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Written by Alexandre Oliva on 2025-01-27 at 12:12

@grunfink@comam.es thank you for snac, I've just set up my own instance with it, and I'm loving it

there are a couple of features from GNU social that I'm missing, and that I'd like to implement, namely:

• some means to open a thread or a post from my timeline in a new browser tab, so that I can interact with it later, or keep up with a conversation without having to search for it in the timeline again. I'm thinking of turning the "date / udate" field into a link to it/them, though ATM I don't quite see what to link to. I suppose a search might work to find a single post, but there's no existing way to link to a local view of a thread AFAICT. any objections to adding these?

• it would be nice if I could like/boost/mute/etc without reloading the page, let alone be taken to the first timeline page. I'd like to be able to middle-click on these buttons so that they'd take action on another tab, and I could keep on scrolling on the current tab without waiting for it to reload, or bringing new posts, or getting back to the initial timeline page, even if we currently try to get back to the same spot

• indeed, it would be desirable IMHO for these actions to not always take you back to the admin and timeline page, but rather to the same page you're on, so that, if you're e.g. interacting with a bookmark or a search result or any other way to show a post or a thread, you remain on that page

• I liked the way notifications are marked as seen, and I'd love something like that for the timeline as well. I'm thinking I'd enjoy a view that showed me not the latest posts in the timeline, but the oldest posts more recent than the latest one marked as seen, with a button/link to mark those as seen and show another such page. then I could catch up roughly in order, rather than in reverse order. (this reminds me that diaspora had a nice feature of generating timestamp-based "earlier posts" links, so that there wouldn't be repeats as I paged over posts while new posts came in.

are any of these features something that you definitely wouldn't want to integrate into snac? or does any of these need further details for you to tell?

thanks again!

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