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Pinafore

An alternative web client for Mastodon, focused on speed and simplicity.

Pinafore is available at pinafore.social. Bleeding-edge releases are at dev.pinafore.social.

See the user guide for basic usage.

Browser support

Pinafore supports the latest versions of the following browsers:

Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Safari

Compatible versions of each (Opera, Brave, Samsung, etc.) should be fine.

Goals and non-goals

Goals

Support the most common use cases
Fast even on low-end phones
Works offline in read-only mode
Progressive Web App features
Multi-instance support
Support latest versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari
a11y (keyboard navigation, screen readers)

Possible future goals

Works as an alternative frontend self-hosted by instances
Android/iOS apps (using Cordova or similar)
Support Pleroma/non-Mastodon backends
i18n
Offline search
Full emoji keyboard
Keyboard shortcuts

Non-goals

Supporting old browsers, proxy browsers, or text-based browsers
React Native / NativeScript / hybrid-native version
Full functionality with JavaScript disabled
Emoji support beyond the built-in system emoji
Multi-column support
Admin/moderation panel
Works offline in read-write mode (would require sophisticated sync logic)

Building

To build Pinafore for production:

npm install
npm run build
PORT=4002 npm start

Now Pinafore is running at localhost:4002.

Pinafore requires Node.js v8+.

Developing and testing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to run Pinafore in dev mode and run tests.