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1. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 03:51:03 EDT Michael Vogel

   !Friendica Support I want to create a new functionality and I need some ideas. I want to add an option to contacts, so that their posts don't appear in the network timeline anymore. But in difference to "ignored", "collapsed" or "blocked" this has got no further consequences. It is meant especially for contacts that you want to aggregate in a dedicated channel. So for example you could decide to subscribe to a lot of news channels, but you don't want to see them in the network timeline, since they post that often. Instead you create a channel for them and browse them from time to time. Same could be an option for groups or for feeds.

   This filter would work for threads that are started by this special account. I would try to expand this to posts that are reshared by these accounts or by threads that are fetched, because this account commented in the thread. (The last two parts could be more challenging)

   My questions are:

   • Do you think that this is a good idea?
   • Could it be done better than an option on the contact page?
   • How could this be named, so that users don't misunderstand the functionality?
   1. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 06:12:29 EDT Michael Vogel

      in reply to
      Update: Instead of using words like "ignore", "block", "hide" or whatever, we could name it exactly according to their purpose. These contacts are meant to be displayed only in your channels, but not in your timeline. So we could name this "only display the contact in channels" or "channel contact" or something like this instead.