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Just popping in here to say that this is probably highest on my wishlist for NodeBB - and also to understand whether this reply will end up in your context without me @'ing anyone

I'll try to look out for a new case and see if it works on my end too. Thanks!

@[email protected] sagde i Organizing the many worlds you're part of through NodeBB:

A much better UX flow would be for you to post directly to a remote category. 🤯

Yes, I think this is where Lemmy gets something right. Your world is already organized by the different contexts (in the sense of category and instance) that they take place in. Only parts of World is uncategorized - the stuff that comes form Mastodon for example.

It would be a really interesting improvement if the UX from your own instance reflected that. I agree with you that it's important to get it right and it is not simple! I tried to write out the first post to reflect a bit naïvely my own user experience and wishes for what I'd like to see happen if NodeBB was to become the main way to interact with the rest of the fediverse - something that I haven't seen a way to do before.

I'm curious about the possibility of using a NodeBB account as my main account for accessing and interacting with the fediverse.

One strength with forums I see is that they are more community- and interest oriented. They often have a clearer purpose.

My engagements with the world are different. I have many interests and different engagements. My "World" category reflects that.

I don't want to move things from World into the forum that hosts my account if that conversation doesn't fit the focus of the forum.

But I don't want to structure my world more, if I want to use my NodeBB account as my main handle on the fediverse.

I can't organize World right now.

Could I make a group on the forum with only me as member and then populate threads in different categories? I guess so. It would be a lot of categorizing.

More ideal would be if I could subscribe to categories on other NodeBB forums and then those categories would show even on my own instance - but just for me! Other folks on my instance haven't asked for that.

Say I'm interested in the @[email protected] category and would like to follow all new topics. I can subscribe to that category and get it into my world. A better solution would be that the category is there in my personal interface on my instance to organize the topics for me. Just like they do on the original instance where the category lives.

I'm writing this topic from the "Uncategorized" category of our own NodeBB forum. It's an example of me not knowing how I can start conversations on other NodeBB forums without having to create a new account on that forum (which then defeats the federation feature) or create that topic from an unrelated category on our own forum, which would then become spam.

A user on our forum asked us to use camelCase on our tags. I've noticed that most tags by now are minuscule. Can I change the lettering on tags in NodeBB after the fact?

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@[email protected] sagde i Moving a federated post into another topic:

as you two have discovered, topic management tooling for remote topics is far less exhaustively tested

I'm happy to test things out and can see there's still a lot of bugs here and there. It's encouraging to see it getting worked on. That makes me want to continue exploring!

@[email protected] I can click Move post and also select the post. I can navigate to the right topic and also type in the topic number. Bit then the Move button turns flat. Like I can't even click it or nothing happens when I click it.

@[email protected] I'm trying to move a post from one topic to another. I haven't had problems with this and it works really well. There's one post I can't move and I wonder if it is because it is a federated post. The post is one out of several that are off-topic, so I want to move that whole side-discussion into its own topic. The only post I can't move is the federated post. What could be the reason?

@[email protected] Hey Julian, no I can't do that I think - I'm not an admin. But I'll ask @samsapti @niels @reynir if they can.

@[email protected] Hi there! Hope this gets through, first of all.

I'm testing federation between NodeBB and Bookwyrm. What I've found out:

• I can find a Bookwyrm account through the search
• I can get announcements from that account into my feed too (by copying the whole URL of that announcement), e.g. that the account wants to read a certain book. I can also move that into categories in the forum
• I can't follow the account. It says "Cancel follow request" where it should say "Following". On the Bookwyrm end, I've set the account to not manually approve followers. And usually people just follow the account without me having to approve it.

What's going on?