As is usual with most (any?) simple system, as time goes on, it becomes ever more complicated by accumulating new features 😛

The filtering of the home timeline on my custom Fedi-client started out that way. It was simply a matter of filtering out people who were members of my lists so that my home timeline would be less cluttered.

But then I started following high-volume hashtags. So I decided to add hashtag filtering.

But today I noticed that this also removed low-volume hashtags such as #MachineLearning that I did want to see in my home timeline …

So what do I do to fix that?

This is where the system starts getting complicated 😛 I’m thinking of adding a selective feature which lets me specify which hashtags should be filtered. Sounds simple enough, right? And at it’s core, it is …

But to implement this, I’d have to implement a new UI to show all followed hashtags and add a new property to the hashtag data to indicate that it should be filtered, or not.

I don’t know if I’ll implement this or not. I feel like taking the weekend off from coding. But on the other hand, the urge to code might be so great that I do it anyway. I guess we’ll see …

#FediClient #Filtering #Organizing