FOSSDLE PieFedHow do you like the (newish) User notes feature?
submitted by hendrik edited
Have you tried it? It got merged 3 weeks ago and is a bit hidden. You have to go to a user's profile page, click "More" and then "Edit note".
I use it to attach the emojis to users that I like, dislike... Users who offer particularly great advice. Users who ask a lot of questions and then ghost everyone in the comments by never engaging with the discussion or follow-up questions. Clowns...
I would say this makes me a bit more at ease once I have a negative encounter on the platform. I can just mark the users and be sure I don't make the same mistake again. And I make sure to factor in positive encounters, too, so I know whom to pay attention to and invest some time in a good answer. I'm not sure where this is going long-term. In the few weeks I've been using it, I randomly had some note pop up and remind me both to be nice, or to ignore other discussions.
I have used User Notes, but I'd like to remember to use it more, especially for users like this.
The sad thing is, at the minute, the space is so small that I can usually just recognise the users that I'd otherwise tag just by their username.
I've just looked in the DB, to see all the notes. There are only 5 notes, created by 3 users. Definitely need to make this feature more visible.
We could make it easier to find by adding it to the popup that appears when hovering over a username?
Good idea. It's going to be a few lines of code, though. I believe we need to add a bit of handling and pass down urls through htmlx so we can navigate back after the note got set. Other than that it should be pretty straightforward and a really good place for that button.
I wasn't aware of this feature until now, but I really like it and I'm totally gonna use it
It does not render properly on my Android Firefox though I successfully got it to work by switching to Landscape.
I could not recall how to upload an image using PieFed - I think I can't, at least on mobile? - but here is a screenshot using a Lemmy instance as a surrogate:-):
The More button wraps, but the menu tries to go where the unwrapped position was, leaving it almost entirely off the screen.
I love the idea. I don't think it's too buried at all - this isn't something people may do all that often, so this seems a nice spot for it to go to imho.:-)