One of the problems I have with changing the way the “Discover” view works whilst at the same time keeping it “clean” (depending on who you talk to) is the behaviour between “Timeline” (what you follow explicitly) and “Discover” (a view into the pod’s cache). See attached, where I by default prefer a “collapsed” view (hiding replies). The default behaviour for Discover (no controls) is “everything”.

The reason I bring this up is that part of my “workflow” has become to occasionally use the “Discover” view to see if I’ve missed any “in-between” replies that often happen, find new interesting folks to follow and/or interact with, etc.

Changing this to anything but the current behaviour would break this flow for me 😢

There’s also a pod-level setting (admins) that control what the “Discover” (or front page if you’re not logged in) display:

This is either:

• Local posts only (local to the pod)
  
• All posts in the pod’s cache

I’d like to hear some ideas that fix or improve the signal / noise ratio for all users and even benefits non-users (anonymous users just hitting a pod’s index page, which is the discover view)

One thing to be clear about here is that it was never my intention for a pod’s “front page” (Discover view when not logged in) to be any kind of “listing” or “advertising” or such. That was completely unintentional. If this is expected somehow, we should probably discuss that too more seriously and discuss its merits, and if it can be support, should be supported, or if there’s a different solution entirely? For example. there is the search engine which could show a global feed/timeline view, albeit the domain could be something different.

Another feature as mentioned in #iq4rusa is using filters on the Timeline and/or Discover views. One of the most common “workflows” I use is to go to “Discover” and use the “Without replies” and “Hide my posts” filters to see if there’s anything new and interesting in my pod’s cache I haven’t seen before or maybe could reply to (or not).

Of course as I’ve locked down registrations on my pod anyway (have kept it locked down now for months) due to SPAM accounts and bots just creating rubbish accounts/feeds, this workflow may no longer be all that useful? hmmm 🧐

I’d also be very interested to hear what some other users of yarnd have to say, sadly there are only a handful of pods around that I’m aware of and/or that peer with my pod (twtxt.net) 😢

Maybe Yarn.social/Twtxt has become boring or too niche? 🤔 Anyway cc @eldersnake@yarn.andrewjvpowell.com @xuu @stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no @abucci@anthony.buc.ci

Maybe some kind of option that when enabled will collapse multiple posts from the same feed and only show the top most recent one, with some kind of UI/UX that indicate “N more today…”?