Feature request: Hide/Collapse posts

[cbiere]

I would appreciate an option to hide or collapse posts so that they don't take space or attention in my timeline. Mosts posts I don't care about anyway and the ones I've read I usually don't need to see in my timeline anymore. I've tried a few other clients for Mastodon/Fediverse and I have not noticed such a feature in any of the clients.

[nikclayton]

Hi, thanks for the feature request.

I'm a little unsure on what you mean, especially about the user experience if this option existed and was enabled. Can you describe in more detail what you'd expect to see?

[cbiere]

What I mean is that I want to handle my timeline in Pachli like my email inbox: delete items or move items to an archive folder.

Right now I have to scroll back and forth if I want to read older items and manually/visually scan through all items I have already seen. Instead of making the items invisible, they could be reduced to a single line showing just the account and a timestamp.

An alternative would be showing the post using a different font color or adding some icon to items read.

[nikclayton]

So you'd have to take an action on each post (e.g., swipe it away) to mark it as "read" in some way? Or you think this should happen automatically as you scroll?

[cbiere]

Yes, that is how I imagined it. Just scrolling would defeat the purpose. However, coupled with a delay this might also be an useful option.