RE: Feedback Wanted: “Communities” Design Document
ONE BIG THING TO CONSIDER
OK @roadscape / @andrarchy and team and others interacting like @inertia
This was a big aspect when we were devolping communities interface and testing it like on the blockchain.
What are your plans for destinguishing community content from let's call it Home Page type content?
We created a Decentralized metadata entry for posts (we have a few of these we call "steem commands" and it's presently active on SteemPeak (has been for a while). Any other site can use the same thing. Can't remember the exact text (@asgarth does) but basically just put the word HIDDEN in there and it hides the post from your home page and your followers feeds.
Thus allowing you to write tons of community content/posts and not have every little post end up on your home page totally destroying your carefully scripted general interest content... also making every person immediately want to unfollow you.
If you have a better solution or it's already in the design document and i didn't see it then let us know.
We have to make sure this is enabled before jumping into communities. So we need the majority of interfaces to utilize the "Hidden" steem command or another equally good solution.
Thoughts?
This is of great intetest to me as well. It would be ideal for me (for a dApp idea) that Communities can be configured in a way that their posts will not disrupt one's home page or followers feeds.
Would there be times you'd like it to show up on your home page?
Ideally the posts would only show in the community's space. It would be something of little interest outside of the community.
I'd prefer having a resteeming (retweet or sharing) option to share what is inside communities to your home page (blogger's section). Also, I'd add a new tab called community where posts and comments go to that tab. Steemit currently has Posts, Replies, & Comments. A 4th tab could be Communities. A 5th tab could be hashtags. A 6th tab could be top trending, the best of the best of your posts, comments, etc. A 7th tab could be Reviews, as in feedback or recommendations like a guestbook where people write notes about how they know you or what they think about you, etc.
By home page do you mean the user's "Blog" section? Posts which go into a community will not be shown on users' blogs. When it comes to showing/hiding specific posts on user's blogs, we need some documented standard. It sounds like there are multiple implementations by multiple UIs and I'm not sure of the details. It would be easiest to use some key in the post's
json_metadataimo.@steempeak uses a boolean property called "hidden" in the json-metadata. It's a good and simple solution.