Hard to tell if someone is following you

[RangerMauve]

It would be nice if there was something on a persons fritter profile that indicated whether they followed you. That way it'd be more obvious if they'd be able to see posts from you.

Currently the way to work around this is to go to their "following" list and searching for yourself, which isn't the quickest solution.

[Gozala]

Would be even better if there was indicator telling you they won't see your message if you mention or try to respond to their post.

[pujux]

Well if you can display the following list on someone's page, you are also able to check if you're in that list programmatically. Is anyone up for implementing this or should I go and try?

[RangerMauve]

You might as well try! :D

Basically, the profile for each person contains their follows list. It should be easy enough to find the code where the person's name / picture is being rendered, and add some sort of indicator to show that the person follows you.

Or whatever you'd prefer.

[pujux]

Shouldn't be that much of a problem, I'll have a look into it later today! Also working on a "round" theme for fritter because I really like round borders 😆 Any ideas or suggestions, anything you want to have? Otherwise I'll try to fit it to the design.

[RangerMauve]

@puf17640 I think a great idea would be to use libfritter directly and create your own front-end using whatever you're interested in.

Having more veriety for fritter front ends can only help the ecosystem grow and promote the idea of people owning their data and how they intereact with it.

[pujux]

That would be cool too, but too much work for me right now, since school is keeping me pretty busy right now. I'll definitely keep that in mind and have a look into it, it might be a foundation to what I was going to build anyway because I thought about building a p2p version of youtube or any other web2.0 service, since I really like rebuilding stuff from scratch.

[pujux]

Well I just cloned the repo and it seems to be kind of broken right now. Also it seems like fritter.hashbase.io is not up to date since the last merge commit is not included. I'll just try to get it working I guess... gonna be a great night lmao

[pfrazee]

Yeah I've stopped putting work into Fritter because it's not been performing how I want. I'm in the process of a rewrite, but it's going to be a couple months. (The rewrite will depend on some new Beaker APIs like the identity system and data protocols.)

[pujux]

@pfrazee okay, that's understandable since it's a year old now and I can imagine how much beaker has evolved in that time. I just found out about beaker 2 days ago and I'm already fully tied in! 😆 I've been really into cryptography and peer-to-peer projects for a while now and I hope I can somehow contribute in the future! Since I'm still in school I don't have any experience worth to be mentioned but if you've got anything I'd be really happy to try and help.

[pfrazee]

@puf17640 Awesome! We keep "help wanted" tickets on the Beaker repo (https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22help+wanted%22) and we'll keep everybody updated on the updates around tooling for apps like Fritter.