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ok i'd like to raise an olde idea again and that is having an instancewide Sticky Posts to supplement announcements to be able to make discussions that are intended to lead to a proposal more visible to the instance. loomio and discord merely by virtue of being separate platforms are less visible, so let's try and do a lil bridging of mediums.
here's one idea of what that might look like: v1 - currently we have a Discussions stage in governance docs (https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Governance#Discussions) we can make that a more formal definition and say that a discussion intended to lead to a proposal is a stickied post. - ping a member of social wg (make sure these are up to date) or start discussion here to make a sticky post - sticky posts come from an autofollowed @ discussions account - ... are local only posts - ... show themselves at the top of the home and local feed with a highlighted background color to offset them from the feed - ... have a "minimize" button that is persistent across sessions, so once you minimize a sticky post it is hidden but still visible, I'm thinking like a 1em bar across the top of the feed
questions: - can we just use browser storage to remember collapsed status rather than needing to make a new column in the statuses table for 'collapsed' - should stickies have a time limit? or just a mechanism to close them in governance process?
v2 a) The threading interface on the web interface is awful, b) it would be nice to be able to show a title on a minimized sticky post c) ideally we would be able to organize discussions around topics and questions rather than chronologically in a more forumlike way so - posts can have titles - titles are declared with a special "title" field in the web ui - or with a first line beginning with a # from other clients, a la markdown - replies with titles can be minimized too - replies with titles are sorted first (bc they can be minimized)