Coming in v1.0
Postcard mode
A slower mode of browsing. One card at a time, the way you might leaf through a stack of postcards on a Sunday afternoon. Coming in v1.0.
Most social apps reward speed. Postcard mode rewards the opposite.
In Postcard mode, the timeline becomes a stack of single cards — one post at a time, full-bleed on the screen, with a quiet swipe to the next. There is no infinite scroll. There is no engagement bar pulsing for your attention. There is one post, made deliberately to be the size of something you can sit with for a minute or two before deciding what to do with it.
The metaphor is exactly what it sounds like: postcards. A small stack of them on the kitchen table on a Sunday afternoon. You pick up one. You read it. You set it down. You pick up the next.
What’s in it
- One card per screen, sized to be readable from a comfortable distance
- A subtle paper-warmth in the background that drifts almost imperceptibly with time
- A small light effect across the card on the way in, the way the corner of a printed photograph catches an afternoon sun
- Standard interactions on the card — reply, repost, like, bookmark, share as image — without the engagement-bar density of the timeline
- An opt-in mode, not the default. Most users will live in the timeline. Postcard mode is for the moments when you want a different pace.
On the way
Postcard mode is on the v1.0 roadmap. It exists for a different mood of reading — slower, more considered, less scrollable. It is mentioned here because it is part of what Lanai is, not yet because it ships today.