Open timbl opened 6 years ago
In Matrix, to which we are moving from Gitter, a thread is based on a message in the mainline, and each message the thread has a pointer back to the original root message of the thread. A SIOC property which seems to maybe be appropriate. However the SIOC concept of thread is to have the thread as a container of messages.
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Thread - A container for a series of threaded discussion Posts or Items.
sub-class-of: | sioc:Container |
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Class: sioc:Thread
Thread - A container for a series of threaded discussion Posts or Items.
sub-class-of: sioc:Container
But maybe the term sioc:reply_of would be the one for the link back to the thread root
reply of - Links to an Item or Post which this Item or Post is a reply to.
Testing issues
Future stuff carry forward
An open question is how to represent in RDF that a message is what in IRC is a /me
message which displays like
[timbl looks around]
, and which Matrix calls a m.emote
It is perhaps worth nothing that IRC display varies with clients. My client (Snak.app on macOS) displays the /me
messages as
hh:mm:ss * timbl | looks around
vs a chat message that looks like
hh:mm:ss <timbl> | An open question...
Also, that IRC has allowed users to emote
for decades. Matrix's "innovation" is just to prefix it with m.
See solid-ui PR https://github.com/SolidOS/solid-ui/pull/531 ... still testing
Desktop: A menu at the Right of the message allows, instead of just deleting the message,
The latter creates a new indented message input field under the original message.
When the new message is inserted, it is indented a bit to the right When the new thread is first added, a "Reply to thread" button is added to do the same thing more easily
Also allow a Hide Thread button somewhere. Grey Triangle at left?
RDF model: a link between the two messages, stored in the chat file, or in both chat files if they are in different dated chat files. Ontology to be decided. SIOC? Schema.org?
Model: How Telegram does this. Also look at Reddit and hacker news...
Creating new threads should be an option the creator of the chat can tun off, but default on.
You should be able to open the first message of a thread in the browser and see just the thread below it.