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Local only needs BIG WARNING

Open eobet opened this issue 4 months ago • 3 comments

Describe the bug

Possibly related to #1524 (I tried to search for "Local Only" issues and found my own post.

I discovered that several of my posts had "local only" activated, and I did not know this.

There's a slight background color tint on local only post, but nothing similar while composing.

In my opinion, it needs a BIG RED background color or some similar big warning...

Also, related, when I clicked delete on a local only post, the confirmation dialog disappeared but the post remained. I had to go back to my profile and try to find it again to see that it was actually deleted.

(Finally, I wanted to talk about this first, but I can't find the Tuba room in Matrix. When I click the link in the app I just get error messages from my browser and I tried both Fractal and Element now.)

Steps To Reproduce

Compose new post.

Accidentally (or possibly by virtue of problematic default button focuses) enable local only without noticing.

Post while being completely oblivious to the small highlight around the symbol in the top right corner.

Logs and/or Screenshots

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Instance Backend

Mastodon

Operating System

Linux 6.16.9-200.nobara.fc42.x86_64

Package

Flatpak

Troubleshooting information

os: GNOME 49 (Flatpak runtime) prefix: /app flatpak: true version: 0.10.3 (production) gtk: 4.20.1 (4.20.1) libadwaita: 1.8.0 (1.8.0) libsoup: 3.6.5 (3.6.5) libgtksourceview: 5.18.0 (5.18.0) libspelling: true Clapper: 0.8.0 (0.8.0) GStreamer: GStreamer 1.26.6 (1.6.26.0) GExiv2: 1600 (0.16.0)

Additional Context

I feel like deja vu here but have to say that I strongly dislike that local only button. It's placed as far as physically possible from the other post scope buttons which are in the bottom left...

And I never want to use "local only" posts. It's just now how I use Mastodon, and this lack of clarity when it comes to this makes it a bit user hostile because you can't change the post scope after the fact, you have to delete or redraft.

eobet avatar Oct 29 '25 16:10 eobet