did expansion

[justinabrahms]

If I put a DID into a note, I want it to expand into a little user card so I can click the follow button on them

[bfollington]

Might be worth considering a common iOS pattern here, we can detect if there's a DID in the clipboard and offer to follow it without even having the user paste it.

The proposed idea, creating a card within a note, has a circular dependency because we won't be able to produce the metadata for a profile without first resolving the user (which is what happens in the BG when you follow them anyway). So, if we wait to produce a card it may take 10s of seconds to render it, just to click follow next to it.

We might benefit from splitting this issue into two components:

• Offer to follow a DID in the clipboard
• Expand @names and DID's into transclusions of user cards

[justinabrahms]

So two parts editing and viewing.

For the view experience, I'd love to see a user profile card with a profile photo, their pet name or did key or something and a follow button.

For the editing experience, I'd love the did clipboard thing you mentioned or allow me to @ any of my petnames.

[cdata]

One thing that is worth considering: it may only make sense to expand the DID if it corresponds to one or more entries in the sphere's address book, and the entry has been resolved to a sphere version. My reasoning here is:

• A DID you don't have in your address book will need to be resolved to a sphere version first
• DIDs in general aren't guaranteed to refer to a sphere
• It emphasizes the closeness/interestingness metric that can be derived graph edges expressed by the address book

OTOH, I could see a good case for a DID always being link-ified (assuming it is a method we know how to handle).