# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
# 
# Usage:
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users              View list of users and latest twt date.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt                View all twts.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri  View all mentions for uri.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash         View all twts for a conversation subject.
# 
# Options:
#     uri     Filter to show a specific users twts.
#     offset  Start index for quey.
#     limit   Count of items to return (going back in time).
# 
# twt range = 1 735
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://neotxt.dk/user/darch/twtxt.txt&offset=335
# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://neotxt.dk/user/darch/twtxt.txt&offset=435
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://neotxt.dk/user/darch/twtxt.txt&offset=235
@stigatle do you have any always on devices in your setup? That one of my biggest concerns for me to switch from dropbox - that I would not always be working on the latest version of a file.
This seem to mostly apply to yarnSocial as well: [How Mastodon is different (than twitter)](https://gilest.org/mastodon.html)
we can start now or in 5 min
@prologic yes, see ya later
@prologic you posted the timeslots when I was sleeping so it was a bit hard to set my alarm for 06 CET😴

I would prefer if both times lots was an hour later, but I could do both/either if I knew it 1.5 days in advance so I could plan accordingly 😊
@prologic link is not working....
@lyse danke, i've fixed that now
You could set up a RSS for your miniblog (if it's not already thee?) that people could then followed via feeds.twtxt.net
@abucci no, because twtxt is pull only. The comparison with email is more that is not just one server by one company, but that no one owns the platform, since it not a platform but at protocol
Mastodon is Email? – Email is good. and the same goes for twtxt+yarn

When I try to explain yarn.social to others i also tell them that's like email, but not sure many people get it.

What are your experience with getting others on board to yarn and twtxt?
@justamoment twtxt don't have headings, so do you mean the username?
It says here that you can run your own server: https://gitlab.com/jam-systems/jam
@prologic like right now?!
@hashrock how do I setup and start using https://github.com/anydown/kanbandown when I don't know yarn.js (not be confused with yard/twtxt;)
@mckinley I will probably be going out at that hour tomorrow. But your guys should just go ahead a have a yarn if more people can meet there
@hashrock you can already point pixelblog to an external twtxt.txt, but generating thumbnails does only work for local files.

And for mockup take a look at: https://darch.dk/pixelblog/gallery/

But it would be nice to have a more tumblr look with thumbnails in their propper aspect ration as in your mockup above.
@prologic that is 4 in the morning, so it will be sleeping there💤
and then this could be a reason to show the type for Normals feeds as well and then do the color thung
@prologic yup I think that will do for now, though it is not available on mobil.
okay, so the icons for type of feed (bot, rss, human?) could be in different colors depending on if you follow it or not: --text-light for not following and --accent if you follow them.
@prologic maybe, but we already got a lot of icons in the ui. Also what would be a good icons for "you already follow this feed / you do not follow this feed" ? and thidly all icons is for actions, this would only be information.
@stigatle yes that would be a nice feature. An easy way of indicating it would be a border around the avatar in a specific color -- or that might be taking too much attention.
It could also be a hover/alt text
@eaplmx unfollowed https://texto-plano.xyz/~eaplmx/twtxt.txt now
@prologic i also find this confusing, both the text and icons for reply and fork so I'm planning to come up with a more clear design where there might also be some visual ques to if this is a reply to the ongoing conversation or a branc/fork/sub-tread
@eaplmx tooo.muutch.animaaation but otherwise cool
you can make an raspberry pi into a fm transmitter by just attaching a wire to one of the gpio pins. i tired it and it work
@eaplmx good idea to use check boxes, but not sure how to make it work...
Something like this:


<main class="container float">
<aside class="filternav">
<h4>Filters</h4>
<nav class="tabs">
<a href="https://twtxt.net/?f=localonly" class="current">On twtxt.net</a>
<a href="https://twtxt.net/?f=noreplies">No Replies</a>
<a href="https://twtxt.net/?f=nobots">Exclude Bots</a>
<a href="https://twtxt.net/?f=norss">Exclude Feeds</a>
<a href="https://twtxt.net/">Clear</a>
</nav>
</aside>
I would suggest putteing the filters in a sidebar. With simple.css we can already use <aside> for this and from the new tabs in settings we can reuse the style for getting the boxes
@prologic Can you also try to make a filter for posts containing images and other media? both markdown ![]() and links to .png .jpg .gif etc.

Then we would already have most of what we need for a thumblr/Instagram view for yarn/twtxt
@prologic a flat files and folders CMS written in PHP, similar til WordPress but way simpler. Does the link not work? 🤔
@prologic the CMS I use for www.darch.dk and blog.neotxt.dk
@prologic sure, but first I a couple of days since I'm still traveling (will post photos soon too;)

Will you make an issue and tag me on gitea?
@prologic a sort option would be nice for newest/oldest
@prologic it could look like the gallery/grid view on http://darch.dk/pixelblog and work in a similar way where each thumbnail links back to the post containing it
one option is to make an extension for a CMS like yellow which i been using for years and I already talked with the devs about twtxt
@hashrock yes that is exactly my idea with pixelblog, and I'm up for working together on improving it or making it part of yarnd
@hashrock you can log in with you existing GitHub account, that's what I do
@hashrock you can edit you latest post, so that kinda works like a preview, but yes that would be a nice feature to have a proper preview before posting
Hi @hashrock and welcome to the twtxtverse. I have made a front-end for twtxt with a focus on visual content called pixelblog, but we hope to make some of these features part of yarn.social as well someday :)
@prologic I would like to have that for my pod as well.

Maybe we could have a filter based on the new type= so RSS and bot can be ignored?
@carsten Ja, Ich speche ein bisschen Deutsch, aber nich so viel as Dänisch ;)
@prologic Nice idea and looks good too. We should add a alt/hover-text explaining the type, so it's clear that Bots and RSS are not people and you should not expect replies from them. Hmm maybe you should be able to expect replies from bots if someone makes an interactive bot.
@prologic something for you?

> Vojtux, a Fedora project, is an unofficial Linux distribution aimed at visually impaired users.
>
> - https://github.com/vojtapolasek/vojtux
> - https://opensource.com/article/22/9/linux-visually-impaired-users
@prologic will there be any documentation on how this new api work?
@prologic Great, then I just need to fix the mobile view
@prologic also was the radio buttons or check boxes emnty when you first loaded the new branch?
@prologic thanks😊 yes that was also my idea that we could reuse the design other places. If you check under Poderator on that branch you shoulde see it effects there too.

We still need to work out the mobil view for the tabs-desig - I would like it to show the tab-labels all stacked on the top so it's easier to pick the one you want to go to instead of scrolling and then clicking the next one to show.
@prologic I didn't find a better way allow the form to work across the tabs, than what I made yesterday, so I just made some small CSS fixes and cleaned up the code a bit.

The issue with the autofill in seem to be related to my Firefox settings.

Can someone else take the settings_with_tabs branch for a spin on a dev-pod, to make sure it doesn't accidentally delete the users settings or something, before I make a PR?
@tkanos twtxt is already mentioned on: https://indieweb.org/twtxt
But I have set up IndieAuth, so I can login with my domain. What do you want to change?
@prologic are you using gmail?
@eaplmx fixed and merged: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/commit/221a6cb0ee545a6366519a304e2174407cf890a4
There is xmmp , but I know, it's not the same
@tkanos wow is that a game. Best show to be cancelled too early. Need to rewatch it soon
Hmm for some reason the Custom Secondary Colors is filled in with the content from the tagline-fields...

Hmm for some reason the Custom Secondary Colors is filled in with the content from the tagline-fields...
ha! I think i "accidentally" fixed it, by adding id to all the labels, which was missing them and was not clickable.
@prologic one nice way to fix this would be to split up action="/settings" into 3 endpoints, so we chould have 3 normal forms instead of all the orphans
@prologic So I did something else with the Setting page: I added tabs, which mean that I got some new issues with <form action="/settings" ... > since it now split into three.

I got it working now by using id=updateSettings in an empty form at the top, and then adding form="updateSettings" to all the now orphaned inputs etc., but now the existing settings are not loaded into the form elements, as you can see on the radio buttons in the screenshots.

Anyhow have a go at in the new settings_with_tabs branch :)



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@eaplmx @prologic what browser are you on? Because i don't see the chopped-off issue in firefox...
@mckinley that is seem to still be a query search for when you know what tag your are looking for as I read it, not a way to list the tags that are being used
@eaplmx a more recent talk: Decentralized Social Media: Can Peer-to-Peer Lead to Less Toxic Online Platforms? - YouTube
@eaplmx scuttlebutt is very cool indeed
So to begin with, is there or will there be a list tags option in the new search?
Just came accross the #storyofthehashtag at: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/09/how-chris-messina-got-twitter-to-use-the-hashtag.html

So right now we don't see an lot of use af #tags here on yarn/twtxt. I believe it's because it not very useful atm. You can put in hashtags in your post, but there are no way of discovering other tags or see posts and treads with a tag.

I like what Scuttlebutt do, when they turn the hashtags (back) into channels:

And with the new search #comingsoon I believe we can have something similar
@prologic Here ya go: PR: Change --accent-bg to: #212121
@prologic i can also just barely make out the difference tbh. In my first commit it was #222, but I cange it to #111, so let's go back to #212121
@abucci tbh I didn't read the post before, i just needed something with code in it. Reading it now it quite funny
@eaplmx and @prologic I updated the Amoled theme and added the --icon css var to this PR





We need to rollback the addition of the Amoled, but first when we are sure we want to do that?
@eaplmx and @prologic I updated the Amoled theme and added the --icon css var to this PR





We need to rollback the addition of the Amoled, but first when we are sure we want to do that?
@prologic hmm what about that yarnd talks to yarns behind the scenes, and yarnd then have a timeline that is just all the know feeds (global search) and we do filtering on that one?
@prologic hmm what about that yarnd talks to yarns behind the scenes, and yarnd then have a timeline that is just all the know feeds (global search) and we do filtering on that one?
@prologic should we make the amoled theme the default dark yarn theme?
@prologic shoulder we make the amoled theme the default dark yarn theme?
@prologic Okay so I noticed some issues looking at the working almond theme:



- the --accent-bg is too light compared to the all #000 background, so I would suggest that it will turned down to something like #111 and maybe also the border color to #333

- It seem that I have not styled the new in-reply-to multiline design to look right with Compact View turned on, so that will go on my todo-list...

- My hack to use --code for coloring the icons does not really make sense, when you go a make them the same color as --accent, so I think i will make a new --icon css var, which I been planing to anyhow

@prologic Okay so I noticed some issues looking at the working almond theme:


- the --accent-bg is too light compared to the all #000 background, so I would suggest that it will turned down to something like #111 and maybe also the border color to #333

- It seem that I have not styled the new in-reply-to multiline design to look right with Compact View turned on, so that will go on my todo-list...

- My hack to use --code for coloring the icons does not really make sense, when you go a make them the same color as --accent, so I think i will make a new --icon css var, which I been planing to anyhow



Colors☝️ before and after 👇
@prologic Chould these seach-feeds just post the links to the posts that matches the searches like the way feeds.twtxt.net does it, and then it up to yarnd to show the preview of the post, which would be a nice feature to build anyway

2022-10-19T13:57Z **Yarn Search alert:** ⌘ https://neotxt.dk/twt/sws5nrq
@prologic yes I think so
@prologic hmm then i guess we need to come up with a way of showing authorship on individual post, if we are to compose new feeds based on others posts
@prologic yes yes yes, that what I been taking about sincei join this network.

Can you elaborate on why this is a problem and can't be done?
@prologic yes yes yes, that what I been taking about since join this network. By my idea was just to filter the feeds you already follow.

So some way of reposting or embedded posts in post could be a way to do what you are imaging.

f we get link preview in the yarn UI, like we are already offering for other sites when they post a link to a yarn post, then I see this feature not too hard to make.
@prologic not the worst
@prologic could this be something to consider for yarn? https://jlelse.blog/micro/2022/10/goblog-editor-sync
@prologic when I log in to my old account on twtxt.net it looks like this:
@lyse and @prologic in the new UI for yarn search I will try to move the conversation link to the results list so you don't have to click twice to the to that view
@prologic you can change all the colors in the 03-colors.css - or what do you mean?
@prologic you can change all the colors in the 03-colors.css
@prologic yes
I've started working on the UI/UX of Yarn Search

But I would agree with @quark that the fuzzy search is a bit too fuzzy when darch gives hits likes March
@quark In what you do you experience the UI to have regressed?
@prologic right now it just part of yarnd right? I would make a lot of sense to have it as a separate app for deploying on other site
@prologic I do't want to split the index in 3. The first two would be on the user's home pod only, a then you would be taken to a yarns instance
for the global search
Down the line I like to see that the end user will be offer three leves if search:

- Personal(ized) for only searching in feeds you follow (scope: Timeline)

- Local/pod for search only feeds that are hosted or followed by other people on your home pod (scope: Discover)

- Global for searching in all indexed feed

Maybe the 2nd level can be skipped, but it might become usefulness if the network grows and we get pods with special profiles like regional ones
@prologic would i make sense to move the global search to http://search.yarn.social or get another domain for it so it is not as as tidly bound to twrxt.net?
@prologic sure when I will go to bed yet...
@quark try switching to query string under options
@prologic great work. All booked this weekend with AFK stuff, but hope I will have time next week to do something about the UI/UX
@prologic I would leave it there now. Personally I'm not using link validation feature, so we could remove it of there is not objections. Regarding image view option, there are some improvements that I would like to do to how it's working atm
@prologic I would leave it there now. Personally I'm not useingbthe link validation feature, so we could remove it of there is not objections. Regandig image view option, there are some improvements that I would like to do to how it's working atm
@prologic it is fixed by borrowing code from picoCSS in 00-pico-tech-debt.css, but it would be nice to redo it more in line with simpleCSS (someday/maybe)