I subscribe to really many communities to always have some new content to look at. I also have some communities which I’m particularly interested in which sadly are quite low volume like [email protected] [email protected] and [email protected] The problem is now that I most of the time miss posts from those communities because they are such low volume.

In Mastodon I have the same problem, but there I was able to create a new column which I call Homies and it shows posts from a list of manually selected users from whom I don’t want to miss any post.

I was thinking that something like that would be interesting to have, like we have the filters “Subscribed”, “Local”, “Popular”, “All” I would imagine a “Favorites” one which would show only the posts from my favorite communities.

As a workaround for now I am letting PieFed to notify me of new posts in the four communities so I don’t miss anything. How do you guys deal with this problem?

  • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Yeah the notification bell is intended for this.

    However I find the notifications about new posts are mixed in with the notifications about replies to my comments, new registrations, etc which is a bit confusing and makes me not use the notification bell as much as I want to (because my notifs would be flooded with new post notifs).

    If notifications had a type and were grouped / sorted / paged by type then we could have a much greater volume of notifications.

  • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Yeah, same - rely on notifications mainly. Although I usually browse by subscribed/new so I’d probably see the post anyway.

    In terms of a ‘favourites’ column, I guess it’d just be a subset of Subscribed, so maybe just adding an extra field to CommunityMember would be enough. After the join, it’d be something like:
    posts = posts.filter(CommunityMember.user_id == current_user.id, CommunityMember.is_favourite == True)

    • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netOP
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      11 days ago

      Yeah something like that, obviously it would need to change the DB schema to add is_favourite. I’m also not sure if a lot of people have this problem or if the notification solution is good enough for everyone.

      I also browse by subscribed/new but when I sleep or work or am with my family - which combined is like 23,5 hours a day - then I’m not looking there and then it gets pushed down by the high volume of posts so I miss it.

  • Kierunkowy74@piefed.socialEnglish
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    11 days ago

    As you are selfhosting PieFed: you could simply create a new topic and add all your low volume communities there