bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm

Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub

bookwyrm's Issues

attach book cover image to outside federation

so mastodon looks nice

Follow requests from mastodon show as pending

When a user from mastodon follows a fedireads user, it appears successful, but when you refresh the page, it appears to be pending.

Default avi missing on fedireads-test.glitch.me

Missing http://fedireads-test.glitch.me/static/images/default_avi.jpg results in broken image.

change password

implement blocking

Following a User Back Sends you to a 404 Page

Following works, but it sends you to /user/USER@DOMAIN instead of /user/USER

load reviews by new remote users

400 error trying to follow mastodon users

prefer to use display names in username snippet

name field as opposed to localname or username

include user profile icon in actor object

relatedly, read remote users' icons

Factor config vars out of settings.py into .env

Create mastodon version of shelve activity status

how to implement the home page activity feed

Right now it's just pulling Activity objects from the database, but it's not the right implementation. I'm not confident that I'm storing activities in a good way, for that matter

use openlibrary python client

https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-client

Stumbled upon error - 'dict' object has no attribute 'split'

https://fedireads-test.glitch.me/author/OL250132A

Not sure what else to add here, but the author was supposed to be "Gerd Brantenberg". A misspelled version of the same author's name ("Gerd Brandenberg") also exists and is fine, however.

allow links in html sanitizer

All remote users treated as non-fedireads

activitypub classes?

maybe make object classes both for validating incoming AP and generating outgoing?

track when a user was last active

keep track of federated servers

the way I'm using UUIDs for activitypub seems.... wrong

Shelf view

Can't follow local users via search

Cover placeholders don't display in book shelf list

ui design

Send and receive Update activities

When a user updates their account

data import from goodreads

Adding a Review Outside the Bouns 0–5 Silently Fails

It adds the book to your recently added list on the side, but eats up the review if you rank a book higher than 5 or lower than 0. For non-integer and non-numeric values it gives a helpful error message and stays on the review page.

Unfollow

show local vs remote ratings

Replies don't @mention users

Crop and resize avatars

And avatars aren't resized

allow users to manually approve follow requests

Reply activitypub isn't fully implemented

feed/local/federated timelines

allow markdown in statuses

has to be converted to html, I believe there is a library for this

Book data never re syncs with open library

Replies don't thread

post privacy settings

periodically deacquisition books that aren't connected to anything

for example, if someone searched for a book and then no one ever added it

if you start reading a book, you can't start reading others until you finish the first one

i did find that if i say i want to read a lot of books and i later say i started reading a book, it wont show any books apart from that book i just started reading until i say im done with that book

Idea: Replace reviews with tags

(Prompted by a post remarking on the last line in the docs re: "why do we need to use a 5-star+text review system?")

What if, instead of ranking books according to a rating ladder and adding an optional blog-like text post explaining your thoughts, the entire "review" structure is done away with and replaced with tags? Then, instead of averaging all the ladder ratings for a single multi-star review, the book entry can display a tag cloud of the most common X tags added to the book.

This has several advantages, including:

• it's easier to tell what the subjective intent of a tag is than a number of stars
• a tag cloud can convey more information than just "is it good", such as genre, themes
• the idea of a "tag" is implied to be searchable metadata, allowing you to effectively search for books by their "reviews"
• tags are already a commonly used and understood system, meaning the potential problem of a learning curve behind making a new kind of review system is avoided

Move blocking processes to background tasts

Some things that should be in the background

• Broadcasting ActivityPub activities
• Incoming activities
• Goodreads import
• Automatic book data management

putting books at the center of the interaction?

Hey! Thanks for you work, really awesome to see it federate already at this early stage!

As I was trying it out, a thought occurred to me of how a different interaction model would fit much better with the federated nature of fedireads. Currently the reviewers and their reviews+comments are actors that are followable across the fediverse. Books on the other hand are not, they are rather passive and even only exist through reference. However what if the book (or maybe a shelf) would also be an object that federates across the fediverse?

In that model one could search for "http://fedireads-test.glitch.me/book/OL18704688W" through another fediverse client and comment it, review it, share it, without even needing a fedireads account. Book objects could then have a history of reviews (both from fedireads and from other federated platforms), weighted ratings, and other metadata as part of the 'profile' of the book.

It is then up to the community behind a particular fedireads instance (let's say specialized in 70s sci-fi) to moderate the comments on that particular book, making sure they are relevant for their context. Or maybe attributing more weight to a particular review because it is very insightful.

Furthermore, a link could be made between the book profile hosted by community A and the book profile hosted by community B that indicates one is talking about the same book. That way you could have a way of indicating across the fediverse that different communities are talking about the same book, but that '70s sci-fi community' will have a different set of takes on that same book than 'science and technology academic study circle community'

Hope this train of thought is helpful!

Following local users redirects to 404

implement likes

Note activities don't display in mastodon

I'm getting a 202 response but they don't end up showing in my timeline when I follow a fedireads user from masto

possible to follow a user multiple times?

Looks like I have multiple followers who are all the same user?

image upload directory isn't configuring properly in settings.py

right now it's hardcoded with the project dir on my laptop which is... not ideal

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