Post Titles

Post Titles
Description	Give posts titles w/ slugified URLs to support longer-form writing and minimization
Part Of	Mastodon/Hacking
Contributors	Jonny Saunders
Has Git Repository	https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon
Completion Status	Draft
Active Status	Active
Approval Status	Unapproved"Unapproved" is not in the list (Draft, Provisional, Approved, Proposed, Blocked) of allowed values for the "Approval Status" property.

Stubbing this out:

• Branch: https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/tree/feature-post-titles

Desired Functionality

Base

• Post titles declared by
  • additional field in compose window via web interface
  • Starting with a header like in markdown, eg:

# My Post Title

Post content

• Post title displayed like standard html header
• Slugified urls like https://neuromatch.social/@username/my-post-title
  • Duplicate slugs get incrementing integers appended
    • eg. my-post-title-2 etc.

Nice to have

• Titled posts displayed in separate section on account page
• Titled posts minimized by default, showing only title?

Implementation

• X - Add "title" field to status model
  • X - Do migration
• X - config for max title length
• Declare:
  • X - Add field in web ux to add
  • Parser/regex to detect post-initial header
• Store
  • X - slugify title
  • check for duplicates and increment
• Display:
  • X - Show title above status on local web interface
  • Use title in page metadata and html head?
• Serializing
  • X - Just serialize title in post body when federating
• add route for slugified titles/add slug detection in controller
  • Half done... need to figure out how react/redux is getting post ID from the URL pattern