Mastodon 4.6

After many months of design, development, gathering feedback, and testing, today we’re releasing a big update with Mastodon 4.6. The headliner of this release is Collections, a way to create and share curated collections of profiles. Part of Mastodon’s work ethos is our commitment to trust and safety, so we’ve put a lot of thought and care into the design of this feature to avoid some of the pitfalls and abuse people have experienced with similar features on other platforms, while focusing on its primary goal: Helping new users discover more of the Fediverse.

经过数月的设计、开发、收集反馈和测试，今天我们发布了 Mastodon 4.6 的重大更新。本次发布的主打功能是“合集”（Collections），这是一种创建和分享精选个人资料合集的方式。Mastodon 的工作理念之一是对信任与安全的承诺，因此我们在设计该功能时投入了大量心血，旨在避免其他平台类似功能中出现的一些陷阱和滥用问题，同时专注于其核心目标：帮助新用户发现更多联邦宇宙（Fediverse）的内容。

Collections

合集

The quality that sets our Collections feature apart is that you can control which collections your profile appears in. If you aren’t opted in to our “Feature me in discovery experiences” preference, you cannot be included in collections at all. If you are opted in, you will be notified every time you’re added to a collection, and can always—at any time—remove yourself from a given collection. We’ve also limited the number of profiles that can be included in a single collection to 25, and decided not to offer a “follow all” shortcut. We might tune the exact number in the future, but the idea is that high volume makes collections harder to overview and therefore easier to use for spam (by e.g. sneaking in some profiles used for spam among a sea of legitimate ones).

我们的合集功能与众不同之处在于，你可以控制自己的个人资料出现在哪些合集中。如果你没有开启“在发现体验中展示我”的偏好设置，你的资料将完全不会被包含在任何合集中。如果你开启了该选项，每当你被加入合集时都会收到通知，并且你可以随时将自己从特定的合集中移除。此外，我们将单个合集包含的个人资料数量限制为 25 个，并决定不提供“一键关注全部”的快捷方式。未来我们可能会调整具体数量，但我们的初衷是：过大的数量会使合集难以概览，从而更容易被用于垃圾信息传播（例如在大量合法账号中混入垃圾账号）。

Once you have created a collection, you can send the link to your friend or share it anywhere on the web, including Mastodon itself. Your collections will also be available on your own Mastodon profile, under the “Featured” tab. If you update the title or description of your collection later, the profiles that are on it will be notified, so no funny business! For now, finding collections is very manual, primarily through word of mouth. In the future, we are planning to introduce some ways to browse and discover popular collections.

创建合集后，你可以将链接发送给朋友或分享到网络上的任何地方，包括 Mastodon 本身。你的合集也会显示在你自己的 Mastodon 个人资料页的“精选”（Featured）标签下。如果你后续更新了合集的标题或描述，合集中的个人资料所有者将会收到通知，以防出现违规操作！目前，发现合集主要依靠手动方式，即口口相传。未来，我们计划引入一些浏览和发现热门合集的方法。

Profiles

个人资料

After doing a survey to understand what information about other users our community values the most, we’ve updated the look of profiles on Mastodon to make them more ergonomic (and a little prettier!). Whether you like browsing a profile’s original posts only, or want to see everything they boost and reply to, it now takes fewer clicks to get to that information, and your preference applies on every profile you view. Featured hashtags are now also way more prominent and easier to access.

在进行了一项旨在了解社区最看重哪些用户信息调查后，我们更新了 Mastodon 个人资料的外观，使其更符合人体工程学（也更美观了！）。无论你是喜欢只浏览某人的原创帖，还是想查看他们转发和回复的所有内容，现在只需更少的点击次数即可获取这些信息，且你的偏好设置适用于你查看的每一个个人资料页。精选标签（Featured hashtags）现在也更加醒目，访问也更便捷。

Perhaps even more importantly, we’ve reworked the entire editing experience for your profile. Instead of navigating away into the settings area just to update your profile picture, everything is available right from your profile by switching it into editing mode. Now you can crop your profile picture and header right there, instead of having to do it by hand before uploading. We’re also making it possible to add alt text for profile pictures and headers now, making your profile more accessible for blind and visually impaired users.

更重要的是，我们重构了整个个人资料的编辑体验。你无需再跳转到设置区域来更新头像，只需在个人资料页切换到编辑模式，一切操作触手可及。现在你可以直接在页面上裁剪头像和页眉，无需在上传前手动处理。我们还支持为头像和页眉添加替代文本（alt text），使盲人和视障用户能够更方便地访问你的个人资料。

With the new profile editing experience comes a few brand new options for customising your profile. You can now control whether a “Media” tab shows at all, and if so, whether it should include media attachments from your replies to other people or not. This way, if you want to use it as a portfolio while hiding the GIFs and memes you use to respond to others, you can. You can also control if the “Featured” tab, which displays your collections and featured profiles, should show up or not.

