Add a way to hide replies in user profile
Feature request
It would be very nice if we could hide replies when viewing user profiles in PleromaFE. Right now, there are two tabs available: One to show all of the user’s visible post, and another to show only those with media attached. The option to filter out replies is missing, though:
One solution might be to add filtering options to the list, much like the ones you see on your home timeline (when logged in):
Another solution might be to add a third tab showing only posts which are not replies, much like what Mastodon is doing:
Either way, I feel this would be very useful to have, and it might even be a good idea to hide replies by default. When I go to someone’s profile to look at their posts, it’s often because I’m curious what kind of content they post for everyone to see. I’m seldom interested in the conversations they might be having with few random individuals, yet that can make up the bulk of the timeline.
For example, if I think of following someone, I head over to their profile to see what kind of posts I’ll be seeing on my timeline if I do. But if they’re a person who make 3 ordinary posts and 20 replies a week, I’ll have to carefully scroll the timeline and try to ignore the replies (which I wouldn’t get to see, since I filter them out on my home timeline), while looking out for the ordinary posts they’ve made. That’s a bit tiring, so I’m happier if I can view the profiles on Mastodon, where I can see the ordinary posts on their own, and switch tabs to briefly see what they’re like when reacting to others (if I feel so inclined).
I see this feature was brought up in #215 (closed), but that issue got closed two years ago since ‘most of it got implemented’, though this feature was one of the things which didn’t.