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@omega@community.nodebb.org · last month

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NodeBB v4.9.0 — A Whole New /world!

Good work all!

@julian said:

New "World" page
/world has been updated so that is closer to a feed-reader than a topic list. While I will continue to iterate on this design over time to better promote topics, I am hoping that this proves to be more accessible of an interface compared to the old topic listing.

Your watched/tracked remote categories will be listed in a sidebar (hidden behind a drawer on mobile views) for easy access.

The default view ("Latest") continues to be a list of content from people you follow, and content shared by those same people. The other view ("Popular") shows unconstrained content, and can include content from people you don't follow.

I have a vague memory I had a sense I suggested this was a challenge a bit back but I'm fuzzy without back tracking.

So I had a look and what I see (for me) I think is just one topic that I participated in, in that "feed-reader" (is it a look?) and I saw nothing else, before was /world populated with all ActPub topics but now feed view is contextual to the user prefs/activity-state?

Or, can you qualify this a little more the intention, for the one who hasn't been at class for some time. When you the time of course. No rush.

panos

@panos@community.nodebb.org · last month

NodeBB v4.9.0 — A Whole New /world!

Unfortunately I'm still having issues in this forum. Latest still shows what seems like all posts this server receives, instead of my follows:

Also, when I try to search for my account on another server, it shows my account on nodebb instead:

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julian

@julian@community.nodebb.org · last month

NodeBB v4.9.0 — A Whole New /world!

@panos Understood, the user searching issue is still outstanding, but the workaround for now is to not put a domain in. Searching panos or panos@ should still show your related remote accounts. Not the best workaround, I know.

As for the former issue, are you not following lashman?

panos

@panos@community.nodebb.org · last month

NodeBB v4.9.0 — A Whole New /world!

@julian ah, "panos@" worked. Cool, as long as it's a known issue. As for your question, no, I follow very few people, and I get new posts all the time, it's literally like the "global" timeline in other platforms. It's been like this for months now, and in practice it means that it doesn't make any difference if I follow someone or not, I'll still get every post from everyone.

julian

@julian@community.nodebb.org · last month

NodeBB v4.9.0 — A Whole New /world!

@panos okay, it turns out your account (and like 5 others, me included) had started "tracking" the /world category, which didn't really make sense. I removed that option awhile back, but the setting probably stayed behind.

I've cleared that setting and manually flushed your inbox now, so you should see a more sane /world page going forward.

omega

@omega@community.nodebb.org · last month

⁂ Article

NodeBB v4.9.0 — A Whole New /world!

Good work all!

@julian said:

New "World" page
/world has been updated so that is closer to a feed-reader than a topic list. While I will continue to iterate on this design over time to better promote topics, I am hoping that this proves to be more accessible of an interface compared to the old topic listing.

Your watched/tracked remote categories will be listed in a sidebar (hidden behind a drawer on mobile views) for easy access.

The default view ("Latest") continues to be a list of content from people you follow, and content shared by those same people. The other view ("Popular") shows unconstrained content, and can include content from people you don't follow.

I have a vague memory I had a sense I suggested this was a challenge a bit back but I'm fuzzy without back tracking.

Or, can you qualify this a little more the intention, for the one who hasn't been at class for some time. When you the time of course. No rush.

julian

@julian@community.nodebb.org · last month

NodeBB v4.9.0 — A Whole New /world!

@omega the /world page should show content from users outside of the instance that you follow. For users starting out that would be nobody, so it's an empty feed.

Not exactly the best user experience, I grant you.

Until you get some followers, maybe try the "popular" sort?

omega

@omega@community.nodebb.org · last month

NodeBB v4.9.0 — A Whole New /world!

@julian Ok thanks. You know me still trying to orientate the z axis of this, when we've only got the x and y to play with. I guess that's been the challenge from the start.

If you don't mind me asking - What is it you were trying to achieve with this vs before?

Ya know what problem was being solved in exchange for new ones

julian

@julian@activitypub.space · last month

NodeBB v4.9.0 — A Whole New /world!

Before, you were seeing the same topics (more or less, I think the logic changed a little bit) but in a "topic list" style — like you were navigating into just another category.

While that worked fine, the vast majority of content was microblog content that did not come with a title, so one needed to be generated.

A topic listing with many many long titles (some of which don't function well as titles) does not a good topic list make 🙂

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@phillycodehound@indieweb.social · 2 months ago

@julian Looking 👀! Very excited!