but also the first so you can have context. Finally, you will also see the length of the thread (when it’s longer than two posts long).

These changes should significantly impact the utility and clarify of your posts feed. They definitely have for me!
- Drag/drop from anywhere to the composer is supported. So you no longer need to ensure you’ve added the image/video to your Photos library first. Just drag and drop from your Finder window or Desktop and drop in the hotspot region!
- Videos added to a draft post can now be deleted.

**Improvements**

- App should load noticeably faster. This may not be the case in the very first run of this update, but subsequent runs should be reliably so.
- Start-up animation nicer when items are being retrieved.
- Increased spacing between posts should make it much easier to distinguish between them.
- No lag when typing into search box.
- Increased safety checks to reduce the probability of a crash when you insert a # into the composer (a few people reported this).
- Loading posts on demand should work more reliably.
- Refreshing your feed should work more reliably than before.
- Search results will show all posts the term is a match in (and not just the first post in a matching thread).
- Opening a thread should load noticeably faster.
- When you add media in a modal composer window, its height will increase a little more to reduce the squishing effect.
- Tap target of icons on the thread’s toolbar should be the entire button/circle (and not the icon within).
- When you have no pins or drafts, message stating so looks the same (and nicer).
- Appearance of auto-suggestions when you # or @ should look nicer (and not be over media if any were added).

**Fixes**

- [Publish] in composer will be disabled if any post is above the character limit.
- The [Delete] button in the toolbar of a thread works again.