Quoting of Articles

[dariusk]

Article type posts should be able to be quoted a la "quote tweets" from Twitter. Since Article is intended for long form publications I think it makes sense to give people this contextual kind of way to comment.

[dariusk]

One issue here is that this needs to "unfold" across servers -- ideally this means the following:

• hometown server receives and serves an Article post to a hometown user
• the user hits "quote" button and composes their comment, posts it
• hometown server creates a new post with some kind of embedded content preview that is hosted on the hometown server
• hometown server should respect "delete" messages from external servers though and put a "this content was deleted by its author" in the embed from that point on

But also, how is this different from just appending the content URL to the user's comment and letting it unfurl? I think what would make the most sense is if someone on a hometown server clicked on the quoted content, it would render right there in their feed for them to read, like a twitter quote works but potentially much longer. And if someone not on hometown sees the quote, then it's just the URL?

Anyway, this is more of a UX can of worms than I expected and I'll continue to think through this.