Chebucto Regional Softball Club

Is there or should there be a distinction between the original and the mirrors?

We have a conversation owner at the thread level (which is either the forum, subforum, forum category, or person who created the top level post, depending on the software). They determine the official moderated version of the thread since they can remove comments (although mirrors don't have to honor that).

If we show that conversation on another server, technically that is a mirror of that thread, especially if you are throwing it in a category or displaying it under a hashtag.

Should we be indicating that a particular thread was started on a particular forum (or category within a forum)? Should we be honoring the moderated version of the conversation from the original thread?

The concept of mirroring threads across platforms is great for participation and censorship resistance, but it does make it unclear about who owns the thread from a moderation perspective.

@julian Interesting. I did not know that. I'm guessing they use the summary as a description for the link then?

Hubzilla currently does not differentiate between note and article and displays both the same way. For articles, we don't link to your post. We display the post, and hide it behind a summary if you provided one.

@julian Yes, it started recently.

Summaries are supposed to be short, but NodeBB appears to put the whole post in the summary. It should also be noted that Mastodon uses the summary field for content warnings. They don't even tell their users that the field was originally for summaries. As such, I would be surprised if any of the existing platforms accept HTML in the summary field. Some may even limit the characters in the summary field.

@julian Do you have HTML in your summary? We might be converting your HTML into BBCode and then not parsing the BBCode since it's the summary field. Wild Guess so could be completely wrong.

Good question. I have no clue. But it only comes from posts from NodeBB.

Also, once you click on "View Article" in Hubzilla, all of the images are displayed one on top of each other.

If the BBCode in the summary is the same as the post, then that explains why. I know this post is meant to test something else, but I just wanted to give you feedback of what it looks like on other platforms.

On Hubzilla, we only see the summary until you click on "View Article." Your summary has BBCode in it. Hubzilla does not parse BBCode in the summary and treats it as plain text.

As a result, we initially see a bunch of BBCode, and then have to click on "View Article" to see the images.

There probably shouldn't be BBCode in the summary field.

@julian Thanks for the mention. I wish I could have attended.