I see it very often, especially with Linux, Libre Culture and Open Source, that one and the same is discussed in 2 or more threads. In one a consent was found, in another not, and in the third are only posted links to one of the other discussions. So I asked myself, what if a cross post would only link to the original instead of creating an own entry?
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There should probably be some ability to crosspost without being a symlink, maybe as a secondary option, but this is a great idea
I think it would make sense to keep cross-posts different threads. Different communities have different styles, norms and rules for the discussion.
However I think it would be amazing to have the option to:
Basically I think the underlying implementation should be kept as it currently is, but I think the UI could allow the user to visually merge these together when desired (maybe by default).
I think the main complication is that if you are viewing the merged view you need to decide which community to leave the comment on (or support cross-posting comments???) so it is a slight overhead for those who prefer to see things merged. But overall I think this would be a better solution.
I think that would be nice, but I don’t know how feasible it would be in terms of AP. Curious to see what dessalines or nutomic say about it.
It should work fine. Feel free to open an issue to discuss the details.
Done with #2012 😊
Nice!
That’s a great idea! I’ve often wondered about it myself. The main question is about UX and how to enable to filter/post comments by communities. Slightly exaggerated example: if there’s an article published on a conservative instance on a topic that could be of interest to a community around here, i think it makes sense to enable to merge discussions, but i think per-community discussions still make sense.
This raises the question of how to deal with this in the UI when crossposting/commenting/viewing.
I suppose there could be options to crosspost as copy (current behaviour) or as link to the existing post (as requested here).
Yeah that makes sense, like a “Split discussions” checkbox :)