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133 sats \ 7 replies \ @tenuous 29 Aug 2022 \ on: Daily discussion thread
Hey @k00b just a thought on UI - the "more" button at the bottom makes it hard to scroll through historical posts (which is a great use of forums IMO).
Have you considered a page number system or something similar? It is a testament to the power of this site that already in its short history I want to scroll through older posts. Thanks for all your hard work!
Just trying to understand what you'd like to accomplish, or the problem you're having, more: you'd like to save your place as you scroll into the past? For when you come back later?
We have some plans to rework 'top' so that you can look at 'top' content historically (like can navigate to a specific day and see what was top), which might solve this problem, but I'm wondering if you're looking for something more.
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The "back" collapse issue is part of my issue but I figured that was already on your radar.
The "more" button is great for a quick visit or search. But forums are a source of historical research and I trust and hope this will grow much bigger. So if 2 years from now I want to search for "nostr", how many times do you want me to click "more" to get to the beginning? Does that make sense?
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Oh I see! You want selectively navigate to periods in history. If we have 1 million pages, you want to be able to click to halfway through - like you would on a more trad forum.
I'll think about this more. Perhaps the feature I was describing with historical 'top' can somehow be more generic.
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Bingo. And more broadly, food for thought: So much of the web, even entire forums have just vanished, which is a big part of the censorship agenda. We are going to have a pretty good collection of ideas here, so censorship resistance is a good thing to think about. A topic for a different day perhaps.
Keep up the great work, thank you!
Keep up the great work, thank you!
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I think about this a lot. It's one of my big problems I'm regularly thinking about solutions to. Decentralization of some form will be the ticket, but there's so many forms that can take.
Thanks for bringing my attention to both of these!
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relevant: My issue on phone is if I click "more" and then e.g. open post #40 and then click "back", the list is again collapsed to only 21 items. I'd expect to be able to go "back" to the exact state I was in before.
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This is on my 'priority' todo list ... just tricky with SSR, but doable either with 'pages' or something fancier with conditional CSR.
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