随着新的个人资料编辑体验的到来，我们还增加了一些自定义个人资料的全新选项。你现在可以控制是否显示“媒体”（Media）标签，如果显示，还可以选择是否包含你在回复他人时附带的媒体内容。这样，如果你想将个人资料页作为作品集，同时隐藏回复他人时使用的 GIF 和表情包，完全可以实现。你还可以控制是否显示展示合集和精选资料的“精选”（Featured）标签。

Newsletters

时事通讯

This feature is primarily for our institutional users, though we expect that journalists, bloggers, and other creators who run their own server might find it useful too: You can now opt-in to allow anonymous visitors to subscribe to your posts via e-mail, so even people who don’t have a Mastodon or Fediverse account and don’t wish to get one can keep up to date with you—given that you have an assigned role with the respective permission and the feature has been enabled on the server. We chose not to make this available for everyone by default as sending e-mail newsletters can significantly rack up the costs of operating a Mastodon server. You can discuss with your server administrator if you want to use this feature.

此功能主要面向机构用户，但我们也预计记者、博主和其他运营自己服务器的创作者会觉得它很有用：你现在可以选择允许匿名访客通过电子邮件订阅你的帖子。这样，即使是没有 Mastodon 或联邦宇宙账号且不想注册的人，也能随时了解你的动态——前提是你拥有相应的权限角色，且服务器已启用此功能。我们选择不默认向所有人开放此功能，因为发送电子邮件通讯会显著增加运营 Mastodon 服务器的成本。如果你想使用此功能，可以与你的服务器管理员沟通。

New landing page variant

新的登录页变体

If you are looking at the Mastodon server of the European Commission or the German government, the “Trending” tab may not be the most suitable place to start. For this reason, we’re introducing a setting for a new type of landing page that highlights the description of the server and the most recent updates from local profiles, as well as a simplified interface that keeps you from wandering off.

如果你正在查看欧盟委员会或德国政府的 Mastodon 服务器，“趋势”（Trending）标签可能不是最合适的起始页面。因此，我们引入了一种新的登录页设置，它会突出显示服务器描述和本地用户的最新动态，并提供一个简化的界面，防止用户迷失方向。

#Wrapstodon

#Wrapstodon 年度回顾

You might remember for the past two years we’ve been offering your year in review on mastodon.social around the month of December. This is a feature we’ve been polishing and optimizing and it’s finally officially becoming available to all server administrators. Starting from December 10 each year, Mastodon will offer you an option to generate your year in review report—only if you agree will anything be generated. The offer can just as easily be dismissed. Unlike the original 2024 version of this feature, which required you to manually take a screenshot to share your #Wrapstodon with other people, it can now be shared as a link with anyone on the web. So that’s something to look forward to towards the end of the year!

你可能还记得，过去两年我们一直在 12 月左右为 mastodon.social 提供年度回顾功能。这是一个我们一直在打磨和优化的功能，现在终于正式向所有服务器管理员开放。从每年的 12 月 10 日开始，Mastodon 将为你提供生成年度回顾报告的选项——只有在你同意的情况下才会生成。该提示也可以轻松关闭。与 2024 年最初版本需要手动截图分享 #Wrapstodon 不同，现在它可以作为链接分享给网络上的任何人。所以，年底的时候敬请期待吧！

Accessibility fixes

无障碍改进

We’ve already mentioned that you can now add alt text for profile pictures and headers, but that is just one of many countless accessibility improvements in Mastodon 4.6, from keyboard navigation and focus management, improving color contrasts, to various improvements to how screen readers navigate and read out things in the Mastodon interface. We want to thank the Dutch government who sponsored a significant part of this effort.

我们已经提到现在可以为头像和页眉添加替代文本，但这只是 Mastodon 4.6 中无数无障碍改进之一。其他改进还包括键盘导航、焦点管理、色彩对比度优化，以及屏幕阅读器在 Mastodon 界面中导航和朗读方式的各种提升。我们要感谢荷兰政府，他们为这项工作提供了重要的资助。

In conclusion

总结

Mastodon is the result of the work of our (now much larger!) engineering team and community contributors who submit patches, file bug reports, and translate Mastodon into their native languages. From our heart: Thank you to

Mastodon 是我们（现在规模大得多！）工程团队以及社区贡献者共同努力的成果，他们提交补丁、报告错误并将 Mastodon 翻译成母语。衷心感谢大家！