"lane" streams to improve news categorizations

[paolo-pedaletti]

Ciao,
today diaspora show new post in (just) one stream that flow from top to bottom of the web page.
All the hash-tags and aspect mixed together.

To separate difference informations It could be useful to split hash-tags and/or aspect into “flow”,
= columns that contain one or more tags or aspect, for example
|#freesoftware, | #family | #work |
|#GPL, #Linux | #friends | #job |
| | | |
| | | |

like in https://chaos.social/

The change from the current view to the “flows” view could be completely transparent, since the current view could be considered 1-flow view.

Flows should be configurable, that means ordered from left to right or vice-versa, as many as one can handled/choose, different colors, …

thank you for this wonderful project

PaoloPì

[goob]

There have been various discussions about filtering the stream using #tags. Here is a couple:

Improving and expanding hashtags usability

Current functionality of hashtags in Diaspora has several limitations. I’ll list them first (if you can come up with more - feel free to comment): User can only follow a straight list of tags (i.e. following is defined with logical OR). User can’t filter tags for not following (i.e. not to see some content which has them). Viewing options of followed tags in the UI are limited to either viewing all followed tags, or only one. Search is limited to one tag. Hashtags themselves don’t…

Feature: Tag Filtering (Old Diaspora-Pistos Feature)

Diaspora-Pistos had some interesting features on its fork. One of the more useful ones was the ability to exclude specific tags from the stream. How much work would it take to port this feature? Does Pistos code here need to be re-done in Backbone, or can we plug it in as-is? Relevant code parts: filters.html.haml tag_exclusion.rb Note: This discussion was imported from Loomio. Click here to view the original discussion.

There are others. Hope they will help you.

[paolo-pedaletti]

Ciao,
I have red other discussion about tags.
My proposal is more about visual representation of the news flow rather than a classic filter for tags.
It’s about grouping together some tags and show them in different columns, so grouped tags are “prioritized” and put in evidence compared to other less-interesting tags/news.
They would have their “lane”, not mixed with other tags/aspects.
This could resolve also the difficult to follow groups one belongs to

Feature: Tag Filtering (Old Diaspora-Pistos Feature)

Tag filtering sounds good to me, would defo like to have it over. Groups are also something I think everyone wants. But as Sean said, it’s a bit bigger to do. Also I think we have to really design it well. Groups on Facebook suck. They are hard to follow because you cannot get the updates to your stream. Groups on Google+ are better, but they have one downside: you cannot post to groups and circles at the same time - which is the most idiotic restriction ever. I hope we can come up with the …

And this web interface change can be completely painless since the default/current configuration
would be 1-lane flow.

[paolo-pedaletti]

Like this, for example: