From the 2018 feedback thread:

Threading seems to break after a thread has had several replies.

The original author admittedly said it doesn’t work very well, and it’s definitely on the re-think list. A deleted twarrt aywhere up or down chain will thoroughly mess those up, for one thing.

Feature request from 2018 feedback thread:

Being able to send pictures through seamail would be nice.

Feature request from 2018 feedback thread:

It’s kind of impossible to find people on here unless you know their specific username. Would it be possible to be able to search the “real name” field?

Feature request from 2018 feedback thread:

I wish there was a way to dismiss an announcement from my alerts page.

Feature request from 2018 feedback thread:

Maybe some kind of guidelines people had to read (sorry) about how Twit-arr has no feed management tools so people should be mindful of what they're posting to everybody and to maybe keep certain types of content (like games, etc) in the forums.

I also wouldn’t mind the occasional reminder twart of said guidelines (maybe automated in some way?) just to help maintain a higher signal-to-noise ratio.

Web interface. The X icon is transparent, which works if the photo is light coloured and extends to the edge of the photo frame, but since the frane size appears static, if the photo is in a different aspect ratio or happens to be dark in that corner, the black circle around the X blends into the black background and it is impossible to see how to close a photo.

For a number of reason the design of the main tweet feed should be revisited:

• Overall usage keeps increasing, there's too much content for the current format
• This year it got really noisy with so many pokemon sightings.
• There were issues with sea mail so individuals were communicating with their parties via the main feed
• There were multiple conversations with content that many people didn't want to watch.

Proposals:

• Discontinue the universal feed, i.e. Users don't follow all other users by default.
• Prefer forums for topical discussions.
  • Forum threads are easier to scroll past if you're not interested in the topic (Pokemon, librarians, kink), and less likely to inflame if users must click-through / subscribe to see the content (?).
  • Allow a user to hide/ignore a forum thread for piece of mind and to improve discovery other threads (active threads are always on top right now).
  • Pre-seed popular topics. E.g. Pokemon, food recommendations, main events (created automatically prior to the event), etc..
• Allow building a personal feed (like the real Twitter)
  • Follow an individual's public tweets
  • Refer users with empty feeds to the forums.
  • Follow forum threads
  • Follow hashtags
  • Follow sea-mail conversations
• Show a user's tweets (but not forum posts) on their profile so you can decided if you want to follow them

Overall, having an opt-in content model should help reduce the noise and may also help reduce the reliance on moderation features (e.g. bocking, reporting).

Feature request from 2018 feedback thread:

Wish I could click on a user and see all their posts, so I could more easily follow conversations threads.

To be able to reliably show the calendar with the correct times regardless of the accuracy of the device clock or device time zone, it would be nice to have an explicit API end point that specifies the offset from UTC of the ship's local time. Then, calendar events could just be displayed in that time zone.

I sure thought that was an Angular app. I don't see much of anything on the old Angular branch here. I'd be happy to do some PRs, but I don't have much to offer when it comes to Ruby.

Create a user interface and backend support for banning/unbanning users.

Banned users should be prevented from logging in. If already logged in, they should be prevented from making any write operations, and if possible, forced to log out.

Additionally, any account that uses the same registration_code as the banned user should also be banned. The registration_code should no longer be usable for creating any new accounts.

Feature request from 2018 feedback thread:

To be able to send seamail from a profile page, unless that has been a problem in the past of people being annoying too easily.

It has been suggested that e-mail address become non-required. If this change is made, the following will need to happen:

• Make e-mail non-required in the database/user model
• Remove e-mail address from the registration screen
• Remove e-mail address from the forgot password process
• Remove the 'public email' checkbox from the profile screen - if email is present, it will be public

Feature request from 2018 feedback thread:

Navigation buttons at the top and bottom of forum posts would be lovely.

Searching for text with # (and other characters) is currently broken.

Figure out if there's a way to be sent back to the page, or even post, that was edited.

On the last cruise, a number of people were trying to connect consoles and laptops to their room TV HDMI ports. Changing inputs required having a concierge bring a remote to a room, and the TV would reset the input when turned off & back on. I'll be making and distributing DIY headphone jack IR blasters to give to people on the ship wanting to use the HDMI inputs on their room TVs. The range is short, only a few feet, but they'll work well for this purpose.

To prevent having to download & configure an app, I'd like to be able to make a page available on Twit-arr for users. The page would consist of text, and buttons/links to play tiny .wav files. If THO provides a list of TV models on the ship, I can provide this in advance, otherwise I'd need to provide this on board.

Alternatively, if tiny .wav files are permitted in forum posts, I could post the .wav files in a forum post once on board.

Try to create a user with username "oehuiheouoetionyihyhnioueithoehuiheouoetionyihyhnioueithoehuiheouoetionyihyhnioueithoehuiheouoetionyihyhnioueithoehuiheouoetionyihyhnioueith" and password "oooooo", no display name.

You get an error with the display name:
If display name is entered, it must be three or more characters and cannot include any of ~!@#$%^*()+=<>{}[]\|;:/?

Tweet stream queries currently use timestamps for sorting. Change them to use ID instead. This will guarantee that if there is a timestamp collision, the posts will be returned in a consistent order.

Feature request from 2018 feedback thread:

Dark mode would be great but IDK how easy it’d be to implement.

We use this to validate e-mail addresses:

  validates :email, format: { with: /\b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b/i, message: 'address is not valid.' }

This is wrong. It considers e-mail addresses such as [email protected] to be invalid, but that's a valid e-mail address. It also considers [email protected] to be invalid, but that's a valid e-mail address.

Also, it allows data before and after the e-mail address, for example it considers The value <[email protected]> is not my e-mail address to be a valid e-mail address.

The following is the regular expression that the HTML spec recommends to validate e-mail addresses:

/^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?)*$/

Action taken depends on how much time is left after implementing essential features.

When accessing the web interface of Twitarr, all tweets have an “Unlike” text link in the bottom corner. Clicking on this link results in an error.

Stream and forum posts can have reactions added/removed - see app/models/concerns/postable.rb add_reaction and remove_reaction

• Add user interface controls for adding/removing reactions.
• Add summary of reactions to a post (number of likes/thoughtfuls/whatever) - this is currently returned in the json of each post
• Add a way to see the details of all reactions to a post - lists of users who have given each reaction type (potentially also for likes on posts that say "x seamonkeys like this post"). This is available by hitting the show_likes / show_reacts endpoints of a stream or forum post.

This is merely a nice to have feature only if you have time and/or are willing.

Whenever possible, can you set the focus on the textbox when performing an action that then requires the user to type? This would save a click and streamline the use of the site.

That would be setting the focus on:

• The textarea for new Tweets or Replies to tweets
• The "Subject" text box when creating a new forum topic
• The "Start typing a name" for new Seamail
• The textarea for replying to seamail
• The "Search" text box when searching
• NOT the "Post a message" textarea for replying to a forum topic (that would make it scroll down, I think)
• NOT the "personal comment" field when looking at a user's profile.
• NOT the search box on every page. :)
• NONE of the fields when looking at your own profile.

Maybe others, but these will help a lot.

Feature request from 2018 feedback thread:

There are so many forum threads, it would be nice if they could be arranged (at creation?) into categories (e.g., meet-ups, gaming, puzzles, etc.)!

Feature request from 2018 feedback thread:

It would be fabulous if you could delete (or even edit) forum posts.

Vcard is old and nobody really uses it. Time for it to go.

It would be nice to have a WebSocket backend instead of requiring polling for new messages. We could move everything over to a WebSocket, or just use that for notifications.

Multiple photo uploads can quickly reach the maximum allowed request size for posts, even if each photo is smaller than the allowed max size. We don't want to allow this, so limit to a single photo per upload.

Create a new landing/main page, to guide users towards schedules, forums, seamails, and a de-emphasized tweet stream. Do not immediately land on the tweet stream when loading twitarr.

Perhaps include a dashboard of trending/highly liked/highly reacted posts.

The API documentation is in a sorry state. Update it to reflect current state of the code.

I'd be useful to get feedback from the wider user base about what worked well for them, what didn't, and suggested improvements.

This currently exists, but is burred behind a few clicks:

1. Open left menu, click "My Starred Users"
2. Click "View filtered feed of tweets made only by starred users"

Make this easier to access. Also add some help text explaining how to follow people and view this feed.

Perhaps add a way to follow/star users directly from the stream without having to go to their profile page first. Maybe change the Star button to a follow/unfollow button, too.

Feature request from the 2018 feedback thread:

I just posted a URL to a schedule event in a forum thread, and it did not get turned into an href. It's not the biggest of deals, but it bothers me way more than it should :P

Implement a "3 strikes you're out" system for moderation. Give users the ability to report posts that violate code of conduct. Users/posts who receive 3 reports will be restricted in some way (user inactivated? post hidden?) until a moderator reviews and either approves, warns, or issues a permanent ban.

This system still needs a bit of discussion, and final approval from THO, around how it should function before implementation.

Feature request from 2018 feedback thread:

Would be nice to be able to subscribe to forum threads too and get twitarr notifications for new posts in a thread. There are so many threads it can be hard to keep up

While the search box in the upper right corner of the web interface appears functional, if you select "Search" from the hamburger menu, then the search box on that page is non-responsive. It doesn't seem to initiate a search if I hit return or click on the "Go" button.

Feature request from the 2018 feedback thread:

I want the ability to block/mute accounts. I appreciate that a lot of Seamonkey comedy nerds want to use Twit-Arr to workshop their craft through memes, but that also adds so much noise to the signal. It's probably far too much to ask the joke writers to move to the forums, but a way to at least mute some of the meme accounts that don't interest me would be nice.

Feature request from 2018 feedback thread:

It would be great if we had already read a forum, that it would take us to the last page or better, unread posts.

Right now, when I first open a thread it takes me to the end (and I have to click back to see the beginning) and when I come back later, I have to click through to the end. Minor, but annoying :D

Feature request from 2018 feedback thread:

Being able to pin or favorite forums so that they stay at the top of the list

If we end up not going with the websocket update channel, I think we should have the server specify the update intervals for things like the calendar, twitarr, forums, and seamail, so that if the client becomes too popular, we can dial back the numbers.

Just a little blurb about keeping things friendly and reminding users to abide by the code of conduct.

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