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 @ranjit (got this wrong, reposting) specifically in current hometown, if you click the timestamp on any post it does a "focus" and then if you click the timestamp again it takes you to the remote server in a new tab on v4, if you click the timestamp it takes you to a contained page (as though you clicked to "focus" the post) and then clicking the timestamp from there does not do anything, you need go to three dots and then "open original" 5 comments
@ranjit @v mostly, for me, it's that I expect on most social media websites to be able to right click and copy the url of the timestamp to paste a link to a given post. On v4 it instead ends up as something like https://mastodon.social/@darius@friend.camp/109537836407453984 Which *works* but is an extra redirect @darius I think the v3 behavior is an elegant compromise, where right-click will get you the original url but left-click will just focus (fwiw I can't see where this applies to profile link clicks, just to timestamps in not-yet-focused posts). I don't like opening a lot of tabs, but seeing people link to posts with unnecessarily prefixed urls has been wigging me out, akin to leaving a bunch of params at the end of a link. @andy I am leaning strongly towards keeping the v3 timestamp behavior and incorporating the v4 profile behavior. that would make it overall more consistent with every other social media site @darius that'd make sense! though the profile link behavior I see on Hometown (web interface, Firefox) already seems to match the v4 behavior you described, minus the "open original page" – that is, any profile link I left-click opens the profile within my instance / same tab. "open original page" would be a nice addition there, since I currently only see a link to orig if there aren't many posts to show. |
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@darius ah, I see! Thank you!
I don't think I totally understand the implications, not having spent much time on a v4 server ... except oulipo, where I never interact with anyone non-local! I do agree with @v that the v3 behavior irritates me sometimes.