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  • CW filtering is now live!
    • check it out on your settings page!
    • case insensitive, does not currently support partial matching. (we’ll be fixing that soon!)
    • this is a per-user setting, meaning it will apply to all your pages but, if you have co-editors on any pages, will not apply to them.
    • tag filtering is coming soon! CW filtering was slightly easier and taught us where we needed to improve some of our infrastructure.
  • migrated our internal API framework to a New Major Version
    • this took longer than we expected, but it’s ok because it’s done now
  • fixed some bugs in our moderation pages
  • added New Enforcement Options for community guidelines violations
    • specifically, in cases of Extreme Username Squatting, we are now able to prevent users from creating new pages

smaller week this week since CW filtering and the API framework upgrade were both pretty substantial tasks. here’s what’s coming up:

  • redesign for CW’d and 18+ posts, along with the ability to re-hide them if you’ve clicked through
  • automated account deletions for accounts that have posted
    • right now, we’re only able to delete accounts that either haven’t posted, or whose posts have never been shared.
    • the reason for this is that we treat account deletions as full deletions — your data is no longer on our servers — and any shares of posts must maintain a reference to a Real Post Object.
    • to get around this, we’re working on a system for creating empty posts assigned to a fake user to keep these references functional.
    • in the very near term, we’ll still require users to email support@cohost.org to request account deletion, but we’ll be adding fully self-service options here soon.
  • a bookmarked tag feed
    • a separate view from your main dashboard that just shows posts from tags you’ve bookmarked!
  • making the necessary infrastructure improvements to do tag filtering, then tag filtering

that’s all for this week! thanks, as always, for using cohost! :host-love: :eggbug:


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in reply to @staff's post:

Is there somewhere (or some how, with a specific tag or something) to discuss like... meta feature/direction stuff for the site? There's some interesting threads going around right now, like this one or this one, that sort of hit some feelings around things that keep me from spending more time on cohost than (for example) twitter.

I don't think I personally have any special insight or feedback (and it's y'all's site to take/lead in the direction you feel makes sense!), but it was interesting to see other people echo some 1:1 "ux rubs" that I haven't been able to express, and I want cohost to be the thing/place that I use for the near/far future.

With so many people wanting to move here with the Elon news I just have to ask it: when are we getting an update on the content policy? It's been a few weeks now with no mention of it and I think everyone involved wants to know what to expect.

Starting to worry that they were just hoping we'd all forget, because this is basically the only topic that didn't get a reply and they've not mentioned it in several updates now...this is really important in terms of whether a lot of people feel safe using the site though...

"this is really important in terms of whether a lot of people feel safe using the site" I'm glad I'm not the only one here who feels this way right now... It's hard for me to begin posting and using the site regularly when the current terms aren't solid, or when there is seemingly just radio silence for now.

Just piling on to agree: I'm basically waiting to see if the terms are likely to take the site in a direction I will be comfortable with or not before I put any more time into my own presence here.

I'm trying to convince as many (game developer) people to switch to Cohost rather than crawling back to tumblr, but due to the implicit design that obscures stats like followers and engagement (this is not a bad thing by any means), it's hard to convince my teams that it's worth opening a blog here. Would the ability to opt into stats like that be possible to implement?

thank you! yeah, i'd been thinking about this with regards to comics stuff. it's hard to convince some of my friends to come here, because they need to be able to see certain things re: crowdfunding or commission posts. but i'm glad it's being thought through!

Appreciate all the work that you and the other 2/3 of staff are doing! As I said in another conversation re: analytics

I earnestly think opting into numbers rather than showing them by default is the best way to do any social media; displaying those sorts of stats out in public has done so much untold mental damage for most anyone who doesn't need those numbers to do business.

this is super exciting and hope you're doing well with the new influxes. Love the idea of bookmark tag feed. Will there be a way to look up bookmarked/liked posts at all in the future roadmap, out of interest?

I'm trying to get all my artist friends who are bailing from twitter to consider registering, obv the whole tagging system is great and fabulous but it'd be nifty if one day we had a little media gallery situation too.... just saying, no pressure, just in case yall would want to consider it :B

I'm brand new to cohost and I see that I can't see who anyone else is following or being followed by.

Is this a deliberate design decision?

On other sites, that's been a great way to find and build community. Who do my friends follow and who follows them?

yeah, it's a deliberate design decision -- while it does help find and build community, having follows visible on other sites engenders a lot of petty drama. people have floated the idea of having the ability to opt in to having your follows be visible, and we like that idea but haven't implemented it yet.

Is there a plan to eventually support full text search for public posts? Search is an extremely core part of how I use twitter (finding things from years ago in my own archive; finding recommendations for media types across time from my follows; remembering something someone said to me last week that has long since scrolled away) and it's hard to imagine becoming a serious long-term user here without it.

Also, is there a better way to ask questions like this than replying to a random post? Does making a top-level post and typing @staff in it bring it to your attention?

we're intentionally not adding site-wide full-text search because we think "mention something in passing and you're immediately in contact with everyone on the site talking about that thing" contributes substantially to context collapse. that said, we wouldn't rule out a search in your archive or home timeline.

as for your second question: not currently -- the best way to be sure to get a hold of us is commenting on staff posts or e-mailing us. we plan to add (perhaps optional) notifications for mentions, and a dedicated "question box" feature like curiouscat or asks on tumblr (and some of the code written for the latter, even), though.

When you say "(perhaps optional) notifications for mentions", do you mean, "opt in to receiving notifications from mentions" or "opt in to sending a notification with this mention"? Though I realise those details may be as-yet undecided

Bing and DuckDuckGo are indexing Cohost, and when I did a few tests found everything I expected them to when I added "site:cohost.org" to the query. I was surprised that Google failed all the same tests.

i would love to be able to invert the default CW behaviour and have them all open by default and only close them as specified-- what triggers i have are obscure and specific and im explicitly not bothered by much, so id rather just blacklist for myself rather than whitelist-- very much appreciate that whitelist is the default behaviour though