Chee Aun 🤔
Been trying this out secretly for the past few weeks — a "catch-up" timeline page. Did whole bunch of iterations, where I myself is the guinea pig, but this time reaching a point where I just got to share it out in the public.
- NOT final design, still very experimental, only on my local machine
- Instead of algo timeline, this is focused on data-grid-like UI for configuring exactly what I want to see.
- This honestly could be another full-fledged app/client by itself 🫠
Tim Chambers
@cheeaun This looks great and one of the more popular feeds inside of BlueSky works a bit like this, but I like this version better as it gives granular control over it.
Chee Aun 🤔
Here's the screen *before* this. Specify how long back I want to fetch the Home timeline posts.
Chee Aun 🤔
After a while, my usage slowly leaning towards this: grouping by authors. Feels refreshing browsing it this way. Faster to scan too.
Oh yeah, this is how it looks like on wider viewport. Kinda email-like.
#PhanpySocialDev #sneakpeek (not available on dev site yet)
Chee Aun 🤔
Not sure where to put these, so experimentally placing them at the top for now, reusing the styles from trending news in Trending page. It's based on the post's `card` so some links are actually "quote posts" 😬
#PhanpySocialDev (not on dev site yet)
Chee Aun 🤔
🤫 Quietly dropped on dev site #PhanpySocialDev . Feedback/bug reports welcomed 🙇♂️
Cool to see @laurenshof the first one to post about it https://indieweb.social/@laurenshof/111997146906858162
Brendan Jones
@cheeaun @Gargron DUDE THIS IS AMAZING AND SO ARE YOU.
I haven’t been this excited about new Mastodon features since I found apps that group notifications.
How do we get this in native Mastodon, like, yesterday?
Eugen Rochko
@Brendanjones @cheeaun That's the phanpy.social web client for Mastodon. You can try it out now.
Chee Aun 🤔
An experiment that I wanted to try: sort by post density — give a chance for short posts to shine among the attention-grabbing ones. Let's see how it works 🤞
Chee Aun 🤔
@paulcox in my opinion, regardless of whatever scoring logic, there's always a chance or possibility that you might miss something.
So instead of intelligently rearranging the posts based on some score, Catch-up shows everything, provides email-like interface for fast scanning and lets you sort and filter in any way you like. It's more manual work but you have high visibility over the whole list and not having to worry that some posts are hidden from you.
Chee Aun 🤔
@paulcox re: resource usage, you mean the API calls and the rate limit?
As for 'popularity' metrics, I didn't really play around with them. I don't think anything is really skewed here as you have complete control on how to filter or sort the timeline. Though the idea of sorting posts by follower count seems interesting 🤔
Paul
@cheeaun I was thinking more of an aggregate popularity sorting e.g. giving a post a popularity score based on the number of likes divided by the number of followers. Kind of like a relative popularity of a post for the user. Interested if this is a better metric than sorting based on number of likes as posts from larger accounts are more likely to appear at the top and so I might miss particularly interesting posts from smaller accounts I follow.
Paul
@cheeaun curious, is this more, less, or doesn't a make difference to resource usage on an instance? I guess highly dependent on someone's mastodon usage? Also, have you played around with different types of 'popularity' metrics? e.g. very rough one off of the top of my head, a post's likes / their follower count, as a way to not have things skewed to just large accounts.
Chee Aun 🤔
@box464 oh… filter for mutuals sound good 🤔 As for past interactions, I probably can use the notifications/mentions API 🤔
Re: lists, yeah this is still missing. This is tricky as I don't know how many lists most people have, so it'll probably use a lot more API calls. I also have lists that's filtered from main timeline, so I need this feature too 🫣
Jeff Sikes
@cheeaun This is an excellent "morning catch up" tool!
More load time, I know, but it would be nice to have a filter for mutuals or for accounts you have interacted with the most over the past X days.
Separately, if you could apply this to lists - some lists filter out accounts on the main timeline, so they aren't being included here I assume.
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