Kristof Csillag

See https://github.com/openannotation/annotator/issues/316

I think this is exactly the same as https://github.com/hypothesis/h/issues/580

I think closing https://github.com/hypothesis/h/issues/580 was a mistake, because it's not really a duplicate of https://github.com/hypothesis/h/issues/763. I propose copying (much of the) content from https://github.com/hypothesis/h/issues/580 to here, maybe with some simplifications.

So... let me see if I get this right. The idea is to allow the users to subscribe to some of the available _channel factories_ (like Reddit, HN, Twitter, etc),...

> I have no idea where the word "factory" comes in to this. Let me explain. A channel is something which has a well-defined content stream. (The definition is probably...

> There's a Twitter firehose of all tweets, and there are other streams which are smaller (user tweets, list tweets, hashtag streams, etc). All of these are channels. Yes, because...

> I just don't see what you mean. I want mental telepathy RIGHT NOW.

> So the Twitter Channel doesn't have an annotation for every existing tweet. Does that make it any less a channel? No. The fact that it does not create (or...

We had a long discussion about this earlier ... if only someone could find the link...

> Related: I think it really means Show Annotation Highlights (or Hide Annotation Highlights) because the buckets, which are another way of showing annotations, are always there if the product...