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@moira @_elena @cheeaun

Yes I found that but my understanding is that it's a setting so all notifications follow this pattern. I'll looking for something more dynamic, e.g. most of this time I view all notifications but when things get a bit crazy I can turn this filter on to cope with the chaos

@_elena @cheeaun @moira

Yes! That works for me

@cheeaun @moira @_elena Ooops, I should have said filter by people I follow not followers. That makes the option a bit harder to label unfortunately "only following"? That feels a bit weird.

@cheeaun @moira

I'm just brainstorming here. I actually love the simplicity of @_elena 's idea: Have an option in the notifications view to filter by followers. It's a partial match for 'people that I think more important'.

Is it fully what I originally asked for? no. But it's a strong start and doesn't require any additional user work (other than picking the option)

For Phanpy, a dumb idea is to have "only Followers" under the "only Mentions" checkbox in the notifications view. It's clunky, and I think there is a better way to do it but I'm "kicking the can down the road" to give you idea of how Elena's idea could be shown. If there is a better approach, please suggest.

@_elena @moira @cheeaun
It helps to "talk it through" to make sure we're clear WHAT is really needed:

* There are cases were you get >100 notifications
* Grouping helps, mostly for favs and boosts, but not mentions
* reading many dozens of replies is fragmented, especially if you've got >1 popular post! (good problem to have right?)
* High level: I just want to follow the mentions more easily

I'd love to build an exploratory web page that take a post URL, parses all replies and provides a better way to browse the many replies but Same Origin Policy (which is a good thing!) makes that hard.

@cheeaun I meant a list of people, as in the List-of-people's-posts type of list. This would allow me to create a "Core list" of people and filter my notificaitons to show just those people.

This is VERY niche and I'm not asking you to do this. Just curious, as ActivityPub is so flexible, if there are clever ways around it, e.g. your suggestion to go to the post page is a good one.

@cheeaun some ideas:
1. Sort/filter notifications by post
2. Filter notifications by list

This really only applies to people that get HEAVY activity to multiple posts. Not for most consumers

Is there a "professional" Mastodon client for high end users? I'm mostly looking for a tool that helps me sort notifications. When you get a few popular posts it's very hard to track everything.

What I like about the fediverse is that there could be a completely separate tool just for notifications

@rimu @evan @tsyesika
Ah that makes more sense I'm still coming up to speed on these deeper issues.

Thank you!

@evan @tsyesika Great that you're getting such good reaction. But pardon my naivite but aren't we "giving it a go" already? There are so many new apps on the fediverse, I'm clearly missing something. Is this an ActivityPub vs Mastodon issue?

@evan I'm afraid to ask. Who is "they"?

@katzentratschen @MakeAppPie Well, there is "we think it is good" and it's not (appleOS) which is it's own issue to discuss.

I'm thinking of so many products that are known to be be bad but because we're working so fast, velocity is so important that people feel that getting a better UX is actually naive. They don't even care that the UX is bad.

@khaldoonalnuaimi Was a bit too cavalier, my apologies. I was mostly channeling my historical angst against Snapchat, which was "so bad only teenagers could use it" (at the time) Stories isn't like that at all but it has always felt a bit odd to me, tacked onto the top. It's not the UI but the concept that you want two very different things in the same view, one horizontal and one vertical that just feels a bit 'smashed' to me.

@mwichary @Lee_Holmes You love for it's rebelliousness. It's *so* bad you're attracted to how wrong it feels.

@dsandler VERY related. That's a very thoughtful connection to my point. Thank you.

@mwichary Ha! Yes! it's pretty bad! It's a perfect example of "multiplexing" taking to an extreme.

@Lee_Holmes

@shnhrrsn That is very interesting! I shouldn't have been so cavalier. But I recall many years ago discussion that Snapchat was "so complex only teenagers could use it". Were you there during that period? How did the company feel about that perception?

@Lee_Holmes I wrote a whole blog post about it! https://jenson.org/free3/

@FuturisticRobert So helpful thank you!

@octothorpe Ugh... sorry to hear that