amazed at phanpy.social's transformation of the mastodon web interface
I don't understand why, but somehow usenet news readers keep coming to mind as I use it. (This is a complement.)
It does thread posts in the timeline. No more reading threads in reverse order. Also indicates when a boosted post is part of a thread.
And it threads comments on posts. Including deep threading and collapse/expand of sub-conversations. This makes me much more likely to dig into conversations.
And it bundles notifications together with some nice interface. And there are many other interface touches. Also page down scrolls properly (except in multi-column mode which is a bit janky, but which it does have, and which makes the columns nice and wide).
I think the main thing about Phanpy is that it's designed in lots of ways to display enough information to scan quickly, but invites clicking to dig into things. I find myself clicking more than I scroll.
Look at how it displays this thread in my timeline for instance, compact and several cues to dig in.