Radiant for Mastodon

Overall I’d say Radiant is a really great Mastodon client. Certainly better than Metatext, which I used before. It still has a few growing pains though, so I hope the author can address these in the near future. - If something goes wrong, you may see an HTTP status code, such as 500 or 403, but it’s not clear which request caused it and no further context or explanation is given. This sometimes makes it hard to see what went wrong or why it went wrong. - One time I’ve noticed a toot that may have had a recursive embed or something like it. Radiant started expanding some embedded content, which also had the same embedded content, which Radiant also tried to expand, and on it went. I had to kill the app to get out of that one. - Navigating to your own profile is a little more cumbersome than I would like (through the Settings tab). - Maybe it’s me but I don’t get what pinning does with hashtags. I can pin, I can unpin. I see no difference. - Refreshing the timeline doesn’t always seem to get all the latest update. Stars and boost counts don’t seem to get updated, and once I deleted a post, but it remained on the timeline. Even after doing a pull to refresh. Clicking on it would give a helpful 404 message.

This has been my go-to Mastodon app on iOS for months now, and I’m super happy with it. It has an elegant interface and everything just makes sense. Very easy to use, and not limiting for a power user like myself.

The log in button just logs into a Safari browser webpage but does not log into the app.

Loving this mastodon client! There’s like four others I’m tryin out and this seems to be the best after only a few minutes of using. Excited and thinking of purchasing the prime version soon!

Radiant is a great feature filled app for Mastodon. I especially love that I can schedule posts and set up timelines for groups of hashtags, such as those relevant to my region or my interests.

It’s missing a few niche features (things such as editing posts and managing pinned posts, developer has said they are working on this though) and the scrolling isn’t quite as fluid as some other Mastodon apps (I’m also having issues getting notifications working). Those few things though also are counterbalanced with unique things like Multi-tags, where you can follow multiple hashtags in a single timeline to keep up with whatever topics you want, making it so you don’t have to clutter your timeline with followed hashtags, or have 6 different columns or searches to go through just to get the latest posts. The app also has a unique and fresh design. I really am looking forward to making this my main Mastodon app once a few of the kinks are worked out. The pricing is also very reasonable as well.

Really enjoying this great new Mastodon client. I love how links automatically go into Reader mode.

I feel at home using Radiant. This in itself makes a very good impression on me. Very excited for the developers on releasing such a solid app. I’m so excited as well for what the future holds for Radiant. Thank you so much for the experience!