Been trying this out secretly for the past few weeks — a "catch-up" timeline page. Did whole bunch of iterations, where I myself is the guinea pig, but this time reaching a point where I just got to share it out in the public.
- NOT final design, still very experimental, only on my local machine
- Instead of algo timeline, this is focused on data-grid-like UI for configuring exactly what I want to see.
- This honestly could be another full-fledged app/client by itself 🫠
After a while, my usage slowly leaning towards this: grouping by authors. Feels refreshing browsing it this way. Faster to scan too.
Oh yeah, this is how it looks like on wider viewport. Kinda email-like.
#PhanpySocialDev #sneakpeek (not available on dev site yet)
Not sure where to put these, so experimentally placing them at the top for now, reusing the styles from trending news in Trending page. It's based on the post's `card` so some links are actually "quote posts" 😬
#PhanpySocialDev (not on dev site yet)
🤫 Quietly dropped on dev site #PhanpySocialDev . Feedback/bug reports welcomed 🙇♂️
Cool to see @laurenshof the first one to post about it https://indieweb.social/@laurenshof/111997146906858162
Attached: 2 images holy shit catch-up just dropped on dev.phanpy.social this is soooo fucking good @[email protected]
some early feedback after playing around for a bit with it:
- its really good
- popular posts that are boosted a lot by multiple of the people you follow get duplicated when you sort by boosted
- when people post a thread, the 2nd+ comment shows as a comment, not as a reply. i get the intent and think its better this way, but it did confuse me for a second the first time i saw it happen
@laurenshof yeah currently the "smart" grouping from Phanpy doesn't apply in this Catch-up timeline. Will need to think more about it.
As for the feed post view, it's more similar to email now. I initially started with one-liners (looks even more like email) but ended up with this max-3-line "preview". The cramped-ness really depend on the posts, some look very empty with a lot of white-space, while some are just too much. Will need to experiment more 😄
Chee Aun 🤔
Laurens Hof
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