Would it be useful to customize the rendering and presentation of posts by actor?

I follow a lot of actors and I get a lot of posts, and I'd like the posts from some actors to stand out, and I'd like the posts from others to be more inconspicuous. Or maybe I want to use color to help visually categorize posts from actors I follow, based on subject matter.

Does this sound like a useful feature?

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I rolled out a lot of features over the last several weeks and created a lot of bugs in the process. Release v3.2.5 of Ktistec is mostly about fixing those bugs. I did implement two requested features, however: support for editing posts in Markdown and support for Open Graph metadata. Here's the full list of new features:

Added

• Support for editing posts in Markdown. (fixes #25)
• Support for Open Graph metadata on actors and objects. (fixes #71)
• Support for uploading a site image.
• Internal table of contents page.
• Poll expiry notifications.

🎄 I'm working on support for poll creation and management now. It's also time for a performance improvement pass or two.

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The big feature in release v3.2.4 of Ktistec is support for viewing and voting on Mastodon polls (AKA FEP-9967: Polls). This feature took a surprising amount of work. Some of the effort was due to my struggles with visual design, but getting the behavior right was also tricky. For example, a "vote" is just an ActivityPub Note, but unlike other notes, it shouldn't appear in a poll's replies (it could, but that would be redundant and confusing). So I had to add exceptions throughout the code to deal with this. A custom Vote object type would have been nice in the original implementation.

Added

• Support for viewing and voting on polls. (fixes #49)
• Added tooltip to notifications menu item summarizing new notifications.

Fixed

• Improved wrapping of actor panel follow/refresh information. (fixes #130)
• Autocomplete now works correctly when adjacent to a Trix attachment.
• Image title attributes are now preserved.

Changed

• Moved avatars to the bottom of the object detail view.

Thank you @jayvii for the build fix!

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After thrashing through several attempts to add a smooth transition to the poll partial after the user votes, I realized that the best solution was hiding in plain sight. Turbo already sets the busy attribute on a turbo-frame element while the request is in progress, and adds a complete attribute when the request is complete. The only thing required was the styling!

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Release v3.2.3 of Ktistec includes two big features:

• FEP-1b12 Group federation
  Improved federation with Lemmy and other forum-type servers. Ktistec supports community and thread follow/unfollow, as well as up-vote/like (down-vote/dislike is supported but there is no visual affordance for that yet).
• FEP-9098 Custom emojis
  Support for viewing custom emoji in posts and on actor profiles. Ktistec does not yet support custom emoji creation and management.

The full changelog:

Added

• Support for viewing custom emoji in posts and on actor profiles.
• Actor type (Person, Group, etc.) overlay badges on actor panels.
• Colored fallback avatars for actors without icons.
• Support for robots.txt.

Fixed

• Federation with Lemmy and other servers that support FEP-1b12.
  • Shared inbox support for local actors.
  • Serialization of Undo includes the undone activity.
  • Serialization of Like and Dislike does not.
• Notify only once for an object's first received activity.

Changed

• Accumulate metrics by hour for finer granularity.
• Clean up presentation of public followers/following pages.

The next release will include support for Mastodon polls (FEP-9967).

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