#40560·mastodon

Drop the word "Home -" from the <title> of home

Author: thijskhCreated Sep 16, 2026Updated Sep 16, 2026

Pitch

The most used page on Mastodon is /home. When this shows in a browser tab, the page title is however

<title>Home - Instance Name</title>

With many tabs this becomes just "Home" which is not informative.

I suggest to leave out the "Home - " part. If you're on the home page of an instance it will just be

<title>Instance Name</title>

which makes it obvious that this tab contains your Mastodon things.

Motivation

A small change that would make user-with-many-open-tabs' life just a bit better. The word "Home -" does not add value in the title.