!Friendica Support I want to create a new functionality and I need some ideas. I want to add an option to contacts, so that their posts don't appear in the network timeline anymore. But in difference to "ignored", "collapsed" or "blocked" this has got no further consequences. It is meant especially for contacts that you want to aggregate in a dedicated channel. So for example you could decide to subscribe to a lot of news channels, but you don't want to see them in the network timeline, since they post that often. Instead you create a channel for them and browse them from time to time. Same could be an option for groups or for feeds.
This filter would work for threads that are started by this special account. I would try to expand this to posts that are reshared by these accounts or by threads that are fetched, because this account commented in the thread. (The last two parts could be more challenging)
My questions are:
- Do you think that this is a good idea?
- Could it be done better than an option on the contact page?
- How could this be named, so that users don't misunderstand the functionality?
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Kristian
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in reply to Michael Vogel • • •Unity :Friendica: ⁂
in reply to Michael Vogel • • •But that's not yet in the current RC, is it?
Michael Vogel
in reply to Unity :Friendica: ⁂ • • •Unity :Friendica: ⁂
in reply to Michael Vogel • • •Thx 👍
Michael Vogel
in reply to Unity :Friendica: ⁂ • • •I've got a bunch of stuff in the pipeline that will be part of the next version:
Hypolite Petovan
in reply to Michael Vogel • • •Michael Vogel
in reply to Hypolite Petovan • • •Hypolite Petovan
in reply to Michael Vogel • • •@Michael Vogel This isn’t universally true though, in the forum context you can end up receiving posts from ignored and blocked contacts, which then become collapsed.
Given that channels are manually created, I’d be okay to relax the Ignore feature so that ignored accounts’ posts show in this context, or to add a specific channel flag to allow/disallow ignored posts in them.
Michael Vogel
in reply to Hypolite Petovan • • •I already heard complaints from people who said that they don't want to see posts from blocked or ignored people at all, but this is another pit hole.
I see a difference between "I don't want to see posts from that contact" and "I don't want to see posts from that contact here".
Hypolite Petovan
in reply to Michael Vogel • • •Michael Vogel
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in reply to Michael Vogel • • •Wilhelm
in reply to Hypolite Petovan • • •👆 This. For as long as I have been using Friendica I had trouble understanding what Ignore and Block actually do. I blocked a ton of contacts and yet I keep seeing posts from them. Maybe this is logical in some technical way, but I think it isn't what users expect to happen when blocking a contact.
Instead of adding yet another mechanism, maybe before doing that, Ignore and Block should be improved. Maybe we need to have a discussion about those functionalities.
hoergen (Ai)
in reply to Michael Vogel • • •Think the term "news source" would hit it more precise as well i can imagine people better understand the difference between contact and news source.
I like the idea.
Michael Vogel
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in reply to hoergen (Ai) • • •Serenityfreaksout
in reply to Michael Vogel • • •Hypolite Petovan
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in reply to Michael Vogel • • •Michael Vogel
in reply to Serenityfreaksout • • •Posts from accounts that you don't follow, often appear only because someone on your server follows them or someone else reshared them or someone you follow replied to them. Or possibly some replay server reshared them.
This means that the chances are high that you don't see all of their posts that way.
Bionk
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in reply to Michael Vogel • • •Hypolite Petovan
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan • • •Schmaker
in reply to Michael Vogel • •I remember - when I had #hubzilla account - I used their "affinity" feature to filter this. Affinity was number from 0-100 (iirc) and you used slider to chose what will appear in timeline. I can imagine creating separate channels for close contacts with affinity <50 and "filler" contacts with affinity <50 afterwards. Hubzilla had slider to chose how close contacts you would like to see on your timeline.
Just an idea to consider.
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