Link to a message in twister

[idontsov]

Suggestion: introduce a common way to reference a message in twister. A client application should display such references as hyperlinks.

[iShift]

+1 we need wrapper that can open twister:// links

[dryabov]

IMHO it's better to use just "twister:" (without slashes), like in mailto, skype, etc.:

twister:messageid@username

[iShift]

show message: twister:show:messageid@username show username twister:show:username follow: twister:follow:@username send post: twister:send:%text% send DM: twister:dm:@username

[dryabov]

@iShift Why do you suggest so many links? IMHO, it would be enough to have links to posts twister:messageid@username and to profiles twister:username (where follow, post, and DM buttons are displayed). The rest is hardly necessary. Can you give an example where it would be used?

[iShift]

Twitter widgets on many sites "follow me, follow us" with one click following

[milouse]

I've started working on a way to directly open various modal window, following the url hash: milouse/twister-html@7ed9b8b84f3d850374b86100908fdb32721d7e13. Current state juste allow to directly open user profile when opening webpage like http://yourhost/home.html#profile?user=toto I need to polish it and monitor hashtag and direct link to message if possible. Stay tuned.

[milouse]

I've successfully implemented external url support and use of web+twister:profile:username and web+twister:hashtag:something protocol handler. You can review it in my branch.

I need more support to understand how to retrieve only one message in order to implement web+twister:profile:username:messageid If someone has some hints, it would be great :+1:

[miguelfreitas]

@milouse I'm backlogged and i still haven't had time to check your contributions. Still, thanks for you work in advance ;-)

I believe there are two kind of orthogonal issues here:

1. when @idontsov opened this issue #120, i believe he was referring to how to address old posts from inside the post text itself. for that purpose, i like @dryabov suggestion of short urls.

2. the ability to open http://localhost:28332/home.html#profile?user=xxx or similar is very nice (and quite important for browser navigation, that is, issue #199) but it's not necessary for (1).

i mean, one could resolve (1) without touching (2) or vice versa.

[milouse]

Yep, I totally agree with that. In fact one can use my work to address 2) without having to think about 1) (or vice versa). I merge the two concepts in my PR because I thought, from a developer point of view, it makes sense and avoid similar code duplication. That's why I introduce the function watchHashChange (https://github.com/milouse/twister-html/blob/feature/followhashlinks/js/interface_common.js#L356) to monitor both « real » or tiny short url and take appropriate action.

But yes, my work is not complete. This function must be extended to fully address #120. But I lack of knowledge in C++/DHT/torrent and other twister-core stuff xD So for now development is currently postponed for this feature, until I found some times to further investigate inside core functions.

By the way, I think my PR should be usefull to close #41 and no problem to volonteer on closing this #120 issue too :)