Mastodon: Group Consecutive, Non-Mention Notification Events

[danrabbit]

Something that's important to managing my brand account is making sure I don't miss mentions from my followers. It would go a long way to improving the signal:noise in my notifications timeline to group consecutive follows, boosts, or stars, much like how Twitter handles them.

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[chris-martin]

This presents a dangerous temptation to start showing events out of order like Twitter does.

[danrabbit]

@chris-martin I don't think these things are related. I would not like to see things out of order.

[pawelngei]

I just got 32 notifications of people faving / boosting the same toot.

1. I think that those things could be merged into two messages: 32 people boosting, 32 people faving, and the chronology of those is irrelevant.

2. I think we should also allow people to group the boosting / faving different toots in some discrete periods set in the Preferences. Let's say 0, 10, 15, 30, 60, 120 and 180 minutes.
   This way if my lasts three toots become really popular in the last 2 hours, I would see 6 notifications instead of dozens.

No Twitter-like manipulation, just grouping as set by the user. Changes purely in the display / client side.

[rysiekpl]

I love @pawelngei 's take on this. This would be very, very useful.

[nightpool]

"brand account"

[pawelngei]

@nightpool whatever the original intention, this feature would be really, really useful.

Please let's not go the Diaspora* way, where people were really hostile to anybody who wanted to use their software for anything but Free Software Evangelism™. Building a network for people means adding a lot of functions useful for different kinds of people, some of whom we don't agree with.

[nightpool]

@pawelngei there's a wide gulf of middle ground between "making fun of corporations trying to co-opt a community to sell their products" and "being hostile to anybody who want[s] to use [our] software for anything but Free Software Evangelism", and i can support one while condemning the other.

[rysiekpl]

and i can support one while condemning the other.

Then please start doing so. So far your contribution to this discussion seems to be shooting down a good idea just because it might be useful in a particular use-case you don't seem to like much.

I would love this functionality on my personal account. Brand thing is completely irrelevant here. Can we please focus on the merits of the proposal, instead of knee-jerking like this? It doesn't help any.