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Forum specific UX for remote categories (community.nodebb.org)

submitted 1 week ago by julian@community.nodebb.org to c/activitypub@community.nodebb.org

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The upcoming possibility of browsing to remote federated categories/communities has me thinking about interesting use cases for it.

Note that Lemmy, PieFed, mBin, and other "community-centric" software already do support this, so it's nothing new, I'm actually playing catch-up.

One interesting use case centers around NodeBB's /unread route, which tracks new topics since your last visit. Since ever, and even now in v4, this is only for local categories, but if you're able to "subscribe" to a remote category, then we could enable use of this page for that content too.

Think about waking up and seeing a self-curated feed of new content from your subscribed communities! There are some interesting parallels to RSS here, too.

What other forum-centric use cases do you think would be enhanced by the ability to browse remote categories?

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[–] eeeee@community.nodebb.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just to say there are a lot of things NodeBB is getting right, in comparison to other Federated sites. Mastodon is ok in some respects but when replies to threads come through, the response appears in the feed alone and out of context! Nodebb shows the whole thread in World, which is far better for following the discussion. As for Lemmy, not sure if the instance Im on is updated to latest version, but some things dont work well. @Julian I only heard about Lemmy via you .. (Sometimes I wish Id never gone there lol) It is good for searching, but its been problematic in other areas. Do you know who codes Lemmy and do they visit here, or is it someone in your federation network?

And, as for Threads, I thought that was going to be Fediverse compatible? I turned the Federate setting on but no messages I tried were ever sent or received! ?