Feature Project: Network activity feed

Problem

In a system like Mintter we need to help users understand what changed and what updates at any level. This is not possible now with the current API and content that we have. Is important to keep the user up to date of all the updates that are being sent to its nodes/peers.

Solution

We need a way for users to know what happened in the network since the last time they open the app. That means that we need another kind of entity that can describe changes to anything in the system:

publish a new document

updating a document

update profile

create a new variant

update group

create new sites

This is not preventing from having a blank screen when the user just onboard to the network. This is something that needs to be handled in another project

Why do we need this?

it will give users a sense of life in the system

it will help users to know what’s currently more relevant and what to pay attention to

it will help users follow updates to the content that matters the most for them

Technical/UX decisions

Decide if we want to Github UX or the Notion UX

Notion has all the updates in a dialog that you can access in the sidebar

Github loads all the updates as the main feed of content

We need another entity that the frontend can query and list in chronological order

this list should be able to filter depending on the entity that is describing:

get all updates for publications

get all updates for groups

get all updates for contacts

get all updates for contacts I follow

get all updates for comments

The Home page of the app will change to have this information as the main information (TODO: add sketch)

the current list of documents will be moved to a “Results” page with ways to filter the content more easily (TODO: add sketch)

make sure that when we click on one of those update items, we go and show correctly the updated item.

new comment: link and highlight comment

new publication: go to publication page

update publication: link to publication and highlight changes

update group: highlight what changed in the group

contact update: highlight what changed in the contact

we need a system that knows what was the last time you ask for changes, so we can mark new changes as “new”

each update item should be aware if it was “visited” or “viewed” so we can mark it “as read”

Containing:Problem

Solution

Why do we need this?

Technical/UX decisions

Published:10 mo. ago Thursday, January 11th, 2024

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