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Use news category as social post author instead of "Breaking" #358

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9 changes: 5 additions & 4 deletions social/social.go
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Expand Up @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ func surfaceBreakingFromNews() {
// Surface the first one (use URL as dedup key)
if !surfaced[a.url] {
surfaced[a.url] = true
SurfaceBreaking(a.title, a.url)
SurfaceBreaking(a.category, a.title, a.url)
app.Log("social", "Breaking: %q matched across %s and %s", a.title, a.category, b.category)
}
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -219,8 +219,9 @@ func extractKeywords(title string) map[string]bool {
return words
}

// SurfaceBreaking creates a system thread from external sources (e.g., breaking news)
func SurfaceBreaking(title, link string) {
// SurfaceBreaking creates a system thread from external sources (e.g., breaking news).
// The category is used as the author name (e.g. "Politics", "Finance").
func SurfaceBreaking(category, title, link string) {
if title == "" {
return
}
Expand All @@ -236,7 +237,7 @@ func SurfaceBreaking(title, link string) {

addMessage(&Message{
ID: id,
Author: "Breaking",
Author: category,
AuthorID: "_system",
Content: content,
PostedAt: time.Now(),
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