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Reply collections

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André Menrath

Reply Collections have not yet really reached the centre of the . Among other things, moderation aspects play a role here (see FEP-7458 or FEP-5624). But in principle, they offer a wonderful opportunity to maintain consistency in discussion threads in the Fediverse.

Smaller instances in particular often lack reactions to content published in the Fediverse. In principle, this is not a bad thing. Nevertheless, it makes sense for both servers and clients to be able to retrieve a complete comment tree in some scenarios (possibly at the request of a user).

To this end, we have submitted a first draft in a pull request to the Upstream plugin for . In this case, we benefit from the already existing comment management of the WordPress core and only list approved comments in the replies collection.

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3 responses to “Reply collections”

  1. julian Avatar
    julian

    @blog@event-federation.eu interesting… I wonder if this works with the context collection mechanic I’ve been working on with ForumWG

    1. julian Avatar
      julian

      @blog@event-federation.eu ah I see this is just the implementation of the replies collection. Good!

      Getting one object’s comment tree is important, and is an important stepping going towards better navigation between objects and ActivityPub.

      Context collection should allow you to retrieve the entire conversational context in one fell swoop!

      1. André Menrath Avatar
        André Menrath

        Could you share a bit more about what you mean by ‘context collection’? Thanks! 🙂

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