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Principal engineer at Mercury. I've authored the Dhall configuration language, the Haskell for all blog, and countless packages and keynote presentations.

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By that I mean that cohost should support a mode that only displays the latest post from each user you follow and they're still in reverse chronological order. So, for example, if you follow N people then your timeline always has exactly N posts (1 post from each person you follow).

In other words, if someone you follow creates a new post then their old post is deleted from your timeline and their new post is added to the top of your timeline. If you want to see older posts from any users you follow you click through to their profile page.

The motivation behind this is to make your timeline less sensitive to post hogs who drown out other posts because they post a lot.

Hell, cohost could even guard this feature behind a subscription (people would pay for this feature!)

"fraidycat mode" is named after the fraidycat browser extension / app, which works like this. h/t to @exodrifter for introducing me to this neat idea.


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in reply to @fullmoon's post:

oh this is really interesting! i had been thinking about this problem and had the idea that maybe you could just mark a user as "don't miss their posts" and cohost would prioritize showing them to you.. but if one or more of the users you mark that way goes on a short posting spree then that could be the same problem again.

this mode solves that and you don't have to manually group anyone. i would definitely use it.

Reddit's "multi-reddits" does something similar. It pulls the highest post (sorted by "best") from each of the communities you have in the multi, and then it pulls the next posts from each community, etc. It's a nice way to see an overview of the chosen communities instead of relying on the front page which can be overrun by high frequency subs.