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Bubble v4.0: Muting, Tag Filters, Monthly Archive

bbs.geminispace.org has been upgraded to Bubble v4. This week's feature update adds some useful new tools and fixes several bugs.

Muting

You can now mute posts, subspaces, and individual users to hide them and notifications related to them. Together with follows, this allows tailoring what one sees in their Bubble feeds with quite a lot of precision.

In practice, muting is a combination of silencing and blocking that is dependent on a couple of factors:

Muting a post silences notifications about the post but you can still view the post normally. This is useful for long threads that you are no longer interested in actively following. @-mentions in the post or its comments will still be delivered to you.
Muting a subspace hides it in All Posts and disables notifications about activity in the subspace. However, your own posts in that subspace are not affected, nor are @-mentions of you in the subspace. This could be used to prevent a busy subspace from dominating All Posts.
Muting a user hides the user's posts in every feed, including in All Posts and the muted user's "u/"-feed, and hides their comments in every post. Notifications from the user are not shown, either. It is as if the user does not exist.

Tag Filters

Every feed can now be filtered based on tags. Look for the "🏷️ Tags" link on feed pages next to the Search action.

For instance, this is useful for finding all the polls:

Filter All Posts by "#poll"

It's good to note that tag filtering applies to the Gemfeed and Tinylog outputs as well, so with this you can easily set up sub-feeds specific to a particular topic.

Monthly Archives

A new type of export was added: a monthly archive with all posts and comments in every subspace, including user feeds. The feature is not exposed in the UI in v4.0 yet but it is still accessible via a URL for signed-in users:

/export/month/YYYY-MM.gpub

I have exported an archive covering last month if you want to check out what the output looks like:

May 2023 archive of bbs.geminispace.org (Gempub ZIP, 948 KB)

Other Changes

Added more avatar icons, including Steam Locomotive, Yin Yang, and Wave.
You can search for exact tags by writing "#tag" as the search term.
Becoming a moderator automatically causes you to follow the subspace.
Fixed use of non-Latin letters in user and subspace names.
Fixed issues updating post previews after edits and adding segments.
Fixed missing ellipsis on truncated text.
Updated Help with more information about Titan and other Bubble features.
Updated database migration script for upgrading.

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Posted in: s/Bubble

🚀 skyjake

2023-06-06 · 10 days ago · 👍 michaelnordmeyer, tepez, PikaSonic, teddy

4 Comments ↓

🍵 michaelnordmeyer

Shouldn't a post, a user has commented on, automatically be followed? Then a user could just click "unfollow" to mute it. This would achieve the same results like muting a post.

🚀 skyjake

When you comment on a post, you automatically start receiving the "replied in discussion" notifications. This is basically a "soft" follow that you don't need to manually manage. I felt that using the follow mechanism for every single commented thread would get cumbersome.

🍵 michaelnordmeyer

The difference now is only the respective "Follow post" not being ticked automatically, even though the functionality has been applied, and the need for an additionally "Mute post" the mitigate this.

What happens if I select the previously never selected "Follow post" if the post has been muted? Does it turn follow on and mute off or does it have no impact at all?

Many side-effects in one feature IMHO.

2023-06-07 · 10 days ago

🚀 skyjake

Follow and mute are mutually exclusive, you can only have one.

Also, "replied in discussion" can be disabled separately in notification settings.