diaspora/diaspora — Issue #2536: Consistent UI for collapsed or hidden posts
Author: pixelistik
Created: 2011-12-20 00:41:48+00:00
State: open

There are currently several features and ideas which let the user interactively change the visibility of specific posts in the stream. I suggest to review these and try to come up with a consistent vision of how these interaction should work. I cannot provide a new concept myself but just try to collect some issues.

### Ideas or implemented features that let the user change post visibility
* **Hide and mute post: Remove the entire post from stream.** Is implemented, although apparently broken and under discussion at #2394
* **Show more (text): Long post text is cut off.** User can reveal the remaining part of the text with a "show more" link. Implemented.
* **Show more (images): High images are also clipped at the bottom with "show more"** This is an idea (of mine) at #2466 to apply the same concept to images, because these often make a post very long, too.
* **Mark image as seen: Dismiss the large version of an image.** Suggestion at #2424 to shrink images to a small thumbnail once the user has seen them.
* **#nsfw auto-hiding: initially hide posts that are tagged as #nsfw.** These posts must be explicity unhidden using a "show" link. Implemented.

While all these items solve specific problems in the hide/show posts game, they don't seem to have a common concept. In some cases you click to see more content, in some you click to see less. Some of them mean a judgement based on content (unwanted or nsfw), some just want to save space in the layout.

Feel free to add thoughts, more related issues - or close this issue, if this has been done somewhere else already.