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Open profile with another account #271

Closed MaybeThisIsRu closed 1 year ago

MaybeThisIsRu commented 2 years ago

It would be great to have an option where you can re-open the profile you are viewing but with another one of your accounts that are you logged in with.

xmflsct commented 2 years ago

hmmm, interesting use case. I guess the goal is to follow an account with another account?

MaybeThisIsRu commented 2 years ago

Exactly! I have a personal alt and a more public, tech-focussed alt. Sometimes I see people I'd like to follow when using my personal alt, and I'd love to be able to swap out to the other alt, follow, and then swap back.

MaybeThisIsRu commented 2 years ago

Thinking some more on this...

Maybe long-tapping on certain actions can bring up a pop-up that asks which account you'd like to perform this action from.

This could be implemented for:

And so on. It's more generic and makes the app much more powerful in the long run. However, yes, it is more work up front for implementing it just for the follow action.

xmflsct commented 2 years ago

It is actually not that straightforward. Currently with an active account, when you visit a profit the app can tell you if you have followed that account or not. If yes, that button becomes "unfollow". In this case, it would be unintuitive to long tap this "unfollow" button to open up a dialog box for following. It is the same situation for like and boost as there is a state involved.

Another difficulty is that, a target account will have different user IDs on different instances. This means that, to call a target account on a different instance, a search action needs to take place first to get the user ID. This step could easily go wrong as many instances are running under limited resources.

The last tricky bit I can think of right now is around error scenarios. Currently the app "assumes" most API calls would succeed, therefore only warn users in few known scenarios, of course to reduce the complexity of development. As described above, many steps are needed to manage cross instance action, and if any of the step failed, it would be great to provide a meaningful error message and that is not an easy task - not to mention tooot relies on volunteers for translations.

So unfortuantely probably in the short term, I will leave this issue open until there is enough motivation to tackle this complexity.

MaybeThisIsRu commented 1 year ago

Exactly! I have a personal alt and a more public, tech-focussed alt. Sometimes I see people I'd like to follow when using my personal alt, and I'd love to be able to swap out to the other alt, follow, and then swap back.

canny[bot] commented 1 year ago

This issue has been linked to a Canny post: ‘Follow as’ for multiple accounts :tada: