Filter out replies not to me or my friends from Home timeline

[Dragnucs]

It would be very practical to have an option that allows us to hide replies to people we are not subscribed to.

For example I am subscribed to A but not to to B. A is subscribed to B. If A replies to B, I don't want to see this reply/notice.

[moshpirit]

I don't think this would be possible, in my view, it's a social network thing, it doesn't matter what client do you use.
The only thing I think that AS could do it's to let you hide some notes, but you had to do it manually.

[Dragnucs]

Of course. This should be implemented in ostatus or gnusocial API where we ask it to hide this kind of notices. That way it would even be band with friendly for small servers and mobile devices.

But I am asking it here because it is easy to do as it just implies some basic verifications.

If the gnusocial developers sees it here they might like it and implemente it. I am going to have them look at this thread in the evening.

[moshpirit]

I don't think the GS developers read this, but you can also write in GNU social using !gs and !gnusocial groups. But the best way, in my opinion, it's writing it in its Gitorious website :-)

[yvolk]

@Dragnucs I remember you proposed something like this in GNU Social discussion?! (I couldn't find that thread...)
This additional filter to the Home timeline is not hard to implement. I guess this filtering should be done during syncing. This way unwanted messages will not be stored in the local database.
New option "Filter out replies not to myself from Home timeline" will be added to the Settings - Syncing.

[moshpirit]

Great!! What about an usual filter? I thought I opened an issue, but I can't find it.
Uses of the filter:

• Highlight some posts with filtered words. (e.g. Andstatus -> all the notes with "Andstatus will be highlighted (or even notified))
• Hide some other posts with another filtered words. (e.g. NSFW -> all the notes with "NSFW" won't appear anymore in our timeline (except if it appears in a mention))

Should I open a new issue for that?

[yvolk]

@moshpirit I guess these should be different "issues". I would call your wish a "Custom filters for Home timeline" (include or exclude...)

[Dragnucs]

@yvolk It would be better if it was "Filter out replies not to myself or friends from Home timeline". But as you said is good enough.

Thank you for your responsiveness.

[yvolk]

@Dragnucs Agree, this should be "Filter out replies not to myself or my friends from Home timeline".
I renamed the Issue accordingly.

[yvolk]

@Dragnucs @moshpirit You may start testing this new feature building from the Source code.

[vinzv]

Thanks for implementing! It works quite well with "real" replies. If there's not thread and the message starts with an @ symbol it doesn't grab it. Maybe that's a thing for another option like "Hide @-replies"?

[moshpirit]

I can't right now, I'm using an old device these days :(

[yvolk]

@vinzv "Hide @-replies" as an addition to "Hide replies..." looks like of a too narrow usage to me...

[vinzv]

Okay, good point. So maybe implement messages starting with "@username" to be filtered as well as reply threads?

[yvolk]

I thought about this: this is not easy for GNU Social, when @username is used instead of Webfinger ID: it may refer to different people... but I may implement a simple/fast approach, matching as friends all @usernames (and thus not hiding them).
HTML formatting may also interfere here, I'm afraid that stripping HTML on the fly may be too long.
Anyway, I will test this.

[Dragnucs]

Isn't there a text version that accompanies each notice?

On Tue, 13 Oct, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Yuri Volkov notifications@github.com
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I thought about this: this is not easy for GNU Social, when @username
is used instead of Webfinger ID: it may refer to different people...
but I may implement a simple/fast approach, matching as friends all
@usernames (and thus not hiding them).
HTML formatting may also interfere here, I'm afraid that stripping
HTML of the fly may be too long.
Anyway, I will test this.

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[yvolk]

@Dragnucs Currently I implemented the filter for a Timeline view only. All messages, even "hidden", are stored in a local database.
So only one version of a message text is stored. And I am analyzing it on the fly... I thought now that stripping HTML before applying filters is needed for "Hide messages based on keywords" also, because it's not correct to filter by hidden HTML content...
...maybe I will go as far as to actually add another "plain text" column to a message table in order to use it for Search also?!

[Dragnucs]

Can't you filter them based on a regex that matches the text format OR
the HTML format?

On Tue, 13 Oct, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Yuri Volkov notifications@github.com
wrote:

@Dragnucs Currently I implemented the filter for a Timeline view
only. All messages, even "hidden", are stored in a local database.
So only one version of a message text is stored. And I am analyzing
it on the fly... I thought now that stripping HTML before applying
filters is needed for "Hide messages based on keywords" also, because
it's not correct to filter by hidden HTML content...
...maybe I will go as far as to actually add another "plain text"
column to a message table in order to use it for Search also?!

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[yvolk]

@Dragnucs Could you give an example, I'm afraid didn't get you :-)

[Dragnucs]

/^(@\w+|<a .+>@\w+)/

On 13 October 2015 19:45:32 WEST, Yuri Volkov notifications@github.com wrote:

@Dragnucs Could you give an example, I'm afraid didn't get you :-)

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[yvolk]

@vinzv I made it possible to filter replies to a User, which are not replies to a message.
If a message is not a Reply to another message, AndStatus checks if the message's body starts with @username and marks it as a Reply to a User with this username. So such "Replies to a User" are also filtered by this option

Please note that this new behaviour works only for messages, downloaded after installation of AndStatus v.20.1. (134)

v.20.1. Published at the Open Beta testing channel, please opt in here: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.andstatus.app

[Dragnucs]

Good.

On dim., 18 oct., 2015 at 7:48 , Yuri Volkov notifications@github.com
wrote:

@vinzv I made it possible to filter replies to a User, which are not
replies to a message.
If a message is not a Reply to another message, AndStatus checks if
the message's body starts with @username and marks it as a Reply to a
User with this username. So such "Replies to a User" are also
filtered by this option

Please note that this new behaviour works only for messages,
downloaded after installation of AndStatus v.20.1. (134)

v.20.1. Published at the Open Beta testing channel, please opt in
here: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.andstatus.app

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[moshpirit]

931 errors on AIDE 3.2 :(
Bq M5 - Android 5.0.2

[yvolk]

@moshpirit Please see #277 regarding compilation.

[moshpirit]

Oh, I didn't see your comment! thanks!

[yvolk]

Implemented in v.20