Add an indication of toots / posts still not read

metabolist / metatext

A free, open-source iOS Mastodon client.

https://metabolist.org/metatext

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Add an indication of toots / posts still not read #197

Open javerous opened 2 years ago

javerous commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Not really.

Describe the solution you'd like It would be nice to see the number of toots which wasn't seen / read, a bit like an unread count badge in an e-mail client. I'm not sure it's doable with the current protocol.

Describe alternatives you've considered An alternative, if it's not possible currently, would be to show the number of toots between the current timeline position, and last toot of the timeline. Not sure it's possible neither with the current protocol.

Additional context It's something which is already implemented in some Twitter clients, like Tweetbot. They show it as an overlay (top right) on the timeline, which is a good solution, I think.

They consider the toot / post as read as soon as we scrolled "over" it.

It's configurable (it can be shown or hidden).

fe-hicking commented 2 years ago

Just came here to see if that feature request had been made already. I'm a 100% timeline reader too, and would benefit from it. Especially if it could show total unread state. Currently I have to "load more" my way above the fold. Would also be great if background fetching would "load more" on its own, so that I could do continuous scrolling.

Sadly am only a PHP developer and know nothing about Xcode development, so hard for me to offer help, if I can't even build a local version ;-)

javerous commented 2 years ago

Would also be great if background fetching would "load more" on its own, so that I could do continuous scrolling.

Yes, I was about to open a feature request for that. It can be something like: if you slowly approaching the "load more zone", then automatically load in the background (because this means you are reading toots, and you will want to read the ones missing, so it makes sense to preload them). And if you are scrolling fast, then don't load them (you are probably just skipping your timeline and trying to reach new / old toots, not reading, so it makes sense to skip the ones missing).

Sadly am only a PHP developer and know nothing about Xcode development, so hard for me to offer help, if I can't even build a local version ;-)

I'm a macOS / iOS developer myself, but I don't have much free time. If nobody from the core team have time to do it (or are not interested to do it), I will see if I can implement these 2 features at some point.

mykter commented 2 years ago

This is how Twitterrific displays the unread count - and in their case it means not seen, not just distance to latest post.