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  Benjamin Davies submitted idea #3171.

Obsidian autopairs markdown syntax and brackets. I like it a lot and would like Veritula to have something similar!

  Benjamin Davies submitted idea #3166.

@dennis-hackethal see the revision chain on #3164. Revision 5 improved the content but I accidentally removed valuable comments. Revision 6 (a revision of revision 4) brought back the comments but I failed to include the content improvement in revision 5. I then made revision 7 to have both the comments and the improved content.

Maybe it should be possible to amend which comments apply to an idea without needing to make a whole new revision. This could behave weirdly in some edge cases, but it’s food for thought. If you think the way it currently works is going to be best, that seems fine to me.

  Dennis Hackethal commented on criticism #2728.

Feature idea: private discussions only the creator and invited people can see. This could be a paid feature; $2 per discussion, say.

#2728·Dennis HackethalOP revised 24 days ago

This is done as of 9b5788c but it’s still free for now. Will make it a paid feature after some more testing and polishing.

  Dennis Hackethal commented on criticism #2169.

Veritula should have some way to indicate agreement; some way to indicate that a particular thread of a discussion is resolved, at least for the time being.

#2169·Dennis HackethalOP revised about 2 months ago

The Effective Altruism forum has an interesting way to react to posts.

There’s an ‘Agree’ button and a ‘Disagree’ button. Those are apparently anonymous. Then separately, there’s a button to ‘Add a reaction’ of either ‘Heart’, ‘Helpful’, ‘Insightful’, ‘Changed my mind’, or ‘Made me laugh’. And those are apparently not anonymous.

I wonder why they chose to make some reactions anonymous but not others. I don’t think I’d want a ‘Heart’ or ‘Made me laugh’ button, they seem too social-network-y. Also, ‘Heart’ seems like a duplicate of ‘Agree’. But ‘Insightful’ and ‘Changed my mind’ seem epistemologically relevant. Maybe ‘Helpful’, too.

If I did decide to go with ‘Agree’ and ‘Disagree’ buttons, I wouldn’t make them anonymous, though.

  Dennis Hackethal revised criticism #3115. The revision addresses idea #3117.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, separately notify participants of the change.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, notify participants of the change.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #3115.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, separately notify participants of the change.

#3115·Dennis HackethalOP revised 6 days ago

On second thought, the reason for the privacy change may well be related to the reason for any changes to the title or about section, so doing it in the same notification might actually be clearer for users.

  Dennis Hackethal revised criticism #3113. The revision addresses idea #3112.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, separately notify participants of the change.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, separately notify participants of the change.

  Dennis Hackethal revised criticism #3110.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, notify participants of the activity.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, separately notify participants of the change.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #3110.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, notify participants of the activity.

#3110·Dennis HackethalOP revised 6 days ago

A change to the privacy setting is notable enough that it requires a dedicated notification independent of any changes to a discussion title or about section.

  Dennis Hackethal revised criticism #3109.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, notify participants.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, notify participants of the activity.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #3108.

How would you notify participants of changes to the privacy setting?

#3108·Dennis HackethalOP, 6 days ago

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, notify participants.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #2728.

Feature idea: private discussions only the creator and invited people can see. This could be a paid feature; $2 per discussion, say.

#2728·Dennis HackethalOP revised 24 days ago

How would you notify participants of changes to the privacy setting?

  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #3107.

Preview links of discussions should show the name of the discussion being linked.

See eg https://x.com/agentofapollo/status/1991252721618547023

h/t @benjamin-davies

  Dennis Hackethal archived idea #3087 along with any revisions.
  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #3087.

Please add a ‘first, previous, next, last’ navigation thing to the top of the activity feed page and similar pages. Currently I need to scroll to the bottom to go to a different page.

#3087·Benjamin Davies, 8 days ago

Good call. I made the pagination ‘sticky’ as of 1e7a85d. Archiving this but let me know if something isn’t working right.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #3101.

If the discussion owner accidentally removes someone and then adds them back right away, it sucks if all the associated records are still gone.

#3101·Dennis HackethalOP, 8 days ago

In later implementations, I could maybe implement a ‘soft’ delete or grace period. Or I could keep the associated records and rely on authorization rules to prevent access. But as of right now, that’s a premature consideration.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #3100.

Those could be deleted when the user is removed.

#3100·Dennis HackethalOP, 8 days ago

If the discussion owner accidentally removes someone and then adds them back right away, it sucks if all the associated records are still gone.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #3099.

What if they still have subscriptions or bookmarks in that discussion?

#3099·Dennis HackethalOP, 8 days ago

Those could be deleted when the user is removed.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #3072.

There could be hard cutoff: they lose access to everything, including their own ideas in that discussion.

#3072·Dennis HackethalOP, 8 days ago

What if they still have subscriptions or bookmarks in that discussion?

  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #3088.

Need a search form per discussion.

  Benjamin Davies submitted idea #3087.

Please add a ‘first, previous, next, last’ navigation thing to the top of the activity feed page and similar pages. Currently I need to scroll to the bottom to go to a different page.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #3079.

But that sucks. Maybe someone works hard and submits a bunch of ideas only to lose access to them all.

#3079·Dennis HackethalOP, 8 days ago

This functionality is pretty standard across apps. You can be removed from Discord servers, Telegram channels, etc without warning or reason at any time. People generally know and accept this. If they still put in effort, that’s on them.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #3081.

But then invitees might not put as much effort into those discussions.

#3081·Dennis HackethalOP, 8 days ago

That depends on a bunch of factors, including their relationship with the discussion owner, into which Veritula has no visibility.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #3072.

There could be hard cutoff: they lose access to everything, including their own ideas in that discussion.

#3072·Dennis HackethalOP, 8 days ago

But then invitees might not put as much effort into those discussions.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #3079.

But that sucks. Maybe someone works hard and submits a bunch of ideas only to lose access to them all.

#3079·Dennis HackethalOP, 8 days ago

That risk could be clearly communicated in the UI.