I’ve been following the discussion by @alexito4 about adding extra tags to a followed hashtag on Fedi clients generally (and @IceCubesApp specifically) with interest …

Since this is a feature that I’d wanted myself, I decided to go ahead and add it to my custom IceCubes fork with an additional change — the ability to specify how the extra tags are used for selecting posts …

This should reduce my main timeline clutter quite a bit — with an additional change, of course. Currently, followed tags appear in the main timeline and I’ve added filtering to remove them.

But I realized with this change that I don’t have to follow hashtags at all — I was simply doing that as a backup mechanism so that I can have all followed hashtags saved on the server so that when I switch clients, I don’t have to set up hashtags all over again.

However, if I add saving my local client config to iCloud, I might have a much better system here … Hmm ….

#FediClients #Swift #SwiftUI #Coding #Hashtags

@f Will you ever be sharing your fork?

@karim Didn’t think anybody would actually want another fork, to be honest. I just wanted the features for myself because I couldn’t find them anywhere else.

Would have contributed to the original repo but my changes are rather drastic and (possibly) go against the original project’s philosophy 🙂

But if there’s enough interest, I suppose I can put it up on GitHub or something …

@f Some of us like drastic!