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71 votes
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Tiny little mobile feature request: dot indicator
When viewing the desktop version of the website, there is a little orange notification to the left of my name when there are replies to my messages. When viewing the website in mobile, there is no...
When viewing the desktop version of the website, there is a little orange notification to the left of my name when there are replies to my messages.
When viewing the website in mobile, there is no such indication, and I have to open up the sidebar to see if I have any new replies.
Could we get a simple, orange "dot" indicator to the left the Sidebar link in mobile to let us know when we have unread messages?
I apologize in advance for the imgur link, but it could look something like this: Example
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Signal messenger releases 'usernames' so you no longer need to tell someone your phone number in order for them to message you
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Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker sites
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Hyundai unveils ’crab-walking” car that makes parallel parking a snap
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GitHub Actions feels bad
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My favorite MacOS Sonoma feature makes connecting to another Mac a breeze
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Are credit card points ever worthwhile?
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How Tesla, BMW, Ford, GM and Mercedes driver assist systems compare
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Markdown helpers for the comment block
I submit a lot of posts from mobile, and I find some of the markdown tedious to enter on a mobile keyboard. I know JavaScript is supposed to be a last resort, but I'd really like to have some...
I submit a lot of posts from mobile, and I find some of the markdown tedious to enter on a mobile keyboard. I know JavaScript is supposed to be a last resort, but I'd really like to have some assistance in the post authoring and comments fields.
I assume this could be a user script. Looking at the wiki, it looks like none of the current ones do this.
Thoughts on this? Things people are already using? Ideas for existing tools to build on? Would it be better as a user script or as a feature of the main site, perhaps with an option to disable it? I'm medium at JavaScript but would happily take a crack at it.
Here is my inital feature list:
- link button - select text, press the link button, get a prompt for the URL, replace the selected text with the markdown formatted text and URL.
- quote block- select multiple paragraphs and click the button to block quote them all
- bold, italic, strike though buttons - apply the markdown to selected text
- spoiler - insert a details block at the cursor. If text is selected wrap it in a details block and prompt for the summary.
if I were to develop it, what else would people like to see on this list?
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Steam might let you hide those embarrassing games in your profile soon
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Tesla confirms wireless inductive electric car home charger is coming
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Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used
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It sure looks like a hacking campaign messed up people's Spotify Wrapped
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Controller support shown in Steam library and store expands to now include PlayStation controllers
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No more phone number swaps: Signal messaging app now testing usernames
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Valve doesn't sell ad space on Steam so it can make room for surprise hits: 'We don't think Steam should be pay-to-win'
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Minecraft Live 2023: New mob, Trial Chambers, and auto crafting!
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Wordpress.com now supports ActivityPub
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Sony announces smaller PlayStation 5 design with option to add a disc drive to the Digital Edition console
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Reddit is going to let you turn gold into money
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Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform
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Yelp has a wall of shame for businesses caught paying for fake reviews
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X announces it’s shutting down ‘Circles’ as of October 31st
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Bard can now connect to your Google apps and services
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Wikipedia:Dark mode
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Mastodon’s next major release enables full-text search. A few flagship instances already have it.
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Twitch will let streamers ban users from watching their streams
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Windows Secure Time Seeding sometimes resets clocks months or years off the correct time
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What do I think about Twitter/X Community Notes?
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Tesla jailbreak unlocks in-car paid features
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Forget subtitles: YouTube’s new feature dubs videos with AI-generated voices
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How Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism
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From prototypes to future tech: How PS VR2 was built. New insight into the multi-year development process behind the PlayStation VR2 hardware.
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Reddit is getting rid of its Gold awards system
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US Redditors to earn real money for gold, karma
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Minecraft Wiki strongly considering moving away from Fandom
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Apple Vision Pro headsets will require a head scan and vision prescription to customize the headset for each user
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A journey into hip hop lore to discuss one of its forgotten '90s legends; Canibus. Why was he so hyped, why does nobody remember him, and why is his legacy so important?
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OpenAI: Introducing Superalignment
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The Framework Laptop 16-inch gets extra external snap-on batteries
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Midjourney version 5.2 adds support for "zoom out" feature
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New custom D&D miniatures from Hero Forge will soon include adjustable facial features
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If you would like to add a feature to Tildes, what would you recommend?
What missing feature on Tildes would you like to see being implemented?
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Tildes post please ignore (no seriously, use the ignore feature!)
A lesser known feature of Tildes that is VERY useful: You can ignore any topic on Tildes! There are two ways to do it: From the main page, click Actions ▼ then Ignore this post From the topic...
A lesser known feature of Tildes that is VERY useful:
You can ignore any topic on Tildes! There are two ways to do it:
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From the main page, click
Actions ▼
thenIgnore this post
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From the topic itself, click
Ignore
The topic will leave your feed, never to be seen again (unless you want to or made a mistake, in which case you can see it under Your ignored topics on your user page and remove it from your ignore list).
Use this to cut down on clutter from your feeds by eliminating high-activity topics you are not interested in.
It will also mute notifications from that topic as well, so it’s a good way of disengaging from a conversation if you wish.
I saw a few longtime users in other threads who were unaware of this feature until today, so I figured I’d make the PSA.
Go ahead everyone, try it on this post!
Ignore
it, PLEASE!86 votes -
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Cloudflare Radar now shows worldwide internet quality
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Observations on needed features and issues now that the site has gotten busier
Now that the site has gotten a little busier, I’ve noticed a few shifts in how I've engaged with the site and jotted down notes on things that I've noticed might be nice to have. We already have a...
Now that the site has gotten a little busier, I’ve noticed a few shifts in how I've engaged with the site and jotted down notes on things that I've noticed might be nice to have. We already have a "what don't you like" thread I know, but this is more like "what didn't I notice when the place was a lot quieter" sort of thing.
Edit bumps for megathreads
I recently created a megathread for the Apple VisionPro reviews. But I realized that if I continuously edit in new reviews as they come in, the thread won’t bump. I’d need to actually post each time a new review comes in AND edit it into the self-post. It might be nice if I could choose to bump a self-post if I’m making a substantive edit to the content. Though I can see the opportunities for abuse here so I wonder if there’s a more elegant solution for it besides just occasionally posting when there are updates.
Following/Subscribing to Topics
Yes topics get bumped as conversation happens in them, but with the level of activity we have right now I’m having trouble keeping up with conversations I’m actually invested in following. Bookmarks are good, but there’s two issues. One is that they’re hidden in a folder off to the side. So it’s easy to forget to check them. Two is that they’re currently serving dual purposes, they can either be for saving specific topics because I think they’re good enough that I might want to reference them again or they can be because I want to keep up with the conversation in them.
I’d be interested in separating the functions a little bit. I’d like to be able to bookmark topics as a “save” function but also “subscribe” to topics to get alerted up top when there are new posts the same way I am alerted to stuff in my inbox. Alternatively, just having an “unread” count next to the bookmarked topics link and sorting the list of bookmarks by acitivity might do it.A Drafts section
This post right now I mostly composed in a note-taking app because it’s a collection of random thoughts I had while using the site the past couple of weeks but didn’t want to post until I had time to marinate on them. Being able to save drafts directly in Tildes would have been a nice feature. It would also be good for replies since it gives you a chance to be like “Hmmm, do I really want to engage with this conversation right now?”
“Shortlisted” groups
The list of groups is a bit long, especially when you’re scrolling it on mobile. People might not (and probably don’t) actually care about all of them. It might be nice if we could “star” a group to have it show up higher on the list or have all non-starred groups in a collapsed list.
Choosing groups from the new post view instead of posting from the groups view
Since groups are currently being treated more like “super-tags” than separated communities, I wonder if it wouldn’t be better to designate the group in a dropdown menu above the tag bar when we’re posting instead of needing to go into a group to create a new post. In some cases, I might think a self-post belongs in one group but by the time I’m done writing I realize this ~humanities post is really more of a ~life post. This will, of course, depend on the outcome of the “treating groups more as separate entities” discussion.
Subscribed topic tags
Filtered topic tags is a nice feature because it’s one interaction mode that serves dual uses. You can both remove a selected class of content from your main feed but then you can also navigate into it to see ONLY that content. This basically lets you use it alternatively as a “favorites” option instead of an anti-favorites option. (I guess this is less of a feature suggestion and more of an observation for a non-obvious use of the function.) We could, maybe, separate out the list of filtered topics by why you’re filtering. Either “I don’t want to see this stuff” or “I want to be able to specially focus on this stuff.”
Built-in invite request form
Currently to get an invite you have to ask on Reddit or something. Maybe we should have a page where people can request invites within Tildes so we aren’t reliant on having to pick-up flotsam from other social media platforms. The downside, of course, is that you can’t vet people. So this invite path would probably be the lowest priority and only handed out during quiet periods where noxious posters can be handled quickly.
“Only New” filter for comments
I mentioned this issue with the Arc browser that makes it so the “collapse all old replies” function breaks if I open it in a background tab. Maybe it might be nice to also have this as a button I can trigger next to the Collapse replies and Expand all buttons. Or, if it doesn’t over-complicate the UI, maybe even a way to “collapse all before [datetime]” with the last session time pre-filled in. Or perhaps more like a clock that you can wind backwards in 30 minute or 1 hour increments.
Rethinking time-limit on Exemplary labels
I think it’s crucial that these remain a rare commodity, but with the current volume of good posts the 8 hour limit is feeling mighty constraining. Although previously the time limit didn’t feel like a constraint at all because there legitimately wasn’t much to label. Not sure if this should actually change or not, maybe the time limit can stretch or compress based on how active the site has been over the past X hours.
Add a “Funny” modifier to the “Joke” label
The effect on sorting should be the exact same and it should be invisible to everyone, but I just think it would be fun and would also encourage people to label jokes as such (trick folks into narcing basically). Maybe when there is a reputation system in place it can be used to adjust how big of a negative weight your joke posts get. Funnier people get dinged less.
Rethinking the necroposting warning
With more people here there are more active conversations and topics seem to remain active a lot longer. In topics like the one for questions from new users it’s so active it feels kind of silly to see the “this topic is over X old” warning. We do want to encourage maintaining conversations as long as they’re going so maybe we should suppress this warning on active topics (like ones that have had more than 5 posts in the past 3 days).
Improved search
I know search is hard, but it is difficult to find old stuff. I’ve been trying to dig up examples of old posts or previous conversations on things when answering questions and I’m often trying to wrack my brain for specific phrases from conversations a year or more ago. It just doesn’t work for this. Discord search works pretty well and gives you modifiers for who posted, where, around when. I get the potential for abuse here, but maybe enable this kind of deep search for my own post history and nobody else’s?
Mark direct messages as unread
Exactly what is says on the tin. Sometimes people ask you something and you need to come back to it later.
Tag cloud
Knowing what to tag things as is intimidating for newbies and old heads alike. There need to be mechanisms to make this more approachable. I think perhaps if, underneath the tag bar we just displayed a “word cloud” of the common tags sized according to frequency it might help get people started. The word cloud would have to be per group and maybe refreshed per day based on a rolling-sample of the last 100 posts.
Put a vote button on the bottom of the post for self-posts.
Seriously, do you realize how much scrolling I have to do to go back up and upvote kfwyre when he posts something like this? It's especially a hassle on mobile.
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Apple Podcasts gets upgraded search functionality
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Anyone can Photoshop now, thanks to AI’s latest leap
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Why doesn't Tildes display a user's social score or karma on their profile page?
I've noticed that tildes is somewhat different than other social networks in that it doesn't display a user's karma, neither on profile page or on the handle. On other networks, you'll always see...
I've noticed that tildes is somewhat different than other social networks in that it doesn't display a user's karma, neither on profile page or on the handle. On other networks, you'll always see something like
pyeri [100]
at almost every place where pyeri posts.Is there any thought process behind this design decision? Do you think judging users by their social score might lead to "class conflicts" of sorts which might erupt in flame wars or something? Or do you think high karma will reach their heads and make them more narcissistic while a lower score will make them prone to imposter syndrome!
But on the flip side, this karma score acts as a kind of street cred indicator. What the community thinks about a particular user is public and known to the community in the natural and organic course of content creation which is quite desirable.
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