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Are you using Mastodon through a computer?

Do you wish there was a multi-column TweetDeck-style interface?

There is! It's called the "advanced web interface" and you can activate it any time you want. It lets you add many specialised columns, subscribe to hashtags and all kinds of stuff suited to large wide displays.

Log into the website, go to Preferences > Enable Advanced Web Interface, tick the box and click "Save Changes".

(To restore the default single column interface, do the same thing but untick the box instead.)

This used to be the default interface on Mastodon, and very old articles about the platform will have screenshots of the multicolumn interface.

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David Young

@feditips how'd you get 5 columns? Best I can do is 4.. is there a trick to adding a column?

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Amanda Finley Digs All Things

@feditips okay okay. Why did I not come here long ago? 😀

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stu

@feditips great tip thanks.

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Ale Muraro

@feditips Can't decide what I like the most mmmh

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Steve Portigal

@feditips DONE THANKS!

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Allus Miserable

@feditips Definitely a top tip! Cheers! :thumbsup_hmn_h2:

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HRH ginsterbusch

@feditips and I'm rather happy it IS NOT the default interface anymore. Its not very userfriendly, because total overload. And me humble #disabled #neurodivergent person doesnt like overloads or meltdowns.

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Ade Malsasa Akbar

@feditips boosted immediately.

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S. L. Crane

@feditips Is there (going to be) a way to also move the "Getting Started" column around? I'd love to have it on the left rather than on the far right. I use multiple columns, so for example, when I click on someone's profile in one of my first columns, it'll open in the "Getting Started" column all the way on the right. This leads to lots of horizontal scrolling. (On Tweetdeck, I used to move less important columns to the right half of the layout.)

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Shoq

@feditips Am I correct in assuming a list can only be opened in the far left, multi-function viewer column? Is here no way to move the open list to a column, as I do in tweetdeck every day?

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shanebee

@feditips Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Michal Vorisek

some tips @taraustralis

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Babu Menos

@feditips

It’s certainly a great alternative for some, even many, yet I find it overly confusing. Tried it for a few minutes on my first day, but had to switch back. (But that’s just me!)

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mjgraves

@feditips Thanks for that! It's much nicer.

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Kelly Lawler

@feditips that’s what I need!!!

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weezmgk

@feditips This is extremely useful, thank you. I'm a loooong time TD user & I was missing it.

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bit

@feditips i found that out and am so glad since tweetdeck is the main reason i kept twitter around, along with all my friends being there

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Suryo☀️

@feditips @mmasnick if you haven't tried this specific thing already, it could be useful for you.

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Sue

@feditips im having problem using the search feature on advanced web interface. Am I doing something wrong

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Autistic Widower ("AJ")

@feditips This is an awesome tip!
I can see everything I need to see and it makes it so much easier to use!

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