General interest mega-boards and forum sustainability

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club I'm sorry I got a bit salty about it.

Basically if Mastodon were not in the equation we would send an Article with a name and no summary at all. Threadiverse implementations handle that perfectly already.

GtS actually did implement the Mastodon behaviour! Content warnings were their thing (afaik), done by adopting summary as the CW. GtS followed suit but applied this to all objects, not just notes. So in this case GtS went a bit further is all.

[esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club]

@julian ahh, gotcha. And what would happen now if you didn't include summary at all?

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club Mastodon would show the title and URL, and the content would be excised out.

Which I suppose is so fine insofar that sometimes long form content is best read on the originating site, but end users want their content read natively on Mastodon

[esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club]

@julian and gts would do the same, right?

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club actually I'm not sure how GtS would handle it!

[jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu]

@julian So in other words, if an Article-type object has a summary, Mastodon discards the title, shows the summary and links to the original, and if it doesn't have a summary, Mastodon shows the title and links to the original?

Its "traditional" behaviour since ca. 2017 was that it either showed the title and the link or, in the absence of a title, only the link with zero context, and when there was a summary, it used the summary as a content warning.

I'm still not sure whether Mastodon is limited by all interfaces available for it only being geared towards old-school plain-text microblogging and incapable of handling fully formatted HTML content, or rather by the devs' stubborn unwillingness to let anything in that's too much not old-school plain-text microblogging.

[silverpill@mitra.social]

@julian @esoteric_programmer It will probably display content without title.

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu Mastodon shows the title, summary, and adds a link.

It's as good as it'll get and quite a ways from where it used to be.