rns.recipes

First I would like to say, great job with the forum so far Zenith!

Two questions/suggestions:

1. Is there a way to sort threads by "most recently created"? Currently everything seems to be based on what has the most recent reply.
2. I think basing the NoamadNet page interface off of https://codeberg.org/AutumnSpark1226/nomadForum would improve usability a lot.

Thank you and have a good one :)

See 428118bf70e715a89331ea928b250c05:/page/index.mu for a live demo. It's shockingly complete and I really like the interface.

1. Yes, absolutely. I plan to add a bunch of new sort / order features, and some searching on the backend with maybe Laravel Scout + pgvector or something similar.
2. I like that layout. I think maybe I'll add a few different options that users can pick to how the Nomad mirror of the site is presented

Let me know for sure of any other feature requests or bugs that come up. Feel free to make a new thread or post them here

Next feature will be LXMF reply notifications for watched threads, ETA soon

Could we have mailing list feature for this forum? It is pretty inconvenient to need a browser to open the forum and follow/reply threads. It would be nice to have a discourse-like mailing list feature where we could get new threads as mails and their comments as a mail tree, where we can reply from mail without having the huge overhead of opening and using a browser.

Zenith wrote:

Let me know for sure of any other feature requests or bugs that come up. Feel free to make a new thread or post them here

Next feature will be LXMF reply notifications for watched threads, ETA soon

I know I'm the odd one out here and all my friends roast me for this, but a light(er) mode on the http side would be super appreciated. I have pretty bad eyes and dark mode (at least dark mode that is black/super dark) is really difficult for me to use regularly.

Another suggestion: Have the three reaction buttons be mutually exclusive. It doesn't make sense to like, dislike and love something :)

• Markdown -> Micron rendering on NomadNet
• Start reply counter at 0 (currently says "1 reply" when no replies)
• Web: When saving an edit on page 2, you're sent back to page 1

Really nice forum though! Love the simplicity of it.

joakim wrote:

Another suggestion: Have the three reaction buttons be mutually exclusive. It doesn't make sense to like, dislike and love something :)

Also, what's the point of the heart if you have an +, they are a bit similar in meaning and it's unclear which one you should pick if you "like" a post. I feel it would make more sense if the third choice was completely different, either having as a "funny" button, similar to what Steam does. Or have it as the "interesting/relevant" button, if someone is saying something that add to the conversation but not necessarily something you agree with.

I'd really like clickable nomadnetwork addresses in posts!

Reply count -1 would be nice, traditional forums don't consider the OP as a reply, so when I see 2 replies I expect two replies in addition to OP. And in addition to that, a last reply: name type feature would be nice, sometimes I refresh and can't recall if I read the most recent reply based only on timestamp + reply count, so seeing who replied last is also useful and a traditional forum feature.

In addition (and another.. often traditional forum feature), an archived section would be nice. Currently it seems some things are getting deleted - that guy getting roasted about the backbone, the post about the chat being closed down - to erase these from history seems a little against the ethos a lot of us probably share, so having some form of historical archive for threads that were closed would be nice. I don't like data disappearing without a reference - and it's not about the data itself, but just knowing if something was removed or not - Matrix still won't show the content (which would also be fine to not show here if chosen), but to at least see a thread was archived/closed like how Matrix shows a message is deleted, that would be nice to preserve the history.

jonturk wrote:

Could we have mailing list feature for this forum? It is pretty inconvenient to need a browser to open the forum and follow/reply threads. It would be nice to have a discourse-like mailing list feature where we could get new threads as mails and their comments as a mail tree, where we can reply from mail without having the huge overhead of opening and using a browser.

Or some thing like RSS could also do the job?

dude.eth wrote:

Reply count -1 would be nice, traditional forums don't consider the OP as a reply, so when I see 2 replies I expect two replies in addition to OP. And in addition to that, a last reply: name type feature would be nice, sometimes I refresh and can't recall if I read the most recent reply based only on timestamp + reply count, so seeing who replied last is also useful and a traditional forum feature.

In addition (and another.. often traditional forum feature), an archived section would be nice. Currently it seems some things are getting deleted - that guy getting roasted about the backbone, the post about the chat being closed down - to erase these from history seems a little against the ethos a lot of us probably share, so having some form of historical archive for threads that were closed would be nice. I don't like data disappearing without a reference - and it's not about the data itself, but just knowing if something was removed or not - Matrix still won't show the content (which would also be fine to not show here if chosen), but to at least see a thread was archived/closed like how Matrix shows a message is deleted, that would be nice to preserve the history.

Okay, finally I realized that clicking into the Forum itself lets me see the last reply. Lol.

dude.eth wrote:

a light(er) mode on the http side would be super appreciated.

For me, too.
I usually like bright room/ daylight environments, and light themes are so much more comfortable in such environments.

Plus, when beeing outdoors with sunshine on an LCD screen, bright screen is much easier readable.

I think an alternative approach to solve this is to use custom styling (I don't know CSS, so I don't know if the forum's HTML variant is already easily custom stylable).

Regards!

jonturk wrote:

Could we have mailing list feature for this forum? It is pretty inconvenient to need a browser to open the forum and follow/reply threads. It would be nice to have a discourse-like mailing list feature where we could get new threads as mails and their comments as a mail tree, where we can reply from mail without having the huge overhead of opening and using a browser.

I have also suggested that in the matrix forum, so I'm with you.
I found yggmail which is true p2p mail with IMAP/STMP built on the Yggdrasil protocol, but something like that may be possible in rns too.
Deltachat provides a chat interface for IMAP/STMP, for more intimate discussion.

A way to sort replies into under-trees would be an option too to make the chat more visible.

Side node:
i like the design principle of the like system

Can we link the community wiki under this page's community tab?

I'm really missing a search feature (or at least I'm not seeing one)

Also this is wrong:

Preview of a message ↓

Actual message after being sent ↓

If we're making wishes: change "replys" to "replies" :3
Also, for people asking for an RSS feed or whatever... we're on reticulum. Wouldn't a subscription feature that automatically messages you for subscribed post updates be better? Since you have to identify in order to post, the server should have your address right? If not, some field to tie an lxmf address to the identified ID should work, I would think.