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Possibility to star/bookmark a message
Feature request !
I could be interesting to add the ability to bookmark a message. Some post links to interesting stuff, but we don't always have time to read it right away. So bookmarking the post, and then having a menu to list these bookmarks, could help getting back to it later.
We used to have something akin to a 'pin' function, which got removed. I've a feeling it might have been removed for the same reason as 'liking' of comments - that they blew up the databases of larger pods - but someone with more knowledge would have to confirm that.
Hm, Wasn't pin transformed to like if I remember correctly? There's still some trace of it in the notification email when someone liked one of your post (at list, in french, it still says "Someone pinned it"). And you can find all your liked messages in /liked
This has a somewhat confusing history, yes.
I authored the initial like system. From the start I took dislikes into account. The founders didn't want dislikes, so there's no UI for them to date. One experiment was renaming likes to pins, in an attempt to be different I guess. This didn't have an exactly positive echo in the community though, so it was reverted after some time.
With the introduction of the participation system in the backend came the follow/unfollow function in the UI. This is how the activity stream is still built, liking or commenting a post creates a participation if there's none yet. Participations also still control whether you get a notification about activity on somebody else post. The follow/unfollow feature simply created/destroyed the participation. Why the feature got removed, I don't know, but if you look at the DB the participations table is still the biggest one, since it's the amount of comments and likes combined. So it might've been an attempt to reduce its size by not adding participations without any "real" action.
I have the same request. When I read D* on smartphone, I need to bookmark to read at home on my computer ... Thanks :)
I'm wondering, isn't clicking on the timestamp to open the post in a new tab, and then use the bookmark feature of the browser (or simply let the tab open until you read it) enough?
Yes, that's what I do, either keep things open in tabs or store them as bookmarks in the browser. The advantage of storing bookmarks in diaspora would be, that it would sync over all devices ... but there are ways to also sync bookmarks from the browser between devices.
And we already have likes and following a post, so I don't know if we really need a third system for bookmarks?
I once also thought about it. "Would be nice if..." but just hit the bookmark button and I am done. On the other side, this is not possible in Mobile view or inside the apps. So its still an option to add a bookmark sign anywhere or at least add the API for that.
