Alright here's a draft of adding post titles and slugified URLs to masto. Needs tests and a little tidying, but this is a first small step towards a couple things that i think will be cool to do halfway between microblogging and forums :) https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/pull/35
If anyone who knows rails and redux better than me wants to laugh at my code (but secretly i will be learning) then feel free to take a whap at it
(edit: yes i know other fedi things and in fact many normal websites already do this) #MastoDev
Some html stripping is done on the sender side, some is done on the receiving side, so i'll need to double check that, but ya one of the ideas here is to make it so ppl can post more longform/bloglike stuff that will diverge from most pure plaintext clients (but it will seem more like a website so yno that might be normal). Mostly this is a first step towards making the web interface behave more like a hybrid feed and forum so if the title part doesn't federate all that well it's no huge loss
@boris in olde fedi people were always really mad at me when i suggested stuff like markdown or rich text formatting might be nice to have, so i suppose we'll see if times have changed. hopefully most apps have caught up with the need to collapse long posts by default, as is sort of the obvious need if we really want this to be a heterogeneous medium
@boris
Well then they will be missing out! All this should degrade gracefully. I dont have world changing goals with this one little PR, but it would be nice for apps and whatnot to see why it might be nice to not strip all html with a few examples
@boris
Yes yes. I havent even messed with the AP serialization yet so I wonder if classing it as an article will change things? Another 2 days fighting masto, another 2 days towards understanding how this big beast works, so I think I mostly understand how to do that now
@jonny@boris#Firefish already has limitedmarkdown support. Along with QTs and partially-threaded feed. It's a fork of #misskey and it already has forks.
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