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yosoyubik / canvas

Peer-to-peer paint app for Urbit

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Snoopy Feature Discussion (seeing who's drawn what) #27

Closed johnhyde closed 2 years ago

johnhyde commented 2 years ago

Possible Features:

View the author and timestamp of any given pixel
- (?) Info is printed off-canvas somewhere (notification? regular text box?) when you hover over a pixel
- (?) There's a snoop tool which shows info in a tooltip on hover
Allow canvas hosts to decide whether snooping is enabled (default to false)
- Include an option in the create canvas form
- Allow hosts to change this value (through new settings menu? through context menu?)

Implied Future Features which are probably out of scope for now:

Strokes are grouped together by author and time period, and whole drawings can be identified at once
A history of the canvas is constructed with reasonable groupings of strokes, so you can see how it changed over time (timeline UI included)
Rolling back certain contributions, or removing contributions by a certain user

johnhyde commented 2 years ago

There's also the issue that even if snooping is disabled on a canvas, the information would still be there for anyone who cared enough (and had the skills) to look for it. However, it might not be easy, but I bet we could modify the store such that we could record strokes without the "who" information on snoop-disabled canvases. But if it is feasible, is it worthwhile?