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Tue 15 Sep 2015 3:23AM

#Pinning A #Post

DU Birne Helene Public Seen by 118

If I might make a #suggestion to the #Diaspora* coders & #podmin's:

It would be really helpful were there the possibilty to #pin a post, to keep it in your sight whilst the #stream is floating past. For instance, I have two posts I remember I wanted to comment when I read them, but not right then. Now, a mere week since, it’s virtually impossible to find them again. #Pinning a post would also help #concentrate on the #discussions you’re interested in, and not - as it is today - #forget what was on your mind, what you wanted to say, because of the constant #influx of new topics.

One might say that once you added a #comment to a post it stays afloat. In fact it doesn’t. It keeps its head above the water as long as somebody says something. But after just a little period of silence it drowns like all the others, and the stream prevails. Which is rather counterproductive.

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Elm Tue 15 Sep 2015 5:57AM

I also miss this feature which I found in Libertree. In addition, there could be several "pin board", named by user, just like aspects, but for posts.

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Rasmus Fuhse Tue 15 Sep 2015 6:38AM

I agree and would call it "bookmark a post".

But for the meantime, Birne, maybe the stream "my latest activities" could help you. It helped me a bit in this case.

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Beta Idoru Tue 15 Sep 2015 8:37AM

I think it is a great idea. Would allow to highlight import posts from user's account perspective.

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lub Tue 15 Sep 2015 9:44AM

I also think this is a great idea, because it is really difficult to find posts you read earlier, if you don't bookmark them in your browser. Pinning would be a good middleway.

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Steffen van Bergerem Tue 15 Sep 2015 2:35PM

So pinning a post means adding a private bookmark? Since that would mean that it is not federated and also not visible to other users one might be able to implement it with a reasonable amount of code changes.

We would have a new icon for posts to pin/unpin them. Pinning a post means adding the user id and post id to the database and unpinning a post means removing the entry. A user would have a stream with all posts they pinned.

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Birne Helene Tue 15 Sep 2015 5:31PM

If not a solution via cookies and some Javascript on the client side would suffice. Somewhere in my browser tab I see icons for the posts I've pinned, and every once in a while the browser sends an update request to the server. Then, if there has been an update, the respective icon changes its color or some such. And when I click on the icon I get the whole view in the same way as it is displayed now. From my perspective the changes to the code would be minimal. An additional database query on the server side, a little tinkering with the frontend scripts, some additional Javascript functions for the client, and that's it. I may be wrong, but that's the way I'd approach the issue.

And of course the additional pin/unpin icon you're suggesting.

DU

Wed 16 Sep 2015 11:21AM

Basically, I don't think this would be much different from the likes system. I currently use it sometimes when I want to something like bookmark a post. So some pieces of code used to like a post can be reused to implement a bookmark feature.

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goob Wed 16 Sep 2015 1:04PM

I'm pretty sure that it was originally possible to pin posts in Diaspora, but this got removed at some point - possibly being replaced by 'like'. I have no objection to 'pinning' being (re-)implemented if there's a desire for it.

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Birne Helene Wed 16 Sep 2015 1:20PM

The Like feature is different from what I'm having in mind. Pinning would mean that the post in question never "drowns" with the stream. Pinning would mean keeping a post in your sight as long as you want/ need it.

I would have an icon somewhere indicating this post, and this icon will be there until I unpin the post. Right of the stream div (or iframe or whatever it is) there could be a vertical strip for the pinned posts' icons. Or it could be integrated into the "buddies" sidebar.

DU

Wed 16 Sep 2015 2:02PM

The Like feature is different from what I’m having in mind. Pinning would mean that the post in question never “drowns” with the stream. Pinning would mean keeping a post in your sight as long as you want/ need it.

I'm not talking about using like for pinning, but just reuse the code of the like system to implement a pinning as the two feature are close to each other.

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