[mrisoli]

I just tried out Mastodon quickly after reading this, and what a disaster.

Icons are overused, there's no onboarding of the UI and it just throws you in with a bunch of icons, I wasn't sure what most of them did.

I started at mastodon.technology and it immediately follows the instance creator which confused me, when I checked his profile there was an icon with which I could unfollow(an X on top of a person icon), which I didn't know if it meant blocking or unfollowing.

No icon has helper text on hover or anything, you're just thrown in and there's already messages popping in your timeline and I didn't really know that I already followed these people, and I could click Local/Federated timeline and there wasn't much info on what those were.

[r3bl]

Those UX issues would be far more useful being reported on GitHub than they are on HN.

[newsbinator]

That assumes GP's primary motivation is to support/improve the particular project, rather than discuss UX and kvetch with fellow hackers and designers.