Thinking further about the redent proposal here: http://status.net/trac/ticket/939
We should take care with this feature because adding it would increase the cognitive load for a notice item. I'd also like suggest that we review this feature a little further before pushing it out the door as it will have implications. So, here is how I'd define the following actions: * Favoriting: flagging a notice for personal use (e.g., appreciation, bookmark) * Redenting: flagging a notice such that one wants to share it with everyone Some observations: * Both actions are public. * Both are essentially vote ups. * The act of favoriting can be seen as a status in and of it self. * Redenting is important enough that it should be trackable. * Favoriting is closer to 'liking', and redenting is closer to 'spreading'. Which leads me to this imperfect idea when a user clicks to favorite a notice item: * add it to user's favorites * automagically send a notice like "♻ @evan The quick brown fox" and make it an in-reply-to the original * if the notice is great than 140 chars (because of the addition of "♻ @evan " to the original) we can perhaps do some truncating from the end. All this leads me to think about the act of sharing. If I click on something like 'Share', I could redent and add it to my favorites at the same time. And, what if it gave the opportunity to edit before sharing (which is a common practise)? So, what do you think are the implications for human experience, API, storage, bandwidth, and ..? -Sarven _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
