Nick Thomas

I've seen lots of toots about how the mastodon timeline is chronological

BUT

Boosts cause things to float back up to the top, even if I've already seen them.

I've read it once, I don't need to read it again.

Aug 19, 2018 at 8:52pmWeb
Show threadDavid P AAug 19, 2018
@lupine So what's the solution? Forbid boosting? Hide boosts of things that were already on home tl?
Show threadNick ThomasAug 19, 2018
@modulux Just leave them in their chronological place. I don't understand why the UI thinks I want to read the same thing once per person I know who likes it.
Show threadDavid P AAug 19, 2018
@lupine Hmm, but if they're not shown on top, people who haven't seen them before probably won't see them.
Show threadNick ThomasAug 19, 2018

@modulux If it's on my timeline at all, I've seen it.

If it's added to my timeline by a boost, it occupies a slot at the time it was boosted.

I don't see why other people boosting it needs to repeatedly push it to the top.

Show threadQueer SupervillainessAug 19, 2018
@lupine @modulux Yeap; or at least leave it in place if you've already read it.
Show threadDavid P AAug 19, 2018
@lupine @kellerfuchs Yeah, that'd work.
Show threadNick ThomasAug 19, 2018
@modulux @kellerfuchs I guess I should file an issue now so you don't accuse me of liberalism 😅
Show threadDavid P AAug 19, 2018
@lupine @kellerfuchs Well you know it: to complain and not to report, this is the 12th type of liberalism.
Show threadNick ThomasAug 19, 2018
@modulux @kellerfuchs right. Hence https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/8303
Pevent boosts from reordering timelines · Issue #8303 · tootsuite/mastodon

I like to read from old to new in the Mastodon UI. While doing so, I'll often read a toot which is subsequently boosted by one of my followers. This boost causes the toot to be reordered from s...

Show threadStrubbl 🐧Aug 19, 2018
@lupine boosted! 😄 👍
Show threadBitHive Aug 19, 2018
@lupine its nice to see someone discovered it