GNU social V3

+Milestone: Tags +

GNU social development team — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 15:21:18 +0000

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Due to the high density of technical aspects, we decided to keep this blog +post more on the light side and focus on explaining the new functionalities. +Check our Wiki Milestone entry for all the juicy details.
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>WIKI Milestone entry

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GNU social v2 has tags and lists. It allows you to:

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search for an #hashtag and see a stream of notes tagged with it;
make lists of actors and mention them with @#list_name
self tag and enter a list of people in your instance with the same self tag

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It is limited with regards to federation of self tags and the @#list_name can't +target remote actors even when they are inside your list.

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What's new with v3?

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Federated self tags

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We now federate self tags and lists, so that constraint from v2 was moved out of +the way.

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In the future, the use of these tags can allow you to find people, +groups and even individual notes that have a tag you're interested in. We only +mean filtering, not magic recommendation algorithms.

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Tag Wrangling

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Proposed by @licho in Tue, 02 Jun 2019 17:52:07 GMT:

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I like the tag wrangling feature of AO3, which I think would help for cases of synonymous tags like #introduction and #introductions
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https://archiveofourown.org/wrangling_guidelines/11
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Is it feasible for !gnusocial ? Or would it cause problems?
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The answer is yes and will be released with v3. With the addition of +Languages in notes and actors there was little excuse not to be feasible.

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Whenever you post a note containing tags, you can choose whether to +make those tags canonical. This means that, for instance, the tags +#run and #running become the 'same', meaning that when you click on +the link for the #run tag, you'll also see notes tagged #running. You +can opt out of the behaviour by unchecking the "Make note tags +canonical". An identical process occurs for people tags.

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Internally, this transformation is accomplished by splitting the tag +into words and stemming each word.

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Related Tags

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In a tag feed, you can see tags that are often used together with the +one you're seeing. This can be useful, for instance, for finding other +content you'd be interested in.

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Improved Tag feeds

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When you click on a tag, be it a note tag or a person tag, you'll see +a feed of notes/people with that tag. You can also edit the feeds you +see in your left panel, so you can follow a given tag.

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Mute Self Tags and Note Tags

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If you don't like seeing a given tag in your feeds, for whatever +reason, you can choose to mute it. You can mute a note tag or a person +tag, in which case you wouldn't see any notes from people with that +tag.

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Milestone: Actor colour theme plugin

GNU social development team — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:50:02 +0000

@@ -69,6 +167,7 @@ won't experience the issue again. That is, if the file is cached by the browser. Given a valid colour, it's the actor's responsibility whether or not the colours make sense. So, go wild!

-Milestone: Tags -

GNU social development team — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:50:02 +0000

- -

-
Due to the high density of technical aspects, we decided to keep this blog -post more on the light side and focus on explaining the new functionalities. -Check our Wiki Milestone entry for all the juicy details.
-

- -

>WIKI Milestone entry

- -

GNU social v2 has tags and lists. It allows you to:

- -

search for an #hashtag and see a stream of notes tagged with it;
make lists of actors and mention them with @#list_name
self tag and enter a list of people in your instance with the same self tag

- -

It is limited with regards to federation of self tags and the @#list_name can't -target remote actors even when they are inside your list.

- -

What's new with v3?

- -

Federated self tags

- -

We now federate self tags and lists, so that constraint from v2 was moved out of -the way.

- -

In the future, the use of these tags can allow you to find people, -groups and even individual notes that have a tag you're interested in. We only -mean filtering, not magic recommendation algorithms.

- -

Tag Wrangling

- -

Proposed by @licho in Tue, 02 Jun 2019 17:52:07 GMT:

- -

-
I like the tag wrangling feature of AO3, which I think would help for cases of synonymous tags like #introduction and #introductions
- -
https://archiveofourown.org/wrangling_guidelines/11
- -
Is it feasible for !gnusocial ? Or would it cause problems?
-

- -

The answer is yes and will be released with v3. With the addition of -Languages in notes and actors) there was little excuse not to be feasible.

- -

Whenever you post a note containing tags, you can choose whether to -make those tags canonical. This means that, for instance, the tags -#run and #running become the 'same', meaning that when you click on -the link for the #run tag, you'll also see notes tagged #running. You -can opt out of the behaviour by unchecking the "Make note tags -canonical". An identical process occurs for people tags.

- -

Internally, this transformation is accomplished by splitting the tag -into words and stemming each word.

- -

Related Tags

- -

In a tag feed, you can see tags that are often used together with the -one you're seeing. This can be useful, for instance, for finding other -content you'd be interested in.

- -

Improved Tag feeds

- -

When you click on a tag, be it a note tag or a person tag, you'll see -a feed of notes/people with that tag. You can also edit the feeds you -see in your left panel, so you can follow a given tag.

- -

Mute Self Tags and Note Tags

- -

If you don't like seeing a given tag in your feeds, for whatever -reason, you can choose to mute it. You can mute a note tag or a person -tag, in which case you wouldn't see any notes from people with that -tag.

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