Why not do both?
Comment on Federation updates #2
mark@programming.dev 1 year ago
Hidden communities will show up with no posts when you look at them without subscribing
Well this is bad news for me or anyone else using RSS readers to subscribe to communities vs on the platform. Many of us add RSS feeds for communities to our RSS readers and get updates that way. This will prevent us from doing that now. :(
Quasari@programming.dev 1 year ago
Ategon@programming.dev 1 year ago
RSS feeds arent affected by this, its handled by the UI
mark@programming.dev 1 year ago
If i click through to a community I’m not subscribed to from within my RSS reader, will the posts show?
Because the sentence I pointed out makes it seem like the posts wont show up, since I’m mot technically subscribed to the community on programming.dev.
Ategon@programming.dev 1 year ago
From when I tested it rss feeds still gave the exact same posts ignoring the fact communities were hidden (since rss feeds are tied to what happens on the site at all). What rss reader are you using, I can check
mark@programming.dev 1 year ago
It’s not the rss reader. The rss reader just navigates to the community link.
If I navigate to a hidden community (without having subscribed to it), will the posts still show? Or do I have to subscribe to the community in order to see the posts?