Feature suggestion: Non-bumping comments
Sometimes you want to reply to a comment with a remark that may not be of interest to the wider Tildes audience, but posting that reply is going to bump the post up in the recent changes list anyway. It would be nice if a reply-to-a-reply had a checkbox allowing you to mark it as a non-bumping comment, like the “minor edit” feature on Wikipedia. The drawback is that it might enable more clutter in the form of off topic chatting. The advantage would be that it keeps the top of the recent changes list free of uninteresting updates.
One implementation detail regards the question of a non-bumping checkbox on replies to an already non-bumping comment. My sense is that once a comment has been marked “non-bumping”, all subsequent replies to it should be non-bumping as well.
This would probably be covered by the "whisper/aside" comment idea:
https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/-/issues/141
There was a merge request that had added the feature, but it was never implemented for some unknown reason.
There hasn’t been any activity in
masterfor 9 months. Is Tildes (the repo, not the site) no longer being maintained by anyone?I suppose it depends on what you mean by maintained. I still check Tildes Gitlab every few weeks, and do the occasional bit of administrative stuff when necessary, like labeling user submitted issues and contributing new issues/bug-reports. As for merge requests, I think only @deimos can do those, but I can't really speak to that side of things since I have never been part of that process, and so genuinely don't know what it involves or how it really works.
This might suggest a follow-on feature: an account setting to allow non-bump replies to bump anyway :) (in one's own personal view of the homepage, not globally for everyone).