Peertube: Add comments system to videos
Subscribe system. When your server displays a video from another pod, it subscribes to the events of comments from this video. The original server then sends the events to servers which subscribed.
Original server must also get comments from other servers, so... Two way subscription system ?
tcitworld
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I know there is ongoing work to make the comment system ActivityPub-compatible, and my propositions don't interfere with it. They are mainly display/metrics features on the PeerTube instance(s).
As suggested by aluriak/@aluriak:
We should allow to replace the comment system per-video in case the author wants extra features (i.e.: a link to a framapad, framacolibri, framaforms, arguman or framindmap). It would be so powerful for content producers that have punctual and specific needs (Q&A, challenge, debate, etc.).
To keep things simple, we should keep the traditional comment system working and advertise the link above, as a per-video (or series or video if we make that happen) override.
Why not let authors get comments as a file? It's so much simpler to count the number of participants to a game/competition in the comments with a text editor and Ctrl+f rather than with a web interface where you have to manually go through.
I don't agree with everything, but giving content creators a way to better communicate is definitely in the spirit of PeerTube. Give them a .csv (maybe capping to a size) for the simplest cases, and an API so that their fellow developer friends can build tools to help them deal with popularity.
A tree-like system as seen on reddit.com? A search by filter system on the comments ?
A way to display comments that has worked well in reddit is the tree-like display where comments that are up-voted the most are shown closer to the video. It could be the default display format based on the number of cumulated boosts/favorites, for instance, with a fallback on inverse chronological ordering.
Then, search of comments might be of lower priority, especially since it's only a display feature that is superseded by the aforementioned API/file comment retrieval.
rigelk
on 13 Dec 2017
Working branch: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/tree/feature/comments
I'll do a simple comment system first, and then we'll add your proposals in other issues @rigelk.
Main goal -> tree-like system (Mastodon, Reddit...):
- A video has 0..n comment threads
- Each thread has 1..n comments
- A comment could be a reply to another comment
Chocobozzz
on 22 Dec 2017
Implemented.
Demo: https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/da2b08d4-a242-4170-b32a-4ec8cbdca701
Chocobozzz
on 5 Jan 2018
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I know there is ongoing work to make the comment system ActivityPub-compatible, and my propositions don't interfere with it. They are mainly display/metrics features on the PeerTube instance(s).
As suggested by aluriak/@aluriak:
To keep things simple, we should keep the traditional comment system working and advertise the link above, as a per-video (or series or video if we make that happen) override.
I don't agree with everything, but giving content creators a way to better communicate is definitely in the spirit of PeerTube. Give them a .csv (maybe capping to a size) for the simplest cases, and an API so that their fellow developer friends can build tools to help them deal with popularity.
A way to display comments that has worked well in reddit is the tree-like display where comments that are up-voted the most are shown closer to the video. It could be the default display format based on the number of cumulated boosts/favorites, for instance, with a fallback on inverse chronological ordering.
Then, search of comments might be of lower priority, especially since it's only a display feature that is superseded by the aforementioned API/file comment retrieval.