Comment on Federation updates #2

• 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.

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  • 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

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    • 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?

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      • Ategon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ok I might be semi misunderstanding what your rss reader does by what youre saying but ill go through everything that happens with this feature

        For anything relating to rss readers im using fluent reader as that is what I use

        Typical Behaviour (In P.D)

        When someone navigates to a community in programming.dev and the community is hidden they are shown this

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        With the no posts text appearing on the left but the stats on the right having posts

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        Then when they subscribe to that community they are shown this

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        With all of the posts now appearing

        RSS Feed behaviour

        When you look at a community page initially (either from manually going to it or getting sent to it by some other thing) you get the same view as in the default behaviour

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        if you then right click on the rss symbol beside the post sort dropdown and click copy link you get a link to the rss feed for that community

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        If you then add that link to your reader it will show posts in it

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        In terms of getting to the content, direct links to posts still work while the community is hidden

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