I know that mastodon uses hashtags to search content, but doesn't offer an offical feature to follow hashtags. On the other hand, following topics is the only way, to find people on your interests / infos of events / ...
So I recommend to add a new features - a hashtag based timeline.
It allows you to (virtually) follow hashtags. The list get's filled by pulling the search results every n minutes and combine the resulting posts ordered by date. You can pin search requests to this list and open them from the main menu with a single click (I expect it to be a heavily used feature).
filter for bots
I know that mastodon uses hashtags to search content, but doesn't offer an offical feature to follow hashtags. On the other hand, following topics is the only way, to find people on your interests / infos of events / ...
So I recommend to add a new features - a hashtag based timeline.
It allows you to (virtually) follow hashtags. The list get's filled by pulling the search results every n minutes and combine the resulting posts ordered by date. You can pin search requests to this list and open them from the main menu with a single click (I expect it to be a heavily used feature).
- filter for bots
This one has already been discussed many times.
Without support from the Mastodon API that's complicated.
Sure,I could theoretically make requests and sockets for hundreds of hashtags you follow but the server won't be happy about that and it isn't a clean solution.
The hashtag search results do already have a websocket which means that keeping the results page open is like a normal auto-refreshing timeline.
Putting many of them together would be bad mainly for performance and server-load reasons but if you think more about it,it gets even worse.
That Mastodons API doesn't support it does also mean that your hashtag follows can't be saved on server side.
If you change your browser,device or Halcyon instance,these follows would be gone for example.
You should rather ask Mastodon for adding the feature hashtag follows,then I can implement it in Halcyon easily and correctly.
You can workaround nearly everything but sometimes you simply shouldn't.
This one has already been discussed many times.
Without support from the Mastodon API that's complicated.
Sure,I could theoretically make requests and sockets for hundreds of hashtags you follow but the server won't be happy about that and it isn't a clean solution.
The hashtag search results do already have a websocket which means that keeping the results page open is like a normal auto-refreshing timeline.
Putting many of them together would be bad mainly for performance and server-load reasons but if you think more about it,it gets even worse.
That Mastodons API doesn't support it does also mean that your hashtag follows can't be saved on server side.
If you change your browser,device or Halcyon instance,these follows would be gone for example.
You should rather ask Mastodon for adding the feature hashtag follows,then I can implement it in Halcyon easily and correctly.
You can workaround nearly everything but sometimes you simply shouldn't.
I see your point, but AFAIK there were complaints about adding native support to follow hashtags.
I didn't found any further (historic) references but the current discussions for the tootsuite
* https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/request-follow-hashtags/1293
* https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/945
* https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1096
A first step might also be an OR query for hashtags, that might take some more time (and have low priority at the server):
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/6359
Niklas Poslovski
I know that mastodon uses hashtags to search content, but doesn't offer an offical feature to follow hashtags. On the other hand, following topics is the only way, to find people on your interests / infos of events / ...
So I recommend to add a new features - a hashtag based timeline. It allows you to (virtually) follow hashtags. The list get's filled by pulling the search results every n minutes and combine the resulting posts ordered by date. You can pin search requests to this list and open them from the main menu with a single click (I expect it to be a heavily used feature).
This one has already been discussed many times. Without support from the Mastodon API that's complicated. Sure,I could theoretically make requests and sockets for hundreds of hashtags you follow but the server won't be happy about that and it isn't a clean solution. The hashtag search results do already have a websocket which means that keeping the results page open is like a normal auto-refreshing timeline. Putting many of them together would be bad mainly for performance and server-load reasons but if you think more about it,it gets even worse. That Mastodons API doesn't support it does also mean that your hashtag follows can't be saved on server side. If you change your browser,device or Halcyon instance,these follows would be gone for example. You should rather ask Mastodon for adding the feature hashtag follows,then I can implement it in Halcyon easily and correctly. You can workaround nearly everything but sometimes you simply shouldn't.
I see your point, but AFAIK there were complaints about adding native support to follow hashtags.
I didn't found any further (historic) references but the current discussions for the tootsuite
A first step might also be an OR query for hashtags, that might take some more time (and have low priority at the server): https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/6359