Mastodon: Join several hashtags in a search/column

[renatolond]

I noticed that there's multiple tags in which people add which songs they are listening to (np, nowplaying, radiotoot, tootradio, pouetradio, etc). I'd like to follow those hashtags for idea on what to listen, but for now the only way I found is to open a column for each of them and them have toots that use multiple of those appearing on several columns. I would like to be able to follow all of them in a single column.

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[Letiteuf55]

Yeah, i need that too, i'm running out of space on my screen with all my # researches !

[Granitosaurus]

This is a huge issue for me as well as my 13" laptops screenspace is rather limited.

I also proposed another feature to address the same screenspace issue: #7050
Combination of both of these features would greatly improve user experience and screen-space effiency.

[Gargron]

Are we talking about OR, AND, or both?

[renatolond]

I'm talking about OR. I would like to see posts that contain either np, nowPlaying, radioToot or tootRadio at the same column

[nightpool]

i think or is the most useful feature considering how people use hashtags,
I wouldn't be worried about ANDs

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 8:11 AM renatolond [e-mail] wrote:

I'm talking about OR. I would like to see posts that contain either np,
nowPlaying, radioToot or tootRadio at the same column

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[woj-tek]

Could I suggest making operator optional (defaulting to OR for example, though for me AND would be more natural)?
For example I would be quite often interested in narrowing search more instead of expanding them.

[roipoussiere]

Just to resume the discussion, the behavior could be:

• #nowplaying #radiotoot -> one of these hashtags
• #nowplaying or #radiotoot -> one of these hashtags
• #cute and #cat -> both of them

[gdpelican]

I'm thinking to have a look at this over the next wee while.

Apologies for the extremely rough mockup with hasty copy, but I was thinking something along the lines of this:

• Perform a search, and add a new hashtag column to your desktop
• Open the settings for that hashtag column
• Add the option to specify additional hashtags to include in this column
• Add the option to specify whether this is an 'AND' or an 'OR' relationship

Thoughts?

[fhemberger]

I think it would be nice to have AND, OR and NOT operators, e.g.

• #mastoart OR #creativetoots NOT #photography
• #mastoart #creativetoots -#photography (as short form, defaulting to OR)

[joreg]

@gdpelican thanks for working on this!
thoughts:

• when following multiple hashtags, the title should probably reflect that. ie. in your mockup you're following two hashtags, but the title only mentions one. maybe as soon as a column follows more than one hashtag, just title it "Hashtags"?
• the description "Display toots with all of these hashtags" sounds a bit ambiguous to me and could better reflect the ANDiness it means, like eg: "Show only toots including all these hashtags"
• while i actually think that OR is the most important usecase, instead of just one checkbox to decide between AND and OR, what would be amazing is to support something, like: (#programming || #coding) && !#javascript

[gdpelican]

Hi @joreg , I've actually made a PR which addresses most of concerns already, have a peek at
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/8904

[joreg]

@gdpelican too good to be true!

[Cassolotl]

Oh this was introduced now so this issue can probably be closed?

[ChameleonScales]

I don't see it implemented. Is it for the next release?

[Cassolotl]

If it's not on your instance yet, you probably need to wait for your instance to be updated. What's your instance URL?

[ChameleonScales]

My instance is up to date (2.6.5). It's mamot.fr if you must know

[Cassolotl]

And when you pin a hashtag search, you don't see this?:

Edit: I signed up on mamot.fr to investigate, and yeah, it's not there even when you pin it:

But I can't find the join-hashtags-in-search-results reference in the release notes. The merged pull request is #8904, which hasn't been rolled back. So I guess you need to talk to your admin?

[renatolond]

I don't think it's out yet, I think it's coming on 2.7 🤔

[Gargron]

It's not in any releases yet

[Cassolotl]

Ahhhh I see, and Glitch just gets it early. Cool. :) Thanks for clearing that up, knowledgeable people!