18
Introductions - who are you and which app are you working on? (piefed.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/piefed_api@piefed.social
11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

That is an interesting idea. How will your UI display comments like a chatroom when they are deeply nested? As in, a reply to a reply to a reply to a reply? I think you're going to have a difficult time with that.

Adding an endpoint to retrieve posts and comments is pretty straightforward, the interesting part is the realtime updates.

PieFed is using SSE in a limited way, to tell the frontend about new notifications and new private messages. The frontend makes a GET request to retrieve the content and then updates the UI. The backend code for this. The frontend code.

This would need to be extended to send events for all new content, not just notifications and PMs.

So we have the basic architecture already there and it wouldn't be much work to provide what you need. I have a lot of other priorities to deal with but if you engage with others in our matrix or zulip you might find someone wants to pick this up. Or make a codeberg issue.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    How will your UI display comments like a chatroom when they are deeply nested?

    Simple: there is no nesting :) it's a flat chain ordered by date. It's a design choice by zulip, not necessarily better in all cases, but is driven by different design decisions: discussions are expected to be about converging to something, so everyone is expected to read everything in a thread. If the subject diverges, it is expected to move to another thread. So instead of branches there is a set of topics, and you can mute some if you want to

    So we have the basic architecture already there and it wouldn't be much work to provide what you need.

    Indeed there is the architecture, it should be feasible. I might join and even have a go at it at some point (so I can add the before/after haha)

    Thanks for the pointers !

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent