Gregory's ServerTip: If you mute someone within our app, you can choose NOT to hide their posts completely so you still see when they post and can tap to read them when you want.
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 @spangborn We blame Mastodon for choosing to use both the term mute and filters. 🙃 @ivory So what would that look like? When I mute someone I don't want to see any posts from that person/account? @ivory Oh. I was trying to mute someone earlier and got upset becuse I could still see their posts. I think of mute as “I don’t see you but you see me” as compared to block. But I wound up blocking them because ei couldn’t figure out why mute wasn’t. Haha I’ll try again.  @ivory In other news, I see the image I. Your toot has ALT but who can I see the alt text? I’ve tapped, long pressed, swiped, called up toot details. I’m experiencing a discovery fail somewhere.  @ivory I’m not seeing that option when I go to mute someone from their profile. It just turns on or off. Is it located somewhere else? @chase By default, "hide completely" should be off. But if you go to the Filters tab, you can customize them.  @stevenfeldman Yes. They are basically the same. Mastodon uses filter for keywords and mute for people. So we've tried to follow that. @ivory there doesn't seem to be a way to "collapse them back down" after you've tapped on their mute. Is that intentional? @noah Correct. It's a lot of extra work to do that. Something we might do later.  @ivory Kind of like Twitterrific’s Muffles feature. Love it! But there’s one more thing from Twitterrific that I wish you’d implement… @ivory @siracusa @paul this is why I have paid for Tweetbot for like 13 years or whatever and I am going on the record that I will stop if a “unified timeline” (some real George Lakoff shit here. Can we swap to “undifferentiated timeline”?) ships. No I of course wouldn’t really but I do enjoy this drama.  @ivory This doesn't seem to work for me (1.2/12000). Posts only disappear when I choose to hide them completely. @schalksernst with the switch off, you should see this when that user posts: @ivory Does it also apply to previous posts? If not then this might explain why it keeps showing. @schalksernst Ah yea. unless you hide completely, previous posts will just show. @ivory where is that option. When I just now tested muting someone, no options were given. Just a notification that person was muted. @zicklepop Yes eventually. But our filters still do a few more things that Mastodon can’t like Regex support for keywords and masking muted users instead of hiding completely.  @ivory beautiful! I was just wishing we had this functionality included! You read my mind! Two questions: 1. Is there a way to differentiate between filters that are muted completely vs just hidden? (Is there a nice super fancy icon or coloring perhaps? So we don’t have to tap each filter to discover) 2. Is there a way to “name” a filter? For example if I am trying to filter out “ratherlongangryhashtagtopic” but instead it would just display “🤬” in the list or in-line with my timeline? @exkclamation 1. That's probably not a bad idea. 2. We had it at first, but our current keyword filter system is so basic so we felt like a title for it is just extra work. We will add the title option once we allow users to add more than one keyword. @exkclamation It's a huge pain to do. Something that we will look at when we revisit content warnings. If we ever make content warnings expandable/collapsible in the future, then we will add it to filters as well.  @david_senate It's supposed to, but might not be at the moment. Will look into it.  @ivory Nice feature, but this filters break my timeline sync with macOS version. @ivory Can you explain how to do this? I’m looking at a profile and click the cog, and “Mute…” then “Mute forever” and that profile is muted. Where can I configure this to filter and “tap to read”? @jaireaux There's a filter tab. Hold down on one of the last 3 tab buttons at the bottom and select the filter tab. @ivory I wish the default setting would be set to hide completely, instead of having to do it manually every time. If I want to mute a user for 6 hours, I now have to take additional steps. Used te be much easier. I like the extra options though! |
@ivory Cool!
Minor bug though - Mute goes to “Unfilter" when reversing that action - intended or nah? Guessing you just missed replacing a string.