Fedibird merge: investigate including "circles" and scheduled posts #1154
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Basically there are a lot of loose ends here to tie up and it wouldn't hurt to take a day doing so. Consider this a WIP PR until then. |
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Tagging this for the v1.1.0 milestone because I plan to review and possibly cherry-pick individual changes. |
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Is this the appropriate place to weigh in on any of the possible features? |
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@nevillepark Yes! Although I'm only interested in "Circles" and in scheduled posts. Everything else seems like it could have bad social side effects and needs to be talked through more. |
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If "quote posts" refers to posting in response to another post with that post embedded, I would urge caution in bringing this in to HomeTown. Quote posting has been deliberately excluded from the main Mastodon project because it encourages toxic behaviours like dogpiling and spreading things out of context. I expect toxic behaviour would be less likely in communities that have chosen HomeTown, but nevertheless I'd prefer this feature is not included, if that's what it refers to. |
dariusk
changed the title
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@hughrun I'm really only interested in Circles and scheduled posts, but that's unclear from the header so I've updated the title of this issue to reflect that. |
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I would love to include "Favorite lists" in the next release, too! It allows you to designate a list as "favorite" so that it shows up on the navbar on the mobile web UI. As I usually access fedi from my phone's browser, and because I organize most every one of my followers into exclusive lists, being able to access those lists in one click rather than three or four is huge. |
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@dariusk Thank you! Like @hughrun I was primarily concerned about quote posts as I feel they're too prone to enabling bad behaviour. Scheduled/expiring posts is a great idea. As for circles/groups, something to look into is how well they play with Guppe groups. We should make sure that, say, adding a Guppe group to a circle doesn't break anything. |
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Right, yes, "favorite lists" is a good one too - frankly higher on my priority list than circles as it's more straightforward. |
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Moving this to backlog, it's out of scope for 1.1 |
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This pull request has merge conflicts that must be resolved before it can be merged. |
This PR merges the current state of fedibird into Hometown, adding the following features:
Quote postsEmoji reactsFavorite listsSubscriptions[above was edited by Darius to reflect the direction of the conversation here]
... while preserving local-only posting.
Concerns:
What this PR does not do is reconcile the READMEs of each fork. I figured I would leave that for post-review cleanup, depending on what we decide to do with this.
This branch is running successfully on herd dot bovid dot space.
I submit this PR for consideration and discussion. What do you think?