There's so much about how the universe works that's utterly incomprehensible to me. Here's a recent one, for instance.
Last week i had someone come over to do some extensive tree trimming. He did it, pretty well afaict, & ofc it generated heaps of residue. He spent much time cutting up the smaller stuff & stuffing it into my council green wheelie bin, til it was as full as a goog. He kindly offered to wheel it down to the street kerb for me. I said ta, & he did; i accepted that i'd possibly have silent opprobrium from some neighbours at my bin being out there for the almost week it would need before its designated "bin day" arrived again.
The next morning, opening my blinds, i was gobsmacked to see the bin had been emptied. It was still several days from the "right" day.
I give all credit to environmentally-conscious space-aliens (oh, & ofc also to #thegreatprophetzarquon). Nothing else is remotely plausible. 🤪
I'm then and now experiencing a strange behaviour in Friendica web (frio): Having a post with a longer thread below, I expand the thread and interact (like, reshare) with some messages in there. If I do that, more than just once a few moments after that interaction the display somehow seems to "scroll" or "jump" or reposition, not sure by which pattern, in some cases the comment I interacted with being scrolled to back or bottom, in some cases scrolling up or down the thread. Seems to happen on all browsers I tested so far, and somehow feels related to clicking, say, a "like" thumb and the background activity triggered by that being finished. Am I the only one to see that? Anyone else? This isn't really a big deal but a bit annoying as you again and again lose track of where you were.
@z428 It happens to me a lot, & tbh it's pretty exasperating. Because of it i frequently lose my reading place in my network timeline, & need to manually scroll up & down to "rediscover" where i was. This does not happen in my Masto* account.
I have a [non-technical, entirely guessed] hypothesis. I suspect that "interacting" with the subject post somehow "triggers" #Friendica to then check for new items in the fediverse, to insert at the top of my timeline, which then abruptly displaces my "reading point" down by the number & size of new posts added.
If true, i would mention this; Mastodon allows users to avoid this unpleasant inconvenience, by an optional #SlowMode setting in Preferences. When enabled [which many Masto users do, afaik], new toots are prevented from automatically entering the top of the timeline & displacing it down, instead generating a small notification atop the timeline noting the availability of new content. Then, at a time chosen by the user, they can manually click that actionable notice, which loads the new content. I really wish we had this in Friendica!
I want to create a new functionality and I need some ideas. I want to add an option to contacts, so that their posts don't appear in the network timeline anymore. But in difference to "ignored", "collapsed" or "blocked" this has got no further consequences. It is meant especially for contacts that you want to aggregate in a dedicated channel. So for example you could decide to subscribe to a lot of news channels, but you don't want to see them in the network timeline, since they post that often. Instead you create a channel for them and browse them from time to time. Same could be an option for groups or for feeds.
This filter would work for threads that are started by this special account. I would try to expand this to posts that are reshared by these accounts or by threads that are fetched, because this account commented in the thread. (The last two parts could be more challenging)
My questions are:
Do you think that this is a good idea?
Could it be done better than an option on the contact page?
How could this be named, so that users don't misunderstand the functionality?
receiving posts from ignored and blocked contacts, which then become collapsed.
I discovered this yesterday & today, to my chagrin. Tbh i was unhappy, coz when i've decided that someone is so unpleasant that i never wish to interact [even passively] with them again, i was shocked & unhappy that they still show in my network timeline, albeit collapsed with warning as you said. If i had my druthers, i'd never see any aspect of them again.
ICYMI the AUKUS nuclear submarine fantasy is over, already.
So can someone please stop Richard Fucking Marles from handing over billions of Australian taxpayer dollars to prop up the US submarine production facilities that will provide precisely zero direct benefit to Australian's national security?
I saw Dune 2 yesterday, and it somehow, it felt like it was too long and too short.
I've read a lot of classic sci-fi, but I couldn't get through the Dune books, so I didn't really know the storyline going in, yet the second half of the movie felt like it was jumping all over the place without really taking the time to provide context or explore the consequences/meaning.
Yet I also couldn't wait for it to end. Not because it was bad, but just because 3 hours in a cinema is too long for my poor ADHD self, and the wriggles were kicking in big time.
If they'd have turned it in to two 2 hour movies instead of a single nearly 3 hour movie, I think I'd have had a much better time.
@ada I read the #Dune series in my teens. I confess i found it a real slog; the rich dense lore was so overwhelming that i felt i was consistently wading thru literary molasses. I still have the same paperback set on my bookshelf now, but almost 50 years later, with fuzzy vision, shortened concentration span, & ever-declining cognition, the probability i'll re-read them now is zero. In the 80s, my 20s, a friend & i saw the original film. It was unambiguously one of the all-time worst films i've ever seen.
I've forgotten my hearing aids, AGAIN. I've had bright orange signs on the front door for 5 days and am already inured to them! I'll have to start setting an alarm for every time I'm going out. Grrrrr....
Caught some video footage of Anthony Albanese shaking hands with voters at the Dunkley by-election. We must be doing something right as a nation if the Prime Minister can rock up to a polling booth and chat to random strangers without anyone being too worried about his safety. Good to see.
@BeAware@alfred@steffen Yes i apologise, i did that all wrong, i was only trying to let my instance owner be aware of your important info, but the way i did it stupidly looks like i was trying to inform you of Steffen, rather than the reverse.
I can sometimes be slow to notice the elephant in the room & the eggshells on the floor (the problem that everyone carefully denies and manages so as not to upset anyone), but once I do notice, I want to confront and solve it.
The problem in this instance is my MIL’s insistence that she & FIL continue to live in a house too large to manage on an acre of rambling garden in an isolated location at the top of a narrow windy road.
Of course solving such a thing is not always possible, & if I’m not the main person affected, the person doing their best to support & manage the situation, it’s not my problem. Attempting to solve it might just make the situation worse for that person & leave others feeling judged & hurt.