DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS: Channels feature

API Endpoints required for channels feature:

create channel (arguments: channel title - string, channel tags - string containing hashtags separated by commas)

• creates database entry containing channel title and tags for the channel

edit channel (arguments: channel title - string, channel tags - string containing hashtags separated by commas)

• edits existing database entry of channel title to have new set of tags specified by other argument

delete channel (arguments: channel title - string)

• removes existing database entry of channel title

retrieve channels (arguments: user name - string)

• returns all channels registered for that username, in a list, separated by commas

API Endpoints required to change:

create post:

• must add a channel title field, that will always be required when posting to this API endpoint.
• when no channel title is specified, the default channel title is '#untagged'

retrieve posts:

• must add new version of this function that supplies a channel title. all posts that this returns, in the same format as any other timeline request, will be from that channel of the specified users timeline.

follow user:

• must add new version of this function that specifies one or more of the users channels. users that follow a user using this function will only receive posts of a channel that they have subscribed to

other changes:

• bio / user profile pages must be altered to show a list of channels
• user profile pages should allow you to click a channel to see all posts that user has created under that channel
• any post that replies to a post will automatically inherit the hidden hashtags of the post being replied to, thus automatically falling under that channel for the purposes of sorting, muting and other features.