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Topic reply notifications added
A few people have expressed surprise to me that there weren't any notifications when someone replied to their topics (only comments), so I've added a basic version of topic reply notifications now as well. You'll get one when someone makes a new top-level comment on a topic that you posted, and they're combined in with the comment replies and shown in the same "unread notifications" page for now.
Most of the other weirdness mentioned when I added comment replies is still around, and I'll definitely want to add some sort of "stop sending me replies for this topic" toggle eventually, but I don't think it's a big concern for now since the comment volume is still very low.
Any chance of RSS or Atom feeds for the inbox? I'm currently using Hermit as a makeshift mobile app for tildes, and it's been working well so far. It supports RSS/Atom feeds for notifications so that would make my mobile experience of tildes pretty much complete!
Interesting, I've never heard of Hermit but that looks really cool, I'll have to check that out more.
RSS and Atom feeds are definitely possible, and I'd like to have them for the site as a whole eventually. I think authentication for inbox feeds can be a bit weird, so I'll need to look into that more to see if there's a particularly good way to do it.
While hermit might be cool for general websites, it would be cooler if tildes became a progressive web app so I could add it to my home screen directly and start up as a app after that.
That would be cool, but I think going into the realm of pwas might be straying a bit from tildes' tech goals.
How so? It doesn't add much if any weight to the website as all that is required is a manifest declaration that is ignored by any browser that can't make use of it.
In fact it would allow for more of a mobile app experience without needing a mobile app. Which very much is in line with the stated goal of
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To clarify further the manifest basically only tells the browser "Hey, if you want to wrap me you can use this icon and these colors to make me look more like an app".
Meaning that without having to make an actual app you can give people the ability to easily run the website as if is a standalone app.
Oh wow, I guess I thought there was more JavaScript involved! That would be pretty cool then.
The notification should be saved but counted as 'read' if you mark it as read. I'd like to be able to go back to my old notifications for whatever reason. As they are now, once you click it as read, they seem to disappear for ever.
Yep, they are actually still there and marked as read, there's just no page to view them yet.