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Re: "Threaded View in Misfin Clients"
@clseibold @satch my comment was never about the complexity and the ability of the community. it was about reflecting on minimalism because one should look at the community's needs and actions.
Look at the gemini client situation. we have dozens of clients with 90% covering the bare minimum. No titan support which honestly is needed to do heavy lifting, most only take one line inputs and don't support new lines so using BBS is a pain. SmolWeb is going to be pet projects that slowly become abandoned so maintaining minimalism in protocol and use helps keep the community alive when the code isnt.
When a misfin client doesn't support threading what will that look like? A huge mess of messages.
Oct 15 · 2 months ago
Threaded View in Misfin Clients — Since I have covered verification within misfin, I also want to cover how I have implemented Threaded view, and some other considerations that need to be made for Threading. Note that this is a client-side consideration, and has been partially implemented in misfin-server's client gemini interface, rather than the server itself. Threaded view tries to organize messages into threads based on a common topic. It is useful not just for responses to private...