Ivory v1.7 is here! This release is all about hashtags. It's set to slowly roll out over the next few days, but you can force download it now from our App Store page:
@ivory it took me ages to figure out where the tab was located. It’s not visible on iPhone unless you long press the profile icon on the bottom and replace it with the hashtags one. It’s visible on iPad because it has a larger screen and all the tabs are visible on the left
@ivory hey, the new hashtags thing is great but is there any way to force it to remember capitalisation? I always capitalise as I heard it’s better for people using screen readers eg CatsOfMastodon. But whenever I select my most used hashtags they’re always all lowercase (catsofmastodon).
Thanks for the update 😊
@Troggie This is a mastodon issue unfortunately. Mastodon returns the most used version of a hashtag and they tend to not use camel case, unfortunately. However if you set CatsOfMastodon as a "featured hashtag”, you will get the proper case show up when composing since Featured hashtags get priority.
@Sonofasailor@ivory I'm liking it too, but I don't like that it filters out posts from followed accounts if you chose to filter the hashtag from the home timeline. 🙁
@ivory Good job! 💪 Is there a way to include hashtags in every new post as a template? If I remember well there was such an option in tweetbot. That was an awesome option.
@opaloopthard No, but if you hit the hashtag button, you should see all of your featured hashtags first and then a history of your previously used hashtags. Should help adding them easier than before.
@geekandi Definitely need details. Is the account muted in Ivory or on the web? If within Ivory, what mute settings are you using? And then where is the post showing up? In your timeline or the hashtag tab?
@geekandi Will look into it. Did you have the hashtag muted or the account itself muted? And the account was showing up when look at one of your followed hashtags or trending hashtags?
@owiecc@ivory Also capability to have a List based on hashtags — and filtering those hashtags from the main feed (some hashtags have high volumes and make the main feed useless).
@ivory just some feedback: this hasn’t helped with how I use hashtags. I want to follow certain ones and read all the posts in them. This would help me separate them from my main feed BUT it doesn’t remember scrolling position so I will miss posts often.
And hiding them from the main feed is good but I don’t want to hide posts from people I follow, just because they used the hash tag.
If you just made it possible to have a separate timeline, which remembers position, and can include hashtags, it would solve a use case!
@shauny Unfortunately this is currently how hashtags work in Mastodon. We are currently focusing on working with the confines of the API and can revisit how to make improvements later. 🙂
@ivory the Hashtag button removes my CamelCase which is important for accessibility as screen readers know how to pronounce it. All the hashtags I frequently used are all lowercase using that button. Could that be fixed please?
@shauny Unfortunately this is what Mastodon is returning back. I'm assuming it's taking what most users are typing and returning the most popular hashtag. If you create it as a featured hashtag, it should show up with the camel case you set.
@ivory There's a bunch of hashtags that I don't want to follow, but want to check in on on occasion. Could there be a remembered list on the Search tab for these?
If I follow someone in a way that their posts show up in my timeline and one of their posts contains a hashtag, I still want that post to show up in my timeline. I do not want it to be removed just because I don't want the entire hashtag in my timeline.
The note in the text below “Filter from Home Timeline" is exactly the situation I am trying to avoid.
@clonezone@ivory +1 for what Elliot is asking for. This was a great feature in Tweetbot. I could have saved searches for #wwdc or #doctorwho and check in on them from time to time. But I don’t want those searches mixed in my timeline. Nor do I want to hide posts about those things by people I follow.
@ivory@rowan_johnson@clonezone What they were looking for is exactly what I was hoping this would be too, unfortunately.
e.g. I have friends who talk about LLMs, and I want their posts in my timeline, but I also want a separate tab that I can go to to see what EVERYBODY is saying about LLMs.
But I don’t want it polluting my relatively intimate (just in the sense of close relationships) main feed.
I look forward to the search features, and to be clear I’m loving Ivory!
@cypherfox@rowan_johnson@clonezone Unfortunately this is the way Mastodon has implemented the hashtag api's. Auto-creating a hashtag filter was just the easiest way to allow people to follow hashtags and NOT pollute their timeline with too much noise. It's not that we chose it to work this way.
Since you’ve added a new tab: I would dearly love the sidebar to be configurable on iPads like it is on phones. It is annoying seeing every favorite in two tabs instead of one.
Curious: how does the hashtag-following feature differ from what was already implemented when clicking into a hashtag from a post? Or is that just in the notes because thematically appropriate and not truly new?
@icanswiftabit Not even sure how you do that on the web view. Checked the advanced interface, and couldn't figure it out. Are those tags showing you posts from mastodon.social or from everywhere in the fediverse?
@ivory would it be possible to set it up so you get a Notification when a hashtag that you follow is used? For instance, I follow #BreakingNews, and would like a notification when that hashtag drops.
Similar to root notifications for specific accounts, but for hashtags.
(And yes for certain hashtags it would probably trigger a lot but for others maybe not)
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