create several posts with one book each on AP when adding books

[roipoussiere]

When adding several books on inventiare.io, a post with multiples books is created on the fediverse:

I think it could be interesting to create several posts with one book each: this way fediverse users could add a comment on one specific book.

I'm not talking about public book reviews (#185), but about commenting the owning of a book by a specific user. Comments could be something like "oh I liked this one, it remembered me our travel last year" or "hey, can I borrow you this one in two weeks?".

Then, two related features could be added in the future:

• add the possibility to display these comments on the inventaire.io website;
• add the possibility to directly add this kind of comment on the inventaire.io website.

[maxlath]

the grouping was done with large imports in mind, like when someone would import 100 books at once from a pre-existing list, but I see how that can be undesired for smaller activities. Some ideas:

• there could be a default threshold under which several items create several activities
• that threshold could be customized by the user

[roipoussiere]

What is the problem to create 100 posts? It could be done in a progressive way, for instance by waiting few seconds between each post.

When grouping posts, I don't understand how a fediverse user could comment the owning of a book.

[roipoussiere]

Also, one post per book may free some space for useful information and related AP actors, for instance:

New book added: @activitypub_book ([book name](book owning page))
by @activitypub_book_author
added on @activitypub_book_shelf
from @activitypub_book_serie
edited by @activitypub_book_publisher

[jum-s]

Allow more control on the published activities, in order to be able to disable activity pooling, there will be a need to publish one post per item added to the inventory.

A setting config may be accessible to users to enable/disable this feature.

For the moment, max and i agreed to have this feature disabled by default (according to MoU call today)