Three months ago I submitted a post to the Rust sub-reddit called Building a better /r/rust together. It quickly rose to the top and garn...
  • OtterEnglish
    1•10 months ago

    I think I agree with their proposed solution

    One issue might be that users lose some control over which communities they see content from. If [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] are all connected in this way, but I despise something about [email protected], I can’t follow either of the others?

    Which could be solved by a toggle on the community. The next question then would be what the default is, and I think more content would be better than less.

    The last issue is how much more confusing this will be for new users, which I don’t know how to solve because I don’t quite understand it myself

    • @[email protected]English
      2•10 months ago

      I think it would be pretty easy to sort in your 1+2+3 case. Let users natively ban instances.

      Say you hate instance 3. If you go into the 1+2+3 thread, you will only be able to see or interact with 1+2 comments, as all others wont even load for you.

      The tricky part is if 3 users can see or interact with your comments. It might be the case that you literally just wont see anything downthread if one of them replies to you.

      • OtterEnglish
        1•10 months ago

        That would work well :)

        I think it would also be helpful to have a way to see only one instance.

        Say for example, some regional variants of communities group up (ex. The Canadian community for X + the general community for X)

        Sometimes you might want to see all the content, and sometimes it might be helpful to just see the local content. A toggle or custom view would be nice to have