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Include "vital" upstream status information in replies #2865

Open j6k4m8 opened 1 year ago

j6k4m8 commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Here's a (doctored) screenshot I took on May 30 2023 on the bookwyrm.social instance, from my activity feed:

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This was in response to other user's status regarding a progress update, but I can't tell what book it was about just from this comment.

Describe the solution you'd like

Would love to amend the title to something like

so and so replied to other user's status on "This is how you lose the time war"

Describe alternatives you've considered

...good alternative is just clicking through :)

Additional context

Forgive the very red screenshot; i don't want to screenshot others' posts without permission but can't replicate this particular behavior as a single user:

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The status at the very bottom is the relevant post that I'm showing up top; the relevant upshot is that the upstream status is a reply itself, and so it seems like we'd have to walk back up recursively to actually find out the title of the book. another option is to just show a little version of the previous comment inline in the timeline, on the same "grapevine" that this chained screenshot shows.

mouse-reeve commented 1 year ago

I agree! There's some similar logic in notifications: https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/bookwyrm/templates/notifications/items/reply.html#L23