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i have a pinned post that doesn't show up anymore
i tried pinning it/ unpinning it again: nope
i tried pinning and unpinning others posts: fine
it still shows up on the mobile app as pinned, but not the web
no it's not that
i have indeed tried that as well
i'm going to mull it over, think if i forgot anything stupid (which while not what you have indicated, it's possible i missed something else obvious) then potentially file a bug report
it's very strange. it's something about this one particular post. because it's a reply? because it has embedded video?
it's public, i checked that
i'll puzzle over it
interesting
i did do some tests like:
find another post of mine with embedded video: pins fine
find another post that was a reply i made (EDIT: to my own post, perhaps an excluding criteria): pins fine
but if you are having flakiness too in this domain there could be something to it
followup:
you got it!
i pinned the comment above and it does not show up on the new web ui profile (but does show up on the mobile app)
i'm going to file a bug report and reference this thread
maybe the criteria is a reply nested deep/ a reply to someone else
so this post of yours is the one i'm linking in the bug report, since you have further info on behavior/ conditions 😁
Steps to reproduce the problem pin a post meeting certain criteria (which seems to be, at first glance, that it must be a reply to someone else) the pinned post does not show up on the new profile ...
i just had a thought:
perhaps the mastodon team did this on purpose?
on the rationale that pinning a reply to someone else can be construed as a harassment vector
which is fine
but we should know if so
@benroyce @Mastodon Absolutely, there's nothing about pinning and replies documented that I can see https://github.com/mastodon/documentation/blob/main/content/en/user/discoverability.md
If that's the case though, then the fact that pinning reply will immediately appear on my profile if I already have a column with it open must be a bug. Feels like there's something unintended happening either way.
yeah that makes sense: appear/ disappear smells like a bug, not policy
